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Klarkashton

(5,422 posts)
3. They make all the furniture they can sell at $6000+ a set
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 07:02 PM
Aug 2025

In North Carolina and the demand is met. It's a small market at that price. There are practical limits to all this shit that Trump is totally ignorant about.

Blue Owl

(59,631 posts)
2. They're working on a new couch for JD Vance right now -- with ribbed fabric for his pleasure
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 06:57 PM
Aug 2025

no_hypocrisy

(55,390 posts)
6. Ha! As if North Carolina's "right-to-work" (i.e., no unions)
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 07:14 PM
Aug 2025

is going to make its furniture affordable.

mucholderthandirt

(1,791 posts)
8. LOL No, we aren't. The factories are gone. The people who would mostly work there are gone.
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 08:36 PM
Aug 2025

Our farms are vanishing, the factories that made the state (furniture and textiles) have been gone so long there isn't even any room to rebuild them if someone wanted to spend billions to do it.

Trump is a fucking idiot.

pansypoo53219

(23,175 posts)
9. better furniture cheaper at estate sales. if i had money to spen, i could have gotten a Biedermeier set. a range of eras
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 10:42 PM
Aug 2025

shit. i paid i think $26 for a extra unusual pressed back chair. shit. i refinished a late 1800's chair that i got for $6. but most people like new.
i hate to think the tangerine twat has any antiques.

pansypoo53219

(23,175 posts)
11. from NPR the producers had to cobble a 'office' for the apprentice cause trump's was a shithole.cause his minions get
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 11:49 PM
Aug 2025

crap. now that he has grifted thru 4 1/2 years he has enough money ....wait. never enough....i am surprized the oval office rug isn't gold lame.

Klarkashton

(5,422 posts)
12. He has a lot of fat cats that kept their precious tax breaks
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 11:58 PM
Aug 2025

That are more than happen to donate a pittance of what they are reaping to pay tribute to that horrible bastard.

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