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Post-op visit day. I barely have a leg to stand on.

125 responses to “Post-op visit day. I barely have a leg to stand on.”

  1. Excited to see my x-rays and just how much metal I now carry. I will know in a few hours if prognosis is headed up.

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  2. Good luck, Bitter.

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  3. Harry - Radiant Cheesecake Avatar
    Harry – Radiant Cheesecake

    Good luck. Hope your prognosis is good.

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  4. jasonyupanqui47 Avatar
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    If you lose the leg you probably won’t be able to use the $5000 snow blower.

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    We finally have a definition for woman.

    Drum roll…..

    Jo Jo From Jerz tells Piers Morgan: “If you feel like a woman, you’re a woman.”

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    Most Americans understand basic economics better than the AFL-CIO “conservatives” here.

    Good.

    “A majority of Americans in a new poll said that the U.S. and not other countries will feel the brunt of President Trump’s tariffs.

    The Economist/YouGov poll also found that most respondents, 68 percent, said they believe “increasing tariffs on foreign goods imported into the U.S. generally” results in prices rising. Eight percent said raising tariffs on foreign goods imported into the U.S. generally results in “no effect on prices.”

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    I just told my wife I felt like a woman today.

    I asked to borrow $100 for a manicure.

    I got the same look I got when I suggested we should move the gun safe from basement to the living room.

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  8. Here is that ignorant Putina Cult member Victor David Hansen again. If only he had the education and wisdom of a Ukrainiac –

    Five Ukrainian Fables

    Fable One: Donald Trump Is Appeasing Russia?

    Who wiped out the Wagner group in Syria? Who sold offensive weapons to Ukraine first? Who warned Germany not to become dependent on the Russian Nord Stream II deal?

    Who withdrew from an unfair missile deal with the Russians? Who cajoled and berated NATO members to meet their military investment promises made following the 2014 invasion of Ukraine?

    In contrast, who originally conceived a Russian “reset” in 2009? Who publicly virtue-signaled pushing the red “reset” button in Geneva with the current Russian Minister Sergey Lavrov?

    Which ex-European leader got a million euros a year working for Russian energy companies?

    Of the last four presidents, under whose watch did Putin not invade another country?

    Which American president, in hot-mic style, offered to (and did) dismantle US-Eastern Europe missile defense plans in exchange for temporary Putin quietude (“space”) to aid his 2012 reelection?

    Fable Two: A Trade War?

    Donald Trump is not wildly slapping tariffs on Europeans.

    He is simply saying that 1945 is now 80 years past and that the asymmetrical tariffs that Europe imposes on U.S. imports should be corrected. The massive trade surpluses Europe accumulates each year should give way to fairer, more balanced trade.

    If Europe does not want tariffs, then simply calibrate its own tariffs on what America places on European imported goods, and work down jointly to zero tariffs on both sides.

    Fable Three: America Is Bullying Europe?

    The U.S. does not actively interfere in European elections and politics.

    In 2024, Europeans, especially the British Laborites, bragged about sending over campaign “volunteers” to work against Trump and, earlier, his conservative predecessors.

    British subject Christopher Steele sought to sabotage an entire American 2016 election with a falsified “dossier.”

    The Ukrainian ambassador in 2016 wrote an op-ed all but endorsing Hillary Clinton and trashing her opponent.

    In September 2024, Mr. Zelenskyy was flown in on a Biden-provided US military jet to Scranton, Pennsylvania—at a pivotal time in the most pivotal swing state—to surround himself with Democrat politicos.

    His media-frenzied presence signaled a partisan campaign theme that a Harris win and the continuance of massive Democrat aid to Ukraine would ensure manufacturing jobs, such as the artillery shell factory he selected to visit.

    As to NATO, Trump’s pressure from 2017 to 2021 finally pushed more NATO nations to rearm. But even eleven years after promising to invest a mere 2 percent of GDP in defense, nine of the 32 members still have not complied.

    Fable Four: Negotiating With Putin Is Selling Out?

    In the long history of Western diplomacy with mass-murdering tyrants, Putin doesn’t even rank among the worst. Just ask his former reset partners Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

    FDR fueled mass-murdering “Uncle Joe” Stalin’s Red Army as a way to defeat Nazi Germany.

