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Trump administration 2024-2028

Czech_pivo said:
I was at a Walmart in rural Pennsylvania last weekend to watch my daughters university soccer game. The price at that Walmart for ribeye steaks (not Angus) was 25.62$ US/lb, which is 56.34$ USD/kg with no currency conversion. Just checking my local Fortinos (owned by Loblaws) where I live and ribeye steaks are 57.30$ CAD/kg. Hamburger (lean) was pretty much the same, dollar for dollar. The cost of chicken at that Walmart, 3.97$ US/lb for boneless, skinless breasts, which is 8.74$ USD/kg. My Fortinos has it for 13.21$ CAD/kg - the US is about a 1$ CAD.kg cheaper.
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Gone are the days of deals in the USA. Double whammy is their stuff is usually of alower quality than ours.
 
PrairieFella said:
Gone are the days of deals in the USA. Double whammy is their stuff is usually of alower quality than ours.
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Short story…Taking a family vacay to Florida a few years back. We always bring food and picnic at rest stops along the way. Got a bunch of fresh stuff at our local Walmart, including a triple sized container of cherry tomatoes, for $5.99. Crazy good deal. Got to the border and declared everything. Thought I’d checked what was all allowed and it turns out tomatoes weren’t, so they were disposed of. I hit the Walmart in Watertown to replace my tomatoes and found they had the tiny packages (from the same producer, in California BTW) for the same price. So, they were charging $5.99 USD for the same product at a third of the size. That was when I started noticing how much more expensive provisioning had become in the USA compared to my previous experiences.
 
Swampbuggy said:
Short story…Taking a family vacay to Florida a few years back. We always bring food and picnic at rest stops along the way. Got a bunch of fresh stuff at our local Walmart, including a triple sized container of cherry tomatoes, for $5.99. Crazy good deal. Got to the border and declared everything. Thought I’d checked what was all allowed and it turns out tomatoes weren’t, so they were disposed of. I hit the Walmart in Watertown to replace my tomatoes and found they had the tiny packages (from the same producer, in California BTW) for the same price. So, they were charging $5.99 USD for the same product at a third of the size. That was when I started noticing how much more expensive provisioning had become in the USA compared to my previous experiences.
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It’s it and miss on the pricing.
Stopped at the last rest stop on the I90 going east outside of Buffalo on the Sunday. I wasn’t hungry but my wife got a Chic Fil A meal - so chicken on a bun, waffle fries and a medium Diet Coke - 17.25 USD - unreal.

EDIT: Min wage in Pennsylvania, where we were coming back from visiting my daughter at University, is 7.85$/hr. For restaurant/bar servers. 2.89$/hr!!
 
Czech_pivo said:
It’s it and miss on the pricing.
Stopped at the last rest stop on the I90 going east outside of Buffalo on the Sunday. I wasn’t hungry but my wife got a Chic Fil A meal - so chicken on a bun, waffle fries and a medium Diet Coke - 17.25 USD - unreal.

EDIT: Min wage in Pennsylvania, where we were coming back from visiting my daughter at University, is 7.85$/hr. For restaurant/bar servers. 2.89$/hr!!
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Yep. Had a passable, but nothing special breakfast at an IHOP in Savannah last year. For four people it set me back over $90 USD. The server was a sweet kid so we left a big tip, which was part of that total, though. I have to say she seemed pretty overwhelmed that she got what she did, which was what I considered fair for her service.
 
Considering this is coming from a conservative newspaper it doesn't bode well for him. Not really refuting the rumor last week that he will be the first of the current cabinet to get the boot, either.

www.washingtontimes.com

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public “grandstanding” widely seen as unprofessional and the personnel moves made by the former cable TV host leading to an unprecedented and dangerous exodus of talent from the Pentagon, said...
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HavokFour said:
Returning the survivors of the latest strike is really making it seem like it might have very well been a random boat (which also brings into question of the validity of the other strikes), and not of the criminal variety.

Survivors of military strike on alleged drug boat will be returned to home countries, Trump says
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Ecuador has released their survivor without charge.

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Ecuador releases survivor of US strike on 'drug sub' in Caribbean

Ecuadorian officials say they found no evidence the man had committed a crime, and so had freed him.
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Genetk44 said:
I find it very odd that that kind of massive and costly kind of renovation to the White House can just be done on the presidents say so without any kind of oversight from other stakeholders such as Congress or the GAO I believe its called or some other oversight body.
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The White House and grounds is under the stewardship of the US National Parks Service. Since the NPS is part of the Department of the Interior which is headed by a Trump appointee, all is completely above board (ish).
 
Very satisfying to see some of these people like Brennen and Bolton being held accountable.
 
lenaitch said:
The White House and grounds is under the stewardship of the US National Parks Service. Since the NPS is part of the Department of the Interior which is headed by a Trump appointee, all is completely above board (ish).
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Yes its MSNBC but this is pretty damning editorial.

 
Remius said:
Yep. Going to see more of that. The decline continues sadly.
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Its not so much a 'decline' but the reality of 1.4 billion people vs 325 million people. As soon as you move 1.4 billion to have a net worth greater than 25% of the 330 million, one eventually takes over from the other.
 
Czech_pivo said:
It’s not so much a 'decline' but the reality of 1.4 billion people vs 325 million people. As soon as you move 1.4 billion to have a net worth greater than 25% of the 330 million, one eventually takes over from the other.
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And yet they accelerate it through their recidivist policies. The power of influence of those 325 million though has been eroded and keeps eroding mostly through self inflicted wounds.

Don’t look at it as 1.4 billion vs 325 million. It’s more like 1.2 Billion for the western world and then you can add many more non western but aligned countries. The leader and power behind that western world: the US like Rome was behind the Roman Empire is receding and slowly ceding its place.
 
FSTO said:
Yes its MSNBC but this is pretty damning editorial.

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Hysteria from the crazy anti American wing. Fiction. As is most reporting on Trump. And millions and millions of voters see that.


www.nationalreview.com

No, Trump Isn’t Destroying the White House | National Review

Good grief, people. Pull yourselves together.
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Judging by the morose and hysterical rhetoric that has emanated from the Democratic Party and its ideological allies during the past couple of days, one might have thought that President Trump had announced his intention to send a squadron of B-2 bombers across the Potomac to completely level Washington, D.C. Having shared a carefully cropped photograph of construction at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, complained yesterday evening that, by making his well-publicized changes to the East Wing, Donald Trump is “literally destroying the White House.” In no less an indignant tone, former First Lady Hillary Clinton agreed, griping that “it’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.” Elsewhere, Kennedy scion Maria Shriver confessed that the project “breaks my heart and it infuriates me,” while The Bulwark’s Jonathan V. Last insisted that “razing the Trump ballroom and restoring the White House to pre-Trump status is non-negotiable.” In the usual circles, the usual suspects were thrilled to agree.


Of all the reasons to criticize President Trump, this must count as the silliest. Often, Trump deserves the opprobrium that is cast his way. Here, he most decidedly does not. This, to put it plainly, is a non-story, a freakout, a fiction spun from whole cloth. There is not a grain of truth here, but a vacuum. Trump is replacing a handful of office buildings with a ballroom. That’s it. No more, and no less
 
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