Trump 2.0: MAGAA

[UNI88]

Trump said foreign countries would ‘eat’ tariffs—but U.S. consumers and businesses will actually pay 75% at best

Goldman Sachs estimates U.S. consumers now shoulder two-thirds of President Trump’s new tariff costs, with more companies planning to pass them on in the future and foreign exporters refusing to “eat” the price hikes.
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Economist Elsie Peng wrote in a note yesterday seen by Fortune that Goldman believes exporters absorbed 14% of the costs of all tariffs in June, which will rise to 25% by October if the sanctions follow a similar trajectory to the price hikes administered by the Trump administration in his first term.

But the portion consumers can expect to pay is also on the rise. Peng noted that around 36% of the 2025 tariff costs were passed on to consumer prices after three months of implementation and around 67% were passed on after four months.
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One portion of the economy that intends to reduce its share is U.S. businesses. The Conference Board released its U.S. CEO Confidence report for the third quarter last week, which revealed 64% are certain they would be passing the price hike on to consumers, and a further 16% said they’re still considering.

[Bobcat]

Tariffs are awesome, I voted for this.

I do find it funny that the left is up in arms about a "tax" they love taxes when they are doing it

[BDKJMU]

FAKE NEWS!
Yesterday:

And:





https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/0 ... t-n2192708

Who does the DC Nat Guard report to? Were Pelosi and McConnell simultaneously denying guard assistance as they were calling for guard assistance?

Trump could have brought them in immediately. He saw what was happening and chose not to. Pence eventually did.

Pelosi’s culpability has thoroughly been debunked.

Pelosi wasn‘t calling for NG assistance at the same time she was denying it from Sund.

Pelosi‘s culpability hasn‘t been debunked.

[kalm]

SEATTLE — International imports through the ports of Seattle and Tacoma dropped by about a quarter last week, raising alarms among trade and business leaders about cascading impacts for Washington consumers and small businesses.
For the week ending July 25, the Northwest Seaport Alliance — which oversees both ports — reported a 25.9% year-over-year decline in imports, down 24.5% from the previous week. Ryan Calkins, alliance co-chair and Port of Seattle Commission president, said the sharp drop in shipping volume threatens local businesses that rely on steady two-way trade.

Less import traffic means fewer outbound shipping options for Washington exporters, he said, and retaliatory tariffs are squeezing already-thin profit margins.

“The real money maker for the shipping companies is all those containerized consumer good imports — the TVs and clothing and that kind of stuff that we import,” Calkins said. “When those are no longer moving, it's harder to export the agricultural goods that we specialize here in Washington.”

Calkins warned that tariffs will push prices up by as much as 20% for many goods.

“It's not paid by a Chinese company that makes TVs or a Brazilian company that exports bananas. It's paid by us,” he said. “All of those goods now have a 20% increase in cost at the border, and that's getting passed on through the wholesaler to the retailer and eventually to us. We're all going to feel that in our pocketbooks over the coming months.”

https://www.king5.com/article/news/loca ... uhy55agqb7

[Caribbean Hen]

SEATTLE — International imports through the ports of Seattle and Tacoma dropped by about a quarter last week, raising alarms among trade and business leaders about cascading impacts for Washington consumers and small businesses.
For the week ending July 25, the Northwest Seaport Alliance — which oversees both ports — reported a 25.9% year-over-year decline in imports, down 24.5% from the previous week. Ryan Calkins, alliance co-chair and Port of Seattle Commission president, said the sharp drop in shipping volume threatens local businesses that rely on steady two-way trade.

Less import traffic means fewer outbound shipping options for Washington exporters, he said, and retaliatory tariffs are squeezing already-thin profit margins.

“The real money maker for the shipping companies is all those containerized consumer good imports — the TVs and clothing and that kind of stuff that we import,” Calkins said. “When those are no longer moving, it's harder to export the agricultural goods that we specialize here in Washington.”

Calkins warned that tariffs will push prices up by as much as 20% for many goods.

