Yeah drugs flood the country because there’s a lot of money in this country and the consequences for holding or dealing are worth the risk for junkies and dealers. These tariffs won’t do shit. If the idea is to starve out the druggies, congrats you just increased auto thefts, burglaries, robberies, muggings, along with the prices the rest of us pay for shit they steal. Brilliant.
First impacts of tariffs
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Mexico won’t be able to secure a border - any border -no matter what we do to them economically. Their government doesn’t even control most of their country.
This is from 2019, Mexico deployed 6,500 national guards to its southern border.
The Mexican government pulled the plug on remain in Mexico in 2023. And it looks like Trump is getting what he wants (or at least some of it).
Mexico agrees to deploy 10,000 troops to US border in exchange for tariff pause
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has agreed to deploy 10,000 national guard troops to block drug trafficking at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Corruption in the Mexican government and military are rampant. Cartels and drug lords can pay soldiers more than the government can/will to convince them to look the other way.
And if they don’t take the money, the cartels can kill them or their families without repercussions.
I’m not sure exactly what the answer is, but I have zero confidence in putting the responsibility on Mexico.
The drugs are the legal justification to impose the tariffs. Seems proper for the southern border, a stretch for the northern border. But I suppose you can just lump it together and say border.
Where there is demand they will find supply. May have to come up through Florida or any port out west. Increases the price so maybe they go back to home cooking in places like Stanwood
That will be one big F’n blue state. Wonder how many electoral college votes our new citizens will get?!
Proposed state names:
Really far North Dakota
New Canada
Fck It’s Cold
Based on rough math, I think if Canada was a state they'd get ~49 electoral votes. 40 million Canadians, added to 335M Americans = 375M. 375M divided by 435 seats in the House = 1 house seat per 862069 people. 40M divided by 862,069 = 46.4 House seats, rounded to 47. Plus two senate seats = 49.
Realizing this isn't reality at all, but Canada would be interesting as an addition. It would be the biggest electoral prize, because California would lose ~7 votes and drop down to 47 total. But you probably couldn't campaign in only 1-2 metro areas and be confident of carrying it. In California, if you carry LA and the Bay, you carry the state. In Canada, you don't have the major population centers that are going to outweigh the rest of the electorate.
Women with hairy armpits. If that’s your thing.
I’m guessing France would say “no” anyway. Have you heard those Quebecers try to speak French? Hideous.
Maybe they have another Statue of Liberty sitting around somewhere for such an occasion? Maybe a matching Statue of Servitude would be a more appropriate name?
wow. Look at these impacts from the tariffs on Canada. No wonder Trudeau folded like a cheap deck chair. KPMG no less.
(* curious as to why ABC News headlines on KOMO radio an hour ago were still gaslighting Americans)
https://x.com/owengregorian/status/1886756890484383833?s=46
(* curious as to why ABC News headlines on KOMO radio an hour ago were still gaslighting Americans)
https://x.com/owengregorian/status/1886756890484383833?s=46
When he was running for office, he held a press conference surrounded by groceries saying, “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One."
We know that every speech he makes is full of lies, exaggerations and bravado but what makes it sad is that you people believe him and defend his lies without any hint of awareness that he is always full of sh!t.
He did it.
Eggs were $10.99 last price under Biden and hard to find.
$3.43 under Trump and they’re everywhere.
Quick scan of the Safeway ad shows Boneless/Skinless chicken breast @$2.99, USDA Choice New York Strip @$7.99 and extra jumbo raw Shrimp $5.99
Your PVC example turned out to be margin padding by a contractor to a gullible audience. Why is that Trumps fault?
Eggs were $10.99 last price under Biden and hard to find.
$3.43 under Trump and they’re everywhere.
Quick scan of the Safeway ad shows Boneless/Skinless chicken breast @$2.99, USDA Choice New York Strip @$7.99 and extra jumbo raw Shrimp $5.99
Your PVC example turned out to be margin padding by a contractor to a gullible audience. Why is that Trumps fault?
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$10.99? Where the hell did you see eggs for $10.99 under Biden? Where I live, eggs were under $4 per dozen until this week.
As far as $3.43 per dozen now...where are you seeing that? Where I live, they are $4.19/dozen and it's $7.49 in Colorado where my daughter lives.
FWIW, eggs have nothing to do with either President and it's just political football to discuss it. Nevertheless, they are more expensive now than they were two weeks ago and your President is unable to do anything about it except point fingers and pretend that he didn't say anything last year.
As for the PVC comment, again...you're an idiot. When five different contractors all raise their prices by $20/lf....it's not a contractor padding a gullible audience. If their pipe supplier is telling them that PVC prices are expected to jump because of tariffs....they bid accordingly. I'm sorry that you are too dumb to understand that.
Not sure where you're shopping, but a dozen eggs still runs $7.50-8.00 here. That's pretty close to where they peaked, based on my wife's complaints...and I expect they'll go up again since they're still destroying flocks with bird flu.
