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Trump screwed his farm belt voters with his China tariffs. While China had been a reliable buyer of American soybeans, it retaliated by buying Brazilian soybeans instead. Brazil is expected to have a record soybean harvest next year. Recently, Trump announced a “deal” in which China would resume American soybean purchases. “A U.S. Department of Agriculture report released last Friday showed only two Chinese purchases of American soybeans since the summit between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea, totaling 332,000 metric tons from Oct. 2 through Nov. 12 — well short of the 12 million metric tons that the White House said China agreed to purchase by year-end.” Americans are the losers when Trump negotiates a “deal.” Based on his history, why would anyone expect otherwise? https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/17/china-soybean-mountain-exports-trump-xi-us-farmers-trade-deal-brazil-crop-legumes.html

Looks like Trump is finally seeking tariff reductions to lower the price of groceries. “ The White House on Thursday during a background call with reporters announced   framework deals   with Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Ecuador that it hopes will bring down the costs of certain groceries.   “These deals come after President Donald Trump and some of his top allies promised an announcement on a deal to help alleviate the price increases of bananas, coffee and other agricultural goods, but a senior administration official on the call could not provide any specifics about how much relief this would bring to Americans' wallets.    “According to data from the September 2025 Consumer Price Index, coffee prices have spiked 18.9%, bananas are up 6.9% and beef prices are up 14.7% in the past year.” Of course, these are tariffs that Trump put in place and has boasted that they have brought in trillions of dollars. He has also insisted that the price of...

Remember all the GOP outrage over Bill Clinton getting a blowjob from a consenting adult in the White House? Seems quaint now. Convicted felon-in-chief Trump bragged about assaulting women in the Access Hollywood tapes, so the only real eyebrow-raiser is that his taste ran to minors. So far, the Epstein emails point that way. Any wonder the Administration is stonewalling on the Epstein files and Bannon is silent on his many hours of Epstein interviews? Now it’s not so surprising that Trump nominated a guy who paid a minor for sex to be Attorney General.* “ The man President Trump wanted to be attorney general was allegedly paying for sex with a 17-year old girl who was working at a McDonald’s, saving up for braces, and partly living at a homeless shelter.   “Last year, a   House Ethics Committee report   found “substantial evidence” that former representative and former attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz “regularly paid women for engaging in sexual activity with him,” an...

I understand why this gets ignored by the MSM. Republican racism isn’t news. “The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote   on X   he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid where nine employees were   arrested. ” *snip* “The nine detained employees all had work permits, Allston Car Wash Manager Jose Barrera   told   Boston.com. “ https://dailyfreepress.com/11/13/10/216199/bu-college-republicans-president-says-he-called-ice-to-detain-these-criminals-at-allston-car-wash/?utm_campaign=linkinbio&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio

I see where the Philadelphia mint recently pressed the last penny. This holds a little nostalgic interest for me in that I collected pennies when I was a kid. Back then, there were three mints—Philadelphia, San Francisco and Denver—so a complete set for any given year meant getting pennies from each mint. The coins minted in Denver had a little D under the date, and those minted in San Francisco had an S. If there was no mint mark, the coin was minted in Philadelphia. The S pennies were the hardest to find, at least in Tennessee. Pennies were made of pure copper until 1962, except in 1943, when they were made of steel to conserve copper for munitions. Eventually, the melt value of the copper penny exceeded its face value, and today a copper penny is worth two to three cents as copper regardless of year or condition. Since 1982, pennies have been 97.5% zinc with copper plating. It currently costs about four cents to make a penny, so other than sentimental value, there’s no reason to mak...

The Republican Party and the American right-wing (but I repeat myself) has been predicting for over 100 years the doom of the US if liberals or moderates are elected. Yes somehow, these absurd prophecies are evergreen. “ Fox News  host  Sean Hannity  on Tuesday ranted about the supposed dangers of New York City Mayor-elect  Zohran Mamdani , warning that “America will be doomed” if his democratic socialism becomes more popular — to the unbridled mockery of critics on social media.   “At some point, simple, basic, fundamental common sense has gotta prevail or America will be doomed if we become New York, and New Jersey and California and Illinois,”  warned the “Hannity” host , with a graphic of the communist hammer and sickle symbol on screen.” Guess nobody told Fox News management. “. . . Fox News  signed a 20-year lease renewal  at its New York City headquarters in 2023, revealing no plans to escape the supposed doom Hannity warned about, and that...