“It's not paid by a Chinese company that makes TVs or a Brazilian company that exports bananas. It's paid by us,” he said. “All of those goods now have a 20% increase in cost at the border, and that's getting passed on through the wholesaler to the retailer and eventually to us. We're all going to feel that in our pocketbooks over the coming months.”

https://www.king5.com/article/news/loca ... uhy55agqb7

Didn’t they have a tsunami warning that could restrict port movements?

[kalm]

https://www.king5.com/article/news/loca ... uhy55agqb7

Didn’t they have a tsunami warning that could restrict port movements?

That was 2 weeks ago and had little effect in Puget Sound.

[kalm]

Who does the DC Nat Guard report to? Were Pelosi and McConnell simultaneously denying guard assistance as they were calling for guard assistance?

Trump could have brought them in immediately. He saw what was happening and chose not to. Pence eventually did.

Pelosi’s culpability has thoroughly been debunked.

Pelosi wasn‘t calling for NG assistance at the same time she was denying it from Sund.

Pelosi‘s culpability hasn‘t been debunked.

Only in MAGA News world.

The chain of command leading up to J6 was President, Sec Def, and Sec of the Army. Again, Trump’s claims about Pelosi were debunked.

But keep fighting that losing argument.

[BDKJMU]

Aside from the made up crisis of violence and his non-denial presser (roving bands kids on bicycles and motor bikes!) why didn’t he bring in the guard immediately on J6?

President Donald J. Trump’s big announcement today at his press conference—to which he showed up late—was that he is assuming control over the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department and deploying more than 100 agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and about 40 from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, along with officers from the Secret Service and the U.S. Marshals Service and members of the District of Columbia National Guard, “to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor, and worse.” He reiterated that officers would clear homeless encampments from the city.

In fact, statistics from the Department of Justice show that violent crime in the nation’s capital was at a 30-year low in 2024 and, according to Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), is down 26% this year compared to the same period last year. Former undersecretary of state and editor of Time magazine Richard Stengel noted that Washington is “not even in [the] top 10 dangerous cities in [the] U.S.” Meanwhile, legal analyst Asha Rangappa notes that FBI agents are not trained to patrol the streets, and that every one of them assigned to do that is not investigating foreign spies, foreign and domestic terrorists, or crimes like fraud, murder, corruption, and human trafficking.

If that was Trump’s big announcement, the big story seems to have been something different.

Trump’s performance at the press conference—an event for which his handlers would have made sure he was at the top of his game—made it clear that his mental deterioration is moving rapidly. He let Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and FBI director Kash Patel explain the actual plan, taking the microphone himself to describe a fake world in which he plays the role of hero, solving five wars, creating a booming economy, solving the border security others couldn’t, protecting Americans from a hellscape that exists only in his rhetoric.

The administration’s seizure of power is anything but imaginary. As Stengel noted, “Throughout history, autocrats use a false pretext to impose government control over local law enforcement as a prelude to a more national takeover. That’s far more dangerous than the situation he says he is fixing.” While Trump is mobilizing the National Guard under a pretext now, he memorably refused to mobilize it on January 6, 2021, to protect the lawmakers under siege in the U.S. Capitol as his supporters tried to stop the counting of the electoral votes that would make Democrat Joe Biden president.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heatherco ... medium=ios

Amazing what happens when you fudge the #s to make crime look far lower than it is..

In a report published in July, it was revealed that a D.C. police commander was recently suspended for falsifying data to improve the city's crime statistics.

The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in mid-May. That happened just a week after Pulliam filed an equal employment opportunity complaint against an assistant chief and the police union accused the department of deliberately falsifying crime data, according to three law enforcement sources familiar with the complaint.

The union claims police supervisors in the department manipulate crime data to make it appear violent crime has fallen considerably compared to last year.

According to sources, the conspiracy is widespread and essentially an unstated policy. The D.C. police union, which has been working to expose all this, says that multiple supervisors have been reclassifying crimes so that they don't show up in the reports.

