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Trump Announces "Massive" Tariff Deal With Japan, Cutting Rate from 25% to 15%
The deal includes an investment package of $550 billion.
Auto stocks soared on the news.U.S. President Donald Trump struck a trade deal with Japan that lowers tariffs on auto imports and spares Tokyo from punishing new levies on other goods in exchange for a $550 billion package of U.S.-bound investment and loans. It is the most significant of a clutch of agreements that Trump has bagged since unveiling sweeping global levies in April though, like other deals, exact details remained unclear. As part of the deal, Japan will buy 100 Boeing planes and hike defense spending with U.S. firms to $17 billion annually, from $14 billion, a White House official said.
Japan's auto sector, which accounts for more than a quarter of its U.S. exports, will see existing tariffs cut to 15% from levies totaling 27.5% previously. Duties that were due to come into effect on other Japanese goods from August 1 will also be cut to 15% from 25%.
... The announcement Tuesday evening sent Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index climbing almost 4% to its highest in a year, led by stocks in automakers with Toyota (7203.T) up more than 14% and Honda (7267.T) nearly 11%. Wall Street opened higher on Wednesday, shoring up expectations of further agreements ahead of the fast-approaching August 1 deadline. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) rose 158.7 points, or 0.36%, at the open to 44661.12. "I just signed the largest TRADE DEAL in history with Japan," Trump said in announcing the deal on social media.
At the Daily Wire: Trump's economy continues defying the leftwing prophets of doom.
How Trump's Economy Continues To Defy The 'Experts' And Shock The 'Panicans'Related: Remember when high stock market values were unassailable proof that Biden's Miracle Economy was a miracle? You won't be surprised to learn that that rule has been repealed.
For the "experts," the rapid pace of the administration's economic agenda has been shocking. For President Trump, this was all a part of the plan. By Zach Jewell In the first six months of President Donald Trump's second term, one major theme has defined Trump's economic record thus far: success that surprises the people who are paid to predict it. ... The latest numbers on the U.S. economy fly in the face of the naysayers, branded by Trump as "panicans." Late last week, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that June retail sales were up 0.6% from May and up 3.5% from last year. Food service and drinks sales jumped 6.6% from June 2024. Those numbers were, of course, better than what economists had predicted -- a phrase that has become a monthly tradition since Trump stepped back into the White House According to University of Michigan surveys, American consumers expected prices to rise 6.6% this year. But so far, there's been no sign of inflation jumping through the roof, and even CNN had to admit last month, "Love tariffs or hate them, there's no denying inflation is lower now than when Trump took office." The numbers don't lie: inflation under Trump has defied economists' predictions in nearly every month the president has been in office. In April, year-over-year inflation came in at 2.3%, its lowest annual rate in more than four years. The Consumer Price Index rose to just 2.4% in May compared to last year, which again was lower than what the "experts" predicted. Meanwhile, the Producer Price Index, which measures the average change over time in selling prices received by domestic producers, had its biggest drop in five years in April, falling 0.5%. As inflation numbers continue to look good for the Trump administration, U.S. job growth also beat expectations in May and June while unemployment ticks down. "During his first six months in office, President Trump has repeatedly embarrassed the panicans who predicted doom and gloom, from inflation to recession. Under President Trump, Americans have seen an end to Joe Biden's inflation crisis, multiple expectation-beating jobs reports, record tariff revenue collection, bond and stock market rallies, and historic investment commitments worth trillions that will cement America's dominance in cutting-edge sectors," White House Spokesman Kush Desai told The Daily Wire.
AHMED BABA: I think Trump has eroded global trust in the American economy and American dealmaking
— Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) July 22, 2025
KEVIN O'LEARY: The all time high market ever in history in America. ALL TIME HIGH. Never been worth more. Never been more successful. What are you talking about?! pic.twitter.com/gch6Ny1sdJ
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2025 02:23 PM (W/lyH)
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Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2025 02:25 PM (dIske)
Eggs are not free so Trump lied--again!--about bringing down the price of eggs!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 23, 2025 02:25 PM (VMT/Y)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 02:26 PM (tT6L1)
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Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 02:28 PM (fV+MH)
KEVIN O'LEARY: The all time high market ever in history in America. ALL TIME HIGH. Never been worth more. Never been more successful. What are you talking about?!
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I'm looking forward to Q2 GDP data to be released so people will have another number other than the stock market to point to that dummies understand easily.
Probably going to be close to 4%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 02:28 PM (GBKbO)
But I was reading how the culture is that if the cops even suspect you of being guilty of a crime, it's just the same as if you did it.
That lacks something of a modern society. Also the cops can do a lot of things they can't do here.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 02:28 PM (krQz2)
Now deliver us diesel Toyota hiluxes, and he will go down as the greatest president in history.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 02:29 PM (i24o9)
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You mean, paid to lie about it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2025 02:29 PM (JvZF+)
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Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
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And what does Tay Tay think?
Posted by: Your neighborhood AWFL. at July 23, 2025 02:29 PM (Rxv6j)
Eggs are not free so Trump lied--again!--about bringing down the price of eggs!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 23, 2025 02:25 PM (VMT/Y)
It's almost like it takes TIME to grow 1 Million killed egg laying chickens... and for the supply of eggs to work its way through the supply chain...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2025 02:29 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2025 02:30 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Godzilla, Jap Eater at July 23, 2025 02:30 PM (lX1hk)
But I was reading how the culture is that if the cops even suspect you of being guilty of a crime, it's just the same as if you did it.
That lacks something of a modern society. Also the cops can do a lot of things they can't do here.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 02:28 PM (krQz2)
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Bushido sucks ass (class-bound and tyrannical), and large segments of the society are still enthralled with the idea.
That extends to a deference to authority that is...unhealthy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 23, 2025 02:30 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Mongol General at July 23, 2025 02:30 PM (q2NNn)
yes and no. I think -- I don't have the numbers but let me just freeball it-- that we had very low standing tariffs on Japan. We imposed this 24-25% tariff as bargaining leverage. We've now settled on a 15% tariff, which will be permanent (or until we're fool enough to let the neoliberals back into power).
So yeah, this is lower than the temporary previous level but higher than the longstanding level that existed before that.
Trump is aiming for a baseline of 10% (or, I guess, 15%) tariffs on ALL foreign goods, while the neoliberal corporate cabal has fought to make it 0%.
Posted by: ace at July 23, 2025 02:30 PM (KRtlO)
Knew I should have bought stock when Trump said "Buy Stock"....
Mom, trump is insider trading!
Posted by: Operator Error at July 23, 2025 02:30 PM (tm0oK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2025 02:30 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)
Cheap Trick.
Posted by: ace at July 23, 2025 02:28 PM (KRtlO)
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Spinal Tap is big in Japan.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2025 02:31 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2025 02:31 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2025 02:29 PM (mP0Kj)
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It took about 30 days.
Egg prices dropped to the pre-insanity low by about February.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 02:31 PM (GBKbO)
Also, I find it hilarious the current leader of the Philippines is Ferdinand Marcos. Ferdinand Marcos was a dictator in the Philippines when I was a kid. The US helped him escape to Hawaii with planeloads of loot when the locals revolted.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 23, 2025 02:31 PM (lIio7)
From something called "Variety":
Jeff Daniels recently appeared on MSNBC's "The Best People" podcast, hosted by Nicolle Wallace, and expressed his wish for Donald Trump supporters to lose their money for forcing the country to endure a second term of Trump as U.S. president.
"I hope you're losing tons of money, those of you who thought this would be OK," Daniels bluntly told Trump voters. "My question is, what are you guys going to do about it?"