    Richard Nixon flattered and cajoled the greatest mass murderer in history, Mao Zedong, to triangulate China against the Soviet Union.

    Ronald Reagan offered to share missile defense expertise with Soviet Russia.

    Europeans have hosted almost every Palestinian murderous terrorist leader, as a way either of deflecting terrorism from their own shores or emphasizing their general loathing of Israel.

    Fable Five: Europe Is Going To Save Ukraine?

    Europe rushed to congratulate and celebrate with Zelensky after his preplanned White House blow-up. They are loudly announcing that a supposedly isolationist and appeasing U.S.—which has sent more aid to Ukraine than all nearby European nations combined—will now be supplanted by a “new” muscular and rearmed Europe.

    We sincerely hope so.

    But on every recent international moral question—ganging up on a lone Israel to appease terrorist forces in the Middle East, standing up to China’s mercantilism, neo-imperialism, and domestic oppression of minorities, or Russia’s prior 2008 and 2014 invasions—European outrage has been muted, real consequences nonexistent.

    We are now witnessing European heads of state sending the same old, same old virtue signaling support for the brave Zelenskyy, who supposedly spoke truth to power to the mean U.S. Orange Man.

    But where does such performance art lead after the cult hero Zelenskyy had gnawed the hand that gorged him?

    To multitudes of European tanks, skies full of European jets, and division after division of crack European infantry now heading east to “back up” Ukraine—led on horseback by its new Joan of Arc, Ursula von der Leyen?

    Aside from all the present posturing and mock-heroics, the only way to save Ukraine is for the U.S. president, Donald Trump, to reflect joint Ukrainian, American, and European interests in stopping the war, forcing Putin as far back eastward as possible where he started in 2022, and creating a credible deterrent along with a DMZ/industrial corridor tripwire to stop another 2008, 2014, and 2022 invasion.

    Anything else is empty carnival barking.

    Fla2025

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  9. BREAKING: Trump administration to revoke temporary legal status for 240,000 Ukrainian refugees in the U.S. – Reuters

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  10. Breaking: Ukrainians out of weapons by Summer.

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  11. (U.S. weapons*)

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    The Cultists love quoting other Cultists.

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    Breaking: Ukrainians out of weapons by Summer”

    Good news for Putin and all the Putinistas, heh?

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    “The only way to save Ukraine is for the U.S. president, Donald Trump, to reflect joint Ukrainian, American, and European interests in stopping the war, forcing Putin as far back eastward as possible where he started in 2022, and creating a credible deterrent along with a DMZ/industrial corridor tripwire to stop another 2008, 2014, and 2022 invasion”

    From the lips of idiots sometimes you get a kernel of truth.

    This is in fact what should be done and what I have advocated as a realistic, if not just, solution.

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  15. That must bring you such joy.

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  16. Weapons are free.

    Trump is not paying contractors.

    -freepasser

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  17. I knew that even VDH would achieve Idiot/Moron status.

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  18. Chicon, don’t forget that in addition to Idiot/moron, Ukrainiacs on this board also call VDH a “cult” member, LOL!

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  19. unfortunately Tina, the news just reported that another judge ruled that Trump must rehire the radical leftist head of the merit pay system that he fired 2 weeks ago. One step forward one back. The Supreme Court will need to weigh in on whether Congress can impose statutory limits on the President’s ability to solely manage the executive branch

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  20. fla2025 above

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  21. Fla, apparently, VDH has never been a “real” conservative.

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    I knew that even VDH would achieve Idiot/Moron status.

    Chicon”

    Zzzzz…….

    If he had said anything against Putin he would have made Tina’s RINO list.

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    In the long history of Western diplomacy with mass-murdering tyrants, Putin doesn’t even rank among the worst.”

    Is this kind of an admission that Putin is a mass murdering tyrant?

    Baby steps, baby steps.

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    They didn’t find Bigfoot last night.

    I do have a reason to continue on living.

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  25. : U.S. House of Representatives censures Congressman Al Green for disrupting President Trump’s address, 224-198 10 Democrats voted to censure Green. 2 voted ‘present.’ No Republicans voted against the censure.

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    But they did hear some clicking sounds that could have been a Bigfoot.

    Maybe next week.

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    Wow.

    Who are the 10 Dems?

