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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • the lobby group for JM Smucker and other big food manufacturers warned against “overly broad and sweeping tariffs” that might end up making it more expensive to import ingredients like cocoa, which are not made in the US.

    “I don’t necessarily want the current administration to say, well, we’ll impose a tariff,” Tom Madrecki, the group’s vice president of supply chain resiliency, said at a recent forum about tariffs, hosted by Farmers for Free Trade.

    “It’s this careful balance between yes, I want you to take an America First trade policy and action to counter unfair trade policies abroad… but maybe not quite in that way.”

    If you’re going to demand tariffs that increase prices to harm competition but not yourself, go fuck yourselves. The only thing that benefits is the company’s profit margins, while consumers are forced to pay more because you raise your own prices to match.









  • Lutnick said the move could replace the existing EB-5 program, which allows immigrant investors to acquire green cards by investing a certain amount toward a business in the US.

    This wouldn’t be the worst idea if it went to social programs or is used to provide support to other citizens.

    Asked by a reporter if participants would need to invest a certain amount of money to qualify for a gold card, Lutnick responded “yeah, exactly” but suggested that funds for the visa might be paid directly to the government.

    Who will invest it in a range of smaller businesses… right?

    “They can come to America. The president can give them a green card, and they can invest in America, and we can use that money to reduce our deficit,” he added.

    And that’s exactly what I expected instead. Well done. Reduce the deficit caused by lining oligarch coffers with taxpayer funds, skim a cool million or ten to go golfing on your own property, and shovel the rest into the military complex.

    From a pay-to-win program intended to support the country right into a pay-to-win program to support the riches of those running it. A clear improvement /s





  • Trump, in an executive order: “The Government’s most solemn responsibility is to protect its citizens from abhorrent acts, and my Administration will not tolerate efforts to stymie and eviscerate the laws that authorize capital punishment against those who commit horrible acts of violence against American citizens.”

    Abhorrent acts like denying over 1/4 of healthcare coverage claims? Abhorrent acts like demanding surgeons scrub out and immediately call back the insurer to justify the surgery that they were in the middle of performing?

    No, of course not.