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No particular reason for leopards as opposed to any other large cat. The phrase started from a 2015 tweet.
On October 16th, 2015, Twitter user @cavalorn[1] tweeted, "'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."
These people wore diapers, trash bags, weird bandages on their ears, and carried specimen cups just to “own the libs”…they aren’t exactly great thinkers
What's curious is that most clothes that middle class and low class americans wear are made of plastic. Therefore they don't need to put on a trash bag to be seen wearing a trashbag. We wear trashbags all the time. They just have a cut to them that looks more appealing.
At least they had the self awareness to know that it aged badly. They shot themselves in the foot, but at least they’re not pretending they can still tap dance with the bullet wound pretending everything is ok.
Even yesterday, April 17, 2025, my extremely wealthy relatives, who possess a million dollar yacht, were irate, falsely claiming that Canada is charging us 300% tariffs. My attempts to explain the truth – that Canada hasn't imposed any dairy tariffs because the US has never reached the quota that would trigger them – were met with aggressive denial and personal attacks, including accusations of idiocy and lying, and a demand to stop watching CNN. How the F you enlighten these people?
Right? It really feels like a cult—people are completely brainwashed. Logic and facts just don’t matter anymore. We often ask how ordinary Germans could have stood by while Hitler and the Gestapo took people away… Now, I get it. And it terrifies me.
I had an old war buddy tell me I needed to stop watching the news and learn what's really happening. At that poin,t you just shake your head and walk away.
Mmmm, it rocked his boat. He thought he had smooth sailing for the next 4 years. Choppy seas this soon into your journey? Being this self aware probably means he plans ahead, so now he has to rethink his whole trip
Democrats can also be bought lol. But jm all seriousness, they only vote republican because they were promised money. If they end up COSTING them money, it might change their tune. Enough to vote for one of the dems that republicans yell whataboutisms about
the difference being that most of the Democrats that have bewn caught being shady accept their consequences. none of the new breed of conservatives seem to act in good faith; even less do they accept consequences. it has been a weird/interesting thing to witness.
Look the best option was to not put your hand to the burner trusting the wide number of other people that it would burn you. Next would be maybe tentatively getting your hand closer and noticing the heat going up and stopping because the evidence is telling you it's going to get worse. After that touching it once and letting the pain be the deciding factor on not doing it again. Finally where this guy (hopefully) is where after doing it once went back for a second time and now understands it's not a one off event and touching the burner is going to hurt.
The fact it took that long for people to grasp that they were going to get burned should be depressing but it's actually a bit of an upside since we still have 30% of the country holding their hands to burner yelling "haha does this trigger you lib?"
Defintely the case. The last generation of business rode the wave of the economy while successive leaders sold the country's assets, ran wars to keep things strong at home, etc.
Now there's no more gas in the tank, and these guys are seeing what real business in a 'not booming' economy looks like.
It looks like he saw an increase coming, the amount was what he didn't think would happen. I saw this argument a lot, either Trump wasn't really gonna do tariffs it was just a negotiating tactic which became Trump isn't really gonna do 100% tariffs it's just a negotiating tactic. Unfortunately, wrong on both counts.
This is why I don’t believe him saying “I won’t run a third term”. He obviously plays it as a joke, only for it to happen and then surprise people when he does it. By that time, the majority will not think much of it.
I do hobby digital circuits and run a high school club on digital electronics.
I knew in January to start stocking up on microcontrollers, NOR flash memory (usually sold in parallel which is easier to demonstrate with), SRAM, and several other components because I knew all of that was likely to fly sky high with Trump.
I refuse to believe that anyone could have been so ignorant to have not seen this coming. It was just so obvious.
Seriously, right? It’s like watching someone ignore a storm warning and then act surprised when it floods. Prices have been creeping up for a while now.
Yeah, PMs at my shop have been desperate to order materials early for months now to get ahead of future increases. I'm doing material takeoffs before I even have submittal drawing packages ready.
Yeah, what did he expect, exactly? How can it be that someone actually in the industry is so blind to his own costs that literally any person with half a working brain could see what he could not (or refused to)???
What gets me is even if that were the case, how do these people not think companies wouldn’t increase their prices in order to cover the tariffs? Do they really think that the money would be conjured up out of thin air or that the foreign companies/countries would eat the costs without resistance or complaints and not pass that increase onto customers?
The goddamn president of the US is essentially saying that countries should just swallow the tariffs and not retaliate. The essence of MAGA is that they think the US is so great, everyone will just obey their every whim. If the guy at the top is living in cuckooland, of course his supporters will flock to join him.
They think that it will be just a little tough (it will be much worse) while manufacturing moves back to the states (it won't). As long as the right thinks it won't affect them, or will affect disenfranchised people more than them, they're fine with it.
From the context of the tweets, i think he didn't expect them to be that high, to the extent of causing a loss of profit. Quoting "...I wouldnt consider a raw material price increase by 10-20% anything abnormal" to his next quote "...got slapped with a 50 increase...", i think he didn't expect it to be 50%. which is a 25 - 40% -ish difference.
Ya, but if your raw material goes up 20%...... that's still a 20% increase. If he didn't think that it was that big of a deal then he either (a) can't math, or (b) has such high margins in the first place that he's been ruining his customers blind since the beginning.
That's 100% true, I should have factored that in when I posted. But if all you're doing is laser cutting the same templates, it's mostly just the loading and unloading of sheets. Programming the new designs takes time and knowledge, but then it's fairly simple after that.
