Alan Zweibel

All 80,000 of them. Are those workers in the turkey processing plant stealing gizzards. As for being taken in by the most giving country in the world, this thread is not about Norway.

So a good way to do that is to alienate Canada and encourage them to forge more economic ties elsewhere?

So instead, he's decided to inflict more.

The citizens of Quebec are "communists to the core"? It's blazingly evident that after you finish telling your Canuck friend about what's really going on in Canada, he still won't have a clue.

And to encourage that he's doing his best to separate the Canadian economy from the US economy. If you exempt Canadian oil from the economic equation, Canada actually bought more from the US than it sold to the US. And as for that oil, Trump was gung-ho for a second keystone pipeline.

I didn't see that one but you can be damned sure that if I had seen it, I would have given it the thumbs down. And not just because I'm paid by Microsoft (as well as .the International Communist/Antifa party) to keep the sheeple connected.

As a joke, that would have worked if it was made when MLK and Juneteenth were first included on the free entry lest. But since this was about them being cut from the list, it's just dumb.

Doublethink.

So there are roughly 80,000 Somalis, the current estimate of how man ethnic Somalis there are in Minnesota, currently being prosecuted or investigated for fraud? Does that include those workers in the turkey processing plant in Willmar? How about these hardened criminals? "The Somalis arriving in the past few decades have changed the face of downtown, renting apartments and opening businesses in the storefronts. Some display colorful clothing and rugs, and many of the restaurants serve a traditional Somali spiced tea with steamed milk and lots of sugar. “They are very entrepreneurial,” said Obregon, Willmar’s community-growth director. Now Hispanic and Somali children make up the majority of children in the local school. Vicki Davis, a city council member and parateacher in special education, said her first-grade class of 22 students has only four white children, including one Ukrainian. “It’s fun to see them play together,” she said. “One of the Somali girls’ hijabs will fall off and all of the girls are like, ‘Oh, my goodness, let’s help her.’ It’s just really sweet.” https://archive.ph/VW9hv#selection-2587.0-2603.88 Sending Somalis out of the country would be a blow to Willmar’s economy, officials said. https://archive.ph/VW9hv#selection-2587.0-2603.88

Millions of immigrants from Eastern Europe and Italy emigrated to the USA to escape their corrupt and brutal governments. And the consequence of this wave of immigration was the destruction of America?

So funny. The same people who complain about DEI giving unfair boost to people based on their race or ethnicity rather than treating them as individuals, have no problem with denigrating people based on their ethnicity rather than considering them as individuals.

I am being informed by someone who doesn't back up his comments with evidence or reasoning.

Biden never claimed this: During his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly said that he could put an end to Russia’s war against Ukraine in 24 hours. "I will have the deal done in one day," Trump said. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/17/can-donald-trump-put-an-end-to-the-war-in-ukraine At a CNN town hall in May 2023, Trump said: “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.” He said that would happen after he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin. And he keeps repeating the claim on the campaign trail. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-end-russia-ukraine-230229310.html Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after we all together win the presidency, we will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled. It will be settled. … I’ll get them both. I know Zelensky, I know Putin. It’ll be done within 24 hours, you watch.” https://archive.ph/GdUkR “If it's not solved … I will have it solved in 24 hours with Zelensky and with Putin … there’s a very easy negotiation to take place. I will have it solved within one day, a peace between them.” https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trump-claims-he-can-end-russia-ukraine-war-within-24-hours-3900398

I wouldn't say except for the US. China's restraints on the Yuan are hurting economies all over the world. Usually, as a country develops economically, it lets go of lower end manufacturing which then migrates to other countries where costs are lower.. But it looks like China wants to keep a lot of that, too.

Actually, the problem is that as high as Trump's tariffs are, they're still not high enough to do serious damage to China. Their exports to the US dropped by nearly a fifth, but some of that drop may be due to the period when tariffs were at their height. And that still leaves over 80% intact. So far, US factory output continues to slow down.

To be clear, the National Park Service's announcement of the new free holiday schedule said this in the list: Flag Day/President Trump's Birthday. So now black Americans can see that MLK Birthday Holiday, one in which Federal workers get the day off, has been replaced by a holiday observed expressly for Donald Trump's birthday. It's like he want to go out of his way to antagonize the black community. What's more, it's always been a policy of the US not to celebrate a sitting President or bestow honors on him. That kind of thing used to be the preserve of third world countries. What we are seeing now is the bananafication of the American republic.

President Trump’s tariffs weren’t enough to hold back the global export flood by China, which pushed past last year’s record in just 11 months. Tariffs imposed by President Trump on China have caused Chinese exports to the United States to drop by nearly a fifth. But China has throttled back its purchases of American soybeans and other products by almost the same rate, continuing to sell three times as much to the United States as it buy https://archive.ph/4Pd2y#selection-1115.0-1115.297 China’s Weak Currency Is Powering Its Exports and Drawing Criticism The currency remains one of the biggest — and most sensitive — issues in China’s economy. It takes about 7.1 renminbi to buy a single dollar these days. That weakness has powered China’s exports to remarkable heights. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/business/china-rmb-currency.html China allows its currencies to float only in a restricted band. In effect, it's subsidizing its exports much to the detriment of economically developing nations like Indonesia as well as the developed economies of Europe. And this policy is hurting the purchasing power of its own citizens. Clearly now is the time for a leader to emerge. One who can unite the world's economies against the unfair practices of the Chinese govt. Whoever that leader might be, he certainly won't be Donald Trump who has managed to antagonize most of the world with the tariffs he has imposed. He has even imposed them on countries that run a trade deficit with the US. Well, at least his tariffs have undermined China's export strategy...oh wait a minute...

Italian immigrants brought with them the Mafia. Was it a big mistake to let Italians into the country? The Irish were another such group. New York, Chicago, and Boston were afflicted with ethnic Irish criminals. And there were lots of Jewish mobsters as well.S hould the US have barred them all as well?

And they claim that conspiracy theorists have ridiculously low and irrelevant standards for evidence.

Resorting to personal comments again. A sure sign that you've got nothing. Still, I do I live in constant fear that the Chinese government will be enraged by several topics I have launched that criticize their government. The possibility of being kidnapped and taken back to China where I will be tortured or even assassinated by them haunts me. But the very worst outcome I can imagine is that I will someday see that big red screen and be banished from aseannow. . I don't know how I find the courage to continue "at great personal risk and cost." The horror, the horror.

This is your idea of "At great personal risk and cost"? Drama queen much?

You kind of undercut your claim with this: "At great personal risk and cost I might add."

Here's a report from a previously Aryan stronghold: A Small Minnesota Town Defends Somali Residents as Critical to the Economy https://archive.ph/VW9hv

I've learned from earlier experience that there are lots of things you claim to know. Someday, one of them may even turn out to be true.

If it's such a good thing, why is Trump demanding shares in private companies or buying shares and reserving the right to overrule their decisions?