“When our members respond to the scene of a felony offense where there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, inevitably there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up on that scene and direct those members to take a report for a lesser offense,” Fraternal Order of Police Chairman Gregg Pemberton said. “So, instead of taking a report for a shooting or a stabbing or a carjacking, they will order that officer to take a report for a theft or an injured person to the hospital or a felony assault, which is not the same type of classification.”

The police department's command staff is focusing on two categories in order to get the numbers to fall, Pemberton said: armed with a dangerous weapon and injured person to the hospital.

“When management officials are directing officers to take reports for felony assault, or if they're going back into police databases and changing offenses to felony assault, felony assault is not a category of crime that's listed on the department's daily crime stats,” Pemberton said. “It's also not something that's a requirement of the FBI's uniform crime reporting program. So, by changing criminal offenses from, for example, ADW bat or ADW gun to felony assault, that would avoid both the MPD and the FBI from reporting that as a part one or a felony offense.”

In other words, department leaders have been changing stabbings, shootings, and carjackings to lesser classifications like felony assault because then they will not show up in the daily crime statistics. Those crimes are also not required to be reported to the FBI, which is where most crime statistics are compiled nationwide.

All of this is deliberate.

“What we've heard through our members and through members of management that were willing to talk with the union is that this is a directive from the command staff, is that they wanna make sure that these classifications of these reports are adjusted over time to make sure that the overall crime stats stay down,” Pemberton said. “And this is deliberately done.”

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https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/08/11 ... f-n2192682

[BDKJMU]

Pelosi wasn‘t calling for NG assistance at the same time she was denying it from Sund.

Pelosi‘s culpability hasn‘t been debunked.

Only in MAGA News world.

The chain of command leading up to J6 was President, Sec Def, and Sec of the Army. Again, Trump’s claims about Pelosi were debunked.

But keep fighting that losing argument.

Yeah, keep claiming Cap Police Chief Sund is lying..

[UNI88]

Aside from the made up crisis of violence and his non-denial presser (roving bands kids on bicycles and motor bikes!) why didn’t he bring in the guard immediately on J6?

https://open.substack.com/pub/heatherco ... medium=ios

Amazing what happens when you fudge the #s to make crime look far lower than it is..

In a report published in July, it was revealed that a D.C. police commander was recently suspended for falsifying data to improve the city's crime statistics.

According to sources, the conspiracy is widespread and essentially an unstated policy. The D.C. police union, which has been working to expose all this, says that multiple supervisors have been reclassifying crimes so that they don't show up in the reports.

In other words, department leaders have been changing stabbings, shootings, and carjackings to lesser classifications like felony assault because then they will not show up in the daily crime statistics. Those crimes are also not required to be reported to the FBI, which is where most crime statistics are compiled nationwide.

All of this is deliberate.

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https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/08/11 ... f-n2192682

They're 'DOGE'ing" the numbers? Have they claimed to decrease crime by 1000%?

[Bobcat]

Now do the FBI numbers!!! Are they DODG ing those as well?

Last year violent crime in DC was the worst in 25 years according to Bidens FBI www.FBI.gov

[Bobcat]

Heres an idea!

If you want to get rid of HALF the violent crime the DC, do what the dems are accusing you of! Deport people of color! They throw shit to the wall, make some stick for once and save America

[kalm]

Now do the FBI numbers!!! Are they DODG ing those as well?

Last year violent crime in DC was the worst in 25 years according to Bidens FBI www.FBI.gov

Do you have an actual link to the numbers?

Here’s one…

https://www.google.com/?client=safari

[kalm]

Aside from the made up crisis of violence and his non-denial presser (roving bands kids on bicycles and motor bikes!) why didn’t he bring in the guard immediately on J6?



https://open.substack.com/pub/heatherco ... medium=ios

Amazing what happens when you fudge the #s to make crime look far lower than it is..

In a report published in July, it was revealed that a D.C. police commander was recently suspended for falsifying data to improve the city's crime statistics.

According to sources, the conspiracy is widespread and essentially an unstated policy. The D.C. police union, which has been working to expose all this, says that multiple supervisors have been reclassifying crimes so that they don't show up in the reports.

