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[later] I don't get why our pizza slices have such terrible reviews; the geotextile-infused sauce gives the toppings incredible slope stability!
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mostowy
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ChristianDiscer
14 hours ago
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Incorrect analogy – More like;
1) You want a pizza made from another region.
2) However, you must sell them some your ingredients before it can be made.
3) They charge a “tariff” to protect the income of their local farmer’s for other ingredients. You’re willing to pay the “tariff” because you like your ingredients better.
4) The pizza maker sells you the final pizza with a standard sales tax but no tariff
5) You paid the higher price and they made money from the tariff.

Trump is charging tariffs to increase the costs from other regions for several reasons. A) To negotiate down tariffs from other regions. B) Lower tariffs mean you pay a lower cost for your special pizza. C) To whittle down our regions deficit. D) and/or To increase local “ingredients” growth at lower cost for you.
sirwired
10 hours ago
The analogy Randall posted was perfect. It’s based on that ridiculous chart the president displayed showing “tariff” rates all over the world allegedly imposed on the US. It was not, in fact, the average import duty charged, or any number even tangentially related to it, like indirect tariffs through subsidy. Instead, it was ( Trade Deficit / Import Value ) This produces a number that has nothing whatsoever to do with tariffs at all. Let’s say NowhereStan exports $1B of gold every year to the US, but gets all their material needs supplied by LocalRepublic, except for $1M a year of US bourbon, imported duty-free.In the real world, the tariff imposed by NowhereStan on the US is 0%. Using Trump Math, it’s 99.9%. This “We just don’t happen make to something the other party wants to buy, so we should punish them for it.” is what the strip is making fun of, not the general concept of tariffs.
ManBehindThePlan
18 hours ago
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Explains with stick figures, XKCD goes to the heart of the matter of tariffs and STILL manages to make a joke!
rraszews
18 hours ago
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The line break after "The President is mad" is absolutely perfect and frankly the sentence could have ended there just fine.
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rickhensley
21 hours ago
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Finally, a way to explain it that my wife can relate to.
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[later] I don't get why our pizza slices have such terrible reviews; the geotextile-infused sauce gives the toppings incredible slope stability!

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Super-Fun-Pak Comix by Ruben Bolling on Sat, 05 Apr 2025

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Super-Fun-Pak Comix by Ruben Bolling for Tue, 08 Apr 2025

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Super-Fun-Pak Comix by Ruben Bolling on Tue, 08 Apr 2025

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A Minecraft Movie Contains A Tear-Jerking Tribute To A YouTube Legend

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There’s a scene quite early on in A Minecraft Movie that, to the unaware, would completely pass you by. As Jack Black’s Steve introduces the newly arrived humans to his village, young teenager Henry sees a pig walk past wearing a crown. He asks, “Is he some kind of king?” And for those in the know, the blubbing begins.

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Tangela House Plant

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Tangela House Plant

Had this fake ball plant sitting on my desk in an ugly container and thought of Tangela, so i decided to make him into one!

Let me know what you think!

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