If Trump thinks tariffs are going to make any bit of difference, he really doesn’t understand people. Those countries will gladly take those tariffs, as this is not about money, it is about principle. Something that Trump doesn’t have and clearly doesn’t understand.
If people in these countries are not boycotting everything US already they will be now. He's so unpredictable . It's getting more scarey every day.
Hubba - at this point is it that Trump has once again (and as predicted pre-post-and pre again - presidency) gone off the rails? Or is he also being advised to do this? His wild west actions are the only thing that might save the democratic party and at a higher level ... the constituion.
Unsolicited financial advice from the desk of Samarkand: go short, way f.ucking short, on US Treasury bonds.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz mobilizes state National Guard amid ongoing protests https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/17/us/ice-shooting-minneapolis-protests-renee-good-hnk Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has mobilized the state National Guard to support the Minnesota State Patrol, a spokesperson for the guard said Saturday. “We are staged and ready to respond. We are not deployed to city streets at this time,” Minnesota National Guard spokesperson Army Maj. Andrea Tsuchiya said in a statement to CNN, adding troops will help provide “traffic support to protect life, preserve property, and support the rights of all Minnesotans to assemble peacefully.” On Saturday, crowds of bundled-up demonstrators chanted and waved signs in subfreezing temperatures in downtown Minneapolis and at the nearby Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building. CNN saw several protesters detained by law enforcement near the federal building, though the protest was peaceful and it’s not immediately clear why they were detained. Extra measures have been put in place in downtown Minneapolis with blocked roads and at least one hotel bolstering security due to the protests. “Stay safe and stay peaceful today,” Walz urged the public in a social media post Saturday. “Our public safety team has the resources, coordination, and personnel on the ground to maintain public safety and respond if needed. Thanks to local law enforcement for keeping the peace.” An official in the governor’s office said the move was a reconfirmation of Walz’s direction for the state National Guard to mobilize in support of the local law enforcement. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety posted photos Saturday of state National Guard troops in beanies, gloves and jackets appearing to be gathering bags of equipment, along with guard trucks lined up on a snowy road. “At Gov. Walz’s direction, the Minnesota National Guard have been mobilized,” the post read, specifying troops are in place to “support local law enforcement and emergency management agencies.”
President Donald Trump has leaned into his presidential clemency powers much more aggressively in his second term –in fact, he’s pardoned one woman twice. Trump granted a slew of pardons on Friday, including one for Adriana Camberos, who was convicted for a second time after Trump commuted her sentence during his first term. The latest pardon was for a 2024 conviction related to a scheme the Justice Department said involved deception in her resale of wholesale groceries and other goods. Camberos’ 2021 pardon centered around unrelated fraud. While the move falls squarely within presidential clemency powers, it is unusual. “A president absolutely does have the power to grant the same person two different pardons on two different cases, even if they’re sequential. The pardon power itself is essentially unlimited,” CNN’s senior legal analyst Elie Honig. While rare, Jeffrey Crouch, an associate professor at American University, pointed out that Trump, during his first term, “granted a form of clemency twice to the same person.”
I've read that there are 2 big flaws in that idea: - EU governments don't own that debt, European banks, pension funds and investment companies do. And the governments can't tell them what to do with them. - Selling them off would cause economic problems just about everywhere (I don't pretend to know why but I've seen that reported a few times).
It's about threats though - isn't it? I believe this card was played earlier last year by Japan and Canada and soon the term TACO was coined.
This letter from Lumpy to the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre has been confirmed as legitimate.
As I was saying. ‘No longer in my hands’: How Hill Republicans stopped caring about DOJ releasing the Epstein files.
Effectively they are saying he's ********ed things up in more dangerous ways so they can't be bother with him being a pedophile.
There are few guard rails left to stop Trump. If Greenland falls to him you know where he looks next? Canada. Its imperative for the Nato allies to hold the line now.
Time for someone in the US to see that he's a clear and present danger to themselves and the rest of the world. 25th Amendment, please! Countries should start talking about offering to make a deal with US Congresspeople to turn on him. That's the way he likes things done. Maybe set up a 1-800-FUKTRUMP line for them to sign up and negotiate their payoff.
To me it is so clear that he's surrounded himself with nutjobs and yes-men, and that this is all Trump all the time. Steve Miller is a nutjob, JD Vance just wants to be at the table, and Rubio is smart enough to not speak up when Trump really has his dander up - and all he wants is to overthrow Cuba anyway... so as long as he can finagle that he probably is willing to stay out of the way on this Greenland/NATO stuff. There's been a long-standing strain of conservatism in the US foreign policy realm that the US shouldn't tie itself down so completely with this web of multinational alliances. Mostly from folks who lost the original arguments during the post-WW2 period as we were actively trying to deter the USSR from rolling into western europe. People seem to forget that for a good 10 years after Germany was defeated, the USSR had by far the largest land army, and they were highly battle-tested with about 5 times the number of frontline troops vs the US. The Marshall Plan, the Bretton Woods system, the UN, and NATO were all put into place with the main goal to deter further aggression by the USSR. By the 1960s the USSR were in retreat economically, and ever since there has been an insistence that the US should scale back its international commitments. There probably is some reasonable argument that european NATO countries, and our SEATO allies should be shouldering a larger share of the military spending in these military alliances... it is also the case that how Trump is pursuing these aims is counterproductive to say the least. The guy is dragging the reputation of the US through the mud, and we will all pay for it dearly - probably for the foreseeable future. The one consistent rumor that bubbles up time and time again when people are talking about him behind his back... this guy is borderline insane. He doesn't read, doesn't have any appreciable attention span, is highly narcissistic and irrational, and as the uninformed buffoon he is - he believes these traits make him "unpredictable" and give him an advantage. He spent most of his adult life protected by the fact that he was mostly interested in small shiny things, being part of the party circuit in NYC, and dabbling - mostly unsuccessfully - in real estate and casinos. His failures in these areas were largely papered over because his family was rich enough to sue everyone into submission, and they had enough capital assets that he was able to convince some greedy bankers to bankroll him despite clear evidence that he'd leave them holding the bag if things went bad. Because he had enough base cunning to build a PR persona, he was given an out to become a tv reality star, where all he had to do was act irrationally and display his boorish personality, which he did with aplomb. Yet somehow the American public thought he should become President, twice. I still believe most Americans, insofar as they are paying any attention, are shocked and horrified by what he is doing... but we all collectively are going to be held responsible for his transgressions. But it is abundantly clear at this point that too many Americans just can't be bothered to pay any attention to these things, they'd rather spend their time ganging up on one another on their social media channels... At some point they are going to have to put that stuff aside and actually pay attention to whether they are being governed responsibly and effectively. I'm afraid it is going to be an expensive lesson for the disengaged, and unfortunately for the rest of us as well... one hopes it gets the average person off their asses and gets them to pay more attention to the character traits of the people they are considering electing to be their leaders and to represent their collective will on the international stage...
The EU should just say fukkit and slap 100% tariffs on every US product effective immediately. About time he and his MAGAts realize the EU has as much economic clout as the US does. And you'd have to believe the vast majority of EU citizens would be in complete support despite whatever hardship it'd bring them financially. Taking a softly-softly approach is looking more stupid every day.