Posted by: mrp at July 23, 2025 02:31 PM (rj6Yv)
Not double digit growth BUT with inflation back down around 2 or 3% that means real growth.
In the Biden years you could get 10% and you were still losing money because the Bidenflation.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 02:31 PM (t0Rmr)
From what I've been reading, they've made some progress on that front. They got rid of the idiot CEO who caused so many of the problems. Turns out, it's a bad idea to hire winos off the street to assemble airplanes.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 02:31 PM (Riz8t)
I've made up my mind to like Japan. I used to hate them because of the first half of the 20th century, but now I want them to arm up and dare China to invade Taiwan.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2025 02:32 PM (HL/Ld)
That extends to a deference to authority that is...unhealthy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)
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Yeah. And I also read that acquittals are rare.
So, you basically have to prove that the cops were wrong.
But, every other country is equal to the United States, of course!
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 02:32 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2025 02:33 PM (h0r72)
Posted by: Czech Chick at July 23, 2025 02:33 PM (vK/Ja)
The Japs aren't stupid and they want their future to be with the West where they are respected as opposed to the East where they are hated.
This is great!!!!
Posted by: pawn at July 23, 2025 02:33 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Axeman
There is a time and place to do skeevy shit and this part of town is not it.
Posted by: Operator Error at July 23, 2025 02:33 PM (tm0oK)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:33 PM (77rzZ)
In the Biden years you could get 10% and you were still losing money because the Bidenflation.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 02:31 PM (t0Rmr)
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heh, I called someone out over at Insty just for that. They were yammering on and on about how well they'd done and everyone was stupid etc. He never answered when I asked if he made money or barely broke even, when factoring in inflation.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 02:34 PM (tT6L1)
I get it, the economy is a powerful electoral force, Obama is the only president in my lifetime who managed to weather a bad economy and get reelected (although I am convinced he lost, in a real count).
So they want to lie people into believing the economy is bad, but that does not work. People don't react to things like that based on information, they react based on gut feeling. I am paying more for stuff, economy sucks. Claiming its bad won't change minds.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 02:34 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Your All Celery All The Time Network at July 23, 2025 02:34 PM (Rxv6j)
"I hope you're losing tons of money, those of you who thought this would be OK," Daniels bluntly told Trump voters. "My question is, what are you guys going to do about it?"
Posted by: mrp
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(checks Vanguard)
Sorry, Jeff. It turns out I don't have mind-bending powers to make industrials fall.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2025 02:34 PM (HL/Ld)
It's a mark of how much Xi has alienated the rest of the world that people now favor the Japs in a China/Japan dustup. It takes a lot to do that given Japan's behavior in the 30s and 40s.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 02:34 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Count de Monet, on lunch time break at July 23, 2025 02:34 PM (q2NNn)
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You mean, paid to lie about it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2025 02:29 PM (JvZF+)
And it's not surprise either.
"Success that contradicts people paid to lie about it."
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2025 02:34 PM (h0r72)
Film At 11!
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM (gxokI)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM (viF8m)
>>I'm looking forward to Q2 GDP data to be released so people will have another number other than the stock market to point to that dummies understand easily. Probably going to be close to 4%.
Keep an eye on Palentir, if they have a good August earrings report, they are going to zip up to around 200-250 a share.
You heard it hear first.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM (Kr6EU)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: Count de Monet, on lunch time break at July 23, 2025 02:34 PM (q2NNn)
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Watch out, I have an oxygen destroyer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: mrp at July 23, 2025 02:31 PM (rj6Yv)
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I can't even with those names.
The best people?!!
Flatulent Daniels and fucking Nicole-hasn't got a story right in years-Wallace?!
That's not even the best of the bottom 10%.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Your All Celery All The Time Network
I've been having digestive issues lately, and I'm hoping more fiber will bring some improvement.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 02:36 PM (W3T6M)
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Japan makes a lot of cars here.
In 2023, Japan's automakers manufactured approximately 3.27 million vehicles in factories located in the United States.
In 2023, Japan exported approximately 1.49 million motor vehicles to the United States, showing an increase compared to the previous year.
They should get a decent deal on tariffs considering those numbers. I expect they'll build more factories with that investment money.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 02:36 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: A westerner of average height at July 23, 2025 02:36 PM (KRtlO)
Trump and team want to get deals done, not "work on" getting deals done.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 02:36 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Edith Massey, The Egg Lady at July 23, 2025 02:36 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 23, 2025 02:36 PM (E+Ilz)
Posted by: Count de Monet, on lunch time break at July 23, 2025 02:34 PM (q2NNn)
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They say he's got to go.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 02:36 PM (krQz2)
heh, I called someone out over at Insty just for that. They were yammering on and on about how well they'd done and everyone was stupid etc. He never answered when I asked if he made money or barely broke even, when factoring in inflation.
That's a game the left often plays, they'll ignore inflation and debt when talking about growth. Well, if their claims of "multipliers" to government spending were true you should see that in the after inflation/debt numbers right?
The Biden years were basically taking out trillions in loans to generate billions in economic activity.
And of course the inflation and debt went to everyone whereas the "growth" went to his friends and allies.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 02:36 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Your All Celery All The Time Network
I've been having digestive issues lately, and I'm hoping more fiber will bring some improvement.
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Try eating some pickles.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (W3T6M)
Posted by: ace at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (KRtlO)
And doesn't Japan build most of its cars for the US here in the US anyway?
Posted by: SimoHayha at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (clrIT)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 02:36 PM (ExV1e)
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And are giving countries a huge incentive to get a deal done, rather than try to run out the clock.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (tT6L1)
That extends to a deference to authority that is...unhealthy.
Yeah, they made actual lists of people and families who were unclean based on criminal pasts or occupations. I've heard those lists still have some influence, even today. The vast majority of Yakuza came from families who were on those lists and had no legitimate way of becoming successful. Though to be fair, that's sort of a chicken and egg problem. If your family are all Yakuza, and your culture puts criminals on lists, then your family is going on the list.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (lIio7)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (8UsV6)
Now, back to my investigative analysis of the actual depth of Lara Logan's cleavage.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (/U5Yz)
Please, I beg you. I need your money.
Posted by: Tom "sort-of" Nichols at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (XDKgE)
I don't want an EV, I don't want a truck, and I don't want an SUV.
That means Japanese car at this point doesn't it?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 23, 2025 02:36 PM (E+Ilz)
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You can do that in a negotiation, if at one time the number actually is 25 and you dial it back to 15.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM (GBKbO)
You fiend!
Posted by: Count de Monet, on lunch time break at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (q2NNn)
Posted by: Cray Cray at July 23, 2025 02:38 PM (PC5DH)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:38 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Paco at July 23, 2025 02:38 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 23, 2025 02:38 PM (EAwmw)
WW2 they were every bit as evil as the Nazis, and every bit as murderous and brutal, they were just less efficient because they weren't German. For some reason (probably because Jews weren't involved and they dominated news and popular media) they were kind of given a pass.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 02:38 PM (dfIr7)
They recently created a special visa to go knock up Japanese women so you can get them back, presuming of course, you have the Tokyo Rizz.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 02:38 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: ace at July 23, 2025 02:39 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Your All Celery All The Time Network at July 23, 2025 02:34 PM (Rxv6j)
Read that as "celery dicks" ...
I need help.
