Political Posts

[Sweet]

3 hours ago, changegonnacome said:

Washington signed a document acknowledging Iran's administrative authority over the Strait for at least the 60 day period of the MOU

The MOU said no such thing.

[Red Lion]

13 hours ago, John Hjorth said:

One thing I would like to hear my fellow American CofB&F members about is if this is being considered political suicide or not, related to the mid terms, for POTUS to continue down this path.

 

Political attempted suicide at this point. I think the Democratic Socialist movement might manage to seize defeat from the jaws of victory (for the Democrats at midterm elections that is). I think the jury's still out, and if the Democrats ran some moderates, they'd sweep the election. On the other hand, if Democrats ran moderates, I don't think Trump would have gotten elected anyway. 

 

I think the American electorate overall dislikes progressives, and then all of the sudden, the democratic socialists make the progressives look like the "middle". 

 

Unfortunately for our two party system, the Democratic Party seems to be pushing further and further towards the extreme left, and the GOP has managed to eliminate most MAGA dissenters as well. Probably why we have 45% of voters  as independents now, unfortunately they are held hostage to the primary elections of the other 55% of voters.  

[DooDiligence]

Does anybody remember who played the part of the CDC director in Idiocracy?.

 

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety/about/autism.html

[Sweet]

15 minutes ago, DooDiligence said:

Does anybody remember who played the part of the CDC director in Idiocracy?.

 

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety/about/autism.html

That webpage reads like something a 4Channer would write trying to sound smart.

[Parsad]

19 hours ago, John Hjorth said:

New tariffs :

 

Reuters - World [July 24^th 2026] : Trump imposes forced labor duties on 60 trading partners as 10% US tariffs expire

 

Bullet points - Summary :

• White House imposes tariffs of 10% and 12.5% on 60 trading partners,
• Trump administration cites unfair trade practices statute to impose levies,
• New duties cover 99.4% of all U.S. imports, but many goods are exempt,
• Trade partners say new tariffs unjustified.

From the article :

 

 

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From Google AI :

 

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So :

 

EU countries [whining and complaining] : 'You can't just do that - it's the same tariffs that just ran off, but just with yet another, different explation that is invalid! -Because we actually do have active forced labor import bans in place, up and running!'

 

POTUS : 'It doesen't matter... - I just do it anyway!'

 

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What to say?   ... - Thank God - at least it's Friday!

 

Charlies [ @dealrakers ] comments about POTUS keeping control over the narrative, and @changegonnacome calling POTUS 'Captain Chaos' just comes to mind! 

 

Genius at work here!  He's an expert in acting like a thug...some of his best friends are thugs...would we expect anything else?  Cheers!

[Parsad]

7 hours ago, Gregmal said:

The issue is that Trump had a path to do something, to take a shot...and he did. 6 months ago...That was it. Instead his ego couldn't let him walk away as long as the pundits kept gaslighting everyone about "Iran winning"...and then the Israelis duped him into continuing their forever war. 

 

Yup...there were a lot of wins for the taking this time.  But like a gambler, he doesn't know when to stop and walk away with his winnings. 

 

• He won handily on the southern border, but then went to far with ICE. 
• He was winning with DOGE, but again just started hacking with a machete. 
• He was winning Iran, but then let Israel continue bombing Lebanon. 
• He was making headway with the tariffs, but then kept piling them on and on. 
• He was going to make meaningful changes to Obamacare, but then essentially blew it apart.

The man is his own worst enemy!  He's the guy who is 30 points ahead of the other team and then blows the whole fucking lead and just blames someone else or the media!

 

Cheers!

[John Hjorth]

6 hours ago, Parsad said:

Yup...there were a lot of wins for the taking this time.  But like a gambler, he doesn't know when to stop and walk away with his winnings. 

 

• He won handily on the southern border, but then went to far with ICE. 
• He was winning with DOGE, but again just started hacking with a machete. 
• He was winning Iran, but then let Israel continue bombing Lebanon. 
• He was making headway with the tariffs, but then kept piling them on and on. 
• He was going to make meaningful changes to Obamacare, but then essentially blew it apart.

The man is his own worst enemy!  He's the guy who is 30 points ahead of the other team and then blows the whole fucking lead and just blames someone else or the media!

 

Cheers!

 

I think we should expect swift EU retaliation on these new tariffs.

 

Here is an example : 

 

Børsen - News - Businesses [July 24^th 2026] : Danish company on Trump tariffs: "Is absurd"

 

From the article, here translated to English :

 

Quote

The development angers Lars Ryholl, CEO of the industrial company Cabinplant. Since the US market is important to the company, the company has had to deal with tariffs and the uncertainty surrounding them several times.

 

“The new tariffs are just a continuation of what we know now, with new arguments,” Lars Ryholl said in a written response.

 

The reason for the new tariffs is that the trading partners in question have not introduced and enforced what is described as a ban on imports of goods produced through forced labor, according to a press release from the administration.

 

“
The new tariff is just a continuation of what we know now, with new arguments,
Lars Ryholl, CEO, Cabinplant

 

“That Denmark should then have a tariff for insufficient enforcement of forced labor is absurd and just an emphasis on the unpredictable world we live in. Our sales will continue to increase in the USA, primarily because they are not able to produce competitive alternatives themselves,” writes Lars Ryholl.

 

Cabinplant produces and supplies processing machines as total solutions for the food industry and has a turnover of more than 400 million DKK per year. The company is owned by the industrial company CTB, which in turn is owned by Warren Buffet’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway.

 

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Berkshire acquired CTB in 2002, and the European arm of CTB acquired 80% [<- I think] of Cabinplant A/S in 2016 from the two founders, who still owns the rest in a shared private holding company. Cabinplant is a good business, turnover just below DKK 500 million, 300 employeés. Cabinplant is about 10% of CTB today.

 

Cabinplant is located in a small town called Haarby near the coastal city Assens on Funen, about 2,500 habitants there, 45 km south-west from here.

 

If one asks a snobby and arrogant Copenhagener's nose, who has never been west to Valby Hill about Cabinplant in Haarby he doesn't know of either!

 

https://www.cabinplant.com/

Edited 58 minutes ago by John Hjorth