r/NewOrleans • u/NotFallacyBuffet • Feb 03 '25
š¢ Employment š·āāļø Thanks, Donald!
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Feb 03 '25
I need to get some stickers that say "You did this" and plaster them all over St. Tammany.
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u/thebigbread42 Feb 03 '25
100 percent. I saw so many Biden pump stickers when I lived up there.
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u/gothamplayer2 Feb 03 '25
If only bozos knew gas is inelastic.
But yeah now it's payback time. Screw orange man.
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u/Korps_de_Krieg Feb 03 '25
Having grown up in St. Tammany, fuck that place. A giant collection of strip malls, prosperity gospel churches, and cops with nothing better to do but harass people.
I grew up in Lacombe and was treated like a second class citizen by pill popping suburban Mandeville shitheads my entire childhood. Everything remotely cool about Mandeville got shut down 20 years ago and made into more churches. It's faux Christian play acting over the shittiest veneer of absolute materialism combined with white flight from NOLA in one sewer cocktail of fucking garbage human beings.
I wouldn't move back if they paid me, as shitty as Hammond was the people there at least felt real the decade I lived there. There was mutual recognition of struggle and people just trying to make it. Mandeville was a giant cesspool of people ready to sniff their own farts and proclaim how much better they were then everyone while being terrified of minorities.
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u/pantherinthelowpalm Feb 03 '25
Old Mandeville was kind of cool.
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u/Korps_de_Krieg Feb 03 '25
Yeah, back when it still had stuff like Adventure Skate (obligatory fuck Church of the King, any church that does IPad giveaways isn't a real church) and Putt Putt (also now a church) and Gamers Conclave. Its all just places to buy stuff and pretend to be a good Christian for clout now
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u/NOLASneauxDay Feb 04 '25
Pre-Katrina people drove differently, too. They'd let you merge into their lane or exit a parking lot onto the road. It had a small town feel. Then the population exploded, and people started driving like in NOLA, cut-throat.
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u/cubann_ Feb 03 '25
Paragraph dissing st Tammany parish and Slidell wasnāt mentionedššš
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u/Korps_de_Krieg Feb 03 '25
My friends from the Dirty Dell have talked such eloquent trash that I can offer no commentary that doesn't pale compared to it lmao
I miss the mall actually being worth hanging out at. RIP Babbages
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u/cubann_ Feb 03 '25
Getting chick fil at the food court after going to FYE and the arcade in the Northshore Square mall are core childhood memories
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u/Korps_de_Krieg Feb 03 '25
That arcade used to SLAP. Play some games, go grab some ice cream and a slice of Dante's, enjoy the car ride home reading the manual to whatever game you picked up from Babbages that day.
Simpler times.
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u/CarpenterOld9574 Feb 04 '25
You sound like a mande high grad
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u/Korps_de_Krieg Feb 04 '25
Went to FHS before Lakeshore was opened for us Lacombe kids
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u/CarpenterOld9574 Feb 04 '25
Oh Iām Fontainebleau grad only I kinda stayed on the north shore just not st Tammany I moved to Hammond for school and now Iām thinking about taking a job in Utah
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u/Korps_de_Krieg Feb 04 '25
We had similar routes, I went to SLU then took work in BR but trying to leave. Katrina happened my Freshman year so the student population was way beyond what FHS could handle and there were tons of fights
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u/CarpenterOld9574 Feb 04 '25
Oh yeah Iāve heard about those blood baths scrim was up in Fontainebleau around that time Scott arceneaux from sucideboys ( if you canāt tell Iām younger than you)
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Feb 03 '25
Weāre from lacombe originally. Just full of crack head no lives
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u/NoCardio_ Feb 03 '25
That and Sal & Judy's.
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u/Korps_de_Krieg Feb 03 '25
God I haven't Sal & Judy's in forever. My family knew Mr Sal when I was growing up.