Maybe Uber is buying “Trump” eggs. As with Trump Steaks and Trump University it’s not cheap lining his pockets for lower quality!
That would explain it. But does each dozen come with a commemorative stamp with Trump's picture on it?
Dig deeper. Trudeau didn’t fold on shit, the border plan and exact dollar amount was already in the works and orchestrated while Biden was in office. Trudeau gave Trump the opportunity to claim a victory, which his supporters will believe he achieved. Trump got owned by someone who understands his weaknesses.
Trump was laughed at by the world his first 4 years in office. He was laughed at the last 4 years. And he’s being laughed at already less than a month into his second term.
Wilcox, organic,, cage, free, pasture raised.
Pallets of them
Your buddy Laura Lumer posted a picture from Walmart yesterday @$4.12
As far as the Safeway prices, I just googled it Safeway ad pulled,it up and there it is
Agreed that a lot of people in this forum are laughing at Trump. That’s what makes it so much fun for me to post here.
It sounds to me like the dumb ones are the contracts people for the city. Inability to write a contract that protects both the city from paying more than they need to if prices don't rise and also protects the contractor from taking it in the shorts if they underestimate the unknown WRT possible price increases.
You said that eggs were $3.43 / dozen up above, it's already jumped $0.69 in a few hours? Inflation is out of control!
Agree. I also love it that you post here. Saves us all a lot of energy trying to research where you clowns get your "news". You give us a front row seat - for nothing!😂
That's all I have to say about that
How would the US even know the Mexican troops orders? So there at the border. Until there is some verifiable data of arrests or seizures or whatever it might mean zero, probably means next to zero.
you forgot Blue Cucks, Northern Nanny State and Trudeau's Twats.
Geezus, you're both dolts.
Egg prices recently had nothing to do with who was in office, HPAI that ran rampant through egg farms and forced mass culling was the reason.
6-8 weeks to get new layers in, which is about how long its been, and egg prices will get back to normal.
Just did a little bit of research, and it looks like the market for eggs is extremely localized. Most are laid, processed, packaged, sold, and eaten within a couple hundred miles. Most are a matter of days (2-5) from hen to shelf.
So, when a farm has to purge all of the hens, nearly all of the supply impact is in the local area. Stores can make up for it by trucking them in from a little farther away, but the cost of that rises pretty quickly, and escalated even more if multiple farms get wiped out.
So, as far as eggs go...there really isn't a national market or a national measure. It's local to possibly regional. Kind of explains why Flat and Uber are paying $3-4 a dozen and I'm paying 8. I think 3 farms near me have been purged - one of them a couple of times. You guys have maybe avoided that.
There's also no doubt some profiteering going on, using the news as an excuse to add a bit extra to the price of a dozen
You are correct, but most of these egg farms are smaller; I don't personally believe there is much if any profiteering going on. They may hold prices higher a little bit longer to offset the losses, but having met with and worked with these people I don't think that's their business model.
That being said, there are some very large, corporate farms that I could see jacking prices up to take advantage, but isn't that just supply and demand? I'm talking about 10-20 percent, not the $10/ dz in the area's worst hit (like SE and other parts of WA).
I think the price manipulation will be more tied to the distributors and the grocery stores than to the typical farm...and more to the corporate farms than to the private ones. The closer you get to the producers, the less they can usually afford to sit on stock - they just need to get paid.
It's pretty clear FLAT mentioned that VERY cause in his third paragraph.
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I guess that WAS pretty far down to notice. Geezus. Taihtsat
This article and video (below) from yesterday(?) just kills me. Customers lining up outside Costco to buy eggs. Customers literally loading their carts with cases of eggs. Anybody tell them that the US does not get its eggs from China, Mexico or Canada? Our collective IQ in America is so low. Lemmings are more intelligent.
And how many f-ing eggs do these people eat? And they do go bad eventually I believe. I stopped in at Winco yesterday. Eggs were definitely low in quantity but not cleaned out. Limit of one, I think they were 18 packs. I only eat egg whites for health reasons - these people do know that one egg has 100% of your daily cholesterol, right? - and grabbed a "carton". Price was about the usual, maybe up a bit, and again low supply but not cleaned out. Didn't bother to check the price on "real" eggs.
My guess is not many eggs. Most of these people probably regularly chow down on a food source that has a nearly unlimited shelf life (think twinkies and pop tarts) and when hysteria clears and their fear of not being able to make a healthy three egg omelette for breakfast every morning subsides, they will probably be throwing out 10 dozen eggs that have spoiled 😂
And, there's proof of concept. My wife shopped at Winco on Sunday and said eggs were $8.25. Not actually sure if that was for a dozen or for 18, but either way it's more than usual. If yours were normal price 80-some miles up the road, then the local-ness of the price impact is pretty much confirmed.