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  28. What judge? The dc appeals court tossed Amy’s decision. Appeals court supersedes now.

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  29. The merit person was rehired last week. No doubt it goes to the sc.

    Hopefully, Beotchy gets her sheot together

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    Green voted present.

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  31. Do you thing some officials somewhere have a dossier on any of the HHR posters?

    I desperately want to think they have one on me.

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  32. Update – Stitches and staples removed. Rod and screws in place. Still non-weight bearing for 2 weeks. Turns out it was 2 tibia fractures and 1 fibula fracture. Have a walking boot but no walking for 2 weeks.

    Carry on.

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  33. 5,000 were just rehired by the Merit Board.

    sc needs o get involved now.as special counsels actions were illegal

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  34. Do you thing some officials somewhere have a dossier on any of the HHR posters?

    I desperately want to think they have one on me.

    **********

    Come to think of it, they probably do.

    That is probably the reason I got special search at airports some years back for

    FIVE TIMES IN A ROW.

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  35. Good progress, Bitter. I hope it continues.

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  36. Bitter,

    So doctors pleased?

    Do you have crutches?

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  37. Bitter,

    Lots of people I know have been screwed.

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  38. shipwreckedcrew

    What is the current status of the MSPB?? There is a bit of misinformation floating around out there. The Merit Systems Protection Board normally has 3 members. One of those three announced his retirement on February 28 — effective immediately. So there are currently only 2 members. One of those is Cathy Harris, who was fired by Pres. Trump two weeks ago, but put back on the Board by District Judge Rudy Contreras on Tuesday. However, she was allowed to participate as amicus in the Dellinger decision from the Court of Appeals yesterday where the Court allowed Dellinger’s firing to go into effect. It is very likely that the same court is going to do the same thing with Harris. That means she would be off the Board too. That leaves one member — Harry Kerner. While it is true that Kerner was appointed by Biden, the statute creating the MSPB states that no more than 2 member can belong to the same party. Kerner has a history of working for GOP House and Senate members, having worked on the staff of the House Oversight Committee under Chairs Darryl Issa and Jason Chaffetz, as as staff Director for John McCain as Chairman of Senate of Permanent Select Committee on Investigations.

    Pres. Trump has made no effort to remove Kerner. If Cathy Harris’ termination is upheld by the Circuit Court as was Dellinger, that allows Pres. Trump to appoint a second member to the Board. It also allows Kerner to undo anything that Harris does before being removed.

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  39. Walt, some are screwed, some are nailed.

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    Damm, I was looking forward to inheriting (in a good sense) the snow blower.

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    Do you thing some officials somewhere have a dossier on any of the HHR posters?

    I desperately want to think they have one on me.”

    Don’t tell Cash Cow, but there is a rumor Elon Musk will mandate all cows should either do meaningful work or provide sustenance for those who do.

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    Turns out it was 2 tibia fractures and 1 fibula fracture.”

    Damm, that must have been one spectacular wipeout.

    Are you sure it was not captured on video by a door cam or something?

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    I guess Tgca didn’t want to stay to discuss ABORTION.

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    Bitter is the first cyborg A-hole.

    If there is enough money in the A-hole treasure, we could order a commemorative plaque.

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    A-hole treasury.

    The treasure part is classified.

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  46. I have a walker. Bad at it.

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  47. Not sure. They kept asking me in the ER how it happened. I finally said my wife did not hit me with a bat. I slipped.

    It was definitely a bone-jarring impact with the ground.

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  48. The funds are missing. Check Oak Island.

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  49. I have a great ssdi attorney, if you need one, Bl.

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    The spiral fracture happens when you rotate the leg during the fall rather than the impact with the ground. If you had gone with the flow so to speak and not tried to plant your foot to avoid the fall you would have busted your ass but no spiral fracture. Of course you could have had a skull or hip fracture too.

    So next time you slip on ice just let it happen.

    Once when it was freezing balls cold I had my hands in my pockets when I slipped on the ice on some steps. My head and back took the brunt of the fall. I won’t ever forget that lesson.

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  51. “Headline at DKos

    Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s successor dies after Trump’s speech

    Perhaps he should have stood up and applauded for his own constituent, the young boy with cancer.

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    Hamas tells Trump to GFH.