In other words, department leaders have been changing stabbings, shootings, and carjackings to lesser classifications like felony assault because then they will not show up in the daily crime statistics. Those crimes are also not required to be reported to the FBI, which is where most crime statistics are compiled nationwide.

All of this is deliberate.

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https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/08/11 ... f-n2192682

It must be a nationwide conspiracy as numbers have been falling in many cities to pre-pandemic levels.

[Bobcat]

Now do the FBI numbers!!! Are they DODG ing those as well?

Last year violent crime in DC was the worst in 25 years according to Bidens FBI www.FBI.gov

Do you have an actual link to the numbers?

Here’s one…

https://www.google.com/?client=safari

www.fbi.gov
Go to violent crime stats. I shouldn't even have to provide the link let alone do your homework for you

[Caribbean Hen]

Amazing what happens when you fudge the #s to make crime look far lower than it is..

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/08/11 ... f-n2192682

It must be a nationwide conspiracy as numbers have been falling in many cities to pre-pandemic levels.

Falling to levels that are still nowhere near safe

The streets tell no lies

[Bobcat]

Why does the left support criminals so hard? You would think they want their own families safe but nope let let them all out of jail and get them a Go Fund Me.

[kalm]

Do you have an actual link to the numbers?

Here’s one…

https://www.google.com/?client=safari

www.fbi.gov
Go to violent crime stats. I shouldn't even have to provide the link let alone do your homework for you

Your assertion bub. Your responsibility if you’d like it to be considered legit.

[kalm]

It must be a nationwide conspiracy as numbers have been falling in many cities to pre-pandemic levels.

Falling to levels that are still nowhere near safe

The streets tell no lies

Different issue. And we’ve seen high statistics before. The question is does it warrant federal troops? The answer is no. No it doesn’t.

[UNI88]

Falling to levels that are still nowhere near safe

The streets tell no lies

Different issue. And we’ve seen high statistics before. The question is does it warrant federal troops? The answer is no. No it doesn’t.

trump is doing it:
1) as a power play
b) to stroke his own ego
III) because he didn't like looking at the homeless camped along the route to his golf course in Virginia
- all of the above

[Bobcat]

Falling to levels that are still nowhere near safe

The streets tell no lies

Different issue. And we’ve seen high statistics before. The question is does it warrant federal troops? The answer is no. No it doesn’t.

It absolutely does if you want to fix the problems. If not just keep hitting the feeder bar rinse and repeat then maybe someday you can be the next Chicago

[BDKJMU]

Different issue. And we’ve seen high statistics before. The question is does it warrant federal troops? The answer is no. No it doesn’t.

trump is doing it:
1) as a power play
b) to stroke his own ego
III) because he didn't like looking at the homeless camped along the route to his golf course in Virginia
- all of the above

C. A country’s capital city should be its crown jewel city. It usually gets the most international attention and tourists. And it should have the lowest crime rate of the major cities. DC is 23rd according to wiki in population. So until DC is the lowest in the Top 25 (not even close) and one could walk down the streets of SE DC in Anacostia at 2 AM without fear of being mugged/shot (you‘d currently have to have a death wish to do that) there should be massive resources poured in either state (in this case there is none) so Fed.

Solutions:
-Put police or MPs on every single crime ridden street corner.

-End cashless bail.
-Maximum sentenced for every repeat offender.
-3 strikes your our (automatic life for 3rd felony conviction).
-Try all 15-17 yr olds committing violent crime as adults

There‘s shouldn‘t be anyone on the streets with dozens of arrests. No more revolving door, slaps on the wrist because so and so thug had a hard life, no daddy, and deep down is really a good boy. If the DC prison doesn‘t have room, all the Club Fed locations around the country does. Do all the above and after a few years, problem solved.

This all should have been done decades ago after Johnson‘s New Deal led to the destruction of fatherhood, especially in the inner city. Now Trump is finally doing what should have been done a half century ago. Thank goodness we have new sheriff in town.

[BDKJMU]

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