Websites offer only error messages on Thursday after president demands agriculture department shutter sites
Friday, January 31, 2025
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announces that tomorrow Trump will implement 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico and a 10% tariff on China.
This is the response to Trump’s tariffs I’ve been waiting for from Canada 🔥
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) February 1, 2025
"The threat comes, of course, from the president of the United States—a convicted felon and known predator." - Charlie Angus, Canadian MPpic.twitter.com/t6ypvlWNqZ
U.S. Imports from Canada
- Crude Oil & Petroleum Products – Largest import, crucial for U.S. energy supply
- Vehicles & Auto Parts – Canada is a major supplier for U.S. automakers
- Lumber & Wood Products – Essential for construction and furniture
- Machinery & Industrial Equipment – Includes turbines, engines, and heavy equipment
- Aluminum & Steel – Used in manufacturing, construction, and defense
- Natural Gas – Key for U.S. energy production
- Electrical Equipment – Power distribution components, transformers
- Pharmaceuticals & Medical Equipment – Includes vaccines, surgical tools
- Food & Agricultural Products – Wheat, canola, seafood, dairy products
- Aircraft & Aerospace Parts – Canada’s Bombardier is a major supplier
U.S. Imports from Mexico
- Vehicles & Auto Parts – A critical supply chain for U.S. carmakers
- Computers & Electronics – Laptops, smartphones, semiconductors
- Machinery & Manufacturing Equipment – Includes industrial tools and robotics
- Medical Devices & Pharmaceuticals – Mexico is a key exporter of medical goods
- Agricultural Products – Avocados, tomatoes, berries, peppers, and tequila
- Oil & Petroleum Products – Fuel, refined oils
- Clothing & Textiles – Apparel, footwear, and fabric materials
- Appliances & Consumer Goods – Refrigerators, washing machines, and home goods
- Beer & Alcoholic Beverages – Mexico is the top supplier of beer to the U.S.
- Aerospace Components – Parts for planes and satellites
U.S. Imports from China
- Electronics & Computers – Smartphones, laptops, semiconductors, networking equipment
- Machinery & Industrial Equipment – Manufacturing tools, robots, and heavy equipment
- Furniture & Home Goods – Sofas, tables, decorations
- Toys, Games & Sporting Equipment – The majority of U.S. toy imports come from China
- Clothing & Footwear – Shoes, apparel, and textiles
- Plastics & Rubber Products – Packaging, auto parts, medical supplies
- Pharmaceuticals & Medical Equipment – Generic drugs, masks, syringes
-Steel & Aluminum Products – Components for construction and manufacturing
- Auto Parts – Batteries, electronics, interior components
- Chemicals & Fertilizers – Essential for agriculture and industry
Thursday, January 30, 2025
"This country will be lucky to survive him."
Without evidence, Trump blames FAA diversity initiatives for the crash
TRUMP, OF COURSE, IS A LYING LIAR.
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January 21, 2025
"Members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee received a memo Tuesday saying that the department is eliminating the membership of all advisory committees as part of a “commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security.”
The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports. Before Tuesday, the group included representatives of all the key groups in the industry — including the airlines and major unions — as well as members of a group associated with the victims of the PanAm 103 bombing. The vast majority of the group’s recommendations were adopted over the years."
And how did the Felon-in-Chief respond to this tragedy?
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
“Just undeniable.” Joy Reid makes stunning two and a half minute long direct comparison of Trump to Hitler. (Video: MSNBC) pic.twitter.com/hL52xlw3Hw
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) January 28, 2025
RFK, JR., IS UNFIT TO BE SECRETARY OF HHS
Often he is described in news reports as a vaccine skeptic, when he is far more than that. He is an extreme vaccine opponent. And he has lied about this, saying he has “never been anti-vaxx,” though he recently declared, “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” He still promotes the debunked notion that vaccines cause autism. In May 2021, he petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to stop the use of all Covid vaccines. He proclaimed it “the deadliest vaccine ever made”—though these vaccines were estimated to have saved 20 million lives globally in the first year of their use. His anti-vaccine advocacy also played a role in a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa in 2019 that killed scores of children, and this, too, he has lied about.
But Kennedy’s false claims about vaccines and his own stance on the issue are merely just one slice of his craziness that has not been fully conveyed to the public. For years, he has pushed a host of conspiracy theories and false propositions in such an aggressive and unhinged manner as to raise profound questions about his judgment and analytical abilities. Placing a fellow this cracked, disingenuous, and paranoid in charge of the American public health system—which Donald Trump has proposed to do by nominating him to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services—threatens national and global security. This could be the most dangerous act of Trump’s presidency. Yet Republican senators and much of the public are ho-humming this perilous appointment."
🚨 BOOOOOM!!!
