Trump's Colombia Tariffs Will Make Coffee More Expensive

Sunday, January 26, 2025

President Trump's retaliatory 25% tariffs on Colombia may exacerbate an ongoing surge in coffee prices, one likely to leave Americans paying even more for their morning cup. Why it matters: Beans from Colombia make up 20% of U.S. coffee imports, and the only source larger, Brazil, is struggling with weak crops after a series of weather disasters.

Posted by retort at 10:00 PM | 114 COMMENTS | permalink

American breakfasts suddenly risk getting a lot more expensive, even as Trump begins a new term with a promise to lower grocery prices.

Comments

Sharpie the Clown strikes again, LOL

Thanks for all this winning, MAGA!

#1 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-01-26 10:58 PM

Making America Grovel Again

#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-26 11:03 PM

You guys don't keep up with current events apparently, Columbia's President is now offering his Presidential Plane to bring the illegals back. Wild how that works right?

#3 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-01-26 11:29 PM

Based on what I've been reading it appears that Columbia has already capitulated. I guess we will see how that pans out.

#4 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-26 11:30 PM

AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social

1h
Colombia: We're not taking shackled detainees returned on military flights. Transport them with dignity

Trump: Trade war!

Colombia: OK

Trump: Fine, no more shackled detainees returned on military flights

Colombia: Good. Was that so hard?

Trump: They gave in!

LOL so true

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-27 12:16 AM

Colombia will happily raise coffee prices, MAGA will pay for it.

#6 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-01-27 02:22 AM

Colombia will happily raise coffee prices, MAGA will pay for it.

Posted by chuffy at 2025-01-27 02:22 AM | Reply

Making America Grouchy Again

#7 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-27 02:23 AM

Colombia will happily raise coffee prices, MAGA will pay for it.

#6 | Posted by chuffy

Will MAGA notice?

Not sure. Sometimes I think that they're like sponges, without nervous systems.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 08:46 AM

Based on what I've been reading it appears that Columbia has already capitulated.

#4 | Posted by BellRinge

Capitulated? Did Donald declare war?

MAGA is too stupid, Donald is too stupid, to see when he/they are being trolled.

Columbia is being sarcastic. Because MAGA didn't get the joke, Donald must be winning.

The Donald/MAGA stupidity is epic. Over the next several years, it will become legend.

Donald doesn't even know how to spell "Colombia". Even I wish that isn't true, but he proved it yesterday.

Happy extinction ----heads.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 08:56 AM

Re: #5

The Fart of the Deal!

#10 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2025-01-27 09:17 AM

Columbia took 124 flights of deported immigrants last year.

In a statement late on Sunday, Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo said: "We have overcome the impasse with the U.S. government".

They'll continue to accept deportation flights.

#11 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-01-27 09:58 AM

Source: Reuters.

#12 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-01-27 09:58 AM

#12 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

It's MAGA Stupid, first and foremost, because it was so unnecessary.

What is it about you people that you need to kick the sh-- out of it, threaten to kick the sh-- out of it, fanatqasize abut kicking the sh-- out of it, lie about kicking the sh-- out of it before you do anything else?

This didn't work for George W., and that wasn't very long ago.

Donald is aching for a war. To prove something, first and foremost. Like MAGA as a whole. I think that they don't want to be seen as "pansies". By all evidence, they are very comfortable with "stupid".

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 10:34 AM

By any common sense estimate, Donald's first week was a failure. An humiliation.

Worse things are coming. Donald and MAGA insist.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 10:40 AM

It worked for Trump. This lasted less than 5 holes of golf and Columbia folded.

#15 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-01-27 10:42 AM

So what this a case of Trump creating a "problem" just to "fix it"?

#16 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-27 10:44 AM

Columbia folded.

#15 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG AT 2025-01-27 10:42 AM | FLAG:
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"Folded"?

Was this a confrontation?

Of course it was. A flaming, stupid Donald confrontation towards a previously friendly country.

Not needed, counter-productive, enemy-producing confrontation.