Posted by: browndog has eye boogers at July 23, 2025 02:39 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: SimoHayha at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (clrIT)
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I don't know if the engines are locally sourced.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 02:39 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: pudinhead
I hate pickles.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:38 PM (77rzZ)
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You hate pickles, you hate Bach - good God, man.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 23, 2025 02:39 PM (XZ5S6)
Reportedly their conviction rate is around 99.8%. But like here, the prosecutors will drop cases they don't think they can successfully prosecute. Reportedly, they drop around 60% of cases.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 23, 2025 02:39 PM (lIio7)
Posted by: Bombadil at July 23, 2025 02:39 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 23, 2025 02:31 PM (lIio7)
U think you are missing a Junior in the man's name.
Posted by: Dandalo at July 23, 2025 02:39 PM (3QsZU)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Your All Celery
Celery ?
The celery that is like a toilet brush for your rectum?
Posted by: Operator Error at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (tm0oK)
We are still talking about slang terms for penises right?
Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Your neighborhood AWFL. at July 23, 2025 02:29 PM (Rxv6j)
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I will confess... I miss being able to tune in and hear El Rushbo's take on big or depressing political news.
Posted by: 496 at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (QbvHV)
Posted by: pudinhead
I hate pickles.
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Your hate is causing you upset. Eat some fucking pickles.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (W3T6M)
Please, I beg you. I need your money.
Posted by: Tom "sort-of" Nichols at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (XDKgE)
I hope you have a chapter for the FBI “Hair Analysis Specialist”. A lot of innocent people went to jail for that garbage.
Posted by: Cray Cray at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (PC5DH)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 02:36 PM (t0Rmr)
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Not necessarily. It would depend on how receptive other parts of the economy were to market signals.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Paco at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Pickles at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (2UnvF)
But I was reading how the culture is that if the cops even suspect you of being guilty of a crime, it's just the same as if you did it.
That lacks something of a modern society. Also the cops can do a lot of things they can't do here.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 02:28 PM (krQz2)
Japan is Japanese, it's not American. It needs to work for them, not for us. I've been in Japan a couple times, back when I was in the Navy, and never had any issues with authorities.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM*
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Stay tuned. If there are any new exuding developments we'll keep you informed.
Posted by: The Colon News Network at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (Rxv6j)
I need help.
Posted by: browndog has eye boogers at July 23, 2025 02:39 PM (TTAGa)
Help finding celery dicks?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Your All Celery
Celery ?
The celery that is like a toilet brush for your rectum?
Are you sure you're putting it in the right place?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (8UsV6)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (17s+e)
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It is a Trifecta!
Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (W3T6M)
Understands finance, P&L, ROI, Costs, Payroll.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (4Rx1C)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (t0Rmr)
They don't know that their countries have been raping Americans with sometimes hilariously high tariffs just to protect their trade and America is just trying to equalize things a bit.
Tariffs on dairy going into Canada can be over 100%, its ludicrous
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (ExV1e)
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"I should be allowed to import illegal drugs into the nation, though."
-Some dumb American kid right now, probably
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Captain Obvious
But I love celery and Brahms.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 02:28 PM (Riz8t)
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Go back a few months and you'll see what's going on here. Nippon Steel "acquired" US Steel in a very unusual agreement that allows US Steel to continue operating in the US with investments from Nippon...making the entity the largest steel manufacturer in the world. That pops up about 100,000 new jobs on its own in the US. Now, for financial reasons, the Japanese auto manufacturers will be making their vehicles here in a dramatic increase. More US jobs as a result. And, it's not just the auto business that gains from this. It's manufacturing in general.
Simply put, Japan doesn't have natural resources, so they need a proxy location to manufacture. The US is wealthy in resources. And, cutting out the resource import cost cuts their prices. Does the UAW get slighted in the process? Yes and No. It forces them to drop that EV nonsense and get back in the car business.
And both Japan and the US can counter China's effort to solidify South Amer. and Canada.
Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2025 02:42 PM (dIske)
Posted by: 18-1
A '71 Maverick with a 200-inch six meets all your automotive needs.
Posted by: Auto Trader at July 23, 2025 02:42 PM (G5+As)
The celery that is like a toilet brush for your rectum?
Posted by: Operator Error at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (tm0oK)
I think it is meant to start out on the other end.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 02:42 PM (i24o9)
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Your hate is causing you upset. Eat some fucking pickles.
Let the hate flow through you. Or, you know, the pickle.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 02:42 PM (Riz8t)
Are you using some kind of modified plumb line?
Posted by: Paco at July 23, 2025 02:42 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (8UsV6)
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With the last of name of baby bottle.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 02:42 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 23, 2025 02:36 PM (E+Ilz)
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You can do that in a negotiation, if at one time the number actually is 25 and you dial it back to 15.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (krQz2)
The tariff news is great. What I'm curious about is whether there is a loosening of tariffs and fees on US imports. In all of the news from the financial press about Trump's tariffs, a big reason why he was so peeved was the restrictions on US goods entering those countries. They've also never given any info on what exactly those were, so I hope that we got concessions on that as well. I trust that we did, but I've not heard anything about them.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 23, 2025 02:42 PM (33rjx)
And of course the inflation and debt went to everyone whereas the "growth" went to his friends and allies.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 02:36 PM (t0Rmr)
Also, if you have a large trade deficit, it means you are exporting Dollars to buy products... Dollars that are no longer within your economy...
Aggregate Trade Deficit should count AGAINST GDP...
Soooo... combined Inflation, Gov Debt, and taking out the Trade Deficit? and our economy has been hurting for many years.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2025 02:43 PM (mP0Kj)
Are you using some kind of modified plumb line?
Posted by: Paco
We'll need a laser device. It's that deep.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 23, 2025 02:43 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (dfIr7)
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Closer to 300%.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 23, 2025 02:43 PM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: pudinhead
I hate pickles.
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Your hate is causing you upset. Eat some fucking pickles.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (W3T6M)
Try a pickle juice enema.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2025 02:43 PM (pohLc)
Understands finance, P&L, ROI, Costs, Payroll.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (4Rx1C)
Don't forget Profits & Earnings Ratios!
Posted by: The (poncy) Chicago Lightbringer at July 23, 2025 02:43 PM (q2NNn)
Posted by: Freely flowing Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:44 PM (EAwmw)
No idea why.
Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (fV+MH)
Hard of hearing?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 02:44 PM (i24o9)
DNI TULSI GABBARD: "Correct."
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Well, then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)
I do enjoy his work as an actor, and I don't expect actors to be anything but idiots and losers. Unless they are REALLY egregious about it like Mark Ruffalo or Tim Robbins, I can live with their stupid.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 02:44 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: pudinhead
I hate pickles.
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Your hate is causing you upset. Eat some fucking pickles.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 02:40 PM (W3T6M)
Try a pickle juice enema.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2025 02:43 PM (pohLc)
Because that will endear him to pickles more?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 02:44 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23
I thought he was pretty good as Chamberlain in Gettysburg.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 23, 2025 02:44 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (77rzZ)
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You get a pass on the Brahms. Celery's iffy, though.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 23, 2025 02:44 PM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 23, 2025 02:42 PM (33rjx)
Reports I saw where that yes, many of Japan's trade barriers were gone via this agreement....
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2025 02:44 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 02:44 PM (t0Rmr)
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It is a Trifecta!
Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (W3T6M)
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Only the Christian world has made any kind of progress at removing ethnic resentment.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 02:44 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 23, 2025 02:31 PM (lIio7)
The President of the Philippines is the son of Ferdinand Marcos. Ferdinand Marcos died in 1989.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 02:44 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 02:37 PM (tT6L1)
The Japan deal, with lower tariff rates AND more US investment puts even more pressure on the Fed to lower the overnight funding rate. Imagine what even a 1% cut would do to US domestic economic growth.
Posted by: mrp at July 23, 2025 02:45 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2025 02:45 PM (JvZF+)
DNI TULSI GABBARD: "Correct."
