@FreddieUK Well I have not come across a single economist who considers tariffs to be a good thing. Quite the opposite in fact.

Have you?

@Adeptlinguist Nope.

@Adeptlinguist

@RoguishEyes We don't have to imagine he's a convicted felon and an adjudicated rapist though do we.

@CorvusBlackthorne
That's because he wrote IT!

@RoguishEyes Anyone can have an imagination without being a liberal to have one.

For instance, you can be conservative and have an imagination, you can be centerist and have an imagination, Heck! you can even be apolitical and have an imagination.

Many kids around the world, aged let's say... 3 to 13 have no political alignments whatsoever, yet have vivid imaginations.

Using myself as an example.

When I was a kid, I had no political alignments, yet I was always very curious and imaginative.

Then, when I entered my teenage years, I discovered I had very conservative values, yet my curiosity and imagination never diminished.

Heading into my early adult years, I had very slight liberal leanings, and was still as curious and imaginative as ever.

These days, I'm a centerist and still as curious and imaginative as I was when I was a kid.

My point is that you don't always have to be <X variable here>, in order to be <Y variable here>.

@AlanAPartridge I beg your pardon!?

@AlanAPartridge You don't need to be the weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

@CorvusBlackthorne Honestly, I always suspected The Raven was less ‘gothic allegory’ and more ‘feathered chrononaut’.

So the bird’s from space, is it? Typical. Comes down, haunts a man for 84 lines, leaves no forwarding address. Very Area 51 meets Alan Bennet.

Hopefully you make a film about yourself- The Raven arrives in a steampunk TARDIS, quotes ‘Nevermore’, then lasers a Victorian banker. I’d watch it. Twice.

@Patriot96 Have you ever been in a building that you just knew was built badly? Follow up question. Do you have a degree in architecture, or otherwise have some proof of your expertise?

Or how about this? Have you ever started to read a book that you just had to put down because it was awful? Did you need to have decades of experience writing novels to know that it was bad?

Do you understand?

@MarineBob I like to read as much as the next person, probably even more than, but living in a small house with a finite amount of shelf space, I do all my reading on-line.

Also, at times, it's more convenient to listen to audiobooks on YouTube.

@MarineBob Stephen King's books have sold an estimated over 400 million copies worldwide. Stephen King's film adaptations have earned a collective box office revenue of over $2.9 billion. Celebrity Net Worth estimates Stephen King's net worth at $500 million.

So even though he may not have a degree in finance, he does have expert advisors to talk to. It's also pretty clear what the finance and investing experts on Wall St think.

@Reason10 You watch Fox News & Newsmax huh ?