Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On 2/23/2025 6:54 AM, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

The cost of eggs is still up.

And climbing!  Considerably higher than under the COVID shortages
and inflation.

That is the reason and some, that Trump
will not have the support of the legislative soon.

He has boxed himself into a corner.  Removing tariffs will be
tantamount to admitting defeat.
And, there is no guarantee that trading partners will reciprocate;
they may enjoy imposing extra pain from their tariffs on imports.
*Or*, impose EXPORT tariffs to penallize the american market and deny
Trump the revenue from import tariffs!

The USA-ans are wood headed, but bankrupting agriculture, grandma
dying for lack of drugs, more inflation because of tariffs  will hollow
out MAGA.

Trump is gambling that he can delay the (electorate-)significant consequences
of his actions "long enough".  You will note how many of the "day one"
campaign declarations have silently been ignored.  And, how fearful he is of
the "beautiful tariffs" that he boasted about.
Had an "arrangement" with Columbia not happened, folks would
quickly notice the increased cost of their morning coffee.
Trump will subsidize the farmers who will lose business under his
tariffs (and any likely cuts -- USAID, RFK going after HFCS...
I'm amused he hasn't attacked ethanol-blends, yet!).
But, that "welfare" isn't guaranteed to last.  And, farmers risk a
subsequent democratic administration deciding NOT to keep up with
such welfare; imagine farmers having to make market decisions
and live by the consquences of them?  Kind of like other producers
do with every product development/launch!