For years, Mackeys Ferry Sawmill in North Carolina depended on overseas buyers in China and Vietnam after domestic demand for premium hardwood declined. But when President Donald Trump launched his escalating trade war, the mill’s owners say the damage was immediate and ultimately irreversible. By July—just months after Trump declared his “Liberation Day” tariffs—they made the decision to shut the operation down entirely.
In a recent episode of the Big Take podcast, Bloomberg economics correspondent Shawn Donnan traveled to the “Old North State” to trace how one of America’s oldest trades was shaken by Trump’s tariff battles, and to hear how the mill’s owners now feel about the president they once supported at the ballot box.
These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:
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Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
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The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
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A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
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Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
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A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
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Wilson expressed deep regret about parts of his vote. “There are some things I regret about voting for President Trump? Yes, a hundred percent. Trade policy is one of them… I wish it hadn’t have turned out that way.” Even so, he said given the choices on the ballot, he still would have voted for Trump—reflecting a dilemma felt by many in rural America.
Then you deserve this. So shut up and fuck off. Fuck your family and its business and your complete stupidity that led to their financial downfall. Cherry on top is you said you’d do it again you dense POS…
You said you’d do it again despite witnessing a generational economical effect…
You are that awful… Hell you straight up offered ammo for anyone to see how your stupidity has been weaponized beyond yourself…
Kind of drives me nuts how many of these random articles there are and the people interviewed still say they’d vote for Trump. Like, what is the point of your interview then? You got what you voted for?
"I lost my job, my house, and most of my friends. My kids won’t talk to me, my retirement is wiped out, and I have to pass through 12 armed checkpoints to go anywhere in town.
But I’m also seeing fewer people putting pronouns in their bio, so I guess it was all worth it."
But I’m also seeing fewer people putting pronouns in their bio
“The TV is telling me thst fewer people are putting pronouns in their bio.”
Eating that pronouns soup.
Seriously.
“Trump destroyed my multi generation family business, but I’d rather lose my multi generation family business than have a black, female, Democrat for president.”
That’s the level of brainwashing we’re dealing with. It’s profound.
But the tv told me there’s crime in a city I have never been to and will never go! It had to be done
Dog! There’s a book in a library in a school in a state I don’t live in that mentions trans. I have no other choice here…
he would also said she “laughs like a hyena”
he also said “there are some things he regrets” so he means he doesnt really regret he voted for him.
“The racism and sexism are great, but the destroying my livelihood thing, not so much”
The thing that gets me is that were Republican primaries. Had they had one shred of sense, they could have voted for a Republican candidate that wasn’t going to flip tables over.
They won’t even admit that another candidate would have been a better choice.
So then… you got the idiot that you wanted and you’re getting the policies that you deserve.
they are looking for which R candidate will kiss trumps ass, not a moderate or what R is these days.
Get fucked, Wilson.
On my clipboard I already have that paragraph copied. I was going to paste it, and say something that may not be word for word exact, but essentially identical in tone and message.
But I see you have it covered before I got here.
Nobody cares about the tears if you say you’d step on the rake again given the same choice
Say it with me “YOU DESERVE IT”
Farmers are still pro-pedophile because they are getting all that free government money .
Welfare. Only of a better class than poor folk. They are and have been getting welfare my whole life. When I was in high school this farmers son got new truck every spring. By spring of the next year it would be trashed. Every year they would get their welfare checks from the US government and every year they would get new vehicles to trash. This went on for decades.
The tears, they’re salty
The leopards are getting fat and dehydrated at an alarming rate.
This one keeps popping up but I have only so much snark to go around I can spare no more for these self made losers.
Wilson expressed deep regret about parts of his vote
About parts? What? About getting tariffs, the one favourite gun that he had used to shoot randomly during his first term? But not about the racism part, or taking away rights from women, people of color, or people not being straight and cis?
But not about the racism part, or taking away rights from women, people of color, or people not being straight and cis?
No, which is why it’s posted in here, wants to hurt others he dispaproves of but the hurtful net is broad and he’s been caught up it as well
“I voted for all those people I don’t like to be hurt or killed, not for peaceful God fearing folks like myself to lose money!!”
“I voted for Mr. Hitler because he’d be good for the economy. I didn’t go in for all that Jew-killing stuff. You can’t blame that on me.” – German Citizen, 1946
I don’t approve of his Bart killing policy, but I do approve of his Selma killing policy.
It saddens me how often this image will be relevant over the next 3 to ??? years.
THIS IS INTOLERABLE…I have dropped my toast on the floor. Butter side down 😢
Also, haha, shame about that sawmill, you child rapist supporting cunt.
Get a cat:
LMAO. Eat shit trumpers.
“Oh no! Exactly what I voted for is happening!”
And the reason the domestic demand for premium hardwoogmd dried up is no one can afford it anymore. All anyone can buy is compressed sawdust bullshit that falls apart if you think too much about moving it
also people likely arnt buying houses or furnitures.