It makes my point above, to wit:

What is it about you people that you need to kick the sh-- out of it, threaten to kick the sh-- out of it, fanatasize abut kicking the sh-- out of it, lie about kicking the sh-- out of it before you do anything else?

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:09 AM

By any common sense estimate, Donald's first week was a failure. An humiliation.

Worse things are coming. Donald and MAGA insist.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 10:40 AM | Reply | Flag:
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Why, because now you will actually have to show you can work the fryolator to get a job instead of being hired because you think you're a kitten?

#18 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-27 11:11 AM

Why, because now you will actually have to show you can work the fryolator to get a job

#18 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Tell me your annual income for last year and I'll tell you how many times more I made than that.

Or buzz off.

#19 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:13 AM

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:09 AM | Reply | Flag:
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Sorry, the last administration let foreign leaders walk all over the US. We were a laughing stock. Now the adults are in the room and our adversaries are stopping it. Refreshing. Give it up, your party got trounced out of leadership, and for good reason.

#20 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-27 11:15 AM

Why? (worse things are coming)?

POSTED BY FISHPAW

Deadpool for what you people bring us first, recession or war?

I say both.

And both your wars and your recession will be stupid.

#21 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:15 AM

Sorry, the last administration let foreign leaders walk all over the US. We were a laughing stock

#20 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Never happened. In other words, a lie.

Part of the MAGA mythos, it's official system of lies.

In George W.'s time you were saying that FDR caused World War II.

#22 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:18 AM

Sorry, the last administration let foreign leaders walk all over the US.

The orange pedo responded to Putin's bounties on US troops by surrendering 3 American military bases to Russia. That was typical for the 300 lb gash famous for hiding in a bunker.

#23 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-27 11:19 AM

Now the adults are in the room

#20 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

DJT?

Really?

A grown up?

Listen to yourself.

#24 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:19 AM

Tell me your annual income for last year and I'll tell you how many times more I made than that.

Or buzz off.

#19 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:13 AM | Reply | Flag:
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Oh boy, are you including your perks of free whoppers and fries during your smoke breaks? I voted for Trump because I don't need government help, you voted against him because you do. That's a fact.

#25 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-27 11:21 AM

our adversaries are stopping it.

#20 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Stopping what? Be specific.

And tell me if any of your fantasies apply to China and Russia.

I said that you people lie about kicking ass. This would be an example.

#26 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:21 AM

That's a fact.

#25 | POSTED BY FISHPOO

You would not recognize "a fact" if it bit you in the arse.

#27 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-27 11:23 AM

are you including your perks of free whoppers and fries

#25 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

I dared you to tell me your income because you're being ass.

You may have fries with that as you like.

In the event, you chickened out.

And now you're pretending to have kicked my ass, as MAGA does.

#28 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:24 AM

#26 Um, what happened in Columbia?

#29 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-27 11:24 AM

POSTED BY FISHPAW

Pretend to kick my ass again, I need a lesson.

#30 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:26 AM

what happened in Columbia?

#29 | POSTED BY FISHPAW A

What do you fantasize happened to Colombia?

Again, be specific.

Or buzz off.

#31 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:27 AM

#28 A. It's none of your business, B. What ever I would say you would lie and say you made more, and C. People who make a lot of money don't brag about it while they're hiding behind their key board.
Just try to cope as well as you can with the successes of the next four yours. I really wish you all the best.

#32 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-27 11:27 AM

POSTED BY FISHPAW

Tell us all about how Donald kicked ass.

Spare no details.

#33 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:28 AM

People who make a lot of money don't brag about it while they're hiding behind their key board.

#32 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Successful people don't have to fantasize that the people they argue with are fry cooks.

#34 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:29 AM

#31 www.cbsnews.com
It's the subject of the thread you moron.

#35 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-27 11:29 AM

Tell us all about how Donald kicked ass.

Spare no details.

Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:28 AM | Reply

Hell Greta Thunberg kicked Trump's Hiney all over the place. That was AWESOME SAUCE to watch.

