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I read a couple of articles about this bust and there's just a tiny little problem with your characterization of it: nowhere did I find any claim that this fentanyl was being exported to the USA. I did find this though: "Fentanyl is a main ingredient in much of the toxic illicit drugs that have killed nearly 48,000 people across Canada between January 2016 and March 2024, according to the Canadian government." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-drug-super-lab-busted-fentanyl-guns/

Not just that. Even if the Mediterranean diet had begun in Italy, the Italians are no longer following it. So what's the point? Why make the diet the target? In addition, the data on that chart is never explained. What are these "hidden health costs of the agri-food system:? Also, the article takes no account of population. For instance, Italy's population is about 43 times as much as Estonia's. Which means that those costs, whatever they may be, are actually higher than in Italy on a per capita basis. It would make much more sense for that chart to be based on a per capita basis.

Deflecting much? The evidence you offered in the case of Saudi Arabia was obviously irrelevant. And what does it mean that both sides of the issue are inextricably linked? Ii will say that it's nice that, unlike Trump, you wish Ukraine well.

Bust used to justify ‘massive’ jump in fentanyl was not from Canada The White House used 43 pounds of fentanyl crossing into the US at its northern border to justify tariffs on Canadian imports, but the drugs came from within the US, media reports said Wednesday. The 43-pound total represented a “massive 2,205 increase” the White House said in comparison to the previous year’s total of two pounds, the Globe and Mail Newspaper reported. But according to the US border agency, about one-third of the total, 15 pounds, was actually seized in July in Spokane, Washington, not entering the US from Canada, court records show https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/bust-used-to-justify-massive-jump-in-fentanyl-was-not-from-canada/3473198

Well, he's certainly given Israel an incentive to assassinate him. Although, I don't know if the Israelis can count on his claim of what would happen afterwards. Maybe he plans to come back from the dead?

Saudi Arabia Reiterates Support for a Palestinian State "Saudi Arabia reaffirmed its support for an independent Palestinian state on Tuesday and said establishing diplomatic ties with Israel would depend on the creation of such a state, hours after President Trump proposed permanently moving all Palestinians out of Gaza and making it a U.S. territory. The Foreign Ministry’s statement early Wednesday local time, which said that Saudi support for a Palestinian state was “firm and unwavering,” contradicted Mr. Trump. While hosting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the White House on Tuesday, the president had said that Saudi Arabia was not insisting on a Palestinian state." https://archive.ph/QFyNd And the clown wants to get the Saudis to cooperate on lowering oil prices and on actively opposing Iran.

Exactly.........wrong: Historic gains: Low-income workers scored in the Covid economy 05/29/2023 For the past three years, low-income workers have made historic gains in wages even after inflation, reversing the trend of advances for upper-income workers and stagnating pay for laborers that dominated the previous four decades, according to a POLITICO analysis of data from the U.S. Labor Department... At the same time, price spikes have eaten away raises for the highest-earning employees, leading their inflation-adjusted income to drop roughly 5 percent over the past couple of years. The result, according to one new paper: One-quarter of the 40-year growth in the yawning gap between higher-income workers and lower-income workers has disappeared in just a few years. https://archive.ph/wv7G1#selection-1087.0-1102.0

More empty taunts. You've got nothing.

And of course if Trump makes a claim or a promise, it's bound to be true. Remember that 200 billon dollar deal with China? The one where China promised to up its imports of US goods by that amount. It ended up being zero.

And you can't even manage to use accurate vote totals. Which means not only do you have nothing, you have less than nothing, https://www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker/2024/electoral-college

Another empty taunt. You have produced no evidence to support trump's claim that $50,000,000 was used to buy condoms in Gaza. You've got nothing.

Thanks for the heads up about the links. Here are corrected versions: https://archive.ph/nzzjy https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/072215/can-fracking-survive-60-barrel.asp#:~:text=Fracking is expensive%2C but still,low as %2430 per barrel. As for the Saudi threats.. I'm not even going to bother to look at what you claimed. Not because I disbelieve you. I'm sure it's true. But were I to take a look at it, I'm sure the record would show that the Saudis were using that threat to bring other oil producers in line and to stop overproduction. Their threat was in the interest of keeping rates higher than they otherwise would be. Not in keep rates lower for the long term. Which is what Trump is pushing for.

Do you take all official statements from heads of state as representing what they really believe? That there is no such thing as being diplomatic?

Thanks for the empty deflection.

No more tariffs? As for the statement released by Justin, do you think it might just possibly be the case that is private opinion might vary from what he's offered to the public?

It was truly disgraceful how the American economy massively outperformed all the other major developed economies and most of the smaller ones as well.

There's this belief floating around that Trump won that exchange. According to his way of thinking, he has abandoned his quest to protect American workers he claims were suffering because of the trade surpluses of Mexico and the US And his program to supplement and possibly supplant the income tax through tariffs is apparently at best on hold. I'd say his bluff got called.

Or they could be rejoicing because they can fill the vacuum left by the US. The US vets programs a lot more strictly than China does. So all China has to do is step in and fill the space formerly occupied by the US.

Sure. Great news. Now the US is dubiously protected against an exiguous of all the fentanyl coming into the states. And what exactly is the benefit? That a threat that never should have been made won't be carried out for the time being? That a country thatruns one of the smallest percentage trade surpluses with the U.S. is being threatened? And if you take away the oil and gas imiports, which Trump previously pushed for, it actually runs a deficit with the U.S. And I guess you consider it a good thing that the United States can no longer be trusted to uphold signed and ratified agreements. Why would anyone want to sign onto an agreement with the US given that the terms of said agreement could be flouted at any time?

Given that you have no evidence to support what was clearly a lie, you resort to empty taunting instead. You've got nothing.

The IRS had announced last year that it would make the free electronic tax return filing system permanent and asked all 50 states and the District of Columbia to help taxpayers file their returns through the program in 2025... The IRS has faced intense blowback to Direct File from private tax preparation companies that have made billions from charging people to use their software, and have spent millions lobbying Congress to protect their businesses. The average American typically spends about $140 preparing their returns each year. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/irs-musk-free-tax-program-b2691610.html Elon Musk, defender of the average American...billionaire.

Well for one thing, Trump caved too. He promised to crack down on the illegal supply of weapons going to Mexico. But what's more important, he has put tariffs at the center of his program. How does Canada or Mexico upping drug enforcement or stopping immigrants going to bring manufacturers back to America? Why can't the case be made that it was Trump who chickened out?

As usual, allegations about "tons of waste and fraud" What does "tons" mean in relation to the federal budget. This is just emotionalism. And it's always entertaining to see a Trump supporter bemoaning the budget while their guy not only wants to extend the unpaid for tax cuts he got passed last time he was in office, but he wants to create even more. And as for sending money abroad it's a tiny portion of the budget. But I'm sure that China is rejoicing in the cutbacks the US is making.

Someone else who believes in the authority of an anonymously run web site.

Snowflakes like to clump together.