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Thread | Fake tariffs and fake news
by saint901 at 13:16 3 Apr 2025
I'm not an economist. I'm not expert or even a user of AI. I cannot therefore say whether the "revelation" from various US commentators are correct or just more BS.
The claim however is that the alleged tariffs imposed on the US by various countries (some mentioned on the Felon's big scoreboard have a zero population) are false. There has been no examination of export/import charges.
Instead if you apply a formula which is trade deficit/exports to the US, you get to the tariff the Felon claims exists.
Take Indonesia. Deficit 17.9bn, exports to US $28bn. Deficit is 64% of exports which is the tariff the orange baby claims exists.
Repeat this for each country mentioned for tariffs above the base 10% rate and the equation works every time.
I suspect that the any actual calculation of barriers to import/export are way beyond the intellectual grip or attention span of the Felon and so his minions had to simplify it.
On a different thread Mr Jellybaby asked me if I thought Trump was just a tool of his (Jelly's) cherished "global elite" based on the fact that he was just too stupid to run the USA on his own. No proof of said global elite or their Jedi mind tricks was of course offered).
I have no doubt that the Felon lacks intelligence (he mistakes belligerence as intelligence) and that the cult members around him are too scared to call him out. (Because they will be sacked and the DoJ will be unleashed upon them).
If however there is this cabal which has been at work for centuries and which apparently control dictators like Putin, Orbal, the Chinese Communist Party, etc why would they blow their cover with somebody like Trump?
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Thread | 5 Things About The Palace Game
by SaintNick at 12:25 3 Apr 2025
1. The attendance was poor I would say no more than 25,000 in the ground, if you take into account 3,000 Palace fans then I think around 4-5,000 season ticket holders gave it a miss.
2. There was a medical issue near me in the first half, the response by the stewards was non existent, it seems there are two many 18-21 year olds with no training in many parts of the ground and they haven't a clue what to do when something happens, I am sure that there are some very good stewards, but not where I was last night.
3. There is now some hope that we can avoid being the worst ever Premier League team.
4. Mateus Fernandes is a great talent, those who say that we can no longer find good players in the transfer market forget about Fernandes, Ramsdale & Ugochukwu.
5. Ryan Manning, credit where credit is due, he seems a better Premier League player than a Championship one for some reason. |
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Thread | Nathania Clyne
by SaintNick at 12:13 3 Apr 2025
He is out of contract in the summer, with KWP leaving, he could be worth a punt. |
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Thread | Goal difference
by PatfromPoole at 10:41 3 Apr 2025
I would have had no need to look at this if we had held on last night.
However.....
Derby's goal difference when they finished on 11 points was -69.
With eight games to go, ours is currently -49.
I do think we have enough games left where good results are possible, including this Sunday.
However, a hiding or two and the goal difference could be worse than Derby's.... |
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Thread | Tall Paul was good last night
by Butty101 at 09:00 3 Apr 2025
Ive said it before - If he had played the whole season, he would easily get you 10-15 goals a season in the premiership.
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Thread | Thank you Flynn Downes
by PatfromPoole at 08:33 3 Apr 2025
For the two tackles in the space of 5 seconds in the second-half.
It briefly felt like we had a football club again.
The crowd were suddenly transformed and stopped looking at their phones for a 5-minute spell.
Probably my highlight of the season.
Obviously deserving of being taken off by Juric. Sigh. |
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Thread | Juric
by grumpy at 22:42 2 Apr 2025
Sorry, he threw two points away tonight with his substitutions.He had on the bench enough to close down the game but no, why take downes off and replace him with Archer on 90 mins ?
It was obvious that Palace would pour forward in the last 8 minutes of extra time so why not use all your defenders?
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Thread | Dear god
by saint22 at 18:58 2 Apr 2025
Stephens is back
Just when you thought this manager or we couldn’t get any fkn worse |
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Thread | ramsdale
by saint22 at 16:28 2 Apr 2025
Is he out for the season? I read that somewhere |
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Thread | Relegation places now settled this evening ?
by saintmark1976 at 22:21 1 Apr 2025
After Wolves win it’s difficult to see Ipswich or Leicester making up twelve points in nine games now.
With Liverpool pretty much certain to win the title it’s going to be a very boring end to the league with everything looking settled by April the First. |
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Thread | The media selling Tyler to the highest bidder
by saint901 at 12:25 1 Apr 2025
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn4yen2xgrxo
Pretty much a puff piece which I suspect was planted by an agent looking to extract the maximum price.
Tyler's statistics as quoted are certainly top half of any table and in a team that has struggled (and will continue to struggle) are arguably outstanding.