#36 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-27 11:30 AM

POSTED BY FISHPAW

Are you buzzing off?

Thanks. nice to win one.

#37 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:30 AM

t's the subject of the thread you moron.

#35 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

What was asked Dub----, is how how you think that Donald kicked anyone's ass?

Runaway, runaway....

#38 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 11:32 AM

Bringing down the cost of eggs by making coffee more expensive!

Great plan.

So much winning.

#39 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-27 12:21 PM

"Columbia took 124 flights of deported immigrants last year"

Without anyone ever having to have a hissy fit.

But hissy fits are important to MAGA. Expect an endless line of them.

#40 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 12:27 PM

Columbia had the hissy fit. It was a C-5 instead of a 737, and the military correctly restrained people in the C-5 where all the interior stuff is exposed. Then they folded, military plane flights resume.

#41 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-01-27 12:58 PM

Can't even spell Colombia. You people are ------- idiots.

#42 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-27 01:09 PM

True AF.

#43 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-27 01:18 PM

Then they (Colombia) folded

#41 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

There was a war?

I mean, really....Was there are a war?

Colombia gets to decide whom they let land and why.

Just like it's always been.

I am having difficulty seeing the great Donald Victory here. It looks like he simply pissed off a friend

VISITOR wouldn't explain Donald's triumph to me. I expect because it is unexplainable.

#44 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 01:28 PM

#41 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

You're a smart man, SITZKRIEG.

With Donald's mental illness and special approach to things----How long until a Donald War?

#45 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 01:32 PM

With who?

He didn't get into any last time and set the stage for leaving Afghanistan.

#46 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-01-27 01:50 PM

Sad to sit here and watch other Dems fall into the same trap as last time, or never left it to begin with, it's hard to tell.

#47 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-01-27 01:52 PM

With who?

#46 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Oh, please.

The list is almost endless. Any place he can bully and miscalculate.

You don't think that he's mentally ill. That's a problem.

#48 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 01:54 PM

He (Donald) didn't get into (wars) any last time

#46 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

What was that massive Iranian ballistic missile strike on US military bases?

#49 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 01:56 PM

I'm curious. If Donald takes Greenland from Denmark (he pointedly decline to rule out force) are we at war with Denmark?

#50 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 01:58 PM

What was that massive Iranian ballistic missile strike on US military bases?

#49 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 01:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

Retaliation for an assassination, that was phoned in ahead of time, didn't kill a single US soldier, didn't even cause bodily wounds of any US soldier, and did not result in any war.

You've been spiraling for years and ramped up since the election. It's not healthy. You and Trump need a therapist.

#51 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-01-27 02:05 PM

@#50 ... I'm curious. If Donald takes Greenland from Denmark ...

European Lawmaker Hits Trump With A Blunt Public Message (January 22, 2024)
uk.news.yahoo.com

... A member of the European Parliament didn't mince words when he offered a public message to President Donald Trump this week about his wish to make Greenland part of the United States.

"Dear President Trump, listen very carefully," Anders Vistisen, a right-wing lawmaker from Denmark, said on Tuesday in Parliament. "Greenland have been part of the Danish kingdom for 800 years. It's an integrated part of our country. It is not for sale."

If that wasn't direct enough, he next used some language that got him into a little trouble with the organization.

"Let me put it in words you might understand," he said. "M. Trump, f**k off!" ...

#52 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-27 02:05 PM

Re: #10

The ----- of the deal.

#53 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-01-27 02:13 PM

I mean, really....Was there are a war?

Colombia gets to decide whom they let land and why.

Just like it's always been.

I am having difficulty seeing the great Donald Victory here. It looks like he simply pissed off a friend

VISITOR wouldn't explain Donald's triumph to me. I expect because it is unexplainable.

