Trump 2025

March 4th, 2025 at 6:21:13 AM permalink
AZDuffman
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Should be a great address by Trump tonight. While the Democrats in the Senate are choosing to die on the hill via standing up to let males compete in women's sports by day they and their members in the House plan to act like asses on national TV tonight. Trump has managed them to keep defending undefendable positions. Democrats have take the side of defending what only the radical 20% of the population supports.

Should be great times.
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March 4th, 2025 at 6:22:04 AM permalink
DoubleGold
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A little Tariff history:


Noteworthy, is a recent GDP report that came below expectations hitting the wires this morning.

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Tariffs Made America Great

Patrick J. Buchanan

Jul 27, 2018
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“A free people should promote such manufactures as tend to render them independent on others for essentials, especially military supplies,” said President Washington in his first message to Congress.

The first major bill passed by Congress was the Tariff Act of 1789.

Weeks later, Washington imposed tonnage taxes on all foreign shipping. The U.S. Merchant Marine was born.

In 1791, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton wrote in his famous Report on Manufactures: “The wealth…independence, and security of a Country, appear to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufactures. Every nation…ought to endeavor to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply. These compromise the means of subsistence, habitation, clothing, and defence.”

During the War of 1812, British merchants lost their American markets. When peace came, flotillas of British ships arrived at U.S. ports to dump underpriced goods and to recapture the markets they’d lost.

Henry Clay and John Calhoun backed James Madison’s Tariff of 1816, as did ex-free traders Jefferson and John Adams. It worked.

In 1816, the U.S. produced 840,000 yards of cloth. By 1820, it was 13,874 thousand yards. America had become self-sufficient.

Financing “internal improvements” with tariffs on foreign goods would become known abroad as “The American System.”

Said Daniel Webster, “Protection of our own labor against the cheaper, ill-paid, half-fed, and pauper labor of Europe is…a duty which the country owes to its own citizens.”
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https://www.theamericanconservative.com/tariffs-made-america-great/

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March 4th, 2025 at 9:33:36 AM permalink
DRich
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Quote: AZDuffman
I would love them to audit what we sent to Ukraine. Can you imagine how much money got skimmed off? I think I heard what we sent is more than we spend on running USMC.

Ukrainian mail order bride business should skyrocket though.


We have sent very little money to Ukraine, we have sent lots of military equipment.
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March 4th, 2025 at 12:29:08 PM permalink
AZDuffman
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Quote: DRich
We have sent very little money to Ukraine, we have sent lots of military equipment.


Still needs audited.
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March 4th, 2025 at 1:21:19 PM permalink
rxwine
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The way Trump is forcing this mining deal on the Ukrainians, I wouldn't envy any Americans going over in any mining operation. Ukrainians might be inclined to take the humiliation forced on their President picking off some Americans if it's a lousy deal with the Russians.
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March 4th, 2025 at 1:35:07 PM permalink
AZDuffman
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Quote: rxwine
The way Trump is forcing this mining deal on the Ukrainians, I wouldn't envy any Americans going over in any mining operation. Ukrainians might be inclined to take the humiliation forced on their President picking off some Americans if it's a lousy deal with the Russians.


The Ukrainian men will be too drunk. To do anything. But there will be lots of hot Ukrainian women looking for husbands.
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March 4th, 2025 at 2:06:48 PM permalink
Evenbob
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Quote: AZDuffman
The Ukrainian men will be too drunk. To do anything. But there will be lots of hot Ukrainian women looking for husbands.


All East European countries drink too much. This guy that I follow was just in Poland and he had to leave after 3 days because his friends there insisted that he drink every night until he was falling down drunk and he couldn't get away from it. All those countries over there like that, Russia is probably the worst. Ukraine has a huge alcoholic problem, all those countries do. It's one of the reasons that we had Prohibition in the United states. We were importing millions of people from Eastern Europe and they were drunks and they would miss work, beat their wives and children, spend their whole paycheck at the bar instead of giving it to the family, and that's how prohibition was born. It was so bad that we cut off all migration to the United states in 1922 and it stayed that way until the early 50s.
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March 4th, 2025 at 2:36:55 PM permalink
rxwine
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The Ukrainian men will be too drunk. To do anything. But there will be lots of hot Ukrainian women looking for husbands.


You'll pick the trans woman for your mail order bride.
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March 4th, 2025 at 3:08:20 PM permalink
DoubleGold
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If Trump pulls out of NATO, we should move all our machinery out before announcing it.

Because they'll likely confiscate almost everything.

So he could announce tonight pulling about 20,000 and leave some troops there until we move the machinery, then pull the others out afterward.


I think of NATO as the HQ of the deep state or the New World Order.

I'm not sure how they communicate but definitely encryption, possibly Signal.
March 4th, 2025 at 4:25:26 PM permalink
AZDuffman
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Quote: rxwine
You'll pick the trans woman for your mail order bride.


Heh heh. Nope. They are your thing, not mine. As has been shown here many times.
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