Trump is back…the “Now What” thread


"#TranscendentHealth – Adapting an LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys," reads another $1,319,024 grant awarded to the Center for Innovative Public Health Research.
The University of California, San Francisco's $2,554,402 grant for "Structural Racism and Discrimination in Older Men's Health Inequities" also was canceled, Fox Digital learned, as was a $822,539 grant to UCLA called "Buddhism and HIV Stigma in Thailand: An Intervention Study."
 
Looks like Waltz will be the first Trump Cabinet member to get fired.

There is a lot of speculation about the potential for President Trump to remove National Security Advisor Mike Waltz following the SignalGate fiasco. However, I doubt it will come soon.
Yes, CTH predicted in January that Waltz would be the first to get fired; but that prediction was due to the easily identified conflict between Waltz’s ideological mindset and his responsibility to execute a President Trump national security policy that is seemingly counter to Waltz’s worldview.
President Trump is unlikely to dismiss Waltz until some time has passed and his removal doesn’t look like a win for the media narrative operation. Currently the SignalGate issue is diminishing. However, watch what assignments Waltz is given – that’s where we will likely see a shift in responsibility.
I suspect Mike Waltz will no longer have a critical role in the Ukraine-v-Russia conflict that President Trump is trying to bring to an end. If Waltz has lost effectiveness or the trust of President Trump, his role as National Security Advisor will be visibly lessened. The influence of JD Vance, Marco Rubio and to a smaller extent Steve Witkoff will be more prominent.
Waltz on the Bubble?
 
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Trump needs to get the CIA out asap.

The New York Times published two articles {HERE and HERE} revealing: 1) that U.S. military boots are on the ground in Ukraine. (2) The U.S. military is actively involved in the ongoing targeting of strikes into Russia. (3) The CIA is operating in Ukraine and conducting targeted strikes into the Russian Federation mainland.
As we have outlined for several years, including our own research by driving through Ukraine, the CIA has been operating on the ground in Ukraine from the outset of the conflict. Over time the CIA took over most of the strategic operations, and as it currently stands the United States CIA is organizing the majority of the Ukraine war against Russia.
The awkwardness expands, when you understand how the CIA is authorized to conduct these operations. The President, Biden, signed a “finding memo,” authorizing the CIA to conduct missile strikes into the Russian Federation.
Senator Marco Rubio as SSCI vice-chair and a Gang of Eight member, was ‘read in’ to that CIA authorization.
On the upside, this creates an opportunity for President Trump to distance himself from the prior administration and withdraw all CIA operatives and admitted/revealed U.S. military boots on the ground in Ukraine.
President Trump could use this revelation, now public and widespread, to reset the U.S-Ukraine dynamic and withdraw all elements of prior Biden authorization from the conflict.
Will he?


https://theconservativetreehouse.co...-russian-federation-with-drones-and-missiles/
 
Scam artists get pardoned en masse , here they want a death penalty for shooting a bigger scam artist. Luigi should have donated to Trump inauguration.

 
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Let’s assume that the FDA regulators practiced real science without fear or favor in the public interest.

Why would the pharmaceutical industry stocks tank when one of them is forced to exit?

Shares of Moderna, BioNTech, Novavax and Pfizer declined 11%, 7%, 6% and 2%, respectively, on the news, Fast Company reported. STAT News reported that Marks’ departure “is a worst-case scenario realized” for investors and “a biopharma industry that saw him as an ally.”
 
President Donald Trump is scheduled to end the U.S Marshal Plan for Europe, eliminating one-way tariffs eighty years after the Marshal Plan began. President Trump is now planning to institute global reciprocal tariffs, by matching all tariff and non-tariff trade barriers and restrictions. WATCH:



White House Message: “Happy Liberation Day, America!”
 

Fuck pence with a chahula (jumping) cactus and roll him in a sticker patch infested with fire ants.

A two faced fucking traitor that should be deported. The Elsalvador jail would be a good permanent residence for him.

Pull any remaining clearances and ss protection asap.

I would pay $ to kick him in the nuts before he departs.

Please provide payment options.
 
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Not sure folks understand tariffs , unless countries fold and both sides drop them which i imagine its the goal besides forcing some bussines to set up shop in Us again, its the domestic consumer that is footing 100% of the bill not a foreign country. So i don't quite get the whole they will pay us rethoric. Its just another tax
 
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Not sure folks understand tariffs , unless countries fold and both sides drop them which i imagine its the goal besides forcing some bussines to set up shop in Us again, its the domestic consumer that is footing 100% of the bill not a foreign country. So i don't quite get the whole they will pay us rethoric. Its just another tax

When we pay a tax, such as an income tax, sales taxes and property taxes, we are affected directly. It doesn't cost another country or business anything.

When a tariff is implemented, it's true that we, the consumer, will also pay but the other country or business in that country is also affected. The domestic business that sets up shop in another country is also affected.

So in a sense the other countries and businesses are sharing the pain. If they want to stop the economic pain they will do something about it.

