A trade deal like nobody has ever seen before
It has just been announced that the U.S. concluded a trade agreement with Japan that would put 15% tariffs on all goods imported from one of the nation's key trade partners. The President said that "Japan will open their Country to Trade including Cars and Trucks, Rice and certain other Agricultural Products and other things." He added that Japan would invest $550 billion in the U.S. "which will receive 90% of the Profits." The deal will include "reciprocal tariffs" of 15%.
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator, appeared to confirm the deal in a post on X. Japan is the world's fourth largest economy. U.S. listed shares of Japanese automakers including Toyota and Honda surged on the news.
But that wasn't all:
President Trump meets with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the Oval Office yesterday. Photo: Yuri Gripas/Abaca via Getty Images
President Trump announced a trade deal with the Philippines after meeting with the country's president at the White House yesterday. The tariff rate for goods imported into the U.S. from both the Philippines and Indonesia will be 19%. In Trumpian fashion, the President posted: "It was a beautiful visit, and we concluded our Trade Deal, whereby the Philippines is going OPEN MARKET with the United States, and ZERO Tariffs," Mr. Trump wrote. " The Philippines will pay a 19% Tariff. In addition, we will work together Militarily. It was a Great Honor to be with the President. He is Highly Respected in his Country, as he should be. He is also a very good, and tough, negotiator. We extend our warmest regards to the wonderful people of The Philippines!"
In other news:
Speaker Mike Johnson sent House members home early for summer recess rather than entertaining a democrat plot to have everyone vote on releasing the Epstein files.to avoid holding votes on whether to release files related to Epstein. Once again Jeffries was foiled.
An Appellate Court ruled that the Trump administration can move forward with ending "temporary deportation protections" for thousands of Afghan and Cameroon nationals.
The Justice Department says it had reached out to Ghislaine Maxwell who’s in prison for sex trafficking, to address lingering questions about the case. A top DOJ official will be meeting with her. How many times have they tried to get a deal from her?
A criminal referral involving the Russia hoax has been presented to the DOJ.
The US Olympics Committee has issued a ruling barring athletes from female competition.
Louisville Ky will drop its sanctuary city status.
An illegal immigrant has been arrested for holding another illegal immigrant captive.
Volodymyr Zelensky moved to weaken anticorruption agencies, and he now faces protests.
IDF forces raided a World Health Organization building in Gaza. Gee, they wouldn't hide Hamas fighters, would they?
In Iran, weeks of mysterious fires at oil refineries have authorities searching for saboteurs.
The U.S. said it would withdraw from the United Nations’ cultural organization.
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It is a busy news morning between key trade deals and AI plans.
That seems to be a common thing among human traffickers. And for some reason the left and Democrats are fighting to keep them in the country.
It is big business.
And for some reason the left and Democrats are fighting to keep them in the country.
Well, they need somebody to vote for the insanity.
According to the crackhead, who else is going to clean hotels and do all the menial work.
And it seems that 50 million are required.
Do you think any of them have been not picking lettuce and maybe sucking up Medicaid in states like California?
If, as the D's want, these illegals, doing the menial work, get amnesty, do they actually think that, as they are now considered citizens, they will continue the menial work? Not hardly.
Amnesty does not make them citizens.
Yeah, I was trying to figure out how that actually works, amnesty. But, anyway, do you think they would continue doing the menial jobs?
Usually, "amnesty" involves them getting some sort of permit that enables them to work in the US legally.
To your point, that does change the economics of the situation. Would they continue to do menial jobs? I think probably. If they were skilled labor they'd probably still be in Mexico or Honduras or wherever they came from. It doesn't seem likely you leave an electrician job to pick lettuce 1500 miles away.
The second question I think you're asking is whether or not they would still do those jobs at that wage. I'm guessing probably not. It seems like the tax burden alone would change the dynamic pretty substantially. That doesn't mention the additional opportunities it might open for those people.
I just struggle with the idea that we somehow don't want people who are willing to work like dogs for a chance to make a better life for their kids, especially when our own kids can't manage to find the motivation or emotional fortitude to work in the air conditioning.
Which means they are no longer exploitable labor willing to work sub minimum wage jobs and others without legal protections. Which means another group of exploitable labor is allowed in take their place.
