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Regarding the potential tariffs against Colombia, one thing Trump has never understood (or maybe just doesn't care about) is how much of our power in the world comes from being a trusted, reliable partner. It's soft power, but it has worked to our benefit as a country since the end of WWII Actions like this cede ground... And when ground is ceded, a vacuum is created. And vacuum's end up being filled by others (ie. China)

Colombia is a big exporter of petroleum, coffee and tea... Plan accordingly

Also very telling that he just completely ignores Tater's points and heads straight for a "For You" Twitter account making a lame joke. Just got nothing...

Looks like Dr. Phil is embedded at the Hilton lol

https://www.transportation.gov/RAISEgrants/raise-nofo Unions are now DEI apparently

Amazing how all of these tech guys sound like 70s era Bond villains justifying their plans (that would exact a lot of pain on all of us) Real "Curt Jurgens talking about his amazing underwater utopia" energy lol

The other piece is that when people hide behind their service to defend themselves, by extension, they are professing to speak for all service members and veterans. Which they don't. The Tuskegee Airman thing is a good example... Holic sits there and says NBD, yet I've seen at least two people in my FB feed who are vets (who otherwise don't talk about politics) pipe off about this in particular and what a crappy move it is. It's anecdotal, but not every vet feels like he does

Framed in a different way, but this is not the first time this idea has been brought up, always seems to go unaddressed. Great question... Also, if and when the price for consumer goods skyrocket on account of shortages of workers to do these jobs, are we expected to just take it?

I think they are worried about scripture, JV....

https://www.tuskegeeairmen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Statement_TAI_USAF_Training_Courses.pdf Oh really?

While not really answering the question... He knows

Curious to hear some sort of rationale for the the administration would do this. Or how it "Makes America Great Again"? I'll take my call off air

Lest people think I was joking... https://apnews.com/article/air-force-dei-tuskegee-women-wwii-pilots-ecdeac68dc7696535d093c7690ab73bc

Are we allowed to believe our eyes and ears yet?

$4.69 at the local Aldi...

Holic laughs, but we all know that political parties love to keep problems ongoing when they benefit from them

I'm not going to defend the Ds and how they have handled the issue, they are a big reason we find ourselves here But let's be honest with ourselves: the GOP, even now, has zero interest in solving any problems related to immigration and the border.

I mean, come on...

Exactly. He's the POTUS, he's the one who campaigned on taking care of it and taking care of it quickly. Maybe when his administration gets done doing things like directing the Air Force not to teach about the Tuskegee Airman, they can get around with telling us how they plan to addressing high costs.

I mean, when I see the administration taking a loaded gun and and threatening to shoot ourselves in the foot on this particular issue... Yeah, I'm going to hold that against them.

Not threaten steep tariffs on other countries, for starters. I have yet to hear a compelling case that these are necessary

I'm out of likes, but totally understand Eddie's POV.

He also ran on these things... These were big pieces of his campaign message Promises Broken

I don't have Eddie's self restraint in tuning out (to my detriment probably), but I do think that part of why people are sort of tuned out (or at least not engaging as much with this stuff in online spaces) is because Trump won the popular vote and, at least in the context of how our elections are run (ie. EC), pretty decisively. (Note: I don't think it was all that decisive.... this was more 2004 than 1984) Ultimately because of this, there's a recognition that if we are to get out of this mess, it's going to have to be a longer game and that people are going to have to feel pain of touching the hot stove. Which, to be honest, still feels pretty underindexed.... I don't think a lot of what he's doing is going to be popular in practice. That doesn't mean that there aren't ways to engage, certainly donating money and time to organizations that push back against the excesses is a good start. But outside of being an outlet for catharsis, there isn't much that posting about this stuff here ultimately accomplishes.

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