I love Tulsi. No blather, no BS, no DC speak. Just the facts.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 02:45 PM (Riz8t)
Hopefully that will make a come back!
Posted by: Jap Pervert at July 23, 2025 02:45 PM (lX1hk)
"These are not the druids you are looking for"
*handwave*
--The Bard
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 02:45 PM (dfIr7)
no one knows who dey were
or what... dey were doin'
I find it fascinating that the Druids were a high ranking group of priests, judges, political advisors, etc, but they didn't keep any written record. Julius Caesar wrote they were literate in Greek, so it's not like they didn't know how. So they intentionally made no records, supposedly to keep their secrets. But they were so successful at that, we mostly don't know anything about them.
Good job, idiots. You don't get to tell your own story and all we know about you is from the records your enemies kept.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 23, 2025 02:45 PM (lIio7)
I'm very hopeful that a couple of years of what is happening now will result in a major shift in corporate culture across the board.
The biggest problem we have is really our failing, strike that, FAILED educational system to provide the resources need to actually do the work.
Posted by: pawn at July 23, 2025 02:46 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Modern D&D at July 23, 2025 02:46 PM (t0Rmr)
DNI TULSI GABBARD: "Correct."
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Well, then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)
If the Orange Guy himself was throwing around the T word in front of reporters, I'm guessing that he intends to do something about it. The guy tends to follow through on what he says he's going to do. Or at least try very hard to do so.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 23, 2025 02:46 PM (33rjx)
It also helps when you have the biggest economy in the world backing you up.
Trump has done an amazing job in a very short time resetting the global trade table but it also makes you wonder what the hell have previous presidents been doing?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2025 02:46 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 23, 2025 02:46 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (i24o9)
Ahhh, the Horde ... never leave an opening.
Be clear / concise young dog, else wise you will become the butt of many a jest at your expense.
Posted by: browndog has eye boogers at July 23, 2025 02:46 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: All the classics at July 23, 2025 02:46 PM (Rxv6j)
So, you basically have to prove that the cops were wrong.
Is that really all that different from here if you're a member of a politically disfavored group?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 02:47 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 02:47 PM (fV+MH)
China is fucked. Obama is fucked. All 51 quizlings are fucked. All these slick protected class talking heads are fucked. Hillary in particular is fucked up beyond all recognition. But Comey says hang on, all you Commie moles, because this can't last forever. Keep it up, Ace!
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 23, 2025 02:47 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2025 02:47 PM (rtIvC)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 02:44 PM (ExV1e)
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The Philippines and Nicaragua apparently have that whole "dog returning to its vomit" vibe going on.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 23, 2025 02:47 PM (XZ5S6)
The phrase "pulling their puds" comes to mind.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 02:47 PM (Riz8t)
DNI TULSI GABBARD: "Correct."
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"Implications."
Another new word for the propagandists.
Posted by: davidt at July 23, 2025 02:48 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: 496 at July 23, 2025 02:48 PM (1+1mZ)
Before it gets really weird, it's quite a funny first act.
He's not that dumb.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 02:48 PM (krQz2)
As I understand it, Trump has brought in a projected $10 trillion so far.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 23, 2025 02:48 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Pitted prunes at July 23, 2025 02:48 PM (Rxv6j)
Posted by: All the classics at July 23, 2025 02:46 PM (Rxv6j)
Tchaikovsky also makes your pee smell bad. True story.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 23, 2025 02:48 PM (k9OZB)
>>Well, then.
I love how reporters are so in the tank that they can't even use correct verbiage.
What is a referral for a criminal implication?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 23, 2025 02:49 PM (Kr6EU)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2025 02:49 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
I second the motion!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2025 02:49 PM (rtIvC)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2025 02:49 PM (8UsV6)
Try a few habaneros and see if that jumps starts your system.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 02:49 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 02:49 PM (Riz8t)
DNI TULSI GABBARD: "Correct."
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She scorched them. Leavitt was also brilliant and actually harsher.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 23, 2025 02:50 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2025 02:50 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:33 PM (77rzZ)
He was sentenced to death but that was reduced to life by judges because he only killed one person.
Based on my understanding of Japanese prisons, I'm not sure this is a better deal.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 02:50 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)
LOL. I'm well aware. Marcos was an old man when I lived in the Philippines. I still remember him broadcasting on TV from his palace, seated on an ornate gold throne. He died in Hawaii after the US helped him escape the revolution. I just think it's funny his relative is in power. The Filipinos HATED Marcos.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 23, 2025 02:50 PM (lIio7)
>>Well, then.
I love how reporters are so in the tank that they can't even use correct verbiage.
What is a referral for a criminal implication?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 23, 2025 02:49 PM (Kr6EU)
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According to Mollie Hemingway, the reporter who asked the question is Emily Jashinsky of The Federalist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 02:50 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 02:50 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 02:50 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 23, 2025 02:51 PM (Kr6EU)
Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 02:47 PM (fV+MH)
After a concussion in the Navy, I lost my sense of smell for a few months...
As we had JUST deployed... it wasn't such a bad thing at all.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2025 02:51 PM (mP0Kj)
He has a completely different philosophy of foreign relations and economics than they did. They saw the tariffs and economic status quo as a way of influencing other nations and using US power and riches to shape the world into what they wanted.
Perhaps this was wise and it worked, perhaps not, we'll see. But what Trump sees is that this is not helping the USA, and is bankrupting us. So he wants to fix things so that the USA is benefitted and the world has to work out its problems on its own.
This horrifies realpolitik and American Economic empire guys, who see our efforts as what is causing global peace and spreading democracy. I think that they clearly have failed, but again, we'll see.
What is funny is that the same foreign people who screamed and hated American economic empire hate this even more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 02:51 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2025 02:52 PM (+qU29)
If any other country did what the U.S. is doing, there would be a significant problem. But EVERY COMPANY in EVERY COUNTRY wants access to the American consumer. Now wants, NEEDS.
India has more people, but they have a protected market, and more importantly less money. Same with China.
If getting access to the American market means you have to prefer American goods over other countries...so be it.
And each domino that falls puts more pressure on India, China and Europe.
Imagine India saying, fuck this, opening their market to the U.S., in exchange for access to our market? China is then...dead. And India doesn't like and fears china.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 23, 2025 02:52 PM (D1vbu)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 23, 2025 02:52 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 02:50 PM (6ydKt)
182 If you're having going problems, nothing will make things move quicker and harder than 3 tablespoons of castor oil.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 23, 2025 02:51 PM (Kr6EU)
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Don't take chances, do both.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 23, 2025 02:52 PM (XZ5S6)
Turns out you just needed a new President. And now we need new experts.
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2025 02:52 PM (aIUv1)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 02:50 PM (6ydKt)
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*Scribbles notes*
Posted by: Pete Bootygig at July 23, 2025 02:52 PM (2UnvF)
The President of the Philippines is the son of Ferdinand Marcos. Ferdinand Marcos died in 1989.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Make Subic Bay great again.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2025 02:52 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: 496 at July 23, 2025 02:48 PM (1+1mZ)
Wasn't really their fault.
All the crowds dried up after Winter.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 02:52 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2025 02:52 PM (gKWVE)
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I thought I saw it here that someone said that cars, engines and engine parts all had a 100% tariff there?