Yes.
I'm not sure that necessarily follows.
That's what happened after the last amnesty. Either those jobs will have to pay more and become legal which negates the economic benefit the migrants supposedly bring to the table or new illegal migrants come in and serve as exploited labor.
Fair point.
Or they get automated.
Looking at this another way, we constantly see our left leaning friends advocate for things like $15 or $20 minimum wage. They ignore completely the fact that the only reason many of those jobs exist is because they're cheap enough that it doesn't make sense to buy (or invent) machines to do them. There isn't very much going on in the average fast food place that couldn't have been automated 30 years ago if the economics made sense.
As long as you're fine with welfare or universal basic income its all good.
Why would that be a prerequisite?
You have to understand, it is everybody's fault but their own that the worthless takers need to be taken care of. It is the universal cry of the failures of the world that the rich somehow stole their money.
“According to the crackhead, who else is going to clean hotels and do all the menial work.”
It’s not only that, illegals are needed to wipe democrat asses and redistricting. It’s no wonder illegals are the people dem politicians care most about.
The part of this I don't understand it how people confuse the folks you're describing who want to raise your taxes to pay of their student loans and subsidize their race/gender/intersectionality/seize the means of production podcast with the immigrant working the leaf blower 12 hours/day.
The Obama response:
“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, we typically refrain from responding to the ongoing stream of falsehoods and distractions coming from this White House."
Then as if on que, Barry was proven wrong
Wonder how he's going to explain this off.
Question of the day:
How much danger does one put themselves in by exposing the deep state at the highest level?
Better question, why are some folk gullible enough to believe in a 'deep state' that they can't define and can't prove exists?
Do you recall the recent ICE operation at the Marijuana farm in California? Violent protestors showed up at almost the same time as ICE agents.
Who tipped them off?
The answer (as Bob Dylan once said) is blowing in the wind.
[✘] and can't prove exists?
Anonymous was writing essays about "the resistance" within government in the New York Times almost 10 years ago. Why would anyone need to prove it again?
The answer certainly isn't "the deep state".
Conspiracy theorists are too funny. Dumb as rocks, but hilarious.
"Deep state" means whatever the Trump cult wants it to mean.
Well probably because that 'proved' nothing. You can't even define it, I mean, what is it? Is it an actual coordinated group that secretly meet and plan actions? What levels of government do they hold? How has such a supposedly coordinated group been able to avoid anyone from identifying even a SINGLE member? How have they avoided their information from being leaked? If it's supposedly run by Democrats, how are they SO good at being the hidden deep state while being SO bad at winning elections of late?
Well, I won't bother going on about how monumentally stupid the idea of a deep state is or how only complete half-wits who are apparently incapable of thinking it all the way through would believe in such a moronic conspiracy theory. It would be about the same as wasting time arguing about who is more powerful, Gandalf or Darth Vader. Or perhaps whether Darth Vader runs the deep state, just as stupid and just as fictional.
I never believed in any Russian hoax. I believed that Putin directed his intelligence officers to hack the DNC and release Democrat emails to help Trump win the election in 2016 which they did.
I believe the nearly 1,000-page report, the fifth and final one from the Republican-led Senate intelligence committee on the Russia investigation, that details how Russia launched " an aggressive effort to interfere in the election on Trump’s behalf . It says the Trump campaign chairman had regular contact with a Russian intelligence officer and says other Trump associates were eager to exploit the Kremlin’s aid, particularly by maximizing the impact of the disclosure of Democratic emails hacked by Russian intelligence officers."
Senate panel finds Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election | PBS News
But I've never believed in any "Russia hoax" and neither have most on the left, they know what Russia did. It's just rather surprising and a little sad that Republicans don't seem to care. I guess I shouldn't really be surprised anymore at the actions of half-witted scumbags who elected a convicted felon and admitted sexual predator into the highest office in the nation.
Let's be honest. It had to be someone in government.
It means people like Brennan, Comey and Milley. Scum who are willing to serve lefty ideologues.
That's your assumption, and a very poor one at that. There are any number of people who could have blown the whistle on that ICE raid. Perhaps it was someone within the raid itself that didn't like the way ICE was being used. The fact is you're making a HUGE leap for zero reason.
