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Exactly. Trump will be POTUS for 4 years. There may be some changes to production for some products but the price of building factories combined with a labour shortage in the US makes it very unlikely those kind of investments are going to happen. Instead the new taxes on imports will drive inflation. The damage will come fairly quickly and at a significant level.
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Yes I heard that part. You’re right nobody is going to want to buy a pair of Nikes made in the USA that cost 10x the current price. The other issue is that anti US sentiment is high and Boycott USA movement is gaining a lot of traction. Our government has started pumping money into a Buy Aussie campaign and although not as strong as the Canadian and EU movements people are actively boycotting American products. Once supply chains shift, it’s going to be very hard to get them back.
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When I went thru the TI course; it was "loosen the lower attachments." Course, butt slide landings were frowned upon then too.
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@13.44 minutes into the video, he specifically says, the authors did not lay out a plan, it was more like a cookbook with recipes. Tariff chaos is not a negotiating tool. And, let's not forget that it was American businessmen who shipped the jobs overseas for lower wages to increase their profits. I doubt they'll bring jobs back for $3,000/month when they can maintain a $100/month workforce and no HR headaches. The only thing we'll see (are seeing) here is a recession and a "We're winning HUGELY."
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The Prime Minister of Heard Island tells a CNN reporter of her concern that Trump's tariffs will seriously impact the fishing economy of the island.
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Pertussis too. 6000 cases in the US so far in 2025: In Louisiana, two infants have died of pertussis in the past six months, according to the state health department, the first deaths from the disease in the state since 2018. Louisiana has had 110 cases of pertussis reported so far this year, the health department said – already approaching the 154 cases reported for all of 2024. Cases are on the rise nationally, too. There were more than 35,000 cases of whooping cough last year in the US, the highest number in more than a decade, and 10 people died — six of them less than 1 year old. Experts say they see peaks and valleys with these kinds of illnesses over the years, but there have been about 6,600 cases already in 2025, almost four times the number at this point last year. https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/health/whooping-cough-pertussis-louisiana/index.html
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"When working with lethal service, no one gets a pass." Another story of a fatal crash and a DEI pilot. This takes us back to Air Algerie Flight 6289 in 2003. The captain was Boualem Benaouicha. He had around 10,000 hours total flight time, of which 1000 were in type. The copilot was Fatima Yousfi, who was the first woman ever to fly for an Algerian airline. A DEI hire for sure. By 2003 she had 5200 hours, including 1300 in type. She showed up for her flight on time. The captain was late. She did the walkaround, filed the flight plan and entered everything into the FMS. She was concerned because based on the temperature, runway length, load etc the aircraft was right at the limits of its performance, and very close to the max takeoff weight. Benaouicha finally showed up, very late. Yousfi tried to start the takeoff briefing (including, of course, performance and engine out procedures) but Benaouicha was chatting up a flight attendant, who was in the cockpit for some reason. She tried several times before he told her to cut it out and get ready to go. They got taxi and then takeoff clearance. Yousfi was the pilot flying, and she started the takeoff roll. They rotated and started climbing. As soon as they had positive rate Yousfi told Benaouicha "Gear up." He did not raise the gear, for some unknown reason. Seconds later they lost a vane inside engine 1, and both the high pressure and low pressure turbines got chewed to bits. "What's this?" Yousfi said, captured on the CVR. She started the memory items - pitch down, rudder to correct yaw, identify bad engine, increase power on good engine. All the more critical because at their takeoff weight and temperature, they could barely climb on one engine. They could not climb, however, with the gear down. At this point, Benaouicha seized the yoke. "Let go! Let go!" he told her. "I've let go," Yousfi replied. "Gear up?" He was now the pilot flying, so he was the one who had to make that call. He didn't say anything - but immediately pitched back up to the climb attitude. He then reduced power on the good engine, likely because he had misidentified the failed engine. There were several more instances of Benaouicha yelling at Yousfi to "let go." She kept telling him "I let go!" This was likely due to the unexpected nose-down forces that Benaouicha was experiencing; the airspeed was falling off and the aircraft was trying to nose down to recover to trim speed. It was taking more and more effort to hold the nose so high. Benaouicha kept the nose up and the airspeed continued to bleed off. "Please!" shouted Yousfi. At this point both the stall warnings and the GPWS were blaring at Benaouicha, but he kept the nose high for the remainder of the flight. The plane stalled at 400 feet, rolled and crashed into the desert. There was only one survivor. The Algerian Commission of Inquiry placed most of the blame on Boeing and the engine manufacturer, despite the fact that the aircraft could have climbed on one engine if handled correctly. They also recommended that pilots train on control handoff procedures. But of the odd seizing of control by the captain - they did not look into that. This may have been because Algeria has a very patriarchial society, and taking over from the woman might simply have been the expected reaction of any male captain in their airline - even if that woman has more time in type than he does. They did conclude with something that perhaps showed some realization of their oversights; they recommended that the Ministry of Transport create an independent agency to investigate plane crashes. No one, of course, will ever know for sure what happened. But we do know that the pilot flying (Yousfi) had begun the engine-out procedure - she leveled off, and on the flight recorder, the airspeed held steady for a few seconds. Then Benaouicha grabbed the yoke and started yelling at her to get off the controls. Most of his communication in the last 30 seconds was him yelling at her to let go. He pulled the nose up, pulled power on the working engine, and the rest is history. Had he let the DEI hire continue doing her job, the 102 people who died in that aircraft might be alive today. But in Algeria, the man gets the pass.
