The Refried Presidency: Trump Hateful Machine/Fossil Fuel Boogaloo or Whatever Continuation

For those with a genuine interest in learning more and not just trying to define every issue with a left vs right "who's the winner" calculus, I highly recommend folks check out today's episode of The Daily.

The NYT Beijing bureau chief discusses the real pressures facing China, their vulnerabilities, and why they came to the negotiating table.

 

Trump just lowered the tariffs on China so I guess the manufacturing jobs that a 175% tariff was going to do is now off the table again?

I don't know what is more embarrassing; MAGA celebrating this as a "win" since Trump claimed victory over China, or the people of his administration lying on TV about how great these negotiations were by Trump while echoing the return of the Golden Era because they have to kiss dear leader's ass no matter what.

 

Those in the leadership are not capable of feeling embarrassed. The followers can't understand that they are being lied to, constantly.

 

Neither…it’s that our press isn’t old enough to remember the justification for the tariffs is that it would bring manufacturing back here.

 

Also it was supposed to end trade deficits. I doubt what was agreed to would reduce them.

 

Yes and even if it got back level, there's roller-coaster fatigue.

But as you say, it ain't back level.

 

Just a quick flashback to when Harris said she wanted to fight price gouging.

 

That's the main reason the ones being built are so time intensive and expensive - there's a lot of communication and self-defense systems that need to be installed. Air Force One isn't a transport, it's a command center. Well, it is a transport too, but you know what I'm saying. To properly upgrade the Qatari ones you need to strip them to their bones.

But as head of the Executive and head of the military, Trump can fly how he wants. And he wants luxury.

 

Hopefully there is a kill switch the Qataris can be convinced to use.

 

I suspect that the administration will find a reason not to go to the trouble of upgrading the Qatari plane, since it's just going to get transferred to Trump's slush fund, I mean, "Presidential" library fund, in a few years.

 

The part about "free, very expensive" is him convincing his gullible idiots that the country isn't paying for it, just like how "he's not accepting a salary".

They don't stop to think that their Savior is getting rich every time He goes on vacation.

 

Yeah, I'm thinking of Adafruit, a small company that designs circuits for makers. The lead time for sending designs to China and getting product back is many months, and it happened for a big shipment right at peak tariffs. So they have to pay tens of thousands on product they haven't sold yet. But now that tariffs dropped, others selling similar products won't have to pay those same tariffs. So this rollercoaster just randomly screws some companies over others.

 

The head of the US Copyright Office said that AI firms were breaking copyright in training their systems. The next day he was fired.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-sacked-copyright-office-director-142551502.html

 

Communication on the Prairie [beans gets it done]!

 

Isnot it clear to them there's a fire hazard or even worse, with eating that many beans close to an open fire?

 

Hence the phrase..."light a match will ya"!

 

Meanwhile, I have to clear it with supervisors if I want to buy staff gift cards for Christmas or a single bib for a baby shower. Even then, there is a spending limit I am not allowed to go over.

This guy is gifted a whole a$$ plane and we have to pretend it's just another Monday.

 

Per Politico

Republicans are proposing near-full repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act's EV tax credit at end of '25 in their reconciliation bill. Manufacturers that have sold less than 200k cars keep it through '26.

Credits for used EVs, commercial EVs, charging stations all gone end of ‘25

 

On the bright side, American EVs are mostly shit.

 

Are Chinese ones any good?

 

The White Genocide campaign is mostly a conspiracy theory, though Terre'Blanche was murdered.