#44 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 01:28 PM | Reply | Flag:
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Wasn't a huge victory at all. Only people having another tantrum are people you like you saying it wasn't a good thing Trump did.
We had criminals from Colombia in this country illegally, thanks to the policies of the previous administration, the American people voted to get them out, Isis rounded them up put them on a plane and sent them back to Columbia. Columbia said f-you we're not taking them back, Trump said no f-you, you're taking them back or I'm slapping tariffs on you. Columbia said ok, fly them in.
Pretty basic. Not sure why you have a problem with it other than your severe case of TDS.

#54 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-27 02:23 PM

- TDS

Trump D... Sucker? Sorry you are having to deal with that disease, FishPus.

I do hear that it's incurable though.

#55 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-27 02:28 PM

With who?

He didn't get into any last time and set the stage for leaving Afghanistan.

#46 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-01-27 01:50 PM | Reply | Flag:
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During the Biden years when Russia invaded and Iran/Hamas invaded, Trump supporters cited how those wars didn't start under Trump. Liberals answer was that they would have if he was re-elected. So what do you think those with severe TDS will say if Trump stops Ukraine and Hamas and doesn't get up into other conflicts? I can tell you, they will say that it was Biden's work. And if it doesn't go that way I will be the first to say Trump f-ed up.

#56 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-27 02:33 PM

The noxious orange pedo had his vermin invade DC because Biden curb-stomped him in 2020.

#57 | Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-27 02:36 PM

And if it doesn't go that way I will be the first to say Trump f-ed up.

#56 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

You aren't kidding anyone.

#58 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 02:44 PM

#51 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

You restrict the definition of war mightily.

What happened between Iran and the Us was a war.

It was just a short one.

You're better than some, however. Another person wanted to say that wars are only what the US Congress declares one to be.

Nonsense, of course. Just another way of making Donald look good, just in case he badly needs to look good.

#59 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 02:48 PM

Trump supporters cited how those wars didn't start under Trump.

#56 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Putin had every expectation that Donald would give him Ukraine. When that didn't happen, he invaded.

Donald was and is pro-Russian. He may yet give Ukraine to Russia, and call that peace.

#60 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 02:51 PM

Iran/Hamas invaded

#56 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

They invaded because Netanyahu, mysteriously, was asleep.

Oh, after Netanyahu mysteriously supported HAMAS.

Netanyahu allowed himself to be sucker-punched

#61 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 02:53 PM

Columbia said f-you we're not taking them back, Trump said no f-you, you're taking them back or I'm slapping tariffs on you. Columbia said ok, fly them in.

#54 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

You're leaving a lot out, giving the official and pasteurized version of events.

And, of course, the version of events that makes Donald look like he huffed and puffed and blew someone's house in.

Donald effed up. A sane and competent man would have gotten those planes in without provoking a crisis.

I think that Donald creates crises so he can pound his chest and make people look at him.

Fits his psychology.

#62 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 02:57 PM

Wasn't a huge victory at all.

POSTED BY FISHPAW

Well, you got that right.

Donald pissed off an entire nation for nothing.

Yeah, he's going to start a war.

#63 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 02:58 PM

#47 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

The most obvious thing about Donald is that he is mentally ill; insane.

I can understand why MAGA wants not to see that flatly true thing, but not you.

Insane people do insane things; and insane leaders with millitaries start wars.

#64 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 03:01 PM

"They invaded because Netanyahu, mysteriously, was asleep."

Not likely. There hasn't been an investigation yet and as a supposed democracy they should have one soon. An open and transparent investigation.

My theory?

Nutty Yahoo wanted them to attack. Allowed them to attack. Maybe even paid them so they would have the resources to attack. Then weakened border security so it would be easy to attack. Too many coincidences. And the person who benefited the most was Nutty himself.

Time will tell.

But he needed them to attack so he could hold on to power and stay out of court.

