Trumps Presidency 2025

[LaceyLou]

11 minutes ago, oblong said:

But whose problem is that to solve? Should people just volunteer to work for a lower wage to help a brother out?  The issue is we had an aging workforce that saw an opportunity during COVID to either retire or not bother with that second job.  Baby boomers are reaching retirement age.  
 

Also a lot of low wage workers died of COVID or are still dealing with the after effects... a lot of people are looking at these jobs and thinking it's not worth the risk.

[chasfh]

****ing A. 

 

[LaceyLou]

16 minutes ago, chasfh said:

****ing A. 

 

And he wonders why people call him and Drumpf Nazis? 

[smr-nj]

39 minutes ago, chasfh said:

****ing A. 

 

That he did the hosting duties for this show  is, imo, so terribly wrong.  That Stephen Miller was his guest is despicable.  
Good lord.  
We are staring into the abyss.

[gehringer_2]

6 hours ago, pfife said:

My understanding is that he can only implemebt tarrifs with a pretext of an emergency.   Apparently his friend Bolsonaro getting prosecuted is an emergency.

As I understand it, Congress voted to stop the clock on the emergency timer. That is the reason Trump is still in business with the tariffs.  It's one thing to violate the constitution, it will quite another if the courts ultimately decide Congress or the exec can re-decide what Time is.

[mtutiger]

6 hours ago, oblong said:

I'm so tired of the "spoiled" and "lazy" argument.

It's about choice and opportunity.  We saw it during covid when places couldn't find workers and some nutjob would get on TV and whine "Nobody wants to work anymore".  No.  Nobody wants to work for you.  Compete for employees like you compete for customers.  Nobody is entitled to a workforce.

 

It's also just attrition.... the boomers are retiring, and there are less of us than there are any of us.

Am sympathetic to farmers, especially given where we live. They are getting hammered right now and are pissed.... politically, you see it with the Iowa special elections, for instance. But it was very very predictable nonetheless.

[oblong]

53 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

It's also just attrition.... the boomers are retiring, and there are less of us than there are any of us.

Am sympathetic to farmers, especially given where we live. They are getting hammered right now and are pissed.... politically, you see it with the Iowa special elections, for instance. But it was very very predictable nonetheless.

I don’t take any glee in their suffering either, even though they “asked for it”.  We need food. 

[Screwball]

2 hours ago, mtutiger said:

It's also just attrition.... the boomers are retiring, and there are less of us than there are any of us.

Am sympathetic to farmers, especially given where we live. They are getting hammered right now and are pissed.... politically, you see it with the Iowa special elections, for instance. But it was very very predictable nonetheless.

Just a report from the ground in farm county not far from Michigan. We haven't had rain since Moby **** was a minnow, and I'm sure lots will get rotted on the vine and will vever find its way to Toledo and southern Michigan.

On top of everything else.

Edited Tuesday at 01:29 AM by Screwball

[mtutiger]

49 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Just a report from the ground in farm county not far from Michigan. We haven't had rain since Moby **** was a minnow, and I'm sure lots will get rotted on the vine and will vever find its way to Toledo and southern Michigan.

On top of everything else.

https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2025/09/usda-again-increases-corn-planted-acreage-production/

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Reuters’ Karl Plume reported that “U.S. farmers will reap a record corn crop this autumn, eclipsing the previous record set two years ago by nearly 1.5 billion bushels after harvesting their largest acreage in 92 years, the Department of Agriculture said on Friday.”

“The USDA lowered its corn yield forecast on Friday but total production rose as it increased its estimate for how many acres will be harvested. In August it surprised grain traders with a large acreage increase,” Plume reported. “…The USDA raised its 2025 U.S. corn production estimate to a record 16.814 billion bushels. It projected a record average yield of 186.7 bushels per acre, down from 188.8 bushels per acre in August. Both figures were above analysts’ expectations.”

