Friday, May 23, 2025

Leopards Eating Cellphones Party

"The leopards weren’t supposed to eat my face!,” cries the faceless guy who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party candidate.
“All the dairy farmers who voted for Trump were under the impression they weren’t going to come on farms and take our guys,” one farmer said. “It’s happening more than we’d like. It’s scaring the farming community and we’re like, ‘This wasn’t supposed to happen.’”
And nobody could have foreseen:
Federal immigration authorities say they are not targeting Vermont’s $3.6 billion dairy industry, which is responsible for 63 percent of the milk produced in New England," the report said. "But the recent arrests are prompting some in the sector to wonder how it would survive without its undocumented labor force."

The report quoted Vermont's Secretary of Agriculture as saying, "I think our farmers are concerned about the well-being of their workers. That’s foremost. They’re also concerned if (the workforce) was to go away, who’s going to do the work? Who’s going to milk the cows?”
Besides, the price of “groceries” is going down, isn’t it? Well, until it goes up again.

And since I can’t let it go:
And no market for those cellphones, because the price will be so high no one will buy them.

I really expect Apple will sue over this “tariff.” Even at 25%, it’s cheaper than setting up a plant in America (years; damned things aren’t built by “automation”). By that time, Trump is gone (if Congress doesn’t rain on his tariff parade starting in ‘27). Apple can easily outlast him.  And eat some of the 25%, if they have to.

But there’s a very real question whether Trump has this authority; and whether Congress can even give it to him. It that theory cracks the door open (at least 3 lawsuits are trying to), expect Apple, and many others, to consider putting their shoulders to it.
Grok: "It is not feasible for U.S. Steel to add 70,000 jobs in 2025. A more realistic scenario, if the Nippon deal proceeds or tariffs boost demand, might see a few thousand direct jobs created over several years, supplemented by indirect jobs in related sectors. The steel industry’s structural shift toward automation, combined with labor shortages and modest demand growth, makes a workforce expansion of this magnitude implausible in the near term."
It’s not that AI is per se right, but that Trump is just such a fucking idiot. And so fucking delusional. Two conditions that often appear alike.
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