Re: Past Blast - "Wonder Woman 1984" - Corp Guy Using PET

On 05/04/2025 09:21, c186282 wrote:

And just THIS week ... if in the USA you may not want to
   buy anything that comes from China. Expect a "Bolivian
   re-sell/brand market" soon, but not THIS week.

Import the boards from china,. put them in a box in Birmingham UK and put a sticker on saying 'Made in Britain'...
Low tariff.
Reminds me of working in a very 'protected' economy and under embargo as well. South Africa 1980.
Got a call from a customs agent. Who clearly was only there to make up the quota of Afrikaaners. Afirikanners epak English with a heavy redneck accent
"i've god these things ere, marked 'capacidors', but Icant tell what cetegory they are in.
" Well what categories have you got?"
I have capacidors, Industrial 'eavy duty, capacidors electronic components, capacidors car components or capacidor radio spare parts"
"Which one carries the least duty?"
"Capacidor, radio spare parts".
"Well that's good because that's what they are!"
Paper work and import duty solved!
It doesn't take much to fool a Trump, let's face it.
You need to be as smart as Putin to run a proper oligarchy. And even he has fallen prey to his own methodology.
When people who tell you what you don't want to hear fall off balconies, you never get the truth...
The road to hell is paved with  unintended consequences.
Which is why true conservatism is never radical or sweeping. It nibbles away at what clearly isn't working, and leaves only what has stood the test of time.
It never takes a chainsaw to everything
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"And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch".
Gospel of St. Mathew 15:14