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We are living in the Trump era’: White House Report Card

You tell me tariffs have been in place since April yet cross the board prices have risen between 1.7 and 2.3%.
As mentioned in my previous post, with which you concurred, any policy changes implemented by President Trump will take approximately nine to twelve months before their positive or negative impact on the economy becomes apparent. The employment figures and economic growth data from the past six months do not reflect the effects of the president's policies. The potential consequences of tariffs—whether beneficial or adverse—have yet to be fully realized.

However, my question remains: when importers such as Walmart or other US companies pay import taxes, do they absorb these costs by reducing their profit margins, or do they pass the costs on to consumers?
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Watch: CNN Cuts Tulsi Gabbard Off as She Lays Out the Inconvenient Facts of the Russia Hoax

...but Tulsi knows better.

Senate Intelligence Committee (2017)


"The Committee finds that the Intelligence Community met President Obama’s tasking and that the ICA is a sound intelligence product. While the Committee had to rely on agencies that the sensitive information and accesses had been accurately reported, as part of our inquiry the Committee reviewed analytic procedures, interviewed senior intelligence officers well-versed with the information, and based our findings on the entire body of intelligence reporting included in the ICA.

The Committee finds the difference in confidence levels between the NSA and the CIA and FBI on the assessment that “Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances” appropriately represents analytic differences and was reached in a professional and transparent manner.

In all the interviews of those who drafted and prepared the ICA, the Committee heard consistently that analysts were under no politically motivated pressure to reach any conclusions. All analysts expressed that they were free to debate, object to content, and assess confidence levels, as is normal and proper for the analytic process.

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Conclusion

Finally, the Committee notes that, as is the case with all intelligence questions, information continues to be gathered and analyzed. The Committee believes the conclusions of the ICA are sound, and notes that collection and analysis subsequent to the ICA’s publication continue to reinforce its assessments. The Committee will remain vigilant in its oversight of the ongoing challenges presented by foreign nations attempting to secretly influence U.S. affairs."

Committee Findings on the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment | Senate Select Committee on Intelligence


www.intelligence.senate.gov
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Motherhood Only Feels Like A ‘Penalty’ When Women Succumb To Feminism

I read about this phenomenon all the time; YouTube is chock-full of videos about it. Basically, it boils down to the fact that young women are fed the feminist screed that being a wife and mother is degrading, and that they must compete with men on equal terms in the business world, because to do otherwise is to set themselves up for indentured servitude.

Which many, if not most, of them do. Men show an interest in women, maybe hoping to establish a home and a family, and women rebuff them, putting off such things "until their careers are established". Right up until the time reach about the age of thirty. After that, the ticking of the biological clock becomes louder every year, and suddenly they look around and realize that all of the men who were so available ten to fifteen years before are either married to non-career women, or have been broken by the toxic Western relationship culture, and have given up---dropped out of even trying to find a life companion, and have chosen to remain single for life.

A good many of these women, having realized that they've "hit the wall", with regards to attractive qualities, end up sitting in their cars outside singles clubs, posting TikTok videos in which they sob that they can't find any men who are interested in them. The guys that they rejected years before didn't wait for them---they moved on; and the ones who might still be available to them want nothing to do with them. It turns out that men are not attracted to hard, pushy businesswomen who have spent so many years bulling their way through office committee meetings that they have become, for all intents and purposes, men with breasts.

So, the men go fishing with their buddies, or play video games, or build birdhouses in their garages, and walk on the opposite side of the street or take the stairs instead of walking close to, or riding in an elevator with, a woman and thus avoid proximity to a potentially dangerous female who might view them as a "predator" or a "creep". And the women sit in their empty luxury apartments, drinking mint tea and crying from loneliness as they pet their cats---no husband, no children, no possibility of grandchildren, and nothing stretching ahead for the rest of their lives but sterile solitude and company awards for "Saleswoman of the Quarter".

And it's all due to feminism. Gloria Steinem and her harpy compatriots sold a worthless bill of goods to at least three generations of young American women, who bought it wholeheartedly, but now, in their 40s, realize that what they got in exchange is essentially worthless. The women are not happy, the men are not happy, and it may take centuries for the pendulum to swing back towards sane gender roles. And in the meantime, half or more of all new marriages implode, men withdraw from a societal structure that they get no benefit out of being involved in, and birthrates continue to plummet, world-wide. We are seeing the destruction of the nuclear family right before our eyes---and no civilization in human history has survived once the family unit, the basic foundation stone of any civilization, has been destroyed. It's sad.
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Watch: CNN Cuts Tulsi Gabbard Off as She Lays Out the Inconvenient Facts of the Russia Hoax

Those in powerful positions in intelligence are the ones who have top level access to everything. Someone can have a 30 years in intelligence, but not that level of clout.

