The problem is that even if stuff isn’t made in the US, unless they’re dropshipping from China they would’ve still paid the tariff so the costs are passed on anyway.
Had another thought and those specific trucks are less exposed to tariffs than the petrol ones would be.
All Cummins engines used in the US are built in the US.
Re: Trump
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 4:42 pm
by Beany
I'm sure GB News will suffer the most horrific gumming of the shins ever imaged from OFCOM, the useless fucking cunts they are.
Re: Trump
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 5:04 pm
by jamcg
Gavster wrote: Sun Feb 09, 2025 3:05 pm
The only things I can think of that are truly US made are Jack Daniels and Taylor Swift concerts
Concerts are a multi national thing, I can’t see the riggers, lighting and sound crew and then the dancers all being American.
As for Jack Daniel’s they can keep their paint stripper if they like
ZedLeg wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 8:44 am
The Maga crowd are calling Kendrick a DEI hire for the half time show.
He has 22 grammys, an oscar nom and a pulitzer prize to his name.
What does Kid Rock have?
Apparently he's in the WWE Hall of Fame.
All the best sexual abusers are there. Including the president.
I don’t think the fragility of white supremacists will ever stop being funny tbh. Kendrick is generally regarded as one of the best musicians of his generation but sure, DEI hire.
Re: Trump
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:27 am
by IanF
ZedLeg wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 8:44 am
The Maga crowd are calling Kendrick a DEI hire for the half time show.
He has 22 grammys, an oscar nom and a pulitzer prize to his name.
What does Kid Rock have?
And a song about a GNX!
Plus a song titled “Not like us”.. sounds perfect for the fascisti
Re: Trump
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:56 am
by jamcg
ZedLeg wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 8:44 am
The Maga crowd are calling Kendrick a DEI hire for the half time show.
He confirmed he was doing this in September last year, so it’s not exactly a surprise booking or a “this will show them” hire,
Re: Trump
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 11:01 am
by ZedLeg
Yeah, they’re just mad that there was no way they could make the Superbowl a Trump victory lap with him on the show.
Re: Trump
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:28 am
by mik
Helpful - as always.
Re: Trump
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:56 am
by Mito Man
He’s given permission to ethnically cleanse Gaza if the hostages are not returned by Saturday at noon.
Then again sounds like that’s going to happen regardless of what happens but I guess it looks less bad for Trump if Israel does it.
Re: Trump
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 12:08 pm
by Sundayjumper
Are all those pro-Palestine university student protests & occupations kicking off again ?
Re: Trump
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 12:26 pm
by Nefarious
I've just spent an hour watching Joe Rogan interviews, and it's really scary how vindicated the American right clearly feel right now. The level of bullshit is almost total, and I can very readily see how the MAGAs will carry on evangelising for Trump, even when their world burns around them.
Everything was about "exposing fraud". Elon and his little cabal of incels are all heroes for finding fraud in the form of "woke"-sounding foreign aid projects. More perniciously, it's all one big "media fraud" to create a falsely woke agenda that nobody really believes in. And *everyone* was in on it and on the payroll. Oh, and public medical funding is one massive fraud because drug prices are too high (to be clear, it's the programmes to provide funding for old and poor people that are apparently the scam, not the private insurance-based healthcare system they use for the actual provision). And whooping and cheering "we're gonna take Gaza". Oh, and apparently Trump "solved" the immigration problem on day 1.
At this point, I'm really struggling to see *what* could possibly happen that wouldn't be: dismissed as woke propaganda; shouted down with outright lies; or, lost in cries of "America, fuck yeah!"
I've depressed myself now
Re: Trump
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 12:45 pm
by ZedLeg
Joe Rogan will be remembered as a new lord haw haw in the future.
Re: Trump
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 12:48 pm
by DaveE
There's growing coverage of how the shutdown of USAid is going to negatively affect US farmers (from who USAid bought $2 billion in U.S.-grown crops from corn and soybeans to wheat, sorghum, vegetable oil and peas in 2024)
This represents about 10-20% of all US food exports
The whole "people voting for policies that will directly harm them" continues unabated
Half a billion dollars worth of food currently is at risk of spoilage in transit or at warehouses in the U.S., including a facility in Houston where many Midwestern crops sit awaiting ships, said former workers for USAID-related groups.
“This stuff has a best-by date, and it’s not moving because of these executive orders. This is enough food to feed 36 million people,” said one employee of USAID