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Trump Concession Over Military Drills Blindsides Many South Koreans
The Trump-Kim meeting was initially greeted with relief in South Korea. Then Mr. Trump delivered a shocker: an end to joint military drills.
A Trade Update
We all have heard or read or watched the game being played with international trade…….BAM! Trump has levied tariffs on international steel ans aluminum….and then the president goes to the G7 and blows up everything…..
First floated the idea of scrapping all tariffs……
President Trump reportedly asked world leaders at the Group of Seven Summit on Friday to consider “no tariffs” at all amid growing tensions over the administration’s trade moves.
Politico, citing officials who listened and took notes of the discussions, reported that Trump told assembled world leaders that “we should at least consider no tariffs, no barriers — scrapping all of it.”
(thehill.com)
Did I miss something?
After saying that nugget……Trump threatens to end ALL trade……
Leaving the G7 summit on Saturday, President Trump said that the U.S. might end all trade with America’s closest allies if those countries don’t submit to his demands over reduced trade barriers. Trump also confirmed that he had told the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Canada, and Italy that there should be no tariffs between them and the U.S. of any kind. Whether Trump’s characteristically hyperbolic threat, or overarching proposal, will be taken seriously is another matter.
Referring to what he called “ridiculous and unfair” tariffs on U.S. imports, Trump said, “It’s going to stop — or we’ll stop trading with them. And that’s a very profitable answer, if we have to do it.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/trump-threatens-to-end-all-trade-with-allies.html
Okay what part of any of that sounds like something that would be taught at the Wharton school?
Why did he waste time pissing everybody off?
BTW just a reminder where the trade goes here in the US….

Then there was some good news (at least for me)….
Before I begin let me say…..my more Right leaning brethren have accused me of hating our president, Donald J. Trump. They are mistaken I may dislike the man but I hate very few people.
With that said there are a few policies that Trump espoused that I could agree with….some of his campaign thoughts on war and foreign policy and a few domestic things…the problem is that when he became president he back peddled on the ones I liked….that fed my dislike.
Everyone knows about the trade war that Trump is about to start with the rest of the world, right? Well he has made a statement that I fully agree with….he has said that he wants to ban German luxury cars.
President Donald Trump is hoping to effectively ban sales of Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and other German cars, according to reports from a German magazine.
A report in WirtschaftsWoche cites unnamed diplomatic sources who say Trump told French president Emmanuel Macron he would maintain his trade policy “until no Mercedes models rolled on Fifth Avenue in New York.” The trade policy would seemingly affect any German automaker, though, putting sales of Porsche and Volkswagen (and its Audi luxury division) at risk as well as Daimler.
Trump has long held a hardline position toward German automakers. Last January, he underscored this in comments that appeared in the German magazine Bild.
“When you walk down Fifth Avenue, everybody has a Mercedes-Benz parked in front of his house,” Trump said, according to a Wall Street Journal translation of the comments. “You were very unfair to the U.S.A. It isn’t mutual. How many Chevrolets do you see in Germany? Not many, maybe none, you don’t see anything at all over there. It’s a one-way street.”
(yahoo news)
This will not sit well with the pretentious twats that own one of these cars….I say let these self-centered slugs buy American.
Since I am an Italian sports car enthusiast, Ferrari, Maserati, Alfas I cannot disagree or fault Trump for his vendetta against the Germans.
Let me leave you with a small joke…..
What is the difference between a porcupine and a BMW?
A porcupine has all the PRICKS on the outside.
(rim shot)
Not to worry if you are wealthy enough for one of their pieces of scrap metal then you will find a way around the ban…..they always do. Their money will buy lots of privilege.
More bad news about these new tariffs….economist say that the dollars saved by people because of the tax cuts will be taken away because of increase in prices…….
Your trade moment is done….I return you to your regular reading habits….
Be well, be safe…..chuq
B-roll: Giving Madagascar’s child domestic workers a second chance
In Madagascar, driven by poverty and lack of opportunity, many children work as domestic workers in conditions that can be dangerous for their health and safety. A project of the International Labour Organization aims to reduce the number of children in domestic work through awareness-raising and skills training.
Tuesday Open Thread | The Evil from this Administration-IMMIGRATION
“The evil never stops with this group. As I have said before, The KKKeebler Elf is getting to fulfill all of his White Supremacist Fantasies. He will NEVER resign. He’s enjoying being cruel to the non-White masses.”
This tweet from Oliver Willis
People on the left need to get it through their skulls we’re opposing evil. It’s not just a set of polite ideas to be calmly debated. It is evil.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 9, 2018
Is ABSOLUTELY ON POINT.
The story behind this tweet:
Pizza delivery man nabbed by ICE, Pablo Villavicencio, gets deportation order put on hold
https://t.co/KSZfTnbtdD pic.twitter.com/eChipHlGsG— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) June 9, 2018
This father is NOT a criminal. He wasn’t swept up doing criminal activity.
He went, ON HIS JOB, to deliver pizza to an Army Base, AND SOMEONE CALLED ICE ON HIM.
He.was.doing.his.phucking.JOB.
And, some evil azz muthaphucka called ICE on him.
The restaurants in the area are fighting back – not only fighting to bring this father home, but refusing to deliver to the Army Base until he is let loose by ICE.
Here is the latest in him:
Federal judge to ICE: The pizza deliveryman stays here https://t.co/G2pwqbl9Dk
— David Beard (@dabeard) June 10, 2018
I am sorry that this is the most positive story I have.
I, like, Oliver Willis, want folks to understand what we’re fighting against. Those who voted for Dolt45 are complicit in what is being done in the name of the United States of America.
In my last immigration post, I told you, that the OFFICIAL POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS TO RIP CHILDREN AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS.
