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Gosh. There you go letting facts get in the way of a good lefty Trump bash. You'll never get a job in the MSM. Facts and common sense would disqualify you.

But she's going to jail, based on what I've seen so far.

How much import and export have you done from the USA? Not much if you think it's a small number of countries.

The genius is in the simplicity if you understand that Trump's objective is to bring them to the negotiating table. Putting more pressure on those with a higher trade imbalance just makes sense. Those numbers are just starting points for the negotiation. So is the 10% across the board. They're not cast in stone. And they sure got the attention of the trade emissaries around the world. Who now have 90 days to think about it. It absolutely gobsmacks me that expats living in a country with the 300% tariffs on US cars can't see that America has been taking it in the shorts for decades. Since WW2. It was fine when the rest of the world economies were on their heels after the war. But not for the past 40 years or so. (And with Thailand, gratitude for the Vietnam War is long past the sell by date) Trouble is, once an entity gets accustomed to free stuff and sweet deals, they squeal like little girls when you try to wean them off the free stuff and sweet deals.

I guess you slept through the Pro-Palestine Encampment and the Claudine Gay fiasco. Not hard to believe the way the MSM was spinning it.

They have many $ billions in their endowment fund. They could probably keep going for a decade or more between their piggy bank, ongoing donations and private sector contracts. Instead, they choose to lay off staff and threaten to eat the cats euthanize the puppies in a ridiculous attempt to tug at heartstrings and demonize Trump. They could just agree to follow US law and cooperate on the investigations of illegal behavior...

Sounds wonderful as a concept. The problem, of course, is that we have 60 years of data saying it hasn't worked, in spite of costing $trillions of dollars, destroying minority communities and penalizing white guys. Listen to Thomas Sowell and you'll hear him rattle off statistic after statistic that show that Black folks were making better progress in the 40 years before the Great Society than the 60 years since. We weren't there yet but getting there faster. If they hadn't decided that certain minorities needed to be wards of the state, we may already be at full parity.

As KhunLA stated, That 'splains a lot.

About 5 years ago, Fox replaced CNN on my top 10 news source bookmarks. CNN is still on the list among about 60 other news sources, but they are waaay down the list. But still well above MSDNC.

You mean that uninhabited country that did $1.4 million in exports to the US in 2022? Lumping them into the same 10% tariff category puts a stop to any possibility that'll ever happen again, whether that was deceit or an honest error on the paperwork. Anyone who understands how tariffs work and the US HTC know exactly why it was done. This is from the World Bank, 2022.

I don't think they thought that. But they were hijacked by leftists and globalists to atone for "colonial guilt". Which isn't a real thing since that's just the way the world worked back then. Even the colonized were abusing and enslaving each other, long before the Europeans landed on their shores. Letting all the dinghies in and giving them food, lodging, money and health care is their way of extracting reparations from the innocent taxpayers without calling them reparations.

The constitutional crisis is local federal judges trying to dictate national policy. They're only allowed to rule on the specific issues brought on behalf of specific plaintiffs. They're trying to write law, not rule on it.

Was it hubris, or cognitive decline? I don't blame Biden. He was an old guy with a poor memory and not enough on the ball to even know he wasn't on the ball. In his state, the people around him should have 25th'ed him. If he hadn't chosen Harris as VP (best insurance he could have possibly had against an impeachment), they probably would have. The Dems defeated themselves by being too clever by half.

Pick nits with someone else. I'm not playing that game.

Do you honestly believe these deals could have been negotiated and approved through a country's legal process in the month or so since Trump started making tariff waves (this round of them)? Over 70 countries have come to the negotiating table. It may be months before any agreements are finalized. I watched a UK interview with Sebastion Gorka and though it was contentious, he did a great job explaining that Trump has just reset the baseline negotiating situation after decades of unequal trade deals for the US. Nothing is cast in stone. It's just a starting point for negotiations. And the guys on the other side of the table have 90 days to think about it. He also claimed that Trump 45 raised tariffs and studies showed that retail prices went up by less than 1% as a result. The sky isn't falling. But America won't be doing unequal trading any more.

Is reducing demand for imported stuff a bad thing in a country that imports about $1 Trillion more than we export a year? Especially a country that's $35 Trillion in debt already. I'm as guilty as anyone, always looking for a good deal on a big screen that's 5" bigger than the perfectly good one I already own. But it's not like the quality of my life will go in the toilet if the price of a 5" upgrade increases. I'll keep watching the one that's 20x the square area of what I grew up with and I'll be okay. And that's even more true if we replace imported stuff with stuff that's made in the USA.

Pennsylvania. Say no more. Of all the states I've lived in, they had the most intrusive fish and game laws. I was a kid too young to buy a gun back then.

That must be in lefty states. I've never paid for any background checks on over a dozen guns I've bought.

I don't care what you're protesting. If you block traffic, you should get egged.

I dated a lady that made more than me. My position scored more Hay Points, but she worked for the oil company and I worked for a suppler. Life's not fair...

Generally, only women are allowed to get away with hypergamy.

When banks find vulnerabilities, they're a bug and they patch 'em. When election officials find one, "It'll be fine". Almost as it they're a feature and not a bug. That CNN article came out in mid 2023. A year and a half before the November election. With DEFCON revelations and the Georgia court case (as if that was a surprise to anyone following Haldeman's work), you'd think they'd demand an upgrade if they found vulnerabilities. But they just crossed their fingers that nobody else found them and exploited them.

He offered them. (Suggested... Recommended...) The people (Pelosi, et al) responsible for Capitol security declined. So he didn't order them. Imagine the absolute stink had he ordered them after being told by Pelosi not to.

Of course I read it. How can they acknowledge vulnerabilities and still keep a straight face when they insist it's safe? They must be lefties.

A little trivia from wikipedia: I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member". As quoted in The Groucho Letters (1967) edited by Arthur Sheekman (uncredited). The sentiment predates Marx by 61 years, however; it likely originated with John Galsworthy in The Forsyte Saga. I thought it was Rodney Dangerfield, but it was Groucho.