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Honestly. I think she's a better pick than almost all the others in that administration.No, this is not from "The Onion" or an equivalent news source....

Honestly. I think she's a better pick than almost all the others in that administration.No, this is not from "The Onion" or an equivalent news source....
Sounds about right. But that will be up to the lower courts which I expect will rule in favour of the importers. But Trump as usual will appeal and appeal so that he can kick the can down the road. More likely he will bully the plaintiffs with threats to their business to the point that they will drop their claims. So long as he can assure the top 1% they won’t pay taxes.
Hegseth is a sock puppet.Hegseths opening remarks are what I want to hear:
Must be a heckuva interest rate. Total tariff take for 2025 was < $300M.
Your number should be 300 billion not million.Must be a heckuva interest rate. Total tariff take for 2025 was < $300M.
USA was founded on land grabs and tax evasion. Seems that they have never changed.I was always fascinated by the key role France played in the US victory, which tends to get downplayed by the "Murrica!" crowd.
And, ironically, French support of the US helped establish the conditions that contributed to its own decline including kicking off their own revolution, as well as helping to establish Canada in its present form through the need to abandon New France to its fate.
France's direct help was a major and decisive contribution towards the United States' eventual victory and independence in the war. However, as a cost of participation in the war, France accumulated over 1 billion livres in debt, which significantly strained the nation's finances. The French government's failure to control spending (in combination with other factors) led to unrest in the nation, which eventually culminated in a revolution a few years after the conflict between the US and Great Britain concluded. Relations between France and the United States thereafter deteriorated, leading to the Quasi-War in 1798.
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France in the American Revolutionary War - Wikipedia
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Remember that Simpsons episode where Lisa is president and they say the US is in a financial mess from president Trump? Let's see what happens here and if they predicted the future againSounds about right. But that will be up to the lower courts which I expect will rule in favour of the importers. But Trump as usual will appeal and appeal so that he can kick the can down the road. More likely he will bully the plaintiffs with threats to their business to the point that they will drop their claims. So long as he can assure the top 1% they won’t pay taxes.
Don't forget the HR aspect of America's growth. Most of the original settlers were indentured servants. Then they upgraded to actual slaves. Which they replaced with waves of exploitable immigrants, most of whom were assimilated. Whose descendants built their wealth off of the backs of illegal (and very cheap) migrants who they could treat as defacto slaves. The only thing left to exploit is robots.....USA was founded on land grabs and tax evasion. Seems that they have never changed.
Math can be very, very painful when it goes against you.
Correct. Now the numbers make sense.Your number should be 300 billion not million.
While that’s exactly the sort of petulance we would expect, it’s not clear that he has any legal authority to wholesale prevent American business from trading with Spanish businesses.So had British assets not been targeted by Iran, the UK would have likely gotten a similar strong reaction had they not allowed use of their bases for strikes.
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Trump vows to ‘cut off all trade with Spain’: ‘Very, very uncooperative’ over base refusal for Iran attacks
“We don’t want anything to do with Spain,” Trump said during an Oval Office meeting Tuesday with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.nypost.com
So had British assets not been targeted by Iran, the UK would have likely gotten a similar strong reaction had they not allowed use of their bases for strikes.
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Trump vows to ‘cut off all trade with Spain’: ‘Very, very uncooperative’ over base refusal for Iran attacks
“We don’t want anything to do with Spain,” Trump said during an Oval Office meeting Tuesday with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.nypost.com
Consequences. If you treat what was supposed to be your allies like dirt, expect them to not want to be your friend.
Actually, Starmer got the same reaction from tRump; in the same article, “So had British assets not been targeted by Iran, the UK would have likely gotten a similar strong reaction had they not allowed use of their bases for strikes.
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Trump vows to ‘cut off all trade with Spain’: ‘Very, very uncooperative’ over base refusal for Iran attacks
“We don’t want anything to do with Spain,” Trump said during an Oval Office meeting Tuesday with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.nypost.com
Rightly so.Actually, Starmer got the same reaction from tRump; in the same article, “
Trump was just as mad at the UK for its initial refusal to allow the US military to use the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia as a base from which to attack Iran.”
Except of course that this is not even remotely a NATO Op. It is unilateral."The US is unreliable and won't be there for NATO"
yes the worry is that the US won't stand behind its NATO treaty commitments, especially article 5. The UK doesn't have any treaty commitments that would require it to allow the US to use it's bases for an attack of dubious necessity."The US is unreliable and won't be there for NATO"
So from 100k barrels a day to 150k barrels a day.Meanwhile, Repsol is doing a great job in Venezuela
The boss of Spanish energy giant Repsol said Thursday that his company could boost oil production in Venezuela by more than half over the next year after Washington reauthorised its operations there.
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Repsol says could boost Venezuela oil output over 50% in 12 months
The boss of Spanish energy giant Repsol said Thursday that his company could boost oil production in Venezuela by more than half over the next year afterwww.digitaljournal.com