Talk about artificially holding back your own people.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 23, 2025 02:52 PM (VMT/Y)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 02:50 PM (6ydKt)
182 If you're having going problems, nothing will make things move quicker and harder than 3 tablespoons of castor oil.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 23, 2025 02:51 PM (Kr6EU)
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Don't take chances, do both.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 23, 2025 02:52 PM (XZ5S6)
*moves away from Bulg*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 02:53 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM*
Jalapeno peppers. Chopped and added to your favorite salsa. Consume a few hours before bedtime. In the morning, have your coffee as usual. Maybe take a short walk, but not too far from home...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 23, 2025 02:53 PM (IY+he)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 02:53 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)
I think a certain number of people in Hokkaido have Ainu ancestry, but because of Japanese racism and xenophobia will never admit it.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2025 02:54 PM (rtIvC)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 02:55 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:55 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)
I think a certain number of people in Hokkaido have Ainu ancestry, but because of Japanese racism and xenophobia will never admit it.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2025 02:54 PM (rtIvC)
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Ishiro Honda made a monster movie with Ainu characters.
It's kind of awful, but Toho won't release it officially anymore because of the racism, apparently.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 02:55 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 02:55 PM (tT6L1)
Or a hot iron...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2025 02:55 PM (VE6XX)
-Some dumb American kid right now, probably
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)
I think the big thing now is, "I should be able to be an obnoxious piece of shit to the locals for my TikTok channel."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 02:55 PM (ExV1e)
"I heard an expert on NPR say, 'contrary to popular belief, AC does not actually cool the room, it cools the air in the room'"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 02:56 PM (dfIr7)
You know how to do that, right? You just pucker your lips and blow...
Posted by: Barry O at July 23, 2025 02:56 PM (aIUv1)
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The silver lining to this story was my new landlord in HI had just retired as a 30 yr Network Camera Man and settled in his beach front retirement home when his son severed his spine riding one of those three wheeled ATV. Marcos had just arrived in HI and my landlord was hired to cover the comings and goings with a camera by his old Network - NBC. He made a shit ton of money filming the Marcos comings and goings for two months.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 02:56 PM (W3T6M)
We need to bring asskickings back to culture. The "he had it coming" defense should be absolute in court.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 02:57 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 23, 2025 02:57 PM (mlg/3)
>>It's like I don't know you people any more.
Who knows, he may need a fecal implant.
An intro instead of an outro.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 23, 2025 02:57 PM (Kr6EU)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Wow. What would we do without experts?
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:57 PM (77rzZ)
Today Japan is our most reliable ally.
Only downside, is the US now believes in nation building for every shithole country that lacks Japan's character, culture and intelligence.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 23, 2025 02:57 PM (wBaIH)
The net effect, however, is to actually heat the Earth, on average.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 23, 2025 02:58 PM (qoUKC)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 02:55 PM (tT6L1)
Or a hot iron...
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Wouldn't a nice rub and tug at a skeevy Massage Pallor be moar enjoyable?
Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 02:58 PM (W3T6M)
So, cutting them from 25% to 15% means we're economically shooting ourselves in the foot. i don't know why Trump would want to hamstring his own economy by reducing tariffs.
In fact, if we REALLY wanted to get the economy booming, we should enact a 100% tariff on all goods not made in the USA. We'll all be rich!
Posted by: Lamont Cranston at July 23, 2025 02:58 PM (w6p9p)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Ain't no way I'm EVER having one of those.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:58 PM (77rzZ)
@Breaking911 3m
BREAKING: Obama-appointed federal judge blocks officials from detaining illegal alien MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia after pre-trial detention
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 23, 2025 02:58 PM (mlg/3)
You're pretty much left with the Accord and Camry.
Posted by: brak at July 23, 2025 02:58 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: davidt at July 23, 2025 02:58 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Ryukyuan Hunting Club Of Tokyo at July 23, 2025 02:59 PM (lX1hk)
U.S. = $23 Trillion
China = $7 Trillion
Germany $2.3 trillion
India $2.2 Trillion
Canada $1.2 Trillion
etc.
If I can only sell to one country, which one is it? The top 10 countries in the world combined don't reach U.S. buying power. All of Europe is HALF the size of the U.S, market.
That means companies MUST have access to the U.S. market. So, we make that access, contingent on investment in the U.S., purchase of U.S. goods, and willingness to tolerate tariffs.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 23, 2025 02:59 PM (D1vbu)
Yeah it worked for what might be the only two nations on earth it could work for: Japan and Germany. I mean, it demonstrated that is possible, over time, but not that it necessarily can always work everywhere.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 02:59 PM (dfIr7)
No one was really advocating for the American worker except labor unions, but they were mostly interested in left-wing politics. Not their members well-being or the US economy as a whole.
Posted by: Maroon at July 23, 2025 03:00 PM (1DEuE)
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2025 03:00 PM (g47mK)
psyllium husk fiber.
also cuts down on toilet paper consumption. great supplement
Posted by: brak at July 23, 2025 03:00 PM (jGJov)
You know, I sometimes wonder if a couple years of rape and pillage might have done them some good.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2025 03:00 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 02:28 PM (Riz8t)
Presumably there will be a deal where the Unions don't strangle the company from birth. Saturn, Toyota and the like did that in the 80s and 90s.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Wow. What would we do without experts?
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:57 PM (77rzZ)
It's like Globull Warmering... that only seems to heat up the 10 meters or so just above the ground...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2025 03:01 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2025 02:46 PM (viF8m)
Surrendering.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 23, 2025 03:01 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: blake
Coffee enema.
Pro tip: let it cool first.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 03:02 PM (4Rx1C)
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2025 03:00 PM (g47mK)
Problem is they don't have the people who did the good work in the building any more.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 03:02 PM (8avO+)
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To be fair, all Asians think that about all other Asians.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 23, 2025 03:02 PM (VMT/Y)
Obama-appointed Judge Robin Rosenberg slapped down the request from Attorney General Pam Bondi to unseal proceedings related to Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell."
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2025 03:02 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 02:57 PM (dfIr7)
Johnny Somali did get his ass beat a few times in Korea.
Posted by: XTC at July 23, 2025 03:02 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2025 03:03 PM (63Dwl)
DNI TULSI GABBARD: "Correct."
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Bring in Dennis trying to explain the implications to Mac.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 23, 2025 03:03 PM (VMT/Y)
That's good news for that
(I just started to re-learn how to play this year. Have a Yamaha and a Gretsch that I play)
Posted by: Blanco at July 23, 2025 03:04 PM (q83gU)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
By the laws of thermodynamics cooling the air in the room indeed will also cool the room with time.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 03:04 PM (8avO+)
Kevin O'Leary: 'Ahmed you ignorant slut'!
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 23, 2025 03:04 PM (VPPG8)
Interesting. My dad was in charge of the Air Force K9 group when Marcos was ousted. Because one of Marcos' relatives had bomb training, my dad was ordered to sweep the palace with bomb sniffing dogs once Marcos left. The ground floor was gutted, but the mob didn't enter the second floor. They found a crate of Rolexes, saw Imelda Marcos' shoe room, and saw their room filled floor to ceiling with pictures of the Marcoses with every political leader and celebrity of the time. He told me they had separate bedrooms and they were labeled the King's bedroom and the Queen's bedroom.
When Marcos fled to HI, they flew out of Clark AFB. One entire C130 was filled with their loot. A second C130 was filled with their family members.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 23, 2025 03:04 PM (lIio7)
Pro tip: let it cool first.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 03:02 PM (4Rx1C)
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Henry Blake: (tipsy) ...so the General said, "Give that man a coffee enema." And I said, "Cream or sugar?" I was on a plane to Korea in 10 hours.