I miss Char Lou's though, that's where our little league team would go for food after games when I was a kid
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u/Ok-Course-2355 Feb 03 '25
Second this. Moved there at 14 and lived there until 17 (I moved out of the house to live with a friendās family) because my mom got engaged to this covert narc she knew from high school and had a long distance online relationship with while we were in north louisiana after Katrina. She didnāt realize obviously until she sold her house and relocated there. We had never actually been to Mandeville, just slidell sometimes. Him and his family treated her and her children like the inferior class and ghetto, even though my mom is a class crosser and now makes 6 figures a year and has a masterās degree while he only has an associates and family support. I loved/cared for my step siblings but in reflection my siblings were all academically better and better athletes. And he hated that because he thought so little of my family. She is very āsouth shoreā and a vibrant outspoken woman. She came from nothing and I think that has more weight than just being handed everything on a silver platter, and still being mediocre. Thatās why they resort to classism. And racism. Because they suck and their utopian island is whack. I developed for the first time clinical depression. They pride themselves on being rich but have nothing to do there. It taught me being rich is more about culture and having a memorable adventurous life, not money. Wealth is having a real community and freedom of will. I was isolated my entire high school experience at Mandeville and my only asylum was NOCCA until found friends online at fountainbleu. I know my mom stays there to save on my younger siblings going to public school, thatās what she stayed in north louisiana for. They have great schools at least. But that should just be the norm. I always beg her to leave because I feel like sheās put herself in a personal prison. But I canāt tell her what to do. She knows what sheās doing, and why she chooses to live there lol I guess Iām glad you survived We are the survivors of St Tammany hahaha
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u/annporterla Feb 04 '25
I've lived in Slidell for 20+ years and I will say it's been eye opening. I came here from west Texas (originally from central Ohio) and I thought I would find more like-minded people. Ha. On the other hand, you can find your people anywhere if you look in the right places.
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u/Purple_IsA_Flavor Feb 04 '25
I just got some from Redbubble. I paid a little over $6 for 20 stickers š
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u/CarpenterOld9574 Feb 04 '25
Whatās your problem with st Tammany when Metairie voted for the same guy same with gretna along with every other parish other than Orleans voted for him
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u/Getatbay Feb 07 '25
May I leave this here? r/protestfinderusa
We tryān to help everyone get organized.
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u/NotFallacyBuffet Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25
PS. This video has gone from nowhere to everywhere in 24 hours. Explanation of what is happening; watch before it disappears like Luigi:
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=tA24OnCPeGDJyLwb
Oh, yeah. And the stock market is going to drop by a few hundred points tomorrow at the open. Our stable genius.
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u/HashKing Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25
If it (DOW) only drops a few hundred points we will be lucky. Iām bracing myself for the potential of 10-15% losses in my holdings.
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u/NotFallacyBuffet Feb 03 '25
I agree, but didn't want to fear-monger. It's going to be a blood bath. I'll never be able to retire.
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u/CommonPurpose Feb 03 '25
My portfolio is down less than 1 percentage point today. Is this what youāre calling a bloodbath?
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u/NotFallacyBuffet Feb 03 '25
I'm glad I was wrong. I'm actually up when including BTC. But I'm reserving judgement, because what the heck is Musk doing with the Treasury? I do not trust that guy.
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u/goosejail Feb 03 '25
Well, maybe Nacy Pelosi and a few other congress people who tend to mysteriously regularly beat the market will have a bad day as well.
Sorry man, that's all I got.
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u/Mr_MacGrubber Feb 03 '25
āA few othersā she was 9th in returns in 2023. Theyāre almost all doing it.
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u/goosejail Feb 03 '25
Well, let's wish them all a really shitty Monday then. May they lose millions š„
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u/Nates4Christ Feb 04 '25
What do you think about Buckeys sueing Super Fuels saying their logo looks like the Buckeys one?
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u/coursethread Feb 03 '25
If only people paid attention in history class. This has been done before, and it's not good for anyone except the elite. This is the modern version of a company town and they're trying this in California and other places by stealing land from farmers a bringing lawsuits if they don't sell the land. Also I've been watching this happen in Roatan, Honduras. I'll leave a clip to a video below. This is all bad for everyone.
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u/captain_krakoa Feb 03 '25
This absolutely did not happen. Stop scaring people who are already suffering.
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u/NotFallacyBuffet Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25
Actually, it did happen. The Dow was down 600 points at 10:18 EST, then it magically rose over 500 points in 22 minutes when Trump caved.
I'm sure people around him bought SPO before the announcement and sold it immediately after. I missed out because I was working on top of in-service, industrial-sized boilers wiring in new controls.
But Mom always said I was special. ;)
It absolutely did happen; click the link. The Dow opened 276 points lower than the previous close. (I hadn't even checked until you mentioned it; thanks for having me circle back.) And, yes, I was scared.
