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Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:33 am**

Which, perversely, plays right into his hands. A lot of people buying European cars for the style/quality/kudos will be very reluctant to go domestic and will find the money. Or keep their current car slightly longer, which limits s/h supply and helps residuals, which when fed into finance calcs, at least partly offsets the higher sticker price on the new cars. When a lot of (most?) buyers only care about the monthly this could have far less impact on sales volumes than “+25%” might suggest.

It’s still stupid though. I’m not condoning the idea.

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2025 9:10 am**

Yeah, I doubt everyone will suddenly buy a Cadillac, it'll just make European cars even more of a status symbol.

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2025 9:11 am**

Sundayjumper wrote: Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:33 am Which, perversely, plays right into his hands. A lot of people buying European cars for the style/quality/kudos will be very reluctant to go domestic and will find the money. Or keep their current car slightly longer, which limits s/h supply and helps residuals, which when fed into finance calcs, at least partly offsets the higher sticker price on the new cars. When a lot of (most?) buyers only care about the monthly this could have far less impact on sales volumes than “+25%” might suggest.

It’s still stupid though. I’m not condoning the idea.

As if Trump thinks like this...

I'm not sure about 4D chess, I think he'd struggle with snap

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2025 9:31 am**

Beany wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 8:28 pm Oh, they won't deny it. They're past that stage now

That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault. <---we're at this stage, expect them to somehow blame the democrats before the weekend.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.

Pretty much what is happening now.

They weren't discussing war plans or attack plans and it wasn't classified information as they didn't mention exact grid locations and routes to be flown, and besides that guy from the Atlantic is a registered Democrat and an anti-trump sensationalist reporter anyway.

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2025 9:42 am**

Trump called the well-respected journalist a ‘sleazebag’.

Imagine that, from the pussy grabber.

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2025 9:51 am**

Utterly inconceivable than the aircraft types & launch times were not classified at the time. They're hanging on a tenuous argument that when made public *after* the event, classified information was not published. That part is true. But sharing it with a journalist *before* the event, it was definitely classified.

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2025 9:57 am**

DaveE wrote: Thu Mar 27, 2025 9:11 am As if Trump thinks like this...

Quite. That's why it's 25% - he has no sense of proportionality or nuance. There is no logic behind it. It's just a number that he likes. Everything is 25%.

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2025 10:43 am**

The Nasdaq Composite is the worst performing index of all the major regions year-to-date, down 7.3% on a total return basis. That compares with a 6.8% positive return from the FTSE 100, 12.9% gain from the Dax and a 17.5% winning turn from the Hang Seng.

Slowest of slow claps for the slowest of slow Presidents

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2025 10:43 am**

Has the journalist been throw out of a window yet? Oh sorry, wrong country.

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2025 11:48 am**

Beany wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 8:28 pm And if I did, you deserved it.

"The classified information was wearing a short skirt"

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2025 3:06 pm**

Sundayjumper wrote: Thu Mar 27, 2025 11:48 am
Beany wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 8:28 pm And if I did, you deserved it.
"The classified information was wearing a short skirt"

The information wanted to be free, and we helped it.

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2025 4:00 pm**

And…

https://www.spiegel.de/international/wo ... b705521fb7

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2025 4:20 pm**

I'd hate to be CTO or a security developer at Signal right now

I bet every nefarious hacker will have doubled their efforts now, knowing that they're conducting secret/sensitive operations on Signal

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2025 5:24 pm**

If they haven't already got the info, it'll be nation state attackers, and the damage will be significant.

Posted: **Fri Mar 28, 2025 7:28 am**

When your country has its history is edited and redacted, your country is no longer free

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjy1jmvvwzo

Posted: **Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:09 am**

LOL, truly the most pathetic literal nazi shit.

Posted: **Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:25 am**

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

Feel there are zero descriptive points left that Trump hasn’t actively and deliberately chosen over the more democratic options..

Posted: **Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:39 am**

This one in particular jumped out:

…a belief in Manifest Destiny or a revival of historical greatness…

LITERALLY their brand. Literally literally. 1000%. 12/10.

The only one they’ve not openly subscribed to yet is the master race thing. Not yet. They’re real close though. They just need to cleanse history (as above) roll back civil rights (already in progress) and fully normalise the current massive racism first.

Posted: **Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:53 am**

A further definition quoted on the wiki page:

[A] cult of the leader who promises national restoration in the face of humiliation brought on by supposed communists, Marxists and minorities and immigrants who are supposedly posing a threat to the character and the history of a nation ... The leader proposes that only he can solve it and all of his political opponents are enemies or traitors

Yep.

Posted: **Fri Mar 28, 2025 9:55 am**

dinny_g wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 12:47 pm as Trump will sign another Presidential Decree making standing in opposition a Capital Offence

I'm telling you - it's coming

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