#65 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-27 03:02 PM

Interesting, is this true

Traditional Approach:

1. Colombia announces it will not take our repatriation flights.
2. On Monday, the State Department convenes an interagency task force with DoD, NSC, DEA, INS, ICE, Commerce, Treasury and Homeland Security.
3. The task force meets for four days and develops a position paper.
4. The position paper is rejected by the Secretary of State, who is unhappy that insufficient equity considerations are built into the process.
5. The task force reconvenes a week later to redevelop three new, equity-centric courses of action and create a new position paper.
6. The process is delayed a week because Washington DC gets three inches of snow.
7. SecState approves the new position paper for interagency circulation, and considerable input is received from the heads of other departments so the task force must reconvene.
8. The original three proposed responsive courses of action are scrapped in favor of a new, fourth course of action that achieves the worst aspects of the three prior courses of action but satisfies the interagency.
9. Someone in State who disagrees leaks to the Washington Post, who writes a story about how ineffective the Presidential administration is.
10. The White House Chief of Staff sets up a session three days later to brief the President, who approves the new fourth course of action.
11. Over a month after the issue is first raised, the State Department Public Affairs Officer holds a press conference announcing that Colombia has agreed to try to send fewer criminals into the US and everyone declares victory.

How did it get resolved so fast?

#66 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-27 03:34 PM

Nutty Yahoo wanted them to attack. Allowed them to attack.
~ DonnerNut

Talk about conspiracy theories. Why do you think this, other than your own bias and prejudice, what leads you to this idea? What evidence?

#67 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-27 03:35 PM

Intelligence reports stated Hamas had been stockpiling munitions and had intentions to attack.

#68 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-27 03:48 PM

Guess some here still do not realize that Trump is a master negotiator and those tariffs are one of his negotiation tools - that work!

Difference between the previous administration and Trump's, is that the biden and his administration played badminton, and was overall ineffective, whereas Trump plays hardball, which is obviously very effective.

#69 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-01-27 04:34 PM

Holy heck. Zed, your Trump obsession is getting worse and worse. It's seriously unhealthy. Seek help.

#70 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-27 04:35 PM

Holy heck. Zed, your Trump obsession is getting worse and worse. It's seriously unhealthy. Seek help.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-27 04:35 PM | Reply

Says the guy with the Biden obsession.

Physician heal thyself

#71 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-27 04:40 PM

He still hasn't gotten over his Obama obsession.

#72 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-27 04:44 PM

Intelligence reports stated Hamas had been stockpiling munitions and had intentions to attack.

#68 | Posted by ClownShack

just got here and went form bottom up......WTF does this have to do with Columbia backing down because

of tarrifs.....

never mind....I don't give a clown ( clown = s/ t.

BUT let them....all that means is there won't be many hamas left with the "cloud" dissipates...

#73 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-27 04:44 PM

just got here and went form bottom up.

Sounds about right.

#74 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-27 04:45 PM

He still hasn't gotten over his Obama obsession.

Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-27 04:44 PM | Reply

Jeff's been desperate to nail Obama on ANYTHING and has failed spectacularly. Biden is his only hope to nail Obama on by proxy. That's the crux of the situation.

#75 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-27 04:46 PM

head;one say something about "tariffs".

WHAT TARIFFS ?.

heh heh / heh heh.....

you ignorant hate mongering bigots are WRONG again...

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#76 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-27 04:46 PM

just got here and went form bottom up.

Sounds about right.

#74 | Posted by ClownShack

aaaaaaaaaaah ahhahahahahaaaa

#77 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-27 04:48 PM

we said it all along....all tariffs are a tool to use if necessary.

sorry if that concept is "above your pay grade "

#78 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-27 04:50 PM

@#60 ... Putin had every expectation that Donald would give him Ukraine. When that didn't happen, he invaded.

Donald was and is pro-Russian. He may yet give Ukraine to Russia, and call that peace. ...

Not just Ukraine, but also parts of Europe?

#79 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-27 04:52 PM

#78

but I will confess with the US obsession with coffee it was a slight worrisome that the thread could indeed

come true and prices spike...it's foolish to not look at the risk.....but the risk paid off....at least for now.

#80 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-27 04:54 PM

Trump plays hardball

#69 | POSTED BY MSGT

He screams at things and you think that the man is strong.

The evidence from Donald's past behavior is that when things get hard, he whiffs.

#81 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 04:55 PM

He screams at things and you think that the man is strong.

