Trump in office

[DKG]

Honda Motor plans to switch some car production from Mexico and Canada to the United States, aiming for 90% of cars sold in the country to be made locally, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The Japanese carmaker plans to increase U.S. vehicle production by as much as 30% over two to three years in response to the Trump administration's tariffs on all car imports, Nikkei said.

[Herman]

Trump said he wants to give a stipend and an airplane ticket to any immigrant who is in the country illegally who chooses to "self-deport."

[DKG]

Trump signs an EO barring illegal immigrants from receiving Social Security.

'These taxpayer-funded benefits should be only for eligible taxpayers,' said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

[Prof Emeritus at Fawk U]

Trump signs an EO barring illegal immigrants from receiving Social Security.

'These taxpayer-funded benefits should be only for eligible taxpayers,' said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Bravo, Mr. President!   

[Lokmar]

Trump said he wants to give a stipend and an airplane ticket to any immigrant who is in the country illegally who chooses to "self-deport."

I guess I need to know mare about this stipend. Maybe it would be easier to simply declare open season on all mexcrement and execute them. Maybe that would be more cost effective.

[Herman]

I guess I need to know mare about this stipend. Maybe it would be easier to simply declare open season on all mexcrement and execute them. Maybe that would be more cost effective.

A democRAT lower court judge would block it.

[Shen Li]

In the first round of the US-China trade war in 2018, nearly 1.9 million jobs were reportedly lost in manufacturing alone.

Now, with Washington imposing a fresh 145 per cent tariff, many fear history is repeating itself.

Most of these businesses operate on thin margins, relying on stable trade flows and long-term partnerships to survive.

[Oliver the Second]

In the first round of the US-China trade war in 2018, nearly 1.9 million jobs were reportedly lost in manufacturing alone.

Now, with Washington imposing a fresh 145 per cent tariff, many fear history is repeating itself.

Most of these businesses operate on thin margins, relying on stable trade flows and long-term partnerships to survive.

A stable trade flow can be affected by any number of things. A country could go to war with someone else, or be hit with a large natural disaster, suffer civil unrest, disease could break out, any of these things could happen and the supply lines stop. This is why every country should be as self sufficient as possible.

[Shen Li]

A stable trade flow can be affected by any number of things. A country could go to war with someone else, or be hit with a large natural disaster, suffer civil unrest, disease could break out, any of these things could happen and the supply lines stop. This is why every country should be as self sufficient as possible.

I'm not saying the US shouldn't at least try to get some of it's most vital industries back. I'm pointing out that tariffs put a lot of Chinese out of work.

[Oliver the Second]

I'm not saying the US shouldn't at least try to get some of it's most vital industries back. I'm pointing out that tariffs put a lot of Chinese out of work.

So did a lot of Americans when their jobs went to China.

I'm starting to wonder why China even needed to put a tariff on US goods in the first place, I was always told the reason US jobs went to China was because the labor was so much cheaper. If that's true then the end price of the product would be cheaper than the US version and should sell better anyway.

Or maybe the codeine the dentist gave me after pulling my wisdom tooth today is kicking in and I'm totally wrong , I dunno...

[DKG]

So did a lot of Americans when their jobs went to China.

I'm starting to wonder why China even needed to put a tariff on US goods in the first place, I was always told the reason US jobs went to China was because the labor was so much cheaper. If that's true then the end price of the product would be cheaper than the US version and should sell better anyway.

Or maybe the codeine the dentist gave me after pulling my wisdom tooth today is kicking in and I'm totally wrong , I dunno...

Labour is not cheaper in China. That is a myth.

Let's say a toy factory that might employ 100 people in America making $18/hr. The average factory wage in Eastern China is now about 100,000 Chinese RMB/year or $13,642.75 or something like $6.80/hr US.

Now that same factory that would employ 100 workers in the US over two shifts might have 350 workers in China over two shifts. In the US the factory is spending $1800/hr on wages. The same factory in China is spending $2380/hr on wages.

Due to the low productivity of Chinese workers due to lack of investment in automation, labour is more expensive in China than most Western countries.

[Herman]

Donald Trump's administration is gearing up to clamp down further on illegal crossings from Mexico by installing floating buoy barriers in the Rio Grande.

The Washington Examiner reported Wednesday that the Trump administration plans to place a 17-mile-long buoy wall in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.

[DKG]

In a sharp reversal of the Biden administration's campaign to scrub religious symbols from public institutions, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced last week that a painting of Jesus covered up in 2023 would be restored to public view. The announcement drew cheers from merchant mariners gathered at the academy.

The painting, titled "Christ on the Water," dates to the 1940s and was created to honor mariners lost at sea during World War II. But in early 2023, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation sent a letter to then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, calling the artwork a "sectarian painting illustrating the supremacy of Jesus Christ" and demanding that it be removed as an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.

Naturally, Buttigieg complied. Joanna Nunan, the academy superintendent — whose biography boasted of her efforts to expand "diversity and inclusion" in the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine — ordered the painting covered.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and then-Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) slammed Nunan for her "flawed understanding" of the First Amendment and called on the academy to keep the painting on display. At the time, academy midshipmen warned that "woke" ideology had "seeped into the school" — and that its spread had only accelerated under Biden and Buttigieg.

Duffy's announcement marks a clear break from that era and shows just how dramatically things have shifted under President Trump.

[Prof Emeritus at Fawk U]

Sean Duffy is a genius.   

[Brent]

Sean Duffy is a genius.   

I like Trump's entire cabinet.