Sounds like she'll fit right in.stevebrooks wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 3:00 pm
Yes it's that insane woman from the Fox news panel, the one that seems to know nothing about the legal system in the US actually works.
So China will come in, if they do, knowing the US has no serious intentions negotiating a trade deal, way to go Trumpland!US President Donald Trump said Friday that 80 per cent tariffs on Chinese goods “seems right” – as top Washington and China officials brace for high-level weekend talks to de-escalate the trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
Guardian live feed.Trump administration ‘actively looking at’ suspending habeas corpus, Stephen Miller says
In response to a question from a blogger for the far-right Gateway Pundit about when the Trump administration could start “suspending the writ of habeas corpus to take care of the illegal immigration problem”, White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller said the Trump administration is “actively looking at” doing so.
Keep in mind, this isn't a victory for the US as it will be portrayed as, it's basically the US giving in and realising the tariffs were stupid, waiting for comments from stupid in chief on this one!The US and China have agreed a deal that will significantly cut the import tariffs they have imposed on each other, in a major de-escalation of their trade war.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said both countries would lower their reciprocal tariffs by 115% for 90 days.
The announcement came after the two countries held talks in Switzerland, the first between the two countries since US President Donald Trump had levied steep tariffs on Chinese imports last month.
So much for tariffs making America rich. Remember that narrative? In fact tariffs are going to make America so rich they'll be able to abolish income tax. Tariffs will usher in the golden age of the American economy. All those Fox news cheerleaders talking about how fantastic, how revolutionary and liberating tariffs are going to be!stevebrooks wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 9:53 pm So apparently after all that the only thing that we know about the talks in Switzerland is that the US has agreed to reduce its tariffs on Chinese incoming goods to 30% and China has reduced its tariffs on US goods to 10%, essentially the US has caved and achieved nothing, and keep in mind even if full trade resumed immediately it would still take 30-45 days for goods to start arriving in the US.
Now the problem is this is a "pause" in the tariffs to allow more talk, so no-one actually knows what the costs of the goods they order now would actually be when then arrive in the US, and no word from Trump who was adamant the other day that 80% sounded right on China, so Bessant has agreed to drop them to 30%, which in the scheme of things is still actually quite high. I mean Trump could turn around in a week, after all US companies have put in orders, and suddenly decide tariffs are back at 80%, so nothing has changed and companies like Amazon who has decided to move its headquarters outside the US will probably continue down that route due to this uncertainty in the future.
Keep in mind, this isn't a victory for the US as it will be portrayed as, it's basically the US giving in and realising the tariffs were stupid, waiting for comments from stupid in chief on this one!The US and China have agreed a deal that will significantly cut the import tariffs they have imposed on each other, in a major de-escalation of their trade war.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said both countries would lower their reciprocal tariffs by 115% for 90 days.
The announcement came after the two countries held talks in Switzerland, the first between the two countries since US President Donald Trump had levied steep tariffs on Chinese imports last month.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx0ry7kdk5o
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/202 ... -playbook/1 “Ask for the moon” and open with “maximalist goals that are bordering on fantasy”.
2 Follow up with “madman” behaviour and overwhelming threats.
3 “Punch someone in the mouth” to back up your maximalist threats.
4 Break bread, make friends, start negotiations.
5 Leave the bride at the altar, causing negotiators to scramble to accommodate you.
6 Kiss and make up.
7 Make a deal, and proclaim it to be the greatest deal ever.
Breakthrough? WTF, Trump puts on huge tariffs, after economic disaster Trump removes most of the tariffs, WHAT. FUCKING. BREAKTHROUGH?Global stock markets have surged over a major breakthrough on tariffs today,
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5 ... oral-race/The city hasn’t had a Democratic mayor since 2013, when then-incumbent Jim Suttle lost his reelection bid for a second term to Stothert, Omaha’s first female mayor, who has enjoyed comfortable electoral victories since then. Her closest race was in 2017, when she won by just less than 6 points.
