thanks Trump!


(CNN) - Denny’s is adding an egg surcharge at some of its locations amid shortages and higher egg prices.
The diner chain declined to specify the exact amount of the surcharge, but they said in a statement that pricing decisions are being made restaurant-by-restaurant.

Denny’s isn’t the only restaurant attempting to cope with the egg supply shortage.
Waffle House recently added a 50-cent price hike for meals that include eggs.

Major U.S. retailers, including Costco and Trader Joe’s, have had to take action as well, imposing limits on how many eggs one customer can buy.

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Just took a quick walk and thought about this:


What is the smallest thing you can think of that would have drastically changed our world today. Admittedly the history buffs should crush this.

Examples:

If England wins the revolution ( though this isn't small)

or

My pick:

One bag of rice delivered to a concentration camp would have likely meant dozens or more FAMILYS would still exist.


Thoughts?

Huge.

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Why the hello dont we use the F14 through F16 and the F22 (which is supposed to be a great stealth jet) designs and components and add whatever the new fancy stuff going into the F-35.

We have 4 proven, outstanding jet fighters that have all beat their competition that we know of. Trump/Musk are efficiency waste and fraud idiots for not looking at this as
the #1 program to cut or trim.

This $2 trillion is for cost and delivery of all the planes in the lifetime of the program but it could be way less by modifying current fighters.

Which puppet will fill the void?

In council bluffs. Quite the deal. I was hoping to not get selected, as a couple weeks of no revenue would be a kick in the sack. Took 7 hours to come up with the 12 jurors and 2 alternates. Anyone had a similar experience?

Leading Miami by 10 with 4 to go. Bunch of D2 transfers beating the Canes.

I may be a liberal Dem but I have always been for a great defensive military just because of what I call the Rabid Dog syndrome. Putin is like a rabid dog in the global or at least Euro-Asian sphere and rabid dogs bite and infect the other dogs.

You have to either totally kennel the rabid dog or put it down if it attacks.

The US totally lead in crushing Nazi Germany and Hitler was the Rabid Dog trying to infect and conquer the other countries and maybe the world. Tojo and Japan the same.

The US has acted as a bully on occasion with our military and it usually doesnt turn out well, Vietnam, Iraq in 2002 and beyond

We have the great triad of nuclear subs and navy/marines, air force, and army. Let's be efficient, project strength, play defense, and help our allies and friends beat back the rabid dogs only to keep the world and us safe.

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Hijacked TV screens show government workers gross video of Trump worshipping Musk

Insightful. This is why they oppose DOGE and their efforts for transparency. They HATE transparency!

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To hell with it! Some of these imbeciles shouldn't even receive a trial >

For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.
That’s an old diktat, usually attributed to an old Latin American dictator. But it could easily apply today, as cowardly Republicans beg President Donald Trump to spare them — and only them — from the DOGE chainsaw.

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Trump and Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service are arbitrarily hacking away at critical government functions and services, including flight safety programs, cancer research, bird-flu tracking, food assistance and disaster aid. But when it comes to evaluating the wisdom of these cuts, the president’s allies appear less troubled by the merits of such decisions than by how they affect them personally.


For instance, Fox News anchor Jesse Watters recently pleaded during a segment on behalf of a friend laid off by DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency. Watters deemed the man worthy of his Pentagon post, unlike the rest of those good-for-nothing public servants working to keep Americans safe.

Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers — who possess actual power to set government spending — have been too cowed to rein in Trump and his unelected pal Musk. So, instead, they are soliciting special exemptions, while being careful not to sound like they’re criticizing the would-be kings.


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For instance, as Trump works to slash biomedical funding for private research institutions, Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-Alabama) has praised his efforts: “Every cent of hard-earned taxpayer money should be spent efficiently, judiciously, and accountably — without exception,” Britt told AL.com when asked about the billions of dollars in cuts to National Institutes of Health grants.

Inconveniently, though, red-state universities and hospitals receive a whole lot of money from NIH, too. The University of Alabama at Birmingham, one of the largest employers in Britt’s state, is among several Alabama institutions that would lose about $47 million combined in annual funding under Trump’s decree. So Britt promised to sidle up to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and lobby for a reprieve.

“A smart, targeted approach is needed in order to not hinder lifesaving, groundbreaking research at high-achieving institutions like those in Alabama,” she said. She added, “State-of-the-art facilities, equipment, and technology — along with the best and brightest people — are needed to fulfill President Trump’s vision.”
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(Britt needn’t push much harder than that for now, as a court has temporarily blocked the measure.)