The evidence from Donald's past behavior is that when things get hard, he whiffs.

#81 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 04:55 PM

he LITERALLY... just did....just the opposite.

dope.

#82 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-27 05:03 PM

#82 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN

This wasn't the least bit hard, you silly man.

Donald created a crisis with a friendly nation. When you create such a crisis, it means that you've screwed up. And that you've lost friends.

I told you that when things get hard, Donald whiffs. The best example of that is still COVID, where he found a bed and hid under it for weeks when he could have prevented perhaps as many as 1.1 million American deaths over time.

Donald's first week in office has been as bad a start as we've seen from the presidency in one hundred years. More?

Donald doesn't have the power not to be stupid because stupid is who he is.

There will be another useless crisis soon.

Another opportunity for you to tell people that sh-- does not stink.

#83 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-27 05:56 PM

@#5 ... Trump: Fine, no more shackled detainees returned on military flights

Colombia: Good. Was that so hard?

Trump: They gave in!

LOL so true ...

Trump's Victory Over Colombia Now Looks Less Clear Cut
www.yahoo.com

... A deportation arrangement with Colombia that the White House on Sunday night presented as a total victory for Donald Trump is looking less clear in the light of day.

The Colombians the US tried to deport by military flights on Sunday will start traveling back to Colombia on Monday on the nation's own planes, according to the South American country's ambassador to the US.

That's different than what the White House announced on Sunday night when Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Colombia accepted "all of President Trump's terms," including "on US military aircraft, without limitation or delay." She made no mention of Colombia sending its own planes. The agreement came in exchange for Trump sparing the nation from 25% tariffs and financial sanctions.

The Trump administration still plans on an as-needed basis to use military flights to deport people to Colombia over the next few weeks, along with civilian flights, according to a US official, who asked not to be identified without permission to speak publicly. The use of Colombian planes saves American taxpayers the cost of those military flights and frees up US aircraft to help with deportations to other countries, the official said.

But it gives Colombian President Gustavo Petro more control over the way that Colombian citizens return home.

That issue appeared to touch a nerve for him in the early hours of Sunday, when he "deauthorized" the previously-agreed military deportation flights after images emerged of deportees to neighboring Brazil arriving handcuffed and shackled. ...

#84 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-27 06:05 PM

Yeah and Costcos DEI obsession will never ever make their prices cheaper. Sharpton works for Sharpton not the USA. I don't Costco offering value as they once did before they kowtowed and allowed manufacturers to set prices instead of free market.

#85 | Posted by Robson at 2025-01-27 08:58 PM

@#85 ... Yeah and Costcos DEI obsession will never ever make their prices cheaper. ...

Huh?

What evidence do you have to even try to substantiate that assertion?

... Sharpton works for Sharpton not the USA. ...

Yeah, but Mr Sharpton is a political commentator, so he may work to achieve the end he desires.

Now do Pres Trump ...

#86 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-27 09:07 PM

Getting back to the topic of this thread ...

@#84 ... Trump's Victory Over Colombia Now Looks Less Clear Cut ...

Aside from the quite humorous, and lame, deflection attempt of #85, anyone have a comment?

#87 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-27 09:10 PM

We've had 176 flights (if I recall correctly) taking people back to Colombia before this started.

We didn't spend over $800,000 using military planes for the ------- optics of it. How many on that oer $800K flight? Was it 80 passengers? Those 176 flights before? We spent less than $100,000 to do it with commercial aircraft (charters). We didn't piss off a friend doing it.

Stupid ------- trumpers and their leader. Screwing America and pissing off our friends all for a show.

1,200 arrested today, and more than half were never criminals, never in trouble with the law, and paid a ton in taxes. But they''ll be put on these ridiculously expensive planes to be deported for no reason. Yay America. Yay.

I want to see more and more of this - millions deported. Hundreds of millions spent needlessly on C130* planes. Include all the Puerto Ricans, too (though they are clearly US Citizens - but MAGA is too stupid to understand, so they'll approve), and don't forget the Native Americans. I mean since these last two groups have already reported ICE coming after them. This is what truly stupid filled with hate looks like.