Do tariffs cost a lot for everyone? Yes! However, the cost of doing nothing is greater than the cost of doing something.

The doctor says you have cancer and need radical surgery. You ask, "but won't that hurt and inconvenience me a lot?"

The doctor says yes, "but if you don't have the surgery, you will die. And the death experience might be more horrible than the surgery."

We've been suffering from the economic bullying from other countries for decades and it's about time that it stops. Tariffs are the only way to get them to stop.
 
Who is "We?" And since you must be included in we, who exactly is not allowing you in it?

Go to Schwab, or any other broker with after hours trading, open an account, and start trading after hours. Nobody is keeping you out.
When @Snuby642 was referring to the "after hours crowd" my impression was that he was writing about the people that do the insider trading and back-door dealing to manipulate stock prices which screw over the rest of us.

That was the club that I was referring to. If that's not the case then I stand corrected.

Regardless, the "club" that I am thinking of is the one which locks out the rest of us.
 
Not sure folks understand tariffs , unless countries fold and both sides drop them which i imagine its the goal besides forcing some bussines to set up shop in Us again, its the domestic consumer that is footing 100% of the bill not a foreign country. So i don't quite get the whole they will pay us rethoric. Its just another tax

The tariff is paid by the business doing the importing. So for example, when Apple imports its iPhones and MacBooks and so on, Apple would pay a tariff to the US government. This then becomes a cost of the goods sold.

It affects prices every bit as much as a rise in the price of raw materials. Whether the consumer pays it or not is a little more complicated, but the cost will be mostly passed on to the consumer.


When we pay a tax, such as an income tax, sales taxes and property taxes, we are affected directly. It doesn't cost another country or business anything.

When a tariff is implemented, it's true that we, the consumer, will also pay but the other country or business in that country is also affected. The domestic business that sets up shop in another country is also affected.

So in a sense the other countries and businesses are sharing the pain. If they want to stop the economic pain they will do something about it.

Do tariffs cost a lot for everyone? Yes! However, the cost of doing nothing is greater than the cost of doing something.

The doctor says you have cancer and need radical surgery. You ask, "but won't that hurt and inconvenience me a lot?"

The doctor says yes, "but if you don't have the surgery, you will die. And the death experience might be more horrible than the surgery."

We've been suffering from the economic bullying from other countries for decades and it's about time that it stops. Tariffs are the only way to get them to stop.

The hope is that Apple will decide that the cost of importing iPhones with the tariff is too great and open up factories in the US with captive workers who commit suicide by jumping out of windows . . .

Is that a likely outcome? We'll see.

The hope is also that other countries will lower their own tariffs to our US produced goods. Again, is that a likely outcome? We'll see. In the case of China, I am not sure it matters much. The reason for the huge trade imbalance is that there is not much domestic demand in China. They manufacture for export. They would be selling domestically to their own citizens if the demand was there. Lowering tariffs on US goods is not likely to spur a huge amount of demand in China for US goods.

So is lowering of Chinese tariffs on US goods even a desired outcome?

Then there is currency manipulation, failure to protect US intellectual property rights, etc. Maybe the tariffs will result in favorable outcomes on some of those issues.
 
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In the chat, the FBI officials showed awareness that the laptop may have contained evidence of criminal activity.

Asked Chan, “actually what kind of case is the laptop thing? corruption? campaign financing?”

Another FBI employee responds, “CLOSE HOLD —” after which the response is redacted.

To which Chan responds, “oh crap” appearing to underscore the serious nature of the probe, which included felony tax charges. Chan adds, “ok. It ends here”.
 
Even if all tariffs on US goods abroad are lifted i do not think it will change trade flows much , the chart with Tarrifs Trump showed was absolute BS , those tarif numbers someone pulled out of their ass. there is no 39% tarrif on US goods in EU , that is the trade deficit ,

From my business importing shit from and to US there is no tarif higher than 3-4% i ever paid.
''The World Trade Organization says the EU's average tariff rate is 5.0%, while the Commission says the average tariff on goods traded between the EU and the U.S. is about 1% for both sides''
 
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Even if all tariffs on US goods abroad are lifted i do not think it will change trade flows much , the chart with Tarrifs Trump showed was absolute BS , those tarif numbers someone pulled out of their ass. there is no 39% tarrif on US goods in EU , that is the trade deficit ,

From my business importing shit from and to US there is no tarif higher than 3-4% i ever paid.
''The World Trade Organization says the EU's average tariff rate is 5.0%, while the Commission says the average tariff on goods traded between the EU and the U.S. is about 1% for both sides''
i don't know the details, but i did read that the tariff rates may include vat fees that are not reported as tariffs, but are an additional tax on imports.
when i lived in the uk, people would get mad at me if I didn't load up on duty free goods when i traveled back and forth.
 
Last time I was in the UK gas prices were 4 times the going US rate. (1981]

Funny the price of crude oil is the same for anyone buying it?

I don't exactly think we should look at the UK as a modle for anything except stupidity.
 
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