There is an aspect here that really - really - irritates me.
One of the tables is "fouls won".
Fouls are not "won" - they are conceded or committed by the opposition.
By styling this as fouls won it implies that "winning" fouls is now an acceptable tactic and is it any wonder then that player dive at every opportunity? |
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Thread | Juric linked with Croatia manager job
by PatfromPoole at 12:01 1 Apr 2025
Sources close to the Croatian FA believe that Zlatko Dalic could be due to leave the national team job in advance of the start of their World Cup qualifying campaign.
Dalic has had a very successful 8 years in the role, including a World Cup Final appearance in 2018, knocking out England in the semi-final.
However, a disappointing Euro 2024 campaign has meant his stock is now at its lowest since 2017.
With the likes of Luka Modric nearing retirement, the Croatian FA feel that a new approach is required.
Ivan Juric has impressed by showing his willingness to pick youngsters in a challenging Premier League campaign for Southampton, and his appointment would be seen as a coup by the Croatian FA.
Juric is a fan of a high-intensity game, which he has struggled to impose on a squad which have struggled in their first season back in the top-flight since 2023.
It is believed that discussions have begun between the Croatian FA, representatives of Juric and management at Southampton FC. |
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Thread | April Fool stuff
by PatfromPoole at 10:45 1 Apr 2025
The thing is, regarding the two "exclusives" just posted on here in the last half-hour....
I actually think Parsons is daft enough to do the lot.
If the Club aren't looking on here for guidance and wise counsel, they darned well should be. |
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Thread | Nuggets of team news from Scruff
by PatfromPoole at 10:03 1 Apr 2025
Can't wait for this to boost all our morale; presumably later today.
Scruff announcing returns for Bree and Super Jack is surely what is needed to bring on a clamour for last-minute purchases of tickets. |
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Thread | Leicester away
by Saintandy66 at 09:50 1 Apr 2025
apparently being played at the London Stadium according to the saints ticket office e mail total shambles this club cant even get that right |
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Thread | Handmaids Tale
by saint901 at 10:38 31 Mar 2025
I don't know if you've read the book or seen the TV series but basically it's set in a world in which the birth rate has collapsed - it's hinted that this is because humans have poisoned the environment with pollution - and as a result economic activity is stalled and living standards - everywhere - are falling. Using this crisis as a catalyst a group of religious fundamentalists blow up the capital building in Washington DC during a full senate session and in the resulting power vacuum, assume control. Their policy is to take US society back to a time where men ruled the house/world, women are property, dissent from the very strict old testament are punishable by death. The US is also trying to evangelise other countries - Canada in particular - and as a result a series of wars/skirmishes are ongoing. (It's again hinted that one of these is a civil war with the more liberal western seaboard of the US).
Whilst I do not see the religious aspect front and centre of the USA that Trump and his cultists wish to achieve (and his copy cats in Europe aspire to) there are some parallels.
The press is regulated, suppressed; going off message brings exclusion and exile (or worse); dissenters are attacked physically and vocally; outside influences are disregarded and often attacked. There is an elite group (who enjoy many freedoms and pleasures denied others) but the rest of the population is very tightly regulated and forced into submission. There are no Judges or law courts - the law is an extension of the executive. There is no separation of powers, just the application of the religious doctrine, as interpreted by a powerful cabal of "elders".
There is of course a resistance and in this case it's one led by a woman who is separated from her child (given to a childless member of the elite) and who is fighting to get that child back and in so doing exposes flaws and hypocrisy and corruption at the heart of the US ruling elite.
They are great books. The TV show is good (but not as good as the books).
Stripped of the religious aspect, the society described could easily be one to which the US under Felon and crew are heading, especially if he decides that he can ignore the constitution and run for a third term. Authoritarian, intolerant, used to protect and increase the power and wealth of the elite, opposition destroyed by law and physical force.
In the book, the result of the usurping of power in the US is that they are internationally isolated, have internal dissent and are rotting from within as their basis of power (the old testament) is increasingly shown to be unacceptable.
The author, Margaret Attwood, a Canadian so Felon would not regard her as worth anything, uses her make believe world to take a swing at many issues. Most of the central and pivotal characters are female and the make characters are shown as weak, hypocritical, vain, corrupt, cowardly.
Without giving away the ending, ultimately the society collapses under the weight of its own flaws.
I think that I have to see the Felon's USA in the same way. Bear with it. Understand that most people think its too deeply wrong to survive, trust that there remain good Americans, in a few years hopefully the Felon will be broken and serving whatever penance the universe decrees. |
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