Finally, let's see just how much inflation we get when all these folks are gone. How much food prices go up. Yeah I know - Trump no longer cares about inflation.

And now we have a major TB outbreak in Kansas, and bird flu... with Kennedy about to be confirmed! Yee haw!

This is going to be awesome. We deserve all we get.

#88 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-27 10:02 PM

@#88 ... We didn't spend over $800,000 using military planes for the ------- optics of it. How many on that oer $800K flight? Was it 80 passengers? Those 176 flights before? We spent less than $100,000 to do it with commercial aircraft (charters). We didn't piss off a friend doing it. ...

It seems to be about the headlines, not the cost, of late.

Which is quite interesting, considering DOGEs task ...

#89 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-27 10:30 PM

@#88 ... Stupid ------- trumpers and their leader. Screwing America and pissing off our friends all for a show. ...

Yup, that is why Pres Trump apparently wanted those returned to Colombia to be in shackles, and Colombia objected to that show.

So then, Pres Trump apparently backed down from the show he wanted.

But, yeah., to the point of your comment, these flights are not something new. The have been occurring for years.

But only Pres Trump seems to be exploiting the flights for his political purposes.

Quelle surprise.

#90 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-27 10:36 PM

Like signing a check that no other President ever did, and Biden should have - so people (dumb as they are) would stupidly thank Trump.

#91 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-28 09:18 AM

They can just drink a cup of ivermectin in the morning.

#92 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-01-28 10:43 AM

Stupid ------- trumpers and their leader. Screwing America and pissing off our friends all for a show.

If he didn't cosplay Generalissimo how else will he satiate his tough guy dreams?

#93 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-01-28 10:45 AM

If these people being deported are criminals who have been sitting in US jails and prisons I see no reason to complain when they get shipped back to where they came from. I live in a South American country that has been trying for a couple years to return thousands of hardened violent criminals to Venezuela and Maduro will not take them back. Venezuela emptied their prisons for a reason and that reason was for their masses of convicted felons to go abroad and ruin other people's countries like they have in so many South American countries. If they are in fact legitimate migrants that obeyed the law when entering their new host country I have no issues as that is a civilized way to behave. Until your several of your own family members gets mugged by some thug on a motorcycle, or group of thugs jumping out of a stolen car I believe you all would feel the same way as I do. My sister in law has been robbed five times by foreign thugs, and my wife's cousin, and her two best friends and my nephew. All by either Colombians or Venezuelans. I am not making this stuff up.

www.youtube.com

#94 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2025-01-28 10:55 AM

#94 - I don't know anyone that disagrees with that.
What about the more than half that aren't and never have been involved in any criminal activity?
Not sure who you think you are talking to with that.

#95 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-28 10:58 AM

#94 | Posted by Wildman62

You miss the point (s)---

1) These people have been being deported all along.

2) Only Donald has managed to make a mess of that so far.

You state----

"If they are in fact legitimate migrants that obeyed the law when entering their new host country I have no issues as that is a civilized way to behave"

Donald doesn't believe that; MAGA doesn't believe that.

American citizens are already being caught up in this.

But the interesting thing is that an appeal to honest, legal Amerian citizenship does not mean crap to Donald of MAGA.

#96 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-28 11:02 AM

Most of Trumps kids are anchor babies.

Deport them.

#97 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-28 11:05 AM

you might think that when you're proven to be 100 % WRONG about a topic that someone might come along and

remove the thread...............Hmmmmm////well okay....it's okay with me to see the headline knowing

"you people" were wrong.......again.

#98 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-28 11:06 AM

"you people" were wrong.......again.

#98 | Posted by shrimptacodan

That Donald screwed up?

Anyone but a freak would have to say that he screwed this up.

He's screwing up again today, with tariffs on economically and militarily essential imports.

You love screw-ups. I imagine it's how you people were raised.

