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K1052

K1052

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Muse said:
Yup, I see this at The Berkeley Bowl.

If you're in Hawaii, locally grown avocados probably cover the market for them but in California, I don't remember seeing any. They're all grown in Mexico.
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Also people should take a gander at where the tomatoes come from.
 
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outriding

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Muse said:
Yup, I see this at The Berkeley Bowl.

If you're in Hawaii, locally grown avocados probably cover the market for them but in California, I don't remember seeing any. They're all grown in Mexico.
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Checkmate libtards and your avocado toast
 
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eelw

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It’s hilarious this anti DEI push. Now we can hire people based on merit.

Lol merit of being an orange monkey butt kisser.
 
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gothuevos

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K1052 said:
I always thought the idea they would confine immigration raids to blue areas to be really really unlikely. Anyway fuck the Trump voting farmers whose crops will rot in the fields now.
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I wouldn't put it past him to just target blue areas for a few months then declare mission accomplished.
 
nakedfrog

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gothuevos said:
I wouldn't put it past him to just target blue areas for a few months then declare mission accomplished.
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Or does that, then stops because of the damage it's doing, and then claiming credit for fixing the problem he caused. IDK, hard to say how far he'll push it.
 
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biostud

biostud

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pmv said:
Anyone familiar enough with Danish politics to know who this guy is?

Interesting that he's described as 'right wing'. Guess it's another example of the immense difficulty the right has with uniting across national borders - by their very nature they just can't do 'internationalism'. (I mean, the left finds it pretty difficult, the right constantly end up in full-on conflict with people who share pretty much the same ideology, just with a different nationalism)

uk.yahoo.com

'F**k Off': European Lawmaker Hits Trump With A Blunt Public Message

The unusually harsh words earned Anders Vistisen a rebuke in Parliament.
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He is member of the Danish Peoples Party, and is a regular dumbass. Interestingly the leader of the party went to Mar a Lago to try to meet with Trump to suck up with the rest of the right wing European parties, so not really sure what their strategy is...
 
Pens1566

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From a little birdie:

An entire department just got the "we're ending all DEI initiatives" email. For bonus points, it included a section on reporting anyone that had recently attempted to hide such DEI programs using coded or imprecise language. There will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting of those efforts/individuals, but after 10 days there will be.
 
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MrSquished

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Trump withdrew the US from the virtually global corporate minimum tax rate initiative. Of course.
 
MrSquished

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Withdrawn from the non-discrimination rule of 1965, just two years after the MLK I have a dream speech. Simply that the government can't discriminate when hiring. These people are disgusting. Imagine any woman or minority of any shape or form voting for this guy. I hope they have the worst years of their lives. They deserve every bit of it.

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[DHT]Osiris

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MrSquished said:
Withdrawn from the non-discrimination rule of 1965, just two years after the MLK I have a dream speech. Simply that the government can't discriminate when hiring. These people are disgusting. Imagine any woman or minority of any shape or form voting for this guy. I hope they have the worst years of their lives. They deserve every bit of it.

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Great time to be a good guy in a hiring position in the govt. Just reject every single application for every job Trump's team is firing based on race, color, religion, sex, or origin until you get fired. Grind the whole fucking thing to a halt.
 
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gothuevos

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MrSquished said:
Withdrawn from the non-discrimination rule of 1965, just two years after the MLK I have a dream speech. Simply that the government can't discriminate when hiring. These people are disgusting. Imagine any woman or minority of any shape or form voting for this guy. I hope they have the worst years of their lives. They deserve every bit of it.

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Probably did it because the 1965 EO also mentioned affirmative action.
 
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RalphTheCow said:
Right. Then tariffs will take care of more of it. Glad trump voters and nonvoters thought this all through carefully. Otherwise it might be a disaster.
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Regarding the tariffs ... In particular the proposed idiocy of 25% on Canada and Mexico. Trump sells whatever will advance his personal interest. A vindictive greedy salesman yes, but still just a cheesy salesman. A cross between theater characters aged salesman Willie Loman and uber-corrupt Volpone. Trump sells whatever will advance his personal interest. He is corruption personified. Everything he does is a sale for personal gain, and his life's measuring stick of success is money.

Focused with that view of Trump in mind, Trump threatening, but not imposing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico is because he wants a personal payoff of some sort from Mexico and Canada. Trump's recently stated desire to visit China and "work things out" with Xi, is likely because he wants a Chinese personal payoff of some kind. When one looks at tariffs not as "the thing itself" but as yet just another way to extort payoffs for personal gain, as an extortion racket rather than a serious national economic policy, then Trumps assertions, flip-flops, changes of subject, and bluster, all seem to fit. (Trump's very recent flip flopping on tariffs, namely, he promised to impose tariffs on Day One.)

Tariffs are just today's version of Trump's latest extortion. But at an international level. And the public policy problem with this level of international corruption is that if some countries don't pay or give him what he wants and the retaliatory tariffs are actually imposed, we citizens will pay the price for a foreign country refusing to pay blackmail to an American president. The grift is a feature, not a bug, and partly dependent on the Felon's whims on any given day. That’s what I think is behind the tariff plan. In his last term, US companies that donated to trump got exemptions from tariffs. Delaying tariffs to give more bigwigs time come on a bended knee to ask for exemptions. I think he wants to scale up that grift to the max. A national and worldwide con is just beginning. But let’s not forget that he’s a conman with escalating dementia. That throws another wrench into the equation.

And when February 1 comes around, he will announce the level of decrease, (completely fictional) of drugs and migrants to prove how just the threat of his tariffs were. And his supporters will believe every word.

It's also possible that this is not the way he will handle this. One reason we saw some flip-flopping last term was because he was surrounded by cooler heads who could talk him out of ridiculous shit. No more. He could very well up the tariffs and does not abandon them. Whatever bad and concerning thing he says this time, will likely be even worse. Many promises that were made simply to get elected like bringing down grocery prices will be ignored however, because he does not care about that.
 
K1052

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