Elsewhere, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia) petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to unfreeze funding for green school buses, which just so happen to be manufactured in West Virginia. Capito’s plea appears to be successful so far, as some of the money has been released.
Over in Kansas, Republican Sen. Jerry Moran is trying to restore an international food aid program that DOGE ended when it effectively shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development. Just coincidentally, dissolving this program hurts Kansas farmers.

But Moran has clarified that he is otherwise still on board with the DOGE agenda and its efforts to fix unspecified problems: “I’m pleased to help find ways to make our delivery of food aid more effective, more efficient and remove the challenges and things that we’ve seen that are so disturbing.”

Which “things” are so disturbing? Presumably, funds going anywhere but Kansas.
Meanwhile, as Trump gleefully grinds down funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, some Republican leaders have grown nervous about whether their own constituents could get shortchanged after hurricanes or other disasters. But many appear to believe Trump is sufficiently transactional that they can wrangle exemptions out of him, perhaps in exchange for fawning or favors.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), for example, has said he agrees with Trump’s approach to FEMA. “If it’s with an eye towards more efficiency and resiliency, great. If it’s an eye towards cutting funding to western North Carolina, not great,” Tillis told CNN.


As always, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) remains “concerned” — this time, about DOGE’s impact on her state “on everything from our national parks to biomedical research.” Of course, like the rest of her caucus, she voted to confirm nearly all of Trump’s Cabinet nominees implementing these arbitrary cuts.
So did her “moderate” Republican counterpart from Alaska, Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Murkowski is now asking “pretty much all the departments” to restore funds stripped from her state, as she told my Post colleagues. She called the administration’s responses “evasive and inadequate.” Good for her, I suppose. But even this is a milquetoast protest from someone whose branch, per Article I, is supposed to control the government’s purse strings.
Meanwhile, some lawmakers seem blissfully unaware of such powers.

What's up next?

Normal behavior here.

Blatant corruption is right. This is why they oppose DOGE. More to be revealed…

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More than 230,000 Canadians have signed a petition asking the country’s prime minister to revoke Elon Musk’s citizenship and passport, accusing the tech billionaire and Trump ally of joining a “foreign government that is attempting to erase Canadian sovereignty” and engaging in “activities that go against the national interest of Canada.”



Musk, who was born in South Africa and holds Canadian and U.S. citizenship, is playing a particularly prominent role in the second Trump administration. He oversees the U.S. DOGE Service — which has fired thousands of government employees in recent weeks as it looks to cut spending — and has continued to support President Donald Trump as Trump calls for Canada to become the 51st state and pushes for high tariffs on the United States’ northern neighbor.
Responding to the petition, Musk wrote on social media, “Canada is not a real country.”


As Musk seeks global political influence, he has repeatedly criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s policies and mocked the Canadian leader, while endorsing clips of Pierre Poilievre, the head of Canada’s Conservative Party.

The petition — which was sponsored by Charlie Angus, a member of Parliament and critic of Musk — also accuses him of using his “wealth and power to influence our elections” and says attempts by Musk to “attack Canadian sovereignty must be addressed.” It needed 500 signatures to gain certification for presentation in the House of Commons, the lower house of Parliament.
Experts say that while it is unlikely the petition will be successful, given tight laws on revoking Canadian citizenship, it reflects the mood in a country where people are boycotting American products, canceling trips across the border and politicizing sporting events in response to Trump’s threats.

This is good for the country and faith in our institutions.

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“The calculus for joining government is radically changing. The promise of gaining control of enormous dark money government slush funds and routing them to your friends who stand up totally vague and nebulous NGOs that then launder the money back to you and your other friends, is disappearing before our eyes. People who go into public service will actually have to be motivated by public service, not by kleptocratic, self-enrichment schemes. If they want to get rich, they will have to write a book or "produce" some show or documentary for Netflix that no one watches.”

AP) - A young American woman on a European trip was taken into custody after she allegedly threw a newborn out of a hotel window in Paris, killing the baby, authorities said Tuesday.

The baby was reportedly thrown from a second-floor window of a hotel on Monday morning, according to the Paris prosecutor. Emergency responders rushed the newborn to the hospital, but the child was pronounced dead.

The mother was traveling through Europe from the U.S. with a group of young adults. She was taken to a hospital for medical treatment following childbirth and has been placed in custody there, officials said.

The child protection police unit has been tasked with investigating the case as a homicide of a minor under 15 years old.

Authorities are considering the possibility of pregnancy denial, a condition in which a woman remains unaware of or in denial about her pregnancy until labor.

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When two northwest suburban childhood hockey pals launched Spiteful Brewing in 2012 as a post-collegiate enterprise, the business overcame long odds to grow from a stovetop startup into an award-winning craft brewery and tap room in Bowmanville.

But after successfully navigating everything from the pandemic to a flat craft brewing market that has forced several Chicago competitors to close, Spiteful faces an imminent new challenge: tariffs.

