North Carolina Fuck YEAH!! Coming at you every mother fucking daaayaa!!!

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    “Simply put: you can’t make tires without rubber, and it is impossible to buy rubber that isn’t imported — because rubber trees do not grow in the United States,”

    But Trump sees other countries with a surplus of rubber production as a threat to be targeted with tariffs

    Trump’s failure to understand basic economics. A story in two quotes.

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      You can’t apply those standards here. The regime has only one goal: to enrich itself and its useful henchmen - and they’re certainly succeeding at that. That’s what was to be expected, and that’s exactly what’s happening.

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    “The Goodyear Rubber and Tire Co. announced this week that it would be shuttering its Fayetteville, North Carolina, plant that currently employs more than 1,700 workers,” reports Reason, before analyzing company reports to sort through the reasons.

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    This is the dumbest gilded age… We all have known all along how fucked up it all is. It’s just a few people on top peeing on us and calling it prosperity.

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    People are always concentrating on specific little things like people working or making enough to pay for food or housing or bills or such. They don’t talk about other affordibility measures. Like the normalized cost of blow jobs has never been lower!!!