Yea, she's had access for a few months but yet somehow managed to "find" that Obama carried out a "coup". LOL
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I believe that ALL who ever lived will be in God’s Kingdom

It was never more then an image ...by which I was deceived of my soul ... which has been the issue (of blood) since the foundation of the earth, where Christ was crucified from ...

Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

in hindsight the first time i recall reasoning is at the age of four when i saw a face looking back at me in the wooden veneer of my cupboard and believed it was God watching me ...
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What is the fastest growing Christian Denomination? Why do you think it is?

The fastest-growing Christian denomination globally is Pentecostalism, particularly its Charismatic expressions. Estimates suggest it has grown from fewer than 1 million adherents in 1900 to over 500 million by 2025, with projections to reach 1 billion by 2050. This growth, driven by high conversion rates and active evangelism, is especially strong in the Global South—Africa, Asia, and Latin America—where Pentecostals thrive in economically distressed areas, offering vibrant worship and community networks. Annual growth rates for Pentecostals and Charismatics are around 1.88%, outpacing other Christian groups like Evangelicals (1.8%) and Catholics (1.3%).
All Pentecostals are charismatic. All Charismatics are Evangelicals. That being said, it is the non- denominational sector that is actually seeing the growth. Christians can freely be what ever they want.
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Mike Johnson Marks Anniversary Of Biden Dropping Out With 14-Minute Montage Of Dems Insisting He Was Fit As A Fiddle

It has been PROVED/TESTIFIED TO that Jill and Hunter sat in on cabinet meetings making decisions on the course of actions in Biden’s stead, according to cabinet members.
The President can take advice and counsel from anyone: Chief of Staff, Vice President, spouse, etc.
Again, it is your lack of empathy in seeing Biden’s condition in these videos and not thinking ‘that dude seriously need to see a doctor because something is seriously wrong’ that is off-putting.
Again, your lack of facts is off-putting. Anyone can have an opinion.
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We are living in the Trump era’: White House Report Card

Do companies that pay these tariffs on imported products pass the cost on to consumers, or do they choose to reduce their profit margins instead?
You tell me tariffs have been in place since April yet cross the board prices have risen between 1.7 and 2.3%.
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What is the goal of The Trump Tariffs?

Perhaps Ontario's education system has declined to the point that students no longer learn Ottawa is part of Canada and resident of Ottawa are also Canadian.

If Canadian citizens in Ontario dislike those fellow citizen in Ottawa and want a foreign leader to embarrass their fellow Canadians, the nation may be so divided that its existence is called into question.
The people of Ottawa are awesome but the Mayor of Ottawa a few years ago who was in power at the time that the Canadian Truckers saved Democracy in Canada is a Swamp Creature who I believe should be investigated.
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For those who have left the Roman Catholic Church

Remember the earliest Christians did not have the books of the New Testament. Nor is there any record of them ceding authority over to those books.
They also did not have a pope, priests, nuns, or a Romanized church

Neither answers my question.
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Watch: CNN Cuts Tulsi Gabbard Off as She Lays Out the Inconvenient Facts of the Russia Hoax

That's like a garden variety employee resume. It doesn't stack up against Director of National Intelligence.
Hilarious.

Tulsi was never on the Intelligence Committee during her time in Congress. She never worked in intelligence. She's been DNI for not quite 6 months. That's not a resume, that's a political reward.
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As Trump Drains the Swamp, Which Alphabet Agencies Should Go First?

I suppose that it is a loss for Left wingers who conveniently had me paying to fund their propaganda; but the declining Left wing is not representative of the whole of our country.
NPR supports Trump, so I guess it's a wash.
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But Is It Truth?

That a super cessationist view, i disagree because God keeps filling people with the HS, and he keep doing things
You're exaggerating with that label, so I take it that my response upset your apple cart. But being filled with the Spirit does not constitute an office of apostle or prophet. Neither the apostles nor any prophet claimed that God wanted everyone to be apostles and prophets, such that they should seek to be one, or seek to set one up. Yet, your response implies that you are a follower of those who seek to set up people in the offices of apostles and prophets.

So then, are you a follower of the NAR? If so, then I challenge you to seriously read materials by respected leaders who clarify what the scripture actually teaches, and who are exposing the errors of the NAR.
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Mike Johnson Marks Anniversary Of Biden Dropping Out With 14-Minute Montage Of Dems Insisting He Was Fit As A Fiddle

I never claimed otherwise, but you and probinson did claim there were facts.


How do you prove that someone is deceased? With a death certificate. You don't tell the judge that "Grandma wasn't breathing, so I guess she's dead, so when do I get my inheritance?" No, you present the legal document.