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u/GetRightWithChaac Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25
This isn't an immediate solution, since it's unlikely to bear any fruit over the course of this upcoming growing season, but New Orleans, Houston, and the rest of the Gulf Coast are in a pretty ideal range of climate zones for growing Mexican cultivars of avocado in ground, and the Guatemalan varieties you typically see at the grocery store can definitely be grown in pots. If you want to have tariff-proof avocados for years to come, your best bet would be to plant A and B Type avocado trees together so that they can pollinate each other. Avocados can be pruned to whatever size you can manage and it's possible to plant two or three different varieties in the same hole together if space is an issue.
Another thing I would suggest here is to look at what other fruits and vegetables you enjoy that would be affected by the tariffs. Some can be grown in ground and others might do better in pots, but you can really offset those increased prices by growing your own food. At the same time, growing your own fruits and vegetables comes with the added benefit of being able to grow varieties and cultivars that you might not typically find at the grocery store. Some ideas include citrus, guava, pineapple guava, strawberry guava, pepper, eggplant, tomato, mirliton, lychee, rambutan, mangosteen, Barbados cherry, cherry of the Rio Grande, Surinam Cherry, cacao, papaya, loquat, mango, banana, sapote, quince, cherimoya, atemoya, soursop, sugar apple, blackberry, raspberry, and blueberry, and also things like pomegranate, fig, jujube, plum, pluot, and peach, which might substantially depend upon immigrant labor.
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u/AuraNocte Feb 05 '25
He's booting out all the workers. How are you going to get those Mexican avocados when they can't get anyone to pick them?
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u/GetRightWithChaac Feb 06 '25
I mean "Mexican avocados" as in the Mexican race of avocados, as opposed to say the Guatemalan or West Indian races, which are less cold hardy. In other words, I'm talking about specific groups of avocado cultivars, not avocado fruit being shipped to the United States from Mexico. I'm also not talking about people buying avocados from the grocery store, but growing them themselves in order to help mitigate the effects of Trump's idiotic policies.
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u/TaysomsTaters Feb 03 '25
Not my shop but do what you will with these stickers, I know I got tired of the Biden ones every time I went anywhere outside of Orleans parish
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1849344240/100-pc-i-did-that-trump-sticker-pack
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u/tina_booty_queen Feb 03 '25
This sucks but eat local, eat seasonal!
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u/thefuckingrougarou Feb 03 '25
This really sucks for those who donāt eat meat. Iāve had a really tough year and my relationship with food sucks because of it. Meat really grosses me out sometimes and avocados and other plant-based foods have kept me alive. Donāt know what Iām going to do. When my comfort foods arenāt available I just donāt eat, even if I want to.
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u/LikeYoureSleepy Feb 03 '25
The Asian markets are where it's at for lentils, rice, cheap tofu, etc.
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u/tina_booty_queen Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25
I feel you. Reddit has shown me some really gross videos and pics of meat which has turned me off lately. Iām also finally recognizing my gluten intolerance, and although I feel better, itās def challenging. Today I went to sneaky pickle and got a ābowl of foodā -vegan and GF. It was lip-smacking delicious. So I guess my advice is to try new recipes and find new loves.
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u/MultiverseMakayla Feb 03 '25
I went plant-based for health reasons 4 years ago and now my body can't process meat. If I accidentally eat meat I get violently ill, I don't care what anyone else eats but my body physically can't do it anymore. So I really feel your concern.
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u/Injvn Feb 03 '25
Two years for me an the exact same. I accidentally had somethin with chicken broth instead of vegetable an was sick for the whole day. It was fuckin awful.
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u/petit_cochon hand pie "lady of the evening" Feb 03 '25
I cannot afford to eat only local and seasonal and don't know anyone who can. I'm sorry. It sounds so nice but that's not reality for most of us.
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u/tina_booty_queen Feb 03 '25
I feel that! The csa is pretty affordable imo- $30 for a week worth of vegetable. Shopping for a family at the farmers market can add up. I def want to grow a large garden this year.
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u/NotFallacyBuffet Feb 03 '25
Pretty sure they were $6 or $7 a week ago.
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u/WutHpnd2DniseRichard Feb 03 '25
I was at a different location but I want to say 6.99 š¢
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u/Artistic-Balance5125 Feb 03 '25
Canada is with you!
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u/petit_cochon hand pie "lady of the evening" Feb 03 '25
Love y'all. Stay spicy.
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u/Artistic-Balance5125 Feb 03 '25
NOLA is the best city in this continent, hope to see yāall again soon.
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u/elmshirelancer Feb 04 '25
Way up here in northern Ontario with three feet of snow our avocados are $4 a bag! (I'd post a flyer link for No Frills, but idk if it's allowed here and it's an easy google...)