    Let’s see what happens.

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    I have a great ssdi attorney, if you need one, Bl.”

    Does he do pro bono?

    I might have a case.

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  54. toddstarnes
    @toddstarnes
    Jasmine Crockett wants you to think she’s from the hood – that she grew up on the streets. The exact opposite is true. She attended an exclusive day school where tuition is nearly $35,000 per year. She also attended Rhodes College, a private school where tuition is nearly $55,000 per year. She’s cosplaying a gangsta.
    ***********
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    Shhh.. I saw on CNN she is a “rising star” in the Democratic Party.

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    Btw, I thought CNN was supposed to have lost its airport “contract”. in 2021. Alas, they are still on in most airports. Or maybe just in the bars and restaurants of most airports.

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    “The 10 House Democrats who joined Republicans to vote for Green’s censure were California Representative Ami Bera, Hawaii Representative Ed Case, California Representative Jim Costa, New York Representative Laura Gillen, Connecticut Representative Jim Himes, Pennsylvania Representative Chrissy Houlahan, Ohio Representative Marcy Kaptur, Florida Representative Jared Moskowitz, Washington Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and New York Representative Tom Suozzi”

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    Kaptur won a very close race. Gillen is in a swing district. But others, like Case are Houlahan, are safe.

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    Is Joe Biden still alive?

    I haven’t heard a word about him or from him since the inauguration. Anywhere.

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    Over at Dkos they have their own version of NYC….

    “Fuck Fetterman — he needs to be primaried and if necessary we should run an independent. I would rather lose that seat than have him in it.”

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    Dow down 600 despite Trump walking back Mexico tariffs. He might have tried the “negotiating stance” BS one time too many, the other countries have heard about it too.

    Even if you believe that in the long run tariffs will bring back jobs, etc. the short term effect on prices and its impact on domestic exporters is going to damage Trump’s standing and weaken his power over Congress, which he needs to further is overall agenda for the economy.

    All these countries will retaliate with tariffs on the US and in the end everyone will lose in the stupid trade wars.

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  62. The Cult thinks that nations pay tariffs. Consumers pay the tariffs. Both can be true.

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  63. Zelenskyyites think that nation pay for weapons and aid. Taxpayers (same people as taxpayers) pay for weapons and aid. Both can be true.

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  64. Same people as consumers….

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  65. Not ready for crutches yet.

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  66. BREAKING: Hampton Dellinger Backs Down, Ends Legal Battle Against Trump After DC Circuit Court Allows Firing to Proceed

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  67. Zzzzzzzzzz. Stupid argument. If a car costs $3000 more because of tariffs, the consumer pays that. Not the dealer. Not the country of manufacture.

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  68. Buy a car made here and no tariff

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  69. The micro-economics of tariffs suggest that, since the import price will be higher, fewer cars will be sold. This hurts consumers and also dealers, if the dealers have enough market power to earn profits.

    If the dealer market is competitive, dealers earn no profits before or after imposition of a tariff.

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  70. I don’t think you understand, Tina. Because of the tariff, domestic prices for cars rise. All consumers lose surplus due to the higher price. It doesn’t matter which car you buy.

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    Hunter Biden has asked a federal judge to drop the laptop hacking lawsuit he slapped against a former Trump White House aide — because he’s “millions of dollars” in debt, “exacerbated” by losing a home in the Los Angeles wildfires, court filings show.

    The embattled former first son, 55, blamed the recent fires, as well as dwindling sales from his artwork and memoir, for him being plagued by “significant debt” keeping him from “litigating this case” against Garrett Ziegler, according to a motion filed in federal court in California on Wednesday.

    “[Hunter] has suffered a significant downturn in his income and has significant debt in the millions of dollars range,” his attorneys argued as they laid bare his apparent financial woes.”

    Translation: no one is buying his paintings anymore.

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  72. And if a country sends $100B in weapons and $ to another country, who pays.

    You are upset that Americans may have to pay extra for a car, but you don’t care about Americans being forced to fund a foreign war.

    The consumer can avoid a tariff by buying a non-tariff product. Can a taxpayer opt out of funding Zelenskyy?

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    Besides, no car is completely made here. In a globalized economy, components come from all over. So do the raw materials.

