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Originally posted by calugo:
So what is President Trump trying to accomplish with his proposed tariffs and how will they benefit the US?

Simple- the U.S. is a major proponent of free trade. Unfortunately the rest of the world aren't. To have free trade, our trade partners also have to act accordingly. For far too long, products come in and less of our products go out. Most countries around the world have tariffs against U.S. goods, but we don't have tariffs against their goods. So it isn't fair trade.

Many other countries are trying their best to rip us off like Mexico and China in any way they can. That bad behavior was being rewarded. Not anymore. Trump is using tariffs to force other countries to abide by the same trade rules they set on us. He's also using punitive tariffs to punish bad behavior, like lax border enforcement, drugs, etc.

Our economy can handle tariffs and theirs can’t. Especially in the long term. Mexico and Canada have already caved after realizing tariffs would ruin their economies. The Canadian economy is tied into the US, and it's fragile. For the U.S., possible short term pain for long term gain.

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Originally posted by bdylan:
The left is in serious trouble. The plan appears to be to go into the bunker with the broken, partisan, progressive media and agitate the left to the point of societal decline. At some point they have to pivot to some type of offense for the midterms, but no hint of a coherent strategy at this time. They seem pretty stunned that the country doesn't share their outrage.

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Originally posted by Cookster:
Dime-store Hakeem: “We are just at the beginning, of getting our asses handed to us every day by President Trump and the MAGA movement. Because we are dum-phuks and up to our beady and dark eyeballs in greed, grift, graft, corruption, along with a very odd non-interest in the whereabouts of over 300,000 unaccompanied minor immigrant children, we will need to pretend to not know a lot about a lot of things until we are charged, prosecuted, and given very harsh prison sentences, or worse, for our long-term betrayals to the Republic and We The People. ”

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$400 million contract for armored Teslas [Cybertrucks] ...

I'm curious why we're even doing that. Can or should Elon cancel his own contract?

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Originally posted by 12131:
^^^^ Seriously, they both looked like they've been butt fucked repeatedly, Jeffries especially. Not that I've had such actual experience. LMAO.

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Originally posted by slosig:

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$400 million contract for armored Teslas [Cybertrucks] ...

I'm curious why we're even doing that. Can or should Elon cancel his own contract?

Well, it was Biden’s staffers setting up the contract, it wouldn’t surprise in the least if Elon cancelled or recommended cancellation from the government side through DOGE.

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Except, nobody did basic journalism until it was too late - because it was the Biden administration that originally included the potential procurement, and the spreadsheet was wiped of Tesla references in December 2024 - also by the Biden administration.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I'll bet Bob Menendez got him some of those Fort Knox bars.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
It looks like I'm going to have to go full redneck. I've got the guns, obviously; go to church so I've got God.
But I don't have a pickup--looks like I have to trade my Accord for an F-150.
Then I have to start watching NASCAR and NHL.
Stop watching British TV shows--it's gotten so the accent gives me the creeps.
Get a case of PBR.
Have I forgotten anything?