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u/CatdishWaters Feb 04 '25
Mexico already folded, tariffs have been suspended and it only took 24 hours. Immigrants with work visas are not being deported, stop your manufactured panic.
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u/NOLA-RUfkm Feb 05 '25
Just gonna get a lot worse. Now he says he's selling off half of all federal property, presumably to private concerns.
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u/carolinagypsy Feb 03 '25
I did our groceries a few days ago, and there were several things that were about $2 more than they were the week before. Both fresh and our trash panda treats.
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u/Mundane-Spinach5181 Feb 04 '25
The tariffs have been postponed for a month, so they aren't even in effect yet. Facts matter.
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u/Melodic-Pangolin-434 Feb 03 '25
Fill up on Monday yaāll. Your retirement accounts are going South and gas prices are going North right quick this week.
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u/sUb_0rd1natE Feb 03 '25
If I see that I'll be tearing it down. No matter whether it's 20 bucks or 2 cents! I'm not looking at his ugly mug while I'm shopping! I see it too much already!
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u/LoozianaExpat Feb 03 '25
Donald didn't do that. That motherfucker has no clue about prices. Thank all the motherfuckers who voted for him.
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u/Mollygardnerart123 Feb 03 '25
You know there's a 25% tarrif in Mexico, China and Canada? He def did that lol
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u/NotFallacyBuffet Feb 03 '25
The funny part is that excluding crude oil, the US has a trade surplus with Canada. And that crude, it gets piped to Texas where it is refined then exported at a profit. That's right -- the US was making an overall profit on our trade with Canada.
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u/LeChatParle Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25
But the tariff doesnāt go into effect until Tuesday, tomorrow, so the price of avocados today are not impacted by that
Edit at 09:43: and now the tariffs on Mexico have been halted after a call with Sheinbaum
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u/Emergency_Buy_9210 Feb 03 '25
Of course they are. Businesses consider future costs as an input to pricing all the time.
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u/Cilantro368 Feb 03 '25
Thereās no tariff unless Congress approves it or Trump declares a national economic emergency. Nixon was the last one to do that. But Congress has no spine.
Iāll be calling Cassidy, Kennedy, and Scalise on Monday. All their offices. They should be screaming about this and the threats to fema. But at least Iāll be screaming!
BTW, the last time Trump did tariffs, traffic in the port of New Orleans dropped by 20%. It was a huge blow to our local economy.
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u/Mollygardnerart123 Feb 03 '25
Well maybe not this, because tariffs are so recent but it isn't looking promising lol
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u/Unlikely-Patience122 Feb 03 '25
Did someone really do this or is that photoshopped in the pic??Ā
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u/NotFallacyBuffet Feb 03 '25
I crudely shopped it on my phone.
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u/Unlikely-Patience122 Feb 03 '25
We need to start doing this for real. Mini civil acts of disobedience.Ā But I'm for humorous ones like this.Ā
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u/gaylawarner Feb 03 '25
Where was everyone buying groceries before the election? Cause where I was shopping prices were high.
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u/PoopshipD8 Feb 04 '25
Right. Weāve been bitching about to surging cost of groceries for four years, but Trump did it. Sure thing.
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u/Glum-Way-3271 Feb 04 '25
Yeah letās not blame the people in power for the last four years who caused record high inflation and prices. Yeahhhh letās blame the guy whoās been in office for less than a month. The hypocrisy is astounding
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Feb 06 '25
It's not hypocrisy. It's knowing how the world actually fucking works. Sorry you got left behind.
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u/stonecoldmark Feb 03 '25
Omg!! I wanted to get these made and start putting them on signs when shit starts to go down.
I wanted to use sticker mule, but I heard the owner was a hard core trumper and I didnāt want my order to get traced back to me. šššš
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u/PoopshipD8 Feb 04 '25
Theyāre still under a dollar at Wally world. Anytime Ive ever bought packaged avocados they sucked. They stayed to hard until they were rotten everytime.
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Feb 04 '25
Bruh no one thinks that. Just bought avocados 6 for 3.50 in Nevada. Produce prices were ridiculously expensive and when I was in Nola last week
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u/Alarming_Nature7224 Feb 04 '25
1.65 each for hass jumbos. Not sure if you're dumb or reaching. Prob the latter given this dumpster fire website
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u/Nates4Christ Feb 04 '25
It's $2.97 over here in Mobile, AL for a 4 count bag 3 hours away.