Fr. Mulcahy: Well, the enema's loss was our gain, Colonel.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 23, 2025 03:04 PM (XZ5S6)
@disclosetv
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JUST IN - U.S. judge rejects DOJ bid to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts from Florida probe — Reuters
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 23, 2025 03:04 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: mrp at July 23, 2025 03:05 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM (pohLc)
Eh, so did China over literally hundreds of years.
Japan's problematic period lasted about 20 years, but was more recent.
China, though, is hustling to reclaim their crown as King Dickweed of Asia.
while Japan is a good strong ally of the US.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025 03:05 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 03:06 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Blanco
My son just bought a new Les Paul. Beautiful-looking instrument.
Too bad it's a guitar.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 03:06 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 02:57 PM (dfIr7)
Johnny Somali did get his ass beat a few times in Korea.
Posted by: XTC at July 23, 2025 03:02 PM (UnA8+)
More than a few times. Some dudes would watch him stream and when it started, they'd descend on him in a flash mob and whop him. Richly deserved.
Now the legal system there is beating on him, looks like he may get 30+ years.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 03:06 PM (8avO+)
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Picard face-palm meme
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 23, 2025 03:06 PM (VMT/Y)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 02:59 PM (dfIr7)
In both cases, we went in hard. We dictated what their new Constitutions would be.... destroyed the philosophies and religion that they were based on... humbled them to the point where they could rebuild.
Our current Feminized government, won't do that. Hell, we let Iraq enshrine ISLAM and Sharia Law into their Constitution! The very philosophy that had created 9 / 11...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2025 03:07 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 03:07 PM (fV+MH)
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Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 03:07 PM (4Rx1C)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM (pohLc)
Eh, so did China over literally hundreds of years.
Japan's problematic period lasted about 20 years, but was more recent.
China, though, is hustling to reclaim their crown as King Dickweed of Asia.
while Japan is a good strong ally of the US.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025 03:05 PM (iJfKG)
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Posted by: Lamont Cranston at July 23, 2025 02:58 PM (w6p9p)
Reductio ad absurdum.
The trick is to balance tariffs against imports for each country.
You don't want to go too hard one way or the other in a perfect world.
Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, China, all use tariffs, but we can't?
Are their tariffs on imports damaging their economies?
They don't think so, obviously.
But somehow it's going to kill ours when we're the one doing all the importing?
This isn't that hard.
We don't live in any economist's perfect theoretical world.
We live in this one, with lots of tariffs to go around.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 03:07 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 23, 2025 03:07 PM (wBaIH)
Trump plays more multi-dimensional chess.
Posted by: davidt at July 23, 2025 03:08 PM (i0F8b)
The "I love science!!!!! sexually" crowd nods their head in smug approval of the superior knowledge they have now gained
Posted by: brak at July 23, 2025 03:08 PM (jGJov)
You know how to do that, right? You just pucker your lips and blow...
Posted by: Barry O
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Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
Kpop>>> Jpop
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Posted by: Jetto at July 23, 2025 03:08 PM (uf7IS)
The AC cools the air in the room. The cool air then cools the objects in the room. By the transitive property, the AC has cooled the room.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 23, 2025 03:09 PM (lIio7)
The Japs invaded Korea in 1592 and stayed until 1598.
Then again in 1910-1945. Thats considerably more than 20 years.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2025 03:09 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2025 03:10 PM (Hkcdp)
JUST IN - U.S. judge rejects DOJ bid to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts from Florida probe — Reuters
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 23, 2025 03:04 PM (mlg/3)
Hmmm... under what LAW does the Judge have that authority? or is it another case of Supreme Court written 'rules' that give him that power?
Epstein is dead... his Pimp is in Prison... case is apparently closed... so how does a Judge get to decide this?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2025 03:10 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 23, 2025 03:10 PM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: Jetto at July 23, 2025 03:10 PM (uf7IS)
Now the legal system there is beating on him, looks like he may get 30+ years.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 03:06 PM (8avO+)
Plus, his father has disowned him, his Korean friend's parents have disowned _him_...
Posted by: XTC at July 23, 2025 03:10 PM (UnA8+)
The AC cools the air in the room. The cool air then cools the objects in the room. By the transitive property, the AC has cooled the room.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 23, 2025 03:09 PM (lIio7)
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"In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" -- Homer Simpson
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2025 03:10 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: davidt at July 23, 2025 02:58 PM (i0F8b)
Basically, no.
Auto jobs are booming in the union-hostile South:
https://is.gd/DsBfQ9
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2025 03:10 PM (rtIvC)
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This is hardly information that we should be repeating... I'm not sure we should spend that much more time on it.
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Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 03:10 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 23, 2025 02:57 PM (wBaIH)
As I have noted before, both Germany and Japan could be rebuilt because they had previously been highly civilized countries before they fell into militarism and basically went made. They really just needed to be reset to what they once had been.
In the middle east, we tried to do the same trick with Barbarians, who had always been uncivilized barbarians. They only thing they could possibly "reset" to was more barbarism, which they did.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2025 03:11 PM (uWKK8)
The "I love science!!!!! sexually" crowd nods their head in smug approval of the superior knowledge they have now gained
Posted by: brak at July 23, 2025 03:08 PM (jGJov)
NPR does not acknowledge the principals of Conduction, or Convection!
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2025 03:11 PM (mP0Kj)
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And all this time I wondered why they didn't call it a "room conditioner"!
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 03:11 PM (krQz2)
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This is hardly information that we should be repeating... I'm not sure we should spend that much more time on it.
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Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 03:10 PM (krQz2)
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500,000 people are gonna be left out of the loop.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)
How to handle a church service for various regions of the country.
Regional Church Service -
Open with In-A-Gaddda-Da-Vida
Close with Freebird
Quote Animal House in the middle.
Easy-peasy
Southern Version
Open with I Saw the Light
Close with The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Quote Gone With the Wind in the Middle
Lemon-Squuezy
Detroit Version
Open with Jesus is Love by the Commodores
Close with God Gave Rock and Roll to You by KISS
Quote Gung Ho in the Middle
Done and Done
Texas Version
Open with The Eyes of Texas
Close with The Yellow Rose of Texas
Quote The Alamo in the Middle
In it to Win It
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 03:11 PM (4Rx1C)
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This is hardly information that we should be repeating... I'm not sure we should spend that much more time on it.
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Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 03:10 PM (krQz2)
CNN has spent the day releasing "newly" found pictures of Trump and Epstein...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2025 03:11 PM (VE6XX)
What do you think of the latest iteration of Babymetal?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2025 03:12 PM (rtIvC)
Sure Jan.
Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 03:12 PM (fV+MH)
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This is hardly information that we should be repeating... I'm not sure we should spend that much more time on it.
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Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 03:10 PM (krQz2)
But Obama weighed in on it, so now they gotta kinda cover it.
Posted by: davidt at July 23, 2025 03:12 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Ted Striker's Polka Hits at July 23, 2025 03:12 PM (y+RCP)
Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 02:47 PM (fV+MH)
That's what the people who stand close to you say!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2025 03:12 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: blake
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I thought the hot iron was the initial go-to solution for most medical ailments.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2025 03:12 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2025 03:12 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at July 23, 2025 03:12 PM (TdCYS)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 03:06 PM (8avO+)
Plus, his father has disowned him, his Korean friend's parents have disowned _him_...
Posted by: XTC at July 23, 2025 03:10 PM
That's terrible!
Anyway....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 23, 2025 03:12 PM (dPfyF)
Yeah, why start reporting actual facts now? That ship sailed long ago.
Posted by: Jetto at July 23, 2025 03:12 PM (uf7IS)
The UK is fast running to join them in the morgue.
They are building a financial prison for their subjects.