How do you prove that someone is incapacitated? With a doctor's diagnosis, or at least signed statement on letterhead.

If Biden had been incapacitated, for example, he wouldn't have been able to negotiate two trilateral summits:: one with the Philippines & Japan; the other with Japan & South Korea.
It has been PROVED/TESTIFIED TO that Jill and Hunter sat in on cabinet meetings making decisions on the course of actions in Biden’s stead, according to cabinet members. While THEY aren’t doctors, it is validation that they were proceeding down a path that acknowledged that Biden was not fit to run the country.

Again, it is your lack of empathy in seeing Biden’s condition in these videos and not thinking ‘that dude seriously need to see a doctor because something is seriously wrong’ that is off-putting.
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The Lord's eyes are too pure to look on evil. Really?

No, not exactly. Habakkuk complained in 1:


Habakkuk was frustrated and venting. Gill explained:


Proverbs 15:


Habakkuk wasn't making a doctrinal statement that God literally could not see evil. Rather, he's expressing his frustration and confusion about why God, who was holy and pure, seemed to be tolerating wickedness. It's a lament or complaint to God, not a theological pronouncement about God's limitations.
When he speaks about God not being able to look at sin, he is speaking about allowance of sin. God is pure and righteous and holy and good and just. Sin is not tolerated by Him, that is why He chose his Son to become sin, so that we have a path back to Him. The only righteous person who could bear the sins of the world.
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Mike Johnson Marks Anniversary Of Biden Dropping Out With 14-Minute Montage Of Dems Insisting He Was Fit As A Fiddle

Nowhere did I suggest you make a diagnosis.
I never claimed otherwise, but you and probinson did claim there were facts.

That is pure hogwash. SEEING that something is seriously wrong doesn’t require a diagnosis, it just requires someone with empathy to be able to see that something is seriously wrong. Obviously something you lack.
How do you prove that someone is deceased? With a death certificate. You don't tell the judge that "Grandma wasn't breathing, so I guess she's dead, so when do I get my inheritance?" No, you present the legal document.

How do you prove that someone is incapacitated? With a doctor's diagnosis, or at least signed statement on letterhead.

If Biden had been incapacitated, for example, he wouldn't have been able to negotiate two trilateral summits: one with the Philippines & Japan; the other with Japan & South Korea.
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We are living in the Trump era’: White House Report Card

Post 77 is accurate and true. And disproves your assumption.
No, it doesn't. American companies are American consumers. If their costs increase, they have less money to pay their American employees and less money to spend in America on services and facilities. For small importers who may just have a single employee, that loss of profit means a direct loss of income for the owner.

As I pointed out in a previous post, companies have largely tried to avoid passing costs on to their customers so far, either by eating the tariff costs or by using up inventory that was ordered before the tariffs went into effect. Neither of those strategies is viable long-term for most companies though, especially now that the tariffs are going back up from the (relatively low) 10% that they've been sitting at for the past few months. Inventory eventually runs out, and most companies can't afford to eat a 20-40% increase in their inventory costs indefinitely. The next 3-6 months will almost certainly see price increases on many goods - clothes will probably be the hardest hit - unless Trump backs down again.

And keep in mind that a tariff does not necessarily require an equivalent percentage increase in retail price to cover. For example, if my cost on a product is $10, then a 20% tariff increases that to $12. But if I've been reselling it for $20, I only need to raise the price by 10% to recoup my increased costs and maintain my profit margins.
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We are living in the Trump era’: White House Report Card

Post 77 is accurate and true. And disproves your assumption.

Post #77 mentions that importers, such as Walmart, Target, or other US companies, pay the import tax, also known as the tariff.

Do companies that pay these tariffs on imported products pass the cost on to consumers, or do they choose to reduce their profit margins instead?
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Watch: CNN Cuts Tulsi Gabbard Off as She Lays Out the Inconvenient Facts of the Russia Hoax

The facts are that the majority of Democrats (67%) believed that Russians had tamped with vote tallies despite no credible evidence. So yes, Democrats were "diabolically efficient" in convincing more than 2/3 of their party that Trump STOLE! the election because Russia changed votes in his favor.
They still had more evidence than Trump did.

But, that aside, what did anyone in the Democratic party actually do about that theory? Did Hilary take the issue to court 60+ tines? Did she convince her supporters to "fight like hell" to attempt to prevent certification of the election? Did she call any one of the states she lost and demand they "find" enough votes to change the outcome?

Sure, some felt the 2016 election was stolen, but the response was entirely and significantly different than Trump four years later.

-- A2SG, face it, Democrats did what they usually do, fret and fume for a while, then wind up doing nothing effective about it....
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