Occam's razor essentially disproves the moronic conspiracy theory of "the deep state". The complex nature of such a group and the fact that it's NEVER been exposed, no documents, no former members coming out to tell all, there is FAR more evidence for bigfoot than there is for the deep state.
"Deep state" is really just a catch all for anything the right doesnt approve of.
It's the bogey man that they blame for anything that doesn't go their way. If a court case doesn't go their way? Deep State! If an election doesn't go their way? Deep State! If one of their conservative heroes gets exposed for wrongdoing? Deep State! If their Dear Leader is accused and convicted of multiple felonies? Deep State! It's how low IQ losers deal with reality.
And here I thought the low IQ losers dealt with reality by declaring "We lost the 2024 election because of a messaging issue"
They must have learned that from the left usage of the term racist (and now fascist and Nazi) anytime they don't agree with what someone on the right says.
While low IQ's aren't mutually exclusive, I think someone who has to invent a fictional cabal of secret government officials to get their heads around reality wins the race to the bottom. Both could certainly do with some self-reflection.
"A criminal referral involving the Russia hoax has been presented to the DOJ."
Tulsi is bringing all the receipts, documents, files, etc., to the party. Going to be an interesting dog days of summer for the democrat curs. The Dem dummies should be glad that Speaker Johnson is sparing them from another embarrassment with the Epstein files.
The DOJ has had that information for several months now and it's likely to have been examined in great detail. If there was any damning information on Trump in there, I doubt that it would have brought up earlier by Bondi. I have a feeling Trump is purposefully setting up the lefties for another humiliation.
See if you can understand this -
Unlike those from the extremists sides (either hang the traitors now or vigorously defending and denying) I'm more than content to wait until an investigation is completed and any (if there are) court trials are completed. Until then, with the limited information any of us outside of the process actually have and the bias of main-stream media, all we have really are opinions.
The only real wish in this that I have is that it be as transparent as it can be, but knowing how Washington operates I doubt it will be so.
Do you think there is any chance there would be a fair investigation and/or trial coming out of the Trump administration? Trump has already said, specifically , that Obama is guilty of treason. Who needs an investigation or fair trial when the supreme leader has decreed ?
As the last line of my post states, I would wish for an open and transparent investigation as possible but knowing how Washington operates I don't expect it. What Trump says has no more weight than the constant defending and denying performed by the left does.
In the Trump administration it has all the weight.
They did the same fucking thing with Trump as do you daily. Give us a break, please
No john, here is what happened:
This week the Director of National Intelligence made a discovery. It seems that one or more or all of our intelligence agencies knew from Dutch Intelligence sources that there was no Russia collusion. It was known to John Brennan & James Clapper and even likely known to the FBI. They left behind some notes on when they prepared the daily briefing for then president Obama, but Obama didn't want to hear it. Instead he had Brennan present a much different report that was more consistent with the Steele Dossier that the Clinton campaign created which they also knew about via the same Dutch intelligence.
All of which led to the highly partisan Mueller investigation which lasted 22 months and cost $40 million and couldn't find Russia colluding with Trump. It did hurt a lot of people, ruined careers, violated civil rights of individuals and arguably obstructed most of Trump's first term.
If what we are getting from the Director of National Intelligence turns out to be true, it will be a serious matter for the American people. Obama will have immunity, but I believe that where others failed to derail the Trump candidacy in 2016, Obama succeeded in slowing down the Trump agenda once he became President.
May history paint Obama as the evil man he was.
The Mueller investigation began because Trump fired Comey after demanding that the head of the FBI pledge his personal loyalty to Trump. Comey said no and Trump fired him shortly thereafter. Comey believed, as the did Mueller later, that Trump was obstructing justice. That is why the Mueller investigation was ordered by Rod Rosenstein.
Comey lied to Trump and said he wasn't investigating him and framed Michael Flynn so that nobody would be aware of it. It was Comey who ran a BS investigation of Hillary Clinton and let her off. It was Comey who lied and leaked information.
He deserved to be fired.
That never should have triggered an investigation.
Michael Flynn is a flat out Q Anon conspiracy nut and traitor. Its telling that you have a kind word for that pos.
He was framed. Even Comey and Peter Strzok kind of admitted it.