    Can you start making every component here. Sure. But the costs of tooling and doing that will increase the cost of the car.

    There is no free lunch.

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  74. The free passers ha said weapons are free.

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  75. Nope, Chicon. As long as there is an international market for the product, consumers pay the tariff.

    Of course, you can buy products and services that are only made in the US – haircuts, restaurant meals, buffalo meat, a few other things – but you can’t drive any of them to work!

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    but you don’t care about Americans being forced to fund a foreign war.”

    What a crock of crap.

    Nobody is “funding a foreign war”.

    We invest in our security and we pay to protect our interests. You can say you don’t want to protect this or that interest, but THAT is what we fund.

    We spend trillions defending interests in Europe and Korea and Japan and Israel other places because we view it as in our interest. We spent trillions on the Cold War for the same reason.

    The isolationists don’t think we have these interests. Fine.

    But don’t give me the “funding the foreign war” BS. The money is spent on containing our geopolitical foe Russia because we think that is important to our security, including economic security.

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    The consumer can avoid a tariff by buying a non-tariff product.”

    BS.

    Blanket tariffs affect the whole chain of supply.

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    More than half of FCA US, Ford, and General Motors models contain 55% or more domestic content  The Chevy Colorado is exclusively built in Wentzville, Missouri with 71 percent of its parts being U.S. or Canada-made”

    Even “cars made in the US” contain large quantities of foreign made components.

    If you pay a tariff on these components, the “US made” cars will increase in price.

    Make all components in the US? It would cost billions in tooling costs to that, and increase the price dramatically.

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  79. Nobody is “funding a foreign war”.

    And here i thought neither Ukraine or Russia are part of the US!

    Yeah, any American who pays taxes MUST fund that war. No opt outs.

    No free lunch.

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  80. By the way, other than the drug-related tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, lowering the tariff to zero is easy: tell the other country to make theirs zero. Simple.

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  81. For anyone interested……(I’m sure this formerly anti-Trump conservative will not make the The List of Morons).

    https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/03/06/about-that-trade-war-n3800489

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    Just ignore this decision.”

    Zzzzz…

    Let’s see when the Dems take over again whether Tina will agree that the decisions by Trump judges should be “ignored”.

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    Yeah, any American who pays taxes MUST fund that war.”

    Zzzzzz….

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  84. This judge says this association’s claim belongs in the court of claims because they collectively have….wait for it….contract claims.

    Jason’s judge will be big mad….

    “Judge Nichols has *denied* USAID contractors an emergency restraining order blocking the mass termination of their contracts, saying they haven’t shown the type of “irreparable” harm that warrants relief.

    It’s essentially a contract dispute, he said in court this AM.”

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    lowering the tariff to zero is easy: tell the other country to make theirs zero.”

    It’s much easier than that.

    Instead of a trade policy based on the failed AFL-CIO agenda of the last 70 years based on protectionism, tariffs and stupid trade wars, advocate for free trade with zero tariffs.

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    “Judge Nichols has denied USAID contractors an emergency restraining order blocking the mass termination of their contracts”

    Zzzzzz…

    What I oppose is trying to stiff contractors for work contracted and already COMPLETED.

    I am not opposed to mass cancelling contracts that are still to be started, and even those that have started as long as completed work is paid.

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    So actually I agree with the “jason judge” AND the “Chicon judge”.

    GFY.

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  88. Jason says….”Instead of a trade policy based on the failed AFL-CIO agenda of the last 70 years based on protectionism, tariffs and stupid trade wars, advocate for free trade with zero tariffs.”

    Translation….I don’t care one bit about tariffs imposed on American companies in other countries. As long as the price of my shoes is low, other American workers can GFT.

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  89. a tro is not appealable. That is why they judge shop to Marxist where posaible

    The Marxist judges opinion was “remanded by the court”. Once he issues an injunction it’s appealable

    At the tro stage all remedies have to be exhausted before a tro can be issued.

    there are remedies for contractors and that is the court of federal clams. See Tucker act

    Thus the foreign Marxist jusge should not have issued a tro

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  90. And why judge nichols rejected a tro.

