The China tariffs have gone into effects, and the new tariff rules eliminated an exception for shipments under $800.
Now, every American that has a package coming from China, mostly small online purchases of clothing, toys and electronic trinkets……is getting an extra bill that they need to pay before they can get their stuff.
No word from the administration on why China isn’t paying these bills as promised.
Actually, I support the change to the De Minimus rules. It was never intended to allow the industrial scale exportation of cheap crap direct from Chinese factories to US consumers. It was originally intended to be an exemption for people who returned from abroad and brought back stuff with them. The limit was increased, and companies like Temu figured out a way to use it to connect consumers directly with factories.
The current USDA freeze under Trump’s leadership has left many disillusioned, including Holden, who has faced criticism after sharing his story on TikTok, with many telling him he “got exactly what he voted for.” …
Holden defended his thought process in trusting the quiz and voting for Trump, explaining that his 17-hour workdays leave little time for political research. …
As Holden continues to fight for his farm’s survival, his story highlights the real-world consequences of government policy shifts, and the challenges of civic engagement in a polarizing political climate.
If you didn’t have time to do your research, maybe you should have MADE time to do your research!
Yeah - I love him talking about how no one candidate supports ALL of his interests. Sure. But if you’ve got one huge honking issue that your economic security is going to depend on - like his farm loan/subsidy/welfare - you might wanna rate that considerably higher in your priorities than sliders on some internet quiz.
I wonder if the quiz started of with, “Would you prefer a candidate who is a totally reprehensible dishonest creature?”
Do you want trans men showering with your daughters in gym?
Do you support anti-Americans kneeling during our wonderful national Anthem?
Are you opposed to CRT being taught in kindergarten?
Do you support woke gays stealing your god given guns?
Do you think liberal cities are post-apocalyptic hellholes?
It does seem not-impossible. The MAGA true-believers wouldn’t waver, but there might be a large number of ‘less-informed’ voters who’ve caught on that the Trump promises they liked will not be fulfilled.
Time for another distraction! Donald is re-naming New Mexico, New Trumpico!!!
Easiest prediction ever: both soft-drink and beer companies will be jacking up prices immediately.
If the American workforce was unionized so they too would benefit from higher wages, paying higher prices for domestic products could possibly indeed be patriotic.
But they’d revolt at that union idea as being too Commie or something. Euro-socialists have unions; not red-blooded rugged individualist Americans.
Despite some famous quote from the lead-up to the American Revolution about united standing and divided falling or something.
So as long as it’s all about funneling the extra money to everyone but the American worker, it’s just another scam the RW losers have been / are being sold by the propagandists. Which they are buying hook, line, and sinker. By which they’ll be sunk.
What weirds me out is how many people believed things that Trump didn’t promise, including some that were pretty much the opposite of what he said (e.g. the immigrants who thought he would make immigration easier). It’s mass delusion in action.
That’s pretty much standard human behavior, though.
Bush’s supporters did the same thing. A lot of Obama voters swore up and down he supported very liberal or progressive positions when he was very much a centrist Democrat.
Human beings pick a politician (or whoever) they like, ascribe their own positions to that person, and then find or manufacture rational sounding arguments to justify their choice, even when those arguments are factually bogus. We all do that to some extent (some clearly more than others).
There’s a not unreasonable thesis that most “higher” reasoning really exists to justify decisions we’ve already made subconsciously.
I still remember arguing in AOL chatrooms with people who were upset that upon taking office in 2009 he didn’t prosecute George W. Bush “like he promised to”.
If this happens it will an interesting litmus test on whether R congresspeople think Trump is truly a lame duck or whether (by hook or by crook) he or his people are going to be able to run again in four years.