Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana would like to have a word with you about misappropriating his title of Senator Spineless.
Come on, we have Senators from Maine and Georgia who want to be in the running too.
Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program is being overhauled.
“With BEAD, it’s mainly going to benefit areas with heavily Republican constituencies,” he said.
White House to overhaul $42.5bn Biden-era internet plan – probably to Elon Musk’s advantage
Boo-fucking hoo. Stop electing face eating leopards if you don’t want your face eaten. Also, glad to see Canada punching back as they say Trump likes to do.
I didn’t see in the article where he voted for Trump.
Maybe not him, but he is in TN. I don’t assume every farmer crying about the shit-show voted for him, but overall they did.
Not woke, go broke.
A large local brewery says they export a ton of beer to Canada, including one of the more popular gluten free beers available in Canada. A few weeks ago the owner of the brewery said that if they can’t keep their costs down they’ll make the beer in Canada (I assume they’d have it contract brewed) . Then the US gets nothing.
Not quite. The owners in the US still get the profits of their Canadian operations.
But you’re absolutely right that now there’s no jobs, no ingredients purchasing, no economic multiplier at all occurring within the US. All that goodness has been exported to Canada by trump’s ignorance.
If I didn’t know better, I’d almost think the Republicans have hit on the ultimate way to screw every American who’s not a member of the capitalist owning class. To the loud cheers of the screwees. Naah, couldn’t be … could it? /s
Senator Roger the Artless Dodger is walking back on his allegation that attendees were paid to attend his town hall in Oakley, Kansas.
The Kansas Republican said he doesn’t have evidence to back up the allegation, which was a rumor he heard about his town hall in Oakley over the weekend. The town hall made national news for its abrupt ending.
“I don’t have first-hand evidence,” Marshall said. “But that was the rumor there, the townspeople, that’s what they had told me. That those people there were whispering: ‘How much did you get paid to do this and who paid for your gas?’ Some of those types of things.”
I believe the term of art was always “outside agitators.”
There is nothing new under the sun. Also:
There’s a textbook audition to be a part of the Trump administration if I’ve ever seen one. Kudos, Senator.
I’m shocked.
Not that he didn’t have any evidence to support his ridiculous allegation, I knew that the instant I heard about it, but that he willingly admitted such.
I heard they were also eating the cats and eating the dogs.
Fucking dipshits.
I hear it’s the same enemy within that’s responsible for the price of eggs continuing to rise
Too bad that Canada represents only 1% of JD sales, and so their CEO is confident that it won’t be too much of a problem. Mexico constitutes 7% of its sales - still probably not enough to make JD squirm, I suppose.
The issue is that large businesses are under pressure to produce constant growth to satisfy private equity investors.
Many domestic companies achieve that by expanding international sales, since their domestic sales have often plateaued. Canada and Mexico may be a small portion of their current sales but probably represent a larger portion of any recent growth.
So, I would imagine whenever next quarter’s report comes out, he, among others, is going to focus on stability and the domestic market, rather than growth, particularly international growth. It’s harder to notice the lack of a thing, but the big investors will take note.
Good on Canada for making 'em sweat. I don’t know how effective it will be, but certainly more effective than simply giving Jack Daniels a pass.
However note that globally 2/3rds of JD’s sales are outside of the US. So they will be hoping that other nations pissed off about tariffs (or the many other legit reasons to be annoyed with America right now), don’t follow Canada’s lead.
Having said that, I think the real pressure on MAGA will be from domestic pain. Exporters suffering, or even going out of business, is a blip compared to all Americans paying more for everything (especially given that this was the #1 issue of the election).
When I worked on researching lynching in graduate school, outside agitators being blamed on difficulties with the Negro population were quite common. i.e. We get along with our Negroes, but we’ve got a bunch of Chicago Negroes down here causing problems." As you said, it’s a way of shifting blame. “We don’t have a problem with our Negroes here. Everything is fine. It’s those Negroes from outside causing problems.”
I always interpreted it as embarrassment on their part as well though. Embarrassment that they couldn’t control their Black population. I see that same embarrassment with politicians as well. “No, everything’s fine. My constituents love what I’m doing, these are outside agitators. I’m not doing anything wrong.”
Scott Bessent says “The American Dream is not about access to cheap goods.”
Scott Bessent is worth $520 million.
I’m glad he understands how hard more expensive stuff will be for the everyman.
“I’m quite familiar with Dollar General. My 17-year old daughter was considering buying the chain last year.” (/s)
Shame on you for implying that Bessent doesn’t understand privation 
[Also: a post I made to another thread. Relevant here]