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  91. I have flown a flag outside my house since I bought my first house in 1997. I wanted to use flags made in America but could not find any. I saw an ad on tv for American made flags. This is a bit much for me but Chi and Tina order.

    https://www.showallegiance.com/products/american-flag-set

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  92. I got an American flag at Walmart for $10. I am sure you can afford that.

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  93. Yes made in America.

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  94. C!

    -nycmike23

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  95. BillW said – As long as there is an international market for the product, consumers pay the tariff

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    Bill, this is probable but not always the case. The foreign exporter can also decide to “eat” a portion of the tariff to  minimize impact and retain market share. Moreover, US distributors can demand that foreign suppliers offset tariff increases with price cuts. Walmart is doing this right now with many of its Chinese suppliers – https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/walmart-asks-china-suppliers-price-cuts-trump-tariffs-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-03-06/

    As with everything, this is a complex matter and how much, if at all, a tariff on a product will cause price increases for consumers involves numerous variables unique to that product and the market for that product. There was a policy paper that studied the subsequent effects of the Trump tariffs  from his first term, which definitely supported this contention –  I.e. not all product which were subjected to the tariffs resulted in increased costs to consumers or an equivalent increase. I’ll see if I can find that paper and post it here.  

    Fla2025

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  96. Tariffs are most definitely a cost passed on to the consumer.

    That is the main reason Trump is also pushing for lower corporate taxes across the board, will push for Drill Baby Drill to get lower fuel costs, and will reduce the number of regulations/rules/mandates that American businesses have to comply with.

    Tariffs are one more input. Trump seeks the lowest possibilities on all of them!

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  97. “Kaptur won a very close race. Gillen is in a swing district. But others, like Case are Houlahan, are safe.”

    -I would add Suozzi to the mix as a swing district. He will need to vote with Republicans on a lot of issues if he wants be re-elected in 2026.

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  98. “From the lips of idiots sometimes you get a kernel of truth.”

    -Between VDH and Levin, a lot of million$$ being made by jason-declared “idiots”!

    Another HHR Dictionary may be needed? I need to get that printing contract!

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  99. Trump has now signed a memo to require these activist groups pay the government’s legal fees AND damages if their “injunctions” against his executive policies get overturned. Why is this huge? Many of these judges are LINKED to the nonprofits with an interest in thwarting Trump’s cuts. It’s a financial ding to the left-wing organizations who keep bringing these suits. Use every tool imaginable. Stop them.

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  100. “She’s cosplaying a gangsta.”

    -I hope they show her every day of the week.

    It can only help Republicans, and in every demographic.

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  101. This could end the tro/judge shopping.

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  102. “Trump has now signed a memo to require these activist groups pay the government’s legal fees AND damages if their “injunctions” against his executive policies get overturned.”

    -Trying to think who mentioned this right after Jan 20th, but supposedly that could have been done at any time in the past in any one of these cases. I could not understand why it hadn’t been used before.

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  103. they seemed slow ny. Not sure why they waited but these lowly district court judges are abusing the Tros.

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  104. Name one.

    There are numerous cars built in the USA. Check out the Toyota plant in Indiana, Honda in Ohio, etc.

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  105. Made in America?

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  106. Yes, Camry, tundra, Accord, rav 4, sequoia, sienna are all built here.

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  107. Trump is a fucking weak traitor bastard and compromised communist KGB asset.

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  108. in the 1980s, Japanese cars built here became more common. This was roto escape tariffs and quotas set up by Reagan.

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  109. “Loser pays” counsel fees is a European concept. It is generally not applied in America.

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  110. With 100% American-made parts?

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  111. It applies to tros, Bl. I provided a link early on and had asked if this was true.
    of concern for me is the fact that tros are not appealable and the Marxist judges granting extensions.

    The sc has to get involved

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  112. The district courts are issuing these tros disregarding the separation of powers they have no standing and all remedies have o be exhausted before a tro can even be issued.

    Again regarding the contractors, there are remedies in another court.

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  113. : President Donald J. Trump signs an executive order suspending the security clearances for employees at Perkins Coie — which played a key role in the Russia hoax. “This is an absolute honor to sign.”

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  114. F YOU UP HE A TINA.

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  115. BREAKING: Secretary of State Marco Rubio revokes student visa from an alien who engaged in pro-Hamas, unruly protests – Fox /

    @BillMelugin_ The student, of an American university, will now be deported.

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