Bubbaonthebeach

joined 2 months ago
[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

UK and Italy are playing Trump's game. He doesn't negotiate. He demands tribute and only honours agreements if they are a win for him and he feels like honouring it at the time. Canada has a Trump negotiated trade agreement - the best agreement ever, in his parlance. It is apparently not worth the paper it is written on.
Countries must negotiate trade agreements - with everyone except the USA. And citizens must support their countries by not purchasing any thing from the USA. As for the few Americans that didn't vote for Trump, so sorry but your fellow Americans still fully support him. So it isn't "just Trump", it is America that is the problem. Trump is simply reflecting who the majority of Americans really are.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 weeks ago

I'm disappointed that so many people are still headed south. Maybe it is travel that was booked prior to January or they have kids in uni that need to come home or something. I hope April is double the March numbers.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 weeks ago

If anyone were really worried about privacy, all internet related companies would be in bankruptcy. Apple? Meta? Google? SnapChat? Reddit? You name it, their whole purpose is collecting the personal data of their users.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 weeks ago

He is a very good example why celebrities shouldn't be worshipped. Yes they are often very good, world class, at some thing. But only that one thing. They may be shit at everything else, including being a decent human being. Enjoy what talent they share - a great goal scorer is a great goal scorer - but don't ascribe more to them than that. They can't topple off a pedestal if you don't put them up there to begin with.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone launched fireworks a week ago in our neighbourhood. Why? A birthday? Who knows. It wasn't any holiday nor a weekend. How exactly does one plan for that? And it wasn't a single bear bang, it went on for 10-15mins. Nor was it that unusual. People seem to have fireworks displays at random throughout the year - any month, any day of the week. Some are even too early for it to be dark enough out to see them well so they are just a bunch of noise. I don't mind the scripted displays on Halloween night, NYE, and July 1st but we don't need all the amateur in between ones.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Probably true. It is Trump backing the US into a corner. No other country in backing them there. Americans need to decide, do they get rid of him, or are they willingly sacrificing their family members so he can increase his net wealth (and that of his kids) at average Americans' expense? Unfortunately I expect Americans will be "patriotic" and die to give Trump not only all their money but also their health and lives.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 weeks ago

However for investors, without the hype-master, the shares are only worth 1/5 or 1/6 of their current value. Tesla was innovative 15-20 years ago. It has been severely sidetracked by Musk's ego.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

Keep track of all the Bros and Cos that have supported Trump and boycott them until Trump is completely gone. Only consider supporting them again if... well never.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Poor Elon. Rich people really do not understand. Even if they came from poverty backgrounds, they lose perspective. They think they did it all by themselves to get where they are and do not understand that chance and luck play a big part in determining which 'hard workers with an idea' get ahead. The working world is littered with smarter people who just didn't get the breaks to become super rich. Once they are rich enough to waste $25M on a judge's election they really do not understand that for the majority of Americans losing their job can mean a quick succession to homelessness from which they may never recover.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Except, for example many Canadians, who are really fed up with being the kick ball for American Presidents (Trump has a lot of company when it comes to tariffs), who will do their best to not buy anything from the USA. I predict our trade deficit will go in the opposite direction that Trump hopes. The USA still needs to buy electricity, gas/oil, wood, and various other raw products from Canada. We don't have to buy finished goods from the USA since there are plenty of other countries to supply them. We really don't need to vacation there.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago

This would seem more accurate to me if it said "Grandparents at 25". I'm the 25yo parent's age and for us, people were already considering whether they could afford 1 or 2 children with mortgage and childcare costs. I guess if we had the big screen TVs, cellphones stronger than computers, gaming computers, and cheap airfare around the world, many of us would have also decided parenting was much too expensive.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe someone should out her as an illegal alien.

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