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I stumbled across this YouTube video and found it quite interesting. I realise it’s a 20 minute video, but the presenter lays out how this is a high risk but potentially viable solution to the US retaining its global role. I don’t understand history and global economics enough to know if it’s complete drivel. https://youtu.be/1ts5wJ6OfzA?si=tMBqy0MuORPp5j2C
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Hall draft card. There are very few military records on him. He seems like a very average soldier. No color pics as of yet. Ryan’s AI photos now have Cooper looking yellow. Maybe Hall’s jaundice from hepatitis :).
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Must be light brown or hazel,,, Cooper's eyes were dark... not enough to eliminate. Hall was well know to intel agencies...
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His draft card says brown, so I’ll put that in the legit category. It also mentions a scar on his face. Not sure how big. Hall is better than many suspects. I don’t buy into the whole Cooper was CIA or some soldier of fortune though. My issue is the same as it’s always been with that group. No accountability.
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Aren't You Glad You Voted For Trump
JerryBaumchen replied to JerryBaumchen's topic in Speakers Corner
Hi folks, I am very sure that these UAW workers are still glad that they voted for Trump: carmaker Stellantis has now announced the layoff of 900 people working at its U.S. warehouses. Carmaker Stellantis Announces Hundreds of Layoffs as Trump's Tariffs Hit Economy Jerry Baumchen -
I saw an interesting article that shows how it’s quite plausible that Trump used ChatGbt to calculate the tariffs.
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Speaking of eyes, Skips eyes look light not dark.. but pic is B&W, any good pics showing accurate eye colour.
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Sure, but thank the currently popular deity that we don’t have that certified idiot Harris at the helm passing out generational wealth in the form of Gay reparations to any self identified them.
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Demolition training not needed at all. McChord could be picked out on a map. That list could be thousands of people. At least he passes the first round with age and eye color. A lot of people say they know who Cooper is and we find out he’s 25 and had light eyes.
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I know! I mean, US schools keep insisting on teaching that blacks were enslaved in the early US. If those teachers are mentioning a race they are RACIST! Same with the Holocaust. If you talk about how the poor Jews had it so bad, that's as bigoted as you can get; singling out that one ethnic group.
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Kim was right. Dotard.
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Thu US markets just had their worst day since the Covid outbreak because Trump and his economics team are just so much dumber than anyone even realised yet. The supposed tariff percentage they are retaliating against is actually a figure of trade deficit divided by total imports, which they're describing as the US losing out. This means when there are generally poor countries mining and selling a bunch of rare minerals that US industry needs but who can't afford to import much of what the US makes with those minerals, they get smacked with a huge reciprocal tariff. Which means that it is now much more expensive for US industry to get the materials it needs. What an amazing win! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/trumps-idiotic-and-flawed-tariff-calculations-stun-economists
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Well, apparently not exclusively a guy thing. The article actually has a photo of a woman groping her, lol.
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a plus, minus or neutral... plus 1 for a positive. no points for unknown. minus 1 for negative. I wonder what Hall's score is.. Does anybody understand Ryan's argument about Hahneman's forehead lines and me being a hypocrite about it, it makes no sense whatsoever... he has normal average light forehead lines, nothing like Hall's extreme. What is he trying to argue.. I can't make any sense of it.
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Re-attachment to the instructor's harness. Sounds like a good idea to do prior to burying another toggle in the clip.
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We bought a rig last year and are experiencing serious issue to get a shipping date. we tried to call, sent emails, but nothing looks to work. Any idea what is going on?
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Altimeter for Garmin Fenix 5 & 6 for FREE
jeanneretjerome replied to jeanneretjerome's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Sorry for my late answer 28337, but let me know what is the problem with the app, i will have a look. Be safe -
Because it's just more useless opposition symbolism it is, well, as useless as a drum roll and a few more chants of Blue Wave, Blue Wave! So what that four self serving assholes saw more value their reelections by making a vote that goes nowhere and does nothing. The Democrats need to obstruct, obstruct, and obstruct some more all while telling the country that the whole mess is the fault of Dumb Ass Trump and his enabling Republicans in the house and senate. Unfortunately Bookers leadership will likely be soon forgotten.
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