All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[Sean Hayden]

What's the point of asking that other than to be a dick?

I've got questions about tariffs. I was doing some reading and this is what came to mind. We've talked about tariffs a lot in the Trump threads haven't we?

[Brian Peacock]

Nike doesn't want to have to charge me more!

Nike will get their stuff made wherever it's cheaper to do so regardless of tariffs. And US tariffs don't apply to the raw materials going to the corporate labour camps in the far East. Nike aren't worried, their business is global. It's domestic enterprises and consumers that tariffs hurt. But stock are up so who cares...

[Sean Hayden]

But Nike is claiming the tariffs are going to hurt them. Well they are doing the usual hurt us, it hurts you song and dance.

[Sean Hayden]

CPI-All Urban Consumers

Laundry equipment in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, seasonally adjusted



This is one of the items I keep seeing listed as hurting consumers as a result of tariffs. Check out the crazy in 2018. It goes from May - July 2018. Is that when Trump promised tariffs? Doesn't that seem weird?

Anyway, you need a freakin' degree in economics to parse the papers on this shit! I just got suspicious after reading the news and not finding much of anything like easily digestible data.

It might be something worth learning a bit about, even if only because Goldman Sachs says they're bad.

[Sean Hayden]

I see the image is no longer available. I still had it on my desktop:

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Of course you can always generate a new one using the data. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR000 ... =pct_3mths

[Tero]

Yeah stay clear of economics. They have a whole world of their own. The GNP can grow for ever, even though there is nothing you can measure to be growing. Not even CO2 finally.

[Tero]

Speaking of CO2
https://karireport.blogspot.com/2019/08 ... -coke.html

[Tero]

not a joke

[Tero]

Space Force is now Space Command. Which it was before Trump

[Seabass]

If you didn't think it was possible to hate Trump even more, prepare to be proved wrong. This is so fucking terrible that I don't even want to know how Forty Two would defend it.

Sick Migrants Undergoing Lifesaving Care Can Now Be Deported
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/us/i ... ction.html

LOS ANGELES — Maria Isabel Bueso was 7 years old when she came to the United States from Guatemala at the invitation of doctors who were conducting a clinical trial for the treatment of her rare, disfiguring genetic disease. The trial was short on participants, and thanks to her enrollment, it eventually led the Food and Drug Administration to approve a medication for the condition that has increased survival by more than a decade.

Now 24, Ms. Bueso, who had been told she likely would not live past adolescence, has participated in several medical studies. She has won awards for her advocacy on behalf of people with rare diseases, appearing before lawmakers in Washington and in Sacramento. Over the years, her parents have paid for the treatment that keeps her alive with private medical insurance.

But last week, Ms. Bueso received a letter from the United States government that told her she would face deportation if she did not leave the country within 33 days, an order described by her doctor, lawyer and mother as tantamount to a “death sentence.”

Without any public announcement, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services eliminated a “deferred action” program this month that had allowed immigrants like Ms. Bueso to avoid deportation while they or their relatives were undergoing lifesaving medical treatment. The agency said that it received 1,000 deferred-action applications related to medical issues each year.

The policy change is the latest in a series of moves by the Trump administration to revoke or modify procedures that have allowed certain immigrants to remain in the United States on humanitarian grounds. In addition to those with serious medical conditions, they included crime victims who have helped law enforcement with investigations and caretakers of sick children or relatives.

“I have been feeling super scared and overwhelmed,” said Ms. Bueso, whose lower body is paralyzed from the disease, an enzyme disorder that inhibits cells from processing sugars. “The treatment that I receive keeps me alive.”

continued: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/us/i ... ction.html

[Seabass]

Doctor Of Woman With Condition Says Deportation Would Be "A Death Sentence"

[Tero]

Will Trump be deporting baseball players?
27% Of Major League Baseball Players Are Foreign-Born - Forbes

https://www.forbes.com › sites › stuartanderson › 2018/04/27 › 27-of-maj...
Apr 27, 2018 - However, under U.S. law, individuals born in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are U.S. citizens. After eliminating those 20 players from the count, there are 234 foreign-born players, which means 27% of the 877 individuals listed as players by Major League Baseball are foreign-born.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartande ... eign-born/

[Tero]

Episode Notes
Virginia Heffernan talks to journalist Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. Netflix recently released a documentary series based on his reporting.
https://slate.com/podcasts/trumpcast/20 ... mentalists

[Tero]

Hey grandpa!
https://mobile.twitter.com/P_Lepinkaine ... 9131366401

[L'Emmerdeur]

Trump has no idea at all how that idiotic alteration got on the map he showed to the world from the Oval Office. White House gnomes, maybe?

'Did Trump Doctor a Hurricane Map With Sharpie to Prove His False Prediction That Dorian Could Hit Alabama?'

It appears that someone simply drew on the map displayed by Trump to make it appear like the storm was forecast to hit Alabama.

Reporter just asked Trump about the map: "It looked like someone took a Sharpie...."

Trump: "I don't know. I don't know."