Because their collapse is imminent and they can't let the sheep escape shearing.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 23, 2025 03:13 PM (VMT/Y)
Posted by: Tokyo Joe at July 23, 2025 03:13 PM (G5+As)
Have a great afternoon everyone
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: All In The Family at July 23, 2025 03:14 PM (lX1hk)
Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 03:06 PM (fV+MH)
Sometimes, that's all you need - if you breathe it
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Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2025 03:14 PM (RHGPo)
Medical Advice - Slap hot iron to it. High Colonic. Coffee Enema - Pro Tip: Let the coffee cool first.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 03:07 PM (4Rx1C)
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Glad somebody set this down for reference!
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 03:14 PM (krQz2)
@disclosetv
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JUST IN - U.S. judge rejects DOJ bid to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts from Florida probe — Reuters
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 23, 2025 03:04 PM (mlg/3)
The legal eagles can weigh in on that, but I'm thinking that this was always going to be a heavy lift. Grand jury transcripts are very hard to release anyway, and any info from those proceedings don't have any defense rebuttals in there, so it would show the evidence in the worst possible light (even though it's probably pretty bad already). I always thought that this was a stalling tactic by Trump to get the pesky headline off the front pages. There's still nothing bad for Trump there, but I simply thought he wanted to move on to other matters.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 23, 2025 03:15 PM (33rjx)
Posted by: brak at July 23, 2025 03:15 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 23, 2025 03:15 PM (eZwyX)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2025 03:11 PM (mP0Kj)
Conduction and convection are systemically racist tools of the white patriarchy.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 03:16 PM (i24o9)
Hey, remember that time your media reporter, Tater, speculated that Trump had possibly beaten or even killed Melania because she hadn’t made public appearances in several weeks? Turned out she was ill and needed minor surgery. You couldn’t help yourselves, though, could you?
Yeah, you’re not in a position to lecture on what is appropriate. See also: over feeding fish! Two scoops! She won’t hold his hand! — and other hair-on-fire stories about Trump as well.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2025 03:16 PM (Hkcdp)
Holy
Shit
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 23, 2025 03:15 PM (eZwyX
There was a flaming skull.. I missed it too...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2025 03:16 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2025 03:11 PM (VE6XX)
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Anything later than the 90s?
...
Can we STOP pretending that CNN is NOT an arm of the DNC?!
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 03:16 PM (krQz2)
Well, bear in mind that I've only been a fan for a little over two years, so like right before Momo officially joined, but I love it.
I have to say, though, the fandom can be quite icky.
Posted by: Jetto at July 23, 2025 03:17 PM (uf7IS)
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"How many Magic Wands can that Idiot Gorilla TV-Watching Drumphff keep pulling out of his ass?!?!?!?!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Alligator Alcatraz the Gulf of Gator Gitmo! at July 23, 2025 03:17 PM (63Mzn)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2025 03:18 PM (pohLc)
JUST IN - U.S. judge rejects DOJ bid to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts from Florida probe — Reuters
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 23, 2025 03:04 PM (mlg/3)
Hmmm... under what LAW does the Judge have that authority? or is it another case of Supreme Court written 'rules' that give him that power?
Epstein is dead... his Pimp is in Prison... case is apparently closed... so how does a Judge get to decide this?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2025 03:10 PM (mP0Kj)
Religion - seal of grand jury = seal of confession.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 23, 2025 03:18 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 23, 2025 03:18 PM (W2Pud)
The Japs invaded Korea in 1592 and stayed until 1598.
Then again in 1910-1945. Thats considerably more than 20 years.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2025 03:09 PM (pohLc)
Again, meh.
China repeatedly invaded and dominated Korea and in general treated the Koreans like dogs over hundreds of years.
In your example, from 1592 until 2025 Japan was mean to Korea for 41 years out of 433years, hardly a pimple on the butt of Chinese domination of Korea.
But, whatevs. Get your hate on for a good ally.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025 03:18 PM (iJfKG)
Holy
Shit
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 23, 2025 03:15 PM (eZwyX)
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Yes, but CNN is now taking fire for covering any of it.
We get to see how big of parrots the Dem voters are.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 03:18 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23
I thought he was pretty good as Chamberlain in Gettysburg.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 23, 2025 02:44 PM (kTd/k)
BAYONETS!!!!
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 03:18 PM (8avO+)
But I was reading how the culture is that if the cops even suspect you of being guilty of a crime, it's just the same as if you did it."
A lot of countries have f'd up legal systems that few Americans realized. Rember Amanda Knox, the American girl accused of murder in Italy, convicted, and finally released? Now she did some flaky things that didn't help her along the way, but the core reason as to why she was convicted was that the Lead Investigator in her case was ALSO the Prosecuting Attorney. and ALSO the Judge in the case! (Guess how many cases he lost in his own courtroom)
and that was legal under Italian law.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2025 03:18 PM (uWKK8)
For that, we must idolize their whole culture!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO)
I think we romanticize the Samurai the same way we romanticize Knights & chivalry.
There's a little carry over to the Wild West and Westerns.
Admiring the hero gentleman who dispenses righteous justice and wins the fair maiden's hand.
It's no wonder Seven Samurai and The Maginficent Seven happened.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 03:19 PM (6ydKt)
The UK is fast running to join them in the morgue.
They are building a financial prison for their subjects.
Because their collapse is imminent and they can't let the sheep escape shearing.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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These are the types of refugees we need!
Posted by: American Dental Association at July 23, 2025 03:19 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 23, 2025 03:18 PM (W2Pud)
He was scouting for new recruits for Epstein ! CNN
Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2025 03:19 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: davidt at July 23, 2025 03:19 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 23, 2025 03:18 PM (W2Pud)
Old news, even if believable.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 03:19 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: bonhomme
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It's a testament to the ineptitude, graft , and corruption of all his successors that the voters were desperate enough to return to that bloodline.
I think Gen Ramos was the only competent not completely corrupt president post -Marcos Senior
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 23, 2025 03:19 PM (n+Gtf)
Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025 03:18 PM (iJfKG
I harbor no dislike of the Japanese. I just stated a fact.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2025 03:19 PM (pohLc)
Open with The Eyes of Texas
Close with The Yellow Rose of Texas
Quote The Alamo in the Middle
In it to Win It
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2025 03:11 PM (4Rx1C)
BBQ potluck following the service for fellowship.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2025 03:20 PM (q2NNn)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2025 03:20 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: All In The Family at July 23, 2025 03:14 PM (lX1hk)
Ha. Poop Joke.
Posted by: XTC at July 23, 2025 03:21 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Archimedes
That was nearly a hundred years ago, at this point. Most of the people who have personal grudges are dead, and most Americans don't harbor impersonal grudges for very long.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 23, 2025 03:21 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2025 03:21 PM (rtIvC)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 23, 2025 03:18 PM (W2Pud)
Well, he was paying the rent.
As long as he didn't have his phone out recording, I can handle this revelation.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 03:21 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Polka will never die at July 23, 2025 03:22 PM (5xvZ1)
Posted by: Euro-Centric at July 23, 2025 03:22 PM (G5+As)
There's a little carry over to the Wild West and Westerns.
Admiring the hero gentleman who dispenses righteous justice and wins the fair maiden's hand.
It's no wonder Seven Samurai and The Maginficent Seven happened.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23
For my money, the Zatoichi series and the Lone Wolf and Cub series were he apex of Samurai entertainment. Absolute classics.
Posted by: zombie at July 23, 2025 03:22 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 23, 2025 03:18 PM (W2Pud)
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vs. having Merrick Garland on the SCOTUS....