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) January 29, 2025
Senator Bennet might have just ended RFK Jr.'s chances of being nominated as HHS Secretary. Watch how he cuts through the BS and asks the tough questions.
THIS is how you do it. pic.twitter.com/OOZqYpyPEx
TRUMP LAUGHED AT BY OUR FRIENDS
Delusional MAGA like to tell themselves that America is "once again respected" now that Trump, the Felon of the United States, is back in office.
MAGA live in a bubble and willingly know nothing outside of it.
In fact, Trump is the brunt of savage ridicule and jokes for all civilized people.
SEEN IN DENMARK:
(Just a reminder for the Trumpers who read this blog: NOTHING like this was published by our allies about former President Biden when he was in office. Because America was actually respected while he was the POTUS.)
LOLOLOLOL!
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
HE'S LOST HIS MIND
(GONE FOR THE DAY TO CELEBRATE MY ENGLISHMAN'S BIRTHDAY AT THE GIBBET HILL GRILLE IN BEAUTIFUL GROTON, MASS. FARM TO TABLE FOOD!
I'LL CHECK IN LATER THIS EVENING FOR MORE COMMENTS.)
The FOTUS made this claim on Monday night.
None of it is true.
This is who's running the country, and he's obviously having mental problems.
"California officials said late Monday that President Donald Trump did not send the military into the state to “turn on the water,” as he claimed in a social media post.
Rather, federal officials turned on a federal water-pumping station in Northern California that had been down for maintenance, state officials said."
AND THIS:
There may be a few, uh, LAWS that would stop this harebrained idea by the FOTUS from being implemented. But Trump is a lawless felon, so...:
“We’re going to get approval, hopefully, to get them the hell out of our country, along with others — let them be brought to a foreign land and maintained by others for a very small fee.”
Trump said doing so would allow the federal government to avoid using U.S. jails “for massive amounts of money” and private prisons, which he said “charge us a fortune.”
Monday, January 27, 2025
WE TOLD YOU THIS WAS COMING
Idaho Lawmakers Want Supreme Court to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Decision
A state legislative committee has advanced a resolution asking that the power to regulate marriage be returned to the states.
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Can anyone tell me how the private lives of same sex couples who marry affect other people's marriages?
This is nothing but naked hatred toward the LGBTQ+ community, who certain Christians in Idaho wish to terrorize and harm.
Leaving marriage equality to the states will cause chaos, since the MAGA states would immediately invalidate same sex marriages within their states, disrupting lives and even putting children's lives in jeopardy. And the states that do not recognize marriage equality would not allow same sex couples who've married in states where it is legal, to legally reside in their states, should those couples need to move for employment or family reasons.
Chaos. All of this created to menace and harass the LGBTQ+ community!
And that is pure EVIL!
This attack on Americans' marriages will probably go nowhere.
I'm guessing the miserable people in Idaho who are advancing this anti-LGBTQ+ proposal will not ask the SCOTUS to overturn Loving vs. Virginia which, in 1967, made interracial marriage legal throughout the U.S. That would affect Justice Thomas's marriage, and the hypocrites wouldn't want to disrupt their happiness, would they?
FYI
“Chris D. Jackson &
@ChrisDJackson
!! For all the clowns hyping Trump's move on Colombia: under Biden, Colombia accepted 475 deportation flights-over 120 in 2024 alone.
And he didn't have to show his ass or start a trade war to do it. He was just that good.”
This is the FOTUS’s son on Truth Social:
“Eric Trump @EricTrump
Any and all who dare to defy the American Golden Age, heed this warning: You WILL lose. Tow the line, or we WILL run you down!
The gloves are off, and we're not playing around this time. For now, it's tariffs, but trust me: We can, and will, do SO MUCH WORSE.
2:59 PM - Jan 26, 2025 • 252k Views
xI •••”
The FOTUS holds forth on California, water, and smelts:
"We wanna do that. Every once in a while. And you just think it's ridiculous, when you have, you have, like, just about as much water as anybody in the country, and we shouldn't be in a position where you have tumbleweed that's dry as a bone, that even tumbleweed can be nice and green and rich and loaded up with water and it's not gonna burn, you don't even have to remove it, it's not gonna burn, but it's just dry. So I hope you can all get together and say I'm so happy with the water that's gonna be flowing down because, I just don't see anything, they talk about the delta smelt, which is a fish that's this big, but it is, it is really not, does it have to be protected because it's in other areas, it's in numerous other areas, so, it doesn't have to be protected, the people of California have to be protected."
Sunday, January 26, 2025
The FOTUS apparently has no short-term memory!
Trump: They empty their prisons into our country. . Can you imagine somebody doing that to our country? pic.twitter.com/QJ3tqWeueb
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 25, 2025
Saturday, January 25, 2025
SATURDAY NIGHT MUSICAL
I had already scheduled this from the movie, "The Producers."