“The grain glut is likely to weigh on the farm economy. U.S. growers have already been struggling with low crop prices and rising costs for inputs such as fertilizer and seeds. Cash crop receipts adjusted for inflation are forecast at the lowest level since 2007,” Plume reported. “Heftier supplies, however, would benefit livestock producers that use the crop for feed, along with ethanol producers.”

The weather has been really dry recently in the Midwest, but it's a bumper crop for corn and (pretty sure) for soybeans as well.... a lot of economic factors at play, article mentions inputs but tariffs and just the ability to sell the product is a big one (soybeans has gotten a lot of attention in this regard re. China)

[Deleterious]

Long but good read about how much trouble the soybean farmers are in.  

Soybeans Without a Buyer: The Export Gap Hurting U.S. Farms

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As a result, China currently has zero new crop export orders for U.S. soybeans on the books for MY 2025/26. This time of year, and in years in which trade disputes were a non-issue, China has typically ordered an average of 14% of its anticipated soybean purchases from the U.S. before soybean harvest begins in the Heartland, with a high of 27% ordered going into MY 2022/23. Other countries have not made up the difference either, with new crop sales down 81% from the five-year average.

 

[CMRivdogs]

15 hours ago, mtutiger said:

It's also just attrition.... the boomers are retiring, and there are less of us than there are any of us.

Am sympathetic to farmers, especially given where we live. They are getting hammered right now and are pissed.... politically, you see it with the Iowa special elections, for instance. But it was very very predictable nonetheless.

Yet I'm still seeing Winsome signs (Trumpublican candidate for governor) along rural highways. It's in their DNA

[romad1]

8 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Yet I'm still seeing Winsome signs (Trumpublican candidate for governor) along rural highways. It's in their DNA

And they have funding

[Edman85]

How does the Vice President have time to guest host a podcast on a whim?

[Tigermojo]

2 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

How does the Vice President have time to guest host a podcast on a whim?

It was tough but they managed to get someone to carry Trump's golf clubs.

[romad1]

say what?

 

[Tigermojo]

44 minutes ago, romad1 said:

say what?

 

Prince Andrew approves.

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

say what?

 

Are they still maintaining the fiction that the victims were young women? Or, even worse, "underage women"? I sense that the apparent attempt to dehorrify the crimes in the service of one man is purposeful.

[pfife]

condolences to lolic and archief

 

[gehringer_2]

27 minutes ago, pfife said:

condolences to lolic and archief

 

Generally in America, money talks louder than ideology and insurers know that vaccinated people are going to cost them less. 

[smr-nj]

11 hours ago, chasfh said:

Are they still maintaining the fiction that the victims were young women? Or, even worse, "underage women"? I sense that the apparent attempt to dehorrify the crimes in the service of one man is purposeful.

When I see them referred with that phrase, I want to jump through my screen and scream at them. 
Children.  
They were groomed. And they were children.

I’m tired of being this angry. Where have the normal people gone in this government? 
 

Trying to exist in this kakistocracy becomes more impossible and more exhausting every day.

[mtutiger]

20 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Yet I'm still seeing Winsome signs (Trumpublican candidate for governor) along rural highways. It's in their DNA

I don't doubt it. But it doesn't take many disillusioned folks to make a political impact either

[pfife]

7 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Generally in America, money talks louder than ideology and insurers know that vaccinated people are going to cost them less. 

It would be better if they saw the same value in other forms of prevention but i agree with you here!

[romad1]

So, the mindless goons who did the arrests and damaged US/SK relations were just following orders to arrest and deport a quota of people. 

 

[smr-nj]

Who is not recognizing that Stephen Miller is a major driving force in all this?  

[chasfh]

11 minutes ago, romad1 said:

So, the mindless goons who did the arrests and damaged US/SK relations were just following orders to arrest and deport a quota of people. 

 

I do believe this to be true, although to be fair, this is an attorney's allegation, not an ICE agent's confession.

Edited Wednesday at 01:52 PM by chasfh