Comey laughed about how easy it was to do it.
They had to get him out of the way to spy on Trump and they had to get Sessions out of the way to trigger the ridiculous Mueller probe.
They were the pieces of shit.
You arent just neck deep in conspiracy thinking, you are over your head in it.
I'm not the one in denial of FACTS.
Those men lied under oath. Both were up to their necks in wrongdoing.
Why hasnt Trump given Flynn a position in his new administration, even though Flynn badly wants one?
Even Trump knows Flynn is a nutcase.
What did the Republican Senate led investigation conclude?
Why do the MAGAites here refuse to ever reply to this? I post it often and yet they never seem to acknowledge an actual Republican investigation which completely contradicts their constant lies about a "Russia hoax". Perhaps they're just too immature to admit they've been wrong this whole time, or they're desperately trying to hide their move toward rightwing fascism by continuing to throw out nonsense arguments as their Deara Leader moves the nation closer to their hoped for Rightwing Christo fascist State or perhaps it will more closely resemble a Christian version of Iran. That seems to be what these miserable religious conservative bigots have been praying for.
He wasn't framed, he was caught in a lie. Trapped perhaps, but not framed.
The FACTS are that Flynn lied to the FBI and admitted to lying to the FBI and then plead guilty to lying to the FBI before ultimately being pardoned by the man who he lied for. Those are the FACTS.
Do you think they will carry out investigations in the same fashion we've seen from the Democrats?
Of course. Maybe they will make a prime time special about their findings with the help of a Hollywood producer.
Israel is a man?
Besides the fact that Israel is a man's name, what the fuck are you talking about? Flynn lied about his talks with Russia urging them not to retaliate to the sanctions imposed by Obama and to wait until his boss Trump was in the white house. Then his boss, Donald Trump, on whose behalf he was lying, pardoned him. Is this really too hard to follow?
He was trying to protect our ally Israel from anti-semites.
Is this really too hard to follow?
Lol.
Such horse shit. The main subject he was trying to push was to get Russia to hold off responding to the sanctions that Obama had put in place for meddling in our election. The secondary subject were negotiations that he also wasn't even supposed to be involved in regarding Israeli settlements. This had NOTHING to do with "protecting our ally from antisemites", it had everything to do with Israel expanding settlements into previously contested zones in violation of the United Nations Security Council resolution which condemned the building of the Israeli settlement.
Then, when Flynn got caught, he lied to the FBI about his conversations because he knew they violated the law. He's not a hero; he's just another in a long line of rightwing conservative liars who think they're above the law.
"U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has promised that more documents will be released on Wednesday (TODAY) to substantiate her allegation that former President Barack Obama “manufactured” evidence to suggest Russia helped Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election."
Tulsi Gabbard says ‘further documents’ to be released today proving ‘Obama coup’
She is not backing down!
She's in keeping with what the Democrats and the left kept shrieking - "Nobody is above the law".
That's right. They set that precedent, didn't they?
I think what they meant to say was "almost nobody is above the law!".
Oh they did. Now they are trying to get out of it.
Funny how they changed their tune when their actions are uncovered.
While I (like many others) wish for an end to the war in Gaza, IMO Hamas must be removed for the good of the people. Too many ignore what Hamas actually does and instead relies in media reports that are sympathetic to Hamas. To shed a little light (pictures are included in the link) ..
Final thoughts:
Only a few hours ago the Director of National Intelligence took questions from the media concerning the documents she has released involving the Russia hoax and the Obama administration. I noticed that CNN wasn't even covering it though I believe there is legitimate substance to the allegations. That leaves us with a few news outlets covering the story.
Tonight, my modern-day successor Bret Baier is going to replay his extensive interview with James Comey in 2018. Baier feels it worthwhile to look back at what Comey was saying back then.
For those interested Special Report can be seen on Fox News at 6:00 PM EST.
Last week a member thought I should have her ideas beaten into my head. I wonder if we can encourage people to get the FACTS. In the meantime, yours truly will continue to present the facts on NT.
"Good night and good luck."
I thought you were going to cut the comedy.
"Tonight, my modern-day successor Bret Baier ..."
Now there is one thing Trump has accomplished, elevating hubris low enough to be praised.