The United States Postal Service announced Tuesday night that it is temporarily suspending accepting packages sent from China and Hong Kong until further notice.
Mr. Trump says he plans to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the coming days.
It's a shot at Temu, Shein, Amazon Haul since his tariffs also closed the "de minimis" exemptions allowing packages under $800 to be processed without paying a Tariff or custom duties.
What's going to happen with ATF? I'm still waiting for my interview for my FFL and I applied for another tax stamp yesterday. I'm worried about a very long wait now.
February 05, 2025, 08:38 AM
parabellum
From grifters to drifters. Buddy, can you spare a dime?
No employee at Politico got paid yesterday. First time ever the company missed a pay period. This is a crisis.
Now we learn Politico — a “news company” — which spent the last 10 years trying to destroy the MAGA Movement was being massively funded by USAID.
Trump & Elon deleted their funding.
February 05, 2025, 09:00 AM
Rick Lee
If that Politico story is true, I have to wonder how anything could be so poorly managed that they can't make payroll when the gravy train $$ is shut off days before. They can't last one pay period? Did they really have nothing in the bank and no ad or subscription revenue?
February 05, 2025, 09:01 AM
StarTraveler
President Trump continues playing chess to others' checkers. He said he'd send up to 30K criminal illegal aliens to Gitmo but now the Mexican government says, "Wait a minute!" Maybe we won't have to upgrade the amount of housing at Gitmo after all?
From Fox News:
Mexico says it will not allow US to send Mexican migrants to Guantanamo Bay Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente said Mexico would rather directly receive the migrants By Landon Mion Fox News
Mexico will not allow the U.S. government to send Mexican migrants to the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detention camp, Mexico's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente said Mexico would rather directly receive the migrants.
The Mexican government sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. embassy in Mexico to explain its position.
This comes after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday that the Trump administration has begun flying detained illegal migrants from the U.S. to Guantánamo Bay, although she did not specify the nationalities of the people on those flights.
"I can also confirm that today the first flights from the United States to Guantánamo Bay with illegal migrants are underway," Leavitt said.
"And so President Trump, Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem are already delivering on this promise to utilize that capacity at Gitmo for illegal criminals who have broken our nation's immigration laws and then have further committed heinous crimes against lawful American citizens here at home," she continued.
U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to expand the detention camp to hold up to 30,000 "criminal illegal aliens." The U.S. military base has been criticized around the world for its inhumane abuse and torture of detainees, including in interrogation tactics.
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February 05, 2025, 09:16 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by Rick Lee: If that Politico story is true, I have to wonder how anything could be so poorly managed that they can't make payroll when the gravy train $$ is shut off days before. They can't last one pay period? Did they really have nothing in the bank and no ad or subscription revenue?
Have you heard about that Kackle's campaign, which blew nearly two billion dollars in their war chest in just a couple of months and ended up having to ask for more donations? These leeches all depend on their gravy train, care nothing about how they spend it, and when it stops....
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February 05, 2025, 09:23 AM
Rick Lee
It's starting to sound like Politico was a RICO operation.
February 05, 2025, 09:33 AM
PowerSurge
quote:
Originally posted by Rick Lee: It's starting to sound like Politico was a RICO operation.
My thoughts exactly. There’s gonna be soooo many investigations coming just over USAID.
——————————————— The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 14:1
February 05, 2025, 09:40 AM
oddball
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum: Now we learn Politico — a “news company” — which spent the last 10 years trying to destroy the MAGA Movement was being massively funded by USAID.
Trump & Elon deleted their funding.
Whoa. That's insane.
And I posted 10 pages ago, Politico was kicked out from the Pentagon media offices, along with NPR, NBC, and the NYT. At the time, I was wondering how Politico even got an office.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
February 05, 2025, 09:53 AM
PASig
Not one bit surprised about the Politico, they've been a Democrat party propaganda arm organization for years.
I used to call them "The Obamico" because they only ever wrote glowing, groveling articles about him for 8 full years.
February 05, 2025, 09:56 AM
wcb6092
Turns out the ‘Deep State’ used USAID to OUST Bolsonaro from Brazil…
But wait, there's more. Remember NeverTrumper Bill Kristol? His group Defending Democracy was getting charity from USAID via Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Good on Musk for shining the light on these fucking rats.
The Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors received $20 million from USAID.
And the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors then gave funding to the Hopewell Fund. And then the Hopewell Fund gave 2,000,000 to Kristol's Defending Democracy.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council, UNRWA, and UNESCO - ending funding to the UN agency which deals with Palestinian refugees.
Trump had previously withdrawn from the UNHRC and ended funding to the UNRWA in 2018, which was reversed by the Biden administration in 2021, before pausing funding to the UNRWA in 2024 over allegations that several of its employees were involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. Those employees were then fired.
As the Epoch Times notes further, the UNHRC and the UNRWA have come under fire by critics who say that both have expressed hostility toward Israel.
The UNHRC, according to the group, is “responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe and for addressing situations of human rights violations and making recommendations on them.”
Critics have pointed out that the UNHRC has included countries that violate human rights. Such countries on the council include China, Egypt, Burundi, and Venezuela.
In 2024, Congress passed, as part of a government funding bill, a measure to continue halting U.S. funding for UNRWA through March 2025.
The United States has given the most money of any country to UNRWA. In 2023, the United States gave the group $422 million.
The Epoch Times reached out to the United Nations for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.
UNRWA started in 1950 and, according to the agency, “has played an essential role for over 60 years since its establishment in providing vital services for the well-being, human development and protection of Palestine refugees and the amelioration of their plight, pending the just resolution of the question of the Palestine refugees.”
Its mission is to help Palestinian refugees “achieve their full potential in human development under the difficult circumstances in which they live, consistent with internationally agreed goals and standards.”
However, critics say that UNRWA is a breeding ground for hatred toward the Jewish state through its schools and that Hamas uses its facilities to store weapons, including rockets, and hold hostages.
UNRWA has refuted the criticisms.
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February 05, 2025, 10:11 AM
BigSwede
This is all so great
The lefty trash with their heads exploding several times a day is wonderful to watch
These leeches all depend on their gravy train, care nothing about how they spend it, and when it stops....