And, I want to make this clear:
This is NOT just those people that are coming here illegally.
This is happening to people ATTEMPTING TO GO THROUGH THE LEGAL ASYLUM PROCESS.
The blood is on those who voted for Dolt45.
The damage to these children and their families is on those who voted for Dolt45.
I will say this again:
The simplicity of the evil of this cuts through the bullshyt 
A public defender in McAllen says some migrants are told their kids are going to be taken away briefly to bathe, and then it dawns on them hours later they aren’t coming back
— Liz Goodwin (@lizcgoodwin) June 10, 2018
A new “Trail of Tears ‘…..
A six year old boy from Honduras remembers watching his dad be led away from him in handcuffs, the last time he saw him. His eight year old foster sibling remembers his mom crying and yelling as they were separated https://t.co/y2YXMhYMt7
— Liz Goodwin (@lizcgoodwin) June 10, 2018
Here is some of the damage. Please spread the word as to what’s being done in this country:
A family was separated at the border, and this distraught father took his own life
June 9 at 7:00 AM
A Honduran father separated from his wife and child suffered a breakdown at a Texas jail and killed himself in a padded cell last month, according to Border Patrol agents and an incident report filed by sheriff’s deputies.
The death of Marco Antonio Muñoz, 39, has not been publicly disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security, and did not appear in any local news accounts. But according to a copy of a sheriff’s department report obtained by The Washington Post, Muñoz was found on the floor of his cell May 13 in a pool of blood with an item of clothing twisted around his neck.
Starr County sheriff’s deputies recorded the incident as a “suicide in custody.”
ICE is torturing and killing detainees by withholding medical care. When the prisoner is in grave condition, then they are hospitalized and released from custody so when they die they are not listed as a death in ICE custody.https://t.co/o1D902U94V
— Facts Do Matter (@WilDonnelly) June 9, 2018
‘They just took them?’ Frantic parents separated from their kids fill courts on the border https://t.co/zLlh7mrntu
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) June 10, 2018
I ask you…what could go wrong, with putting people who are here illegally WITH HARDENED CRIMINALS?
*jumps up and down screaming* “U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 ICE detainees…in the first large-scale use of federal prisons to hold detainees amid a Trump admin. crackdown on people entering the country illegally.” https://t.co/P067qZeT6s
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) June 7, 2018
Chris Hayes
Verified account @chrislhayesYesterday DOJ was sending around an opinion in which they managed to deport a woman who was kidnapped by rebels along with her husband, forced to watch as they made her husband dig his own grave and then murder him. They then made her their servant.
3:58 PM – 7 Jun 2018Chris Hayes
Verified account @chrislhayesAn immigration judge found that she had an asylum claim and could stay in the US, country but Sessions’ DOJ said she was guilty of material support for terrorism because HER FORCED LABOR FOR THE REBELS THAT KIDNAPPED HER AND MURDERED HER HUSBAND COUNTED AS MATERIAL SUPPORT.
3:58 PM – 7 Jun 2018Chris Hayes
Verified account @chrislhayesSo now they can deport her. Back to a country where said rebels now run the government.
3:58 PM – 7 Jun 2018
THREAD
A constituent of @RepDaveBrat wrote to him expressing her anger at the Trump administration’s family separation policy.
The letter she got back is extremely revealing.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 8, 2018
BOTTOM LINE:
It is infuriating that the Trump administration has created this policy, even announced it and speechified about it and bragged about it, and now it and its allies, faced with the sheer moral revulsion in response, want to pretend it doesn’t exist.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 8, 2018
This poor child
An Iowa DREAMER high school student, who never knew any country but America, was forced to go to Mexico. The kind of story that makes GOPrs cheer.
Three weeks later he was dead. Mexican gangsters found out who he was. And slit his throat.
What’s sad: so many GOPrs wont care.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 8, 2018
I have more stories. Just as horrible. Just as rotten. Just as evil.
Either you believe that this is ok, or you believe it’s evil. There is no in between. There is no rationalization which makes the pain that is going on acceptable. We have nothing to discuss.
As a human being, you can’t be ok with this. And, if you aren’t ok with this, then you have to tell people what’s going on. Not everyone is as in tune with political happenings. But, people are parents. Have been the child of someone. Ask them to explain how this is ok. How taking away children from their parents is ok. Ask them to explain and reason it in English.
Don’t let them tell the lie.
THIS.DID. NOT.HAPPEN. UNDER. OBAMA. OR. ANY.OTHER.AMERICAN . PRESIDENT.
THIS is a policy created by Dolt45 and Attorney General White Citizens Council. Remember, it was first proposed by ‘ Aint Shyt’ John Kelly when he was over DHS.
The latest horror just came down yesterday.
THREAD
Just out from DOJ: Jeff Sessions just unilaterally overturned precedent for victims of violence, including women abused by their partners, to get asylum. Hard to understate impact here https://t.co/LLcDVsjsmW
— Elise Foley (@elisefoley) June 11, 2018
The evil never stops with this group. As I have said before, The KKKeebler Elf is getting to fulfill all of his White Supremacist Fantasies. He will NEVER resign. He’s enjoying being cruel to the non-White masses.
German states recall thousands of fipronil-contaminated eggs

The German government has recalled thousands of eggs contaminated with the chemical fipronil. The news comes less than a year after the insecticide found its way into millions of eggs in the Netherlands.
Op-Ed Columnist: First They Came for the Migrants
Authoritarianism can happen here. For some, it already has.
The G-7 Fiasco: It’s Time to Isolate Donald Trump
The G-7 summit once again made it clear that U.S. President Donald Trump is intent on treating America’s allies worse than its enemies. Europe must draw the consequences and seek to isolate Trump on the international stage.
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