I'll take the peeping Trump every time.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 03:22 PM (krQz2)
It would be hilarious if it weren’t so dangerous.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 23, 2025 03:23 PM (W2Pud)
There's a little carry over to the Wild West and Westerns.
Admiring the hero gentleman who dispenses righteous justice and wins the fair maiden's hand.
It's no wonder Seven Samurai and The Maginficent Seven happened.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 03:19 PM (6ydKt)
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I'm of two minds on the Japanese Meiji Era stuff.
It's...really appealing visually. The banners. The clothes. There are admirable things about honor.
But, it's an outright tyrannical system of oppression that kept the low classes enthralled to the shogunate and its lieutenants without any recourse at all. The extended peace was accomplished through a very heavy application of a police state that kept the country from progressing beyond the medieval period for something like a century.
So, I'll play Ghosts of Tsushima and enjoy it while knowing I probably shouldn't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)
That extends to a deference to authority that is...unhealthy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)
Well, not really. The story of Japan pre WWII was full of the armed forces ignoring, defying, can couping the authorities. But the swords were cool.
Culminating with a border clash with Russia in 1939 where in the end Zukhov was sent out to organize a several hundred mile march across roadless terrain to destroy the Japanese forces in the disputed area. Thus a waning of the desire to expand in Asia versus against the US and European held areas.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 03:23 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Romeo13
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Maybe...
Posted by: Jeffery Epstein, on a beach, sipping mai tais at July 23, 2025 03:23 PM (EFZgU)
Posted by: zombie at July 23, 2025 03:22 PM (pMi6S)
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Lone Wolf and Cub...sucks.
I kind of hated it all. There was one I thought was pretty good, but that was it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2025 03:24 PM (h0r72)
Posted by: zombie at July 23, 2025 03:22 PM (pMi6S)
I haven't seen Zatochi, I don't think.
But I did watch three or four of the Lone Wolf and Cub movies on MAX a few years ago.
They're quite addictive if you like the genre.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 03:24 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 23, 2025 03:21 PM (a+4eV)
Reparations!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2025 03:24 PM (q2NNn)
I suppose that would be "massive."
Posted by: Martin Tell at July 23, 2025 03:24 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 23, 2025 03:18 PM (W2Pud)
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Jeesh, that story is so old I can't believe they're recycling it.
Posted by: WisRich at July 23, 2025 03:24 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2025 03:11 PM (mP0Kj)
Conduction and convection are systemically racist tools of the white
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 03:16 PM (i24o9)
FIFY.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 23, 2025 03:24 PM (wtvvX)
I can't believe we continued to let them drive on the wrong side of the road.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2025 03:25 PM (q2NNn)
I suppose that would be "massive."
Posted by: Martin Tell at July 23, 2025 03:24 PM (sFNX2)
As long as it's attached to a 30-story Gundam.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 23, 2025 03:25 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 23, 2025 03:24 PM (wtvvX)
You can't have racism without thermodynamics.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 03:25 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: WisRich at July 23, 2025 03:24 PM (G0vdT)
Well. you don't expect them to cover the actual news do you ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2025 03:25 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 23, 2025 03:21 PM (a+4eV)
We were over it by Korea.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 03:25 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 23, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)
That's the basis of Asian culture generally, I think.
Harshly enforced hierarchy.
But doing it with style.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 23, 2025 03:25 PM (6ydKt)
I think Babymetal has found equilibrium with Momo, and I look forward to what they will be doing now as grown adults.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2025 03:26 PM (rtIvC)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 23, 2025 03:26 PM (ULPxl)
JUST IN - U.S. judge rejects DOJ bid to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts from Florida probe — Reuters
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 23, 2025 03:04 PM (mlg/3)
Hmmm... under what LAW does the Judge have that authority? or is it another case of Supreme Court written 'rules' that give him that power?
Epstein is dead... his Pimp is in Prison... case is apparently closed... so how does a Judge get to decide this?
... this is about child exploitation. There lots of victims in those pages ... and lots of innocent bystanders. Nobody, especially the Democrats in Congress, wants to re-exploit those victims .. do they ?
Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2025 03:26 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: davidt at July 23, 2025 03:19 PM (i0F8b)
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That's the best Hillary/Tulsi summary I've seen.
Posted by: WisRich at July 23, 2025 03:27 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 23, 2025 03:25 PM (wtvvX)
I remember a Gundam cartoon where the robot would drop a sword AND the arm that held it in battle situations.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 03:27 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025 03:18 PM (iJfKG
I harbor no dislike of the Japanese. I just stated a fact.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2025 03:19 PM (pohLc)
Really?
And I quote:
When the US dropped the sun on Japan, twice, it was the beginning of changing that country forever. We did not rape and pillage we said "let's rebuild."
You know, I sometimes wonder if a couple years of rape and pillage might have done them some good.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2025 03:00 PM (pohLc)
That's some mighty unusual love or even neutrality you're showing there.
Yeeesh.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025 03:27 PM (iJfKG)
It would be hilarious if it weren’t so dangerous.
---
Good.
They're not winning converts.
They're hunting heretics.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 23, 2025 03:27 PM (VMT/Y)
While I agree that Babymetal is better than all K-Pop combined, cute Korean girls are cuter than cute Japanese girls.
Although the japanese girls come by it naturally.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 03:27 PM (dfIr7)
But I was reading how the culture is that if the cops even suspect you of being guilty of a crime, it's just the same as if you did it."
If Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is to be believed, being "not guilty" yourself is insufficient. You as the defendant have to argue that someone else was guilty.
So, how much do you trust a video game to get that kind of thing right?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 23, 2025 03:28 PM (a+4eV)
OTFGK
Posted by: Jetto at July 23, 2025 03:31 PM (uf7IS)
In your example, from 1592 until 2025 Japan was mean to Korea for 41 years out of 433years, hardly a pimple on the butt of Chinese domination of Korea.
But, whatevs. Get your hate on for a good ally.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2025 03:18 PM (iJfKG)
I've heard Koreans compared to the Irish for that. Invaded by the Norse, then the English and merc'd to the French for a thousand years.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 03:32 PM (8avO+)
The AC cools the air in the room. The cool air then cools the objects in the room. By the transitive property, the AC has cooled the room.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 23, 2025 03:09 PM (lIio7)
It's all about transferring heat. As air is pulled from a conditioned space and pulled through the evaporator fins, heat from the air is transferred to the refrigerant circulating through the passes in the evaporator coil. The heated vapor is pumped through the compressor to the condenser, where the heat picked up in the evaporator plus the heat added by compression is rejected into the ambient air.
Posted by: Polka will never die at July 23, 2025 03:33 PM (uxAXv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 02:29 PM (i24o9)
I want one of those Land cruiser pickups. The Hilux looks like a Tacoma.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2025 03:33 PM (D7oie)
So, how much do you trust a video game to get that kind of thing right?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 23, 2025 03:28 PM (a+4eV)
I don't THINK the game reflects Japanese law. One prosecutor will throw his coffee at your head if you don't do well...or maybe if you do well.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 03:34 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oldcat
That would make trials more entertaining, you have to admit.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 23, 2025 03:36 PM (a+4eV)
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I've been having digestive issues lately, and I'm hoping more fiber will bring some improvement.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 02:35 PM (77rzZ)
Take two Reese's Peanut Butter cups and call me in the morning.
Posted by: Dr Vinnie Boombatz at July 23, 2025 03:50 PM (5xuJ/)
TACO
PRICES will only go up015%
Inflation rate has only gone up 10% in 6months
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 23, 2025 04:20 PM (6prLv)
tell that to my balls and taint
Posted by: Otto Pen at July 23, 2025 04:23 PM (sJHOI)
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