President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on imported aluminum, set to go into place March 12, will raise the cost to produce every whimsically adorned can of Spiteful beer, from its Working for the Weekend Double IPA to its Fat Badger Ale.

For Spiteful and other Chicago craft brewers, the results may be inevitable: libation inflation.

“Imagine something that you’re buying every day goes up 25% overnight,” said Jason Klein, 42, co-founder of Spiteful Brewing. “We would have no choice but to raise prices — there’s no way we can absorb that.”

A niche segment of the beer industry, craft brewing has become big business in Illinois, with hundreds of mostly small manufacturers generating $3.1 billion in economic impact in the state in 2023, according to the Brewers Association, a Colorado-based trade group. But after years of explosive growth, craft brewers have struggled in the post-pandemic landscape amid a glut of competitors, with a number of high-profile brewery and taproom closings in the Chicago area. Tariffs may be another blow.

It is the Supply Side !! (and always has been).

Milei after a year!

"By November 2024, inflation in Argentina had fallen to 2.4 percent.

“In just 12 months we pulverized inflation,” the Economy Ministry wrote on X.

Meanwhile, Argentina’s economy officially exited recession.

GDP grew by nearly 4 percent in the July-to-September quarter of 2024 after a sluggish first half, and the International Monetary Fund forecasts growth of 5 percent in 2025 and 2026. Meanwhile, there is now a strong likelihood of foreign investment.”

The Research says yes.
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Good job Millennial Men!

Moscow would be open to allowing U.S. access to Russia’s rare minerals, President Vladimir Putin said Monday, an apparent counteroffer and pressure tactic as the Trump administration pushes Ukraine to sign over half its mineral wealth as repayment for U.S. support in the war.

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In an interview broadcast on Russian state television Monday evening, Putin also endorsed President Donald Trump’s proposal for three-way nuclear arms control talks with China.

“We could come to an agreement with the United States — the United States would cut [defense spending] by 50 percent, and we would cut by 50 percent,” Putin told state broadcast personality Pavel Zarubin. “And the People’s Republic of China would then join in if it wanted. We think the proposal is good, and we are ready to discuss it.”

The Russian leader spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping by telephone earlier in the day and affirmed their countries’ “comprehensive partnership” as “true friends,” according to official statements.

Putin was interviewed by Zarubin on the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He also chaired a meeting on rare earth metals production. He stressed that Russia possesses significantly more natural resources than Ukraine.
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“We would be ready to offer [cooperation] to our American partners — when I say partners, I mean not only administrative, government structures, but also companies — if they showed interest in working together,” he said. “We certainly have substantially, and I want to emphasize this, substantially more resources of this kind than Ukraine. Russia is one of the leaders in reserves of these rare earth metals.”

Happened in downtown Manhattan. Police still looking for gunman. Targeted attack.

Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, Taiwan’s leaders joined the United States and its allies in declaring solidarity with the victim. Taiwan and Ukraine were fellow democracies, they said, each imperiled by its hulking, authoritarian neighbor.
Now, President Trump’s turn against Ukraine could fan debate in Taiwan about whether it can count on American support in the event of a widening conflict with China, which claims the self-governed island as its territory.
“Taiwan spent the better part of the past three years making the case for how the fate of democracies is intimately tied and what happens to Ukraine affects Taiwan,” said Russell Hsiao, the executive director of the Global Taiwan Institute, which is based in Washington.
“With the seemingly abrupt change in the U.S. position on the Ukraine war,” Mr. Hsiao said, “this could have the effect of causing some in Taiwan to question whether the United States could pull the rug from underneath them.”
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For decades, Taiwan has faced the possibility of invasion by China, which now sends fighter jets and warships nearly every day to probe its defenses. Taiwan’s ability to deter a potential attack hinges on whether the United States stands ready to help and even send forces. The island’s leaders have made closer ties with Washington a pillar of its foreign and defense policy for nearly a decade.
But as Mr. Trump executes a dramatic reversal of U.S. policy toward Ukraine, abandoning Western efforts to punish Russia for the invasion and insisting that Ukraine is to blame for the war, the United States’ partners, including Taiwan, are being forced to assess their own positions and weigh how to secure Mr. Trump’s support.
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In Taiwan, Mr. Trump’s stinging comments about Ukraine could feed a current of public opinion arguing that the island has been repeatedly abandoned by Washington and cannot trust its promises.
“The prospect of the United States trying to make a deal with Russia over Ukraine, without actually giving Ukraine a seat at the table, will reinforce the sense of American skepticism in Taiwan,” said Marcin Jerzewski, the head of the Taiwan office of the European Values Center for Security Policy, which tries to foster cooperation between European and Asian democracies.