Then I got this in Comment Moderation from Thersites, which is more accurate these days:
HERE IS HOW BEWITCHED AND INSANE MAGA IS:
As I understand it, most MAGA present themselves as Christians, devoted to God and His Commandments.
Jesus said these are the two greatest Commandments:
“Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. ' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' "
I don't believe in the "Devil," but as a former Christian, I understand what the Devil represents to Christians. The person who posted the above meme believes "empathy," (having the ability to understand and share another person's feeling, usually when that person is in dire trouble), is evil.
In loving one's neighbor, the ability to understand one's neighbor's misfortunes in order to help him/her is an act of love, not evil.
The people who believe the Good Pastor Budde is evil are, in Chistian beliefs, doing the work of the Devil -- or in secular terms, slandering the pastor for doing their God's work.
We truly are living in a terrible time.
Friday, January 24, 2025
Hegseth Is Confirmed as Defense Secretary By Slim Margin
"Pete Hegseth has vowed to bring his “warrior” ethos to the Pentagon.
Democrats had assailed him as unfit for the job, and his confirmation came down to Vice President JD Vance serving as tiebreaker."
If you thought this country couldn't debase itself any further, the confirmation of Hegseth, a chronic drunk, a sexual assaulter, a serial adulterer, and FAUX NOOZ personality whose only experience was running an organization of 200 people, proves you wrong.
America is broken.
We now have as the head of the DoD a drunken libertine.
GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER
Donald Trump is Intellectually Lazy
It’s not that he doesn’t have a lot of energy. He does. It’s that he is unwilling to do the hard work of preparing and digging into arcane facts to get the real story that leads to better policy.
Famously during his first administration, he refused to even read the PDB, or Presidential Daily Briefing. He is quoted by aides as preferring just highlights and even pictures as opposed to pages of type and words.
We’ve seen this in his supporters many times. When faced with an argument based on data, they will respond by rejecting the data as out of hand, made up or false, instead of even looking at it. They are so sure of their convictions, there is no need to read anything.
And President Trump is cut from the same cloth. How else to explain his pardons of all the 1500+ J6 rioters?
As recently as a few weeks ago, Vice President elect JD Vance said of the pardons, “if you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned”. Even Trump had said on numerous occasions that he’d be looking at it [the pardons] on a “case by case” basis.
So what happened? Why did Trump suddenly decide to go big and issue sweeping pardons of even the most violent of the protestors?
The answer may lie in a report from Axios News where they report that in the middle of reviewing each case, Trump simply stopped, looked up and said “F#*k it, Release them all”.
And with that, it was done.
Was Trump bogged down in the prisoner profiles? Sure. Were there a lot of them? You bet. And when faced with the reality of having to read and review the facts on over 1500 cases, he refused. He said no, because Trump has never been a briefing paper kind of guy.
President Trump was not going to read through all the cases and decided the only way to get out of doing the real presidential work of reviewing those reports was to simply wave his wand and pardon all of the J6 prisoners. All of them, including the bomb throwers, the folks who tasered DC Police, the folks who, according to a GOP Senate report, brutally beat and injured over 120 officers charged with protecting members of Congress and that day, Vice President Pence.
President Trump could have decided to release just the non violent offenders among the group, keeping the most violent behind bars to serve out their sentences. But that would have required work, time and commitment, something Trump has never exhibited in his public life.
Because President Trump is intellectually lazy when it comes to reading, studying, learning new things and doing the hard work of confronting difficult facts.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
WE HAVE BEEN WARNED
"Trans people, refugees, and migrants are not the threats," the group said. "The billionaires with close ties to our new president who flash the Nazi salute and seek to replace the old elites with a new caste—that is the real threat to America."
"Such a gesture, given his already known proximity to right-wing populists in the fascist tradition, must worry every democrat," German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach wrote in response.
Far-right extremists, for their part, celebrated Musk's gestures, which they appear to have had no trouble interpreting.
As Rolling Stone reported, "The Proud Boys Ohio chapter posted a clip of the Musk video to its Telegram channel with the text, 'Hail Trump!'"
"The far right is celebrating what it views as a clear signal from the X owner and Donald Trump associate, who made the gestures on stage Monday."
“WE ARE FUCKING BACK” the administrator of a Nazi meme channel on Telegram wrote under a clip of Musk giving the salute. Members of the group responded with the lightning bolt emoji, a well-known neo-Nazi reference to the SS.
“I don’t care if this was a mistake, I’m going to enjoy the tears over it,” Christopher Pohlhaus, the leader of the American neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe, wrote on his Telegram channel under a gif of the Musk salute.
Evan Kilgore, a right-wing political commentator, wrote on X: “Holy crap … did Elon Musk just Heil Hitler at the Trump Inauguration Rally in Washington DC… This is incredible.” Kilgore later wrote: “We are so back.”
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