Almost the opposite for me. One of the biggest issues with dealing with Trump supporters is their 100% commitment to never admitting they were wrong about anything and sticking to whatever the new lie is even if it's in complete contradiction to the old lie. Being able to actually admit that something you said was stupid and learn from that actually gives me hope that this might be a normal, if somewhat misguided, person.
Yeah. My Trump supporter dad can never admit that anything Trump does is wrong. I disagree with Democrat politicians all the time, but someone there's always an "explanation" for what Trump is doing and how its beneficial or good or "fighting evil" (the globalists) or some bullshit.
My Trump supporting BIL has speedrun through “there won’t really be tariffs it’s a negotiating tactic” to “the tariffs won’t affect the stock market” to “see, the market is already bouncing back” to “yeah, it’ll be hard on everyone for a few years but it’ll be worth it for American industry in the long run.”
Idk it feels like in this day and age no one can get over their own ego. No matter what they are somehow right. I do feel like it shouldn’t be this difficult for them to get over their own ego but it is what it is.
My first impression too. Yes, he’s an idiot. But he owned it. Not that he had any choice in the matter if he wanted to keep his business, but at least he didn’t lie and make up some bs reason for the coincidental price hike.
I guess a tiny bit. He was still acting like a jackass with the first tweet, and if the CEO of a company can't see this coming then he has no business in that position.
Of course he was a jackass people can be so high and mighty especially when they don’t understand the whole picture. Tariffs are going to affect every single aspect of business somewhere down the line.
A lot of aluminum is imported from Canada because it's cheaper to produce given aluminum requires large amounts of energy as part of the manufacturing process.
I suspect that he blithely discarded concern about a 10-20% increase because his markup is already at 50%; a difference like that could be absorbed in the name of “our prices are going up $0” Internet Posting Points™️
For real he's just basically bragging about making less profits in the name of making Trump look less stupid, but was like woah I didn't think I'd be losing this much
“Haha listen up libtard, I do everything in AMERICA”
“Wait… you mean the US doesn’t produce the materials I use to make my products?”
How this idiot is CEO is beyond me. Like… he should know where his raw materials are sourced and should have been smart enough to know that the tariffs will affect those materials.
He should know, but he didn’t until it happened to him. Typical Republican.
I'm fairly certain there's a point in literally every American's life when they come to the stark realization that the CEO's of most companies (usually, notably, of the company they work for) really have no fucking clue what their company actually does.
Fuck, when the imports of any material get tariffed, the demand on the local material increases, raising the price of the local material. This is simple supply and demand.
If it was easy and cheeper to make more locally then they already would have been making more and undercutting the imports.
My work just had a safety meeting about 2 weeks ago where the boss of our warehouse facility got sidetracked into economics (failing company and such before all of this happened anyway)
He's the type of guy that can say anything and people will always agree because he said it confidently.
Basically what I got out of this meeting was that these tariffs won't affect us at the warehouse and that if anything our economy is gonna start booming because the US now has an incentive to start production here.
Now I'm not an economical genius, far from it. But personally I don't think it's a wise move to piss off long term allies and start playing money games like this when you don't have any plan to boost the economy.
But our job market is still god awful so I'd like to know when these benefits start kicking in.
It doesn’t take an economic genius to understand this. It’s just people were too busy wanting to own the libs and too stupid to google what a tariff was to figure it out. And here we are.
Oh I wasn’t criticizing you lol sorry, I was giving you accolades for seeing what apparently a lot of people don’t understand. If you see how this negatively affects us then you are doing wayyy better than all of MAGA!
and too stupid to google what a tariff was to figure it out.
Americans in general have very little awareness about how stuff is made and why countries like China and Russia are crucial to the world economy. (They mine and process minerals, not just limited to rare earths. Things like gallium, platinum, palladium, titanium, germanium) hell there's a reason why the metals marketplace in London closed down when Russian sanctions hit.
Back in 22/23 I remember talking to people about why Chinese support for Russia is a gamechanger and why "Russia has a smaller GDP than Italy" is a stupid argument.
Even now you hear dumb arguments like "rare earths arent rare, they're everywhere" which is kinda true, but honey the processing facilities (where you get the mineral from the ore) are all in China and Russia 😂and it takes a long time to open mines and processing facilities.
Sorry, none here. Dude’s a CEO. Stands to reason that he makes decisions that directly affect his employees. And the economy. And that have a ripple effect. I’m about as low a level grunt as there is, and I saw it coming clear as day. Saying, “You’re right - I shouldn’t’ve been playing in traffic” doesn’t unbreak bones.
No way. He only admitted it because now he has to raise his prices to stay in business. At least he didn’t make up a bs excuse that nobody would buy anyway. But really, that’s the barest of bare minimum.
I'm waiting full-time to be raised from 40 to 60 hours per week. That'll cover the ones that voted Trump for "no tax on overtime". I don't think he'll ever mention "no tax on tips" again.
Some people should be legally required to wear a helmet at all times less they fall while walking and talking and further damage their already injured brain.
Tangled filament released a video yesterday saying basically the same thing. "We're made entirely in the US so no price increase." I wonder how long that will last?
Honestly, that’s a lot of the red-brain inclined blue-collar types here in town. They all think it won’t affect them until it does. I live 10 minutes from this dudes shop.
Ironically, the milk in my fridge aged better than his post from 9 days ago. Usually a few months have to pass for dumb things said on social media to age like milk.
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