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Trump TACOs, gets dog-walked by Xi, who still holds the whip hand
DOA in the House but newsworthy because five Republicans voted for it
Trump TACOs, gets dog-walked by Xi, who still holds the whip hand
US crush plant capacity has been increasing like crazy the last 5-10 years. US has been processing soy rapidly so even less than normal export numbers would significantly raise the price. Cash soy has been similar to last year without China exports because of the demand.
It's a game of musical chairs. Depleting SA soy supply just means it leaves the US with the source to supply the rest.
So this part of the trade war was an abject failure.
Heck if I know. If your crack mother doesn't relapse because of the fentanyl supply drying up I guess I'd call that a win.So this part of the trade war was an abject failure.
I myself would prefer trade drying up with China personally. But that's just me being selfish.
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You manufacture iPhones?I myself would prefer trade drying up with China personally. But that's just me being selfish.
What's the retail?
Your party is losing voters in droves, Chump.....why?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/europe...gaining-steam/Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam
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Carrez explained: "We've seen old alliances between the US and the EU being questioned or leveraged for immediate gains. We have seen the very terms of exchange of goods changing almost every day. And as a response to that, in Europe, we're moving to digital sovereignty." That shift, in turn, means open-source software.
"The world needs sovereign, high-performance and sustainable infrastructure," continued Carrez, "that remains interoperable and secure, while collaborating tightly with AI, containers and trusted execution environments. Open infrastructure allows nations and organizations to maintain control over their applications, their data, and their destiny while benefiting from global collaboration."
Carrez thinks a better word for what Europe wants is not isolation from the US: "What we're really looking for is resilience. What we want for our countries, for our companies, for ourselves, is resilience. Resilience in the face of unforeseen events in a fast-changing world. Open source," he concluded, "allows us to be sovereign without being isolated."
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/anothe...t-gains-steam/Another European agency shifts off Big Tech, as digital sovereignty movement gains steam
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Even before Azure had a global failure this week, Austria's Ministry of Economy had taken a decisive step toward digital sovereignty. The Ministry achieved this status by migrating 1,200 employees to a Nextcloud-based cloud and collaboration platform hosted on Austrian-based infrastructure.
This shift away from proprietary, foreign-owned cloud services, such as Microsoft 365, to an open-source, European-based cloud service aligns with a growing trend among European governments and agencies. They want control over sensitive data and to declare their independence from US-based tech providers.
Also: Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam
European companies are encouraging this trend. Many of them have joined forces in the newly created non-profit foundation, the EuroStack Initiative. This foundation's goal is " to organize action, not just talk, around the pillars of the initiative: Buy European, Sell European, Fund European."
What's the motive behind these moves away from proprietary tech? Well, in Austria's case, Florian Zinnagl, CISO of the Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism (BMWET), explained, "We carry responsibility for a large amount of sensitive data -- from employees, companies, and citizens. As a public ins ution, we take this responsibility very seriously. That's why we view it critically to rely on cloud solutions from non-European corporations for processing this information."
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Whinehole and his scare tactics.....lmao
"No taxation without representation"
(In 10 months Trump has strikingly covered about half of the 27 grievances against King George in the Declaration of independence)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tar...8ad374bd580d1fThe businesses challenging Trump’s tariffs are represented by Liberty Justice Center, a libertarian-leaning legal group usually more aligned with conservative causes. But they say Trump is wrong on sweeping tariffs, which are projected to collect a total of some $3 trillion from businesses over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
They argue the president is using an emergency powers law that doesn’t even mention tariffs to claim nearly unlimited powers to impose and change import duties at will, something no other president has done on such a scale.
“It is practically what the American Revolution was fought over, the principle that taxation is not legitimate unless it is adopted by the representatives of the people,” said Jeffrey Schwab, an attorney with the Liberty Justice Center.
“.. Markets think China won big. .. China has shown it can dump exports on the rest of the world, and use its leverage (from soybeans to rare earths) to deter the US. So it’s still safe to deal with China, and companies that do so look their most attractive in 14 years.”
arsonists cosplay as the fire brigade
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...nanas-tariffs/Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said trade policies for certain food products, such as coffee and bananas, will soon be changed in an effort to ease cost-of-living concerns.
Bessent made the announcement on Wednesday on Fox News. However, he did not provide any specifics about what the changes to trade policy might be or which countries could see their tariff levels change in order to incentivize shipments to the United States.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...s-bessent-says
whoopsie
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/14/g-s1-...f-coffee-fruitTrump scraps tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruit in a push to lower prices
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"We just did a little bit of a rollback on some foods like coffee," Trump said aboard Air Force One as he flew to Florida hours after the tariff announcement was made.
Pressed on his tariffs helping to increase consumer prices, Trump acknowledged, "I say they may, in some cases" have that effect.
"But to a large extent they've been borne by other countries," the president added.
Meanwhile, inflation — despite Trump's pronouncements that it has vanished since he took office in January — remains elevated, further increasing pressure on U.S. consumers.
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The president suggested such checks could be issued in 2026, but was vague on timing, saying only, "Sometime during the year." Trump, however, also said federal tariff revenue might be used to pay down national debt — raising questions about how much federal funding would be needed to do both.
Trump rejected suggestions that attempting direct payments to Americans could exacerbate inflation concerns — even as he suggested that similar checks offered during the coronavirus pandemic, and by previous administrations to stimulate the economy, had that very effect.
"This is money earned as opposed to money that was made up," Trump said. "Everybody but the rich will get this. That's not made up. That's real money. That comes from other countries."
The check is in the mail.
took him six months to figure out we can't grow bananas or coffee
the national trade deficit emergency suc bs to bribery and flattery
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/14/tru...fts-gold-rolexForget retaliation: To cut tariffs President Trump imposed on their country, the Swiss sent a delegation of industry tycoons bearing gifts — a special Rolex desktop clock, a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar, and loads of flattery.
No one was impressed by the $130,000 gold bar gift?
I suppose Chief Justice Roberts would say there's no written down quid pro quo, so no appearance of corruption, even though the explicit relief was granted instantly.
"Obamacare" would like a word
Bessent on tariffs: "This is one of President Trump's signature policies, and traditionally the Supreme Court does not interfere with a president's signature policy."
"they have no cards"
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