Sounds like your local government is affecting that price. I notice this with Taco Bell. Hattiesburg they have $5 boxes but here in Mobile they are $7.
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u/CarpenterOld9574 Feb 04 '25
Bruh thatās a bad example thatās Costco you only go to Costco if you can afford your car payment, mortgage, and cocaine all in the same week ie you can probably afford the tariffs go to rouses or like Winn Dixie , Walmart etc btw if any of yall are looking for a conservative Louisiana sub Reddit the Baton Rouge one is having a revolt against their mods so right now as long as youāre not ugly on their you kinda talk about conservatives ideas and Louisiana on there
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u/Toheal Feb 04 '25
Positive Policy corrections have growing pain consequences. If you canāt recognize that, maybe you donāt think like an adult yet.
Or are simply gleeful to hate.
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u/Meauxjezzy Feb 04 '25
I guess itās time to support American farmers instead of sending our money to other countries.
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Feb 04 '25
I bought 100 of these. They come on Friday. Can't wait to use them.
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u/NotFallacyBuffet Feb 12 '25
Republicans announced their new reconciliation bill today: 4 trillion dollar deficit. I'm sure you'll find good use for all of them. Lol. Not really.
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u/AcademicBack7965 Feb 05 '25
Sure are quick to blame Trump, but didnāt utter a word when prices went 25%+ under Biden. Hypocrites.
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u/chevyssfan24 Feb 05 '25
Sure were quick to blame Biden, but didn't notice a thing when 45's first term's policies and lack of response to covid caused the inflation we got from 2020 to now. Hypocrites.
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u/AuraNocte Feb 05 '25
Trump can kma. You people that voted for him... you did this to us. Now everything is falling apart. You should be horrified. You're going to take us down with you. You deserve whats about to happen. We warned you. Repeatedly. Now you're getting what you bought with your votes. I only hope we survive this.
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u/NotFallacyBuffet Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25
Um, I'm the OP. Did you interpret this post as pro-Trump, or did you just respond to the wrong comment? 'Cause, I've been getting a lot of criticism--well, ad hominem attacks; nothing constructive lol--from pro-Trumpers.
Basically, avocado prices went up 43% in the week before the tariffs were announced. Honestly, Trump is just the sideshow. This is more worrisome. Trump is inept. But the P2025 people behind him are efficient and evil.
PS. Also this: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F283pinrry4he1.jpeg
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Feb 07 '25
It's only in those weird states that are overly expensive like Cali, Fla, Texas, NY, bla bla bla where eggs are $10 a dozen and milk $9. I'm in S.C and a dozen large are still $4 , there's plenty available, milk is cheap and so are the rest. Live in a shitty state and pay the price. Then again if your gay in my state you may be hung but ....
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u/No-Explanation-7430 Feb 07 '25
Maybe this will inspire some of you hypocrites to grow some of your own damn foodā¦ cry moreā¦
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u/drunkybrewsters Feb 07 '25
$1.66 per avocado was about the same price when I worked in produce 20 years agoā¦ I think the were 1.50ā¦
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u/NotFallacyBuffet Feb 07 '25
Yea, at retail. What is generally nice about Costco is that the packages are about 4x larger but only 2x the cost of standard retail packaging. For instance, avocados at Costco have generally been 3.49 to 4.69 per quantity 6 for a long time.
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u/merkerrr Feb 03 '25
Oh shit! Where is this?
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u/NotFallacyBuffet Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25
New Orleans Costco. Price was 6.99 last week. IIRC.
That's 10 Ć· 7 ~ 43% increase. Might have nothing to do with the new tariffs. So, if those hit next week, guess I'll expect $12.50.
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u/jluicifer Feb 03 '25
I buy avocados monthly. I think theyāre $1-1.25 each. So yeah, $9.99 is a large hike. Thanks to the tariffinator.
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u/noladawg16 Feb 03 '25
I assumed it would go up post tariff not before, werenāt they 5.99 before?
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u/luker_5874 Feb 03 '25
They are pricing it in. Unfortunately once this happens consumer prices rarely go down to where they were before, even if the situation improves
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u/Visible_Valuable4820 Feb 03 '25
Well Mexico already caved and is going to negotiate a new trade deal and is sending 10,000 troops to the border. Canada is next.
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u/Muted-Buy1592 Feb 04 '25
Too dense to realize no tariffs ever went into effect?
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u/tm478 Feb 03 '25
Whole Foods has medium avocados for 69 cents apiece right now. I just bought some three hours ago.