#99 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-28 11:14 AM

#85 | Posted by Robson

What are you blathering on about? Nobody ever said DEI would make prices cheaper.

And your last line makes me think you've never shopped there. Prices per unit are ALWAYS cheaper at Costco, you just have to buy four times the amount of a normal store.

#100 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-28 11:20 AM

"Costco's DEI obsession"

It's not an "obsession", it's doing the right thing

#101 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-01-28 11:25 AM

It's the choice of the shareholders and leadership. Odd how the right is suddenly all about gubmint forcing corporations to do what they want. If they don't like it, nobody is forcing them to shop there...

It's been incredible to watch the right become everything they've always claimed to be against and to do it with unbridled glee.

#102 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-28 11:28 AM

Why is this thread still up? Hed Jed, Columbia caved, they took the illegals. And btw we get a lot more coffee from Brazil than Columbia.

#103 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-28 01:18 PM

Actually, dumbs*&^, it was Trump who caved. Right after he needlessly created a problem that didn't exist.

But you stupid f(*& cultists will never bother looking into actual reality, though.

#104 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-28 01:46 PM

Trump caved? Columbia said they weren't going to accept the illegals, Trump said if you don't there will be tariffs, Columbia said we will accept them.
How is that Trump caving?

#105 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-28 01:58 PM

How is that Trump caving?

#105 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

He had to let Colombia bring them home as human beings with dignity and respect and not in chains like animals.

No treating them like subhumans and starving them and banging their heads into the bulkhead as they board the plane.

That had to hurt Trumpy's feeling.

His one feeling that he constantly marinates in.

Hate.

#106 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-28 02:03 PM

Speaking on the original thread subject - Coffee. My favorite is from Hawaii and needs no tariff to be expensive, as it is 100% Kona [most coffees that call themselves that are only about 10% Kona beans.

What I purchase periodically [Through Amazon]:
www.amazon.com

Very smooth and worth the money. Comes only as whole bean, but naturally I have a Braun coffee grinder.

#107 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-01-28 02:08 PM

How is that Trump caving?

#105 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

He had to let Colombia bring them home as human beings with dignity and respect and not in chains like animals.

No treating them like subhumans and starving them and banging their heads into the bulkhead as they board the plane.

That had to hurt Trumpy's feeling.

His one feeling that he constantly marinates in.

Hate.

#106 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-28 02:03 PM | Reply | Flag:
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LOL, Jim Accosta explain that one to you? "Human beings with dignity and respect?" They are convicted murderers and rapists, in other words: Democrats

#108 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-28 02:30 PM

Jim Accosta explain that one to you?

Jim Acosta quit to go head up the New Resistance.

Eric Martin told me. You gonna get him too?

Trump's Victory Over Colombia Now Looks Less Clear Cut
Story by Eric Martin

(Bloomberg) -- A deportation arrangement with Colombia that the White House presented as a total victory for Donald Trump looks less clear two days later.

"They are convicted murderers and rapists, in other words: Democrats

Well if Trumpy says it then it must be true. Dear Leader never ever lies!

#109 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-28 02:49 PM

#107 | Posted by MSgt

That was a classic "How to show 'I don't understand economics at all in 20 words...'"

So what if it is from Hawaii? When the price of Coffee surges, do you think the price of your coffee will remain the same OR that you will be able to even get it if it does?

The answer is no it will not remain the same (it makes zero economic sense to keep it the same) and if they pridefully decide to keep it the same the demand will surge and you will be on a years long wait list. That is just how it works. Even premium luxury coffee will go up in price.

#110 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-01-28 06:00 PM

Trump caved? Columbia said they weren't going to accept the illegals, Trump said if you don't there will be tariffs, Columbia said we will accept them.
How is that Trump caving?

#105 | Posted by fishpaw

Because that's not what happened, dumbs&^%. Of course, all you have is the narrative Trump fed you because your first objective is subservience to Trump.

#111 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-28 06:08 PM

Did ever occur to you that even if Trump actually imposed that tariff, which is not happening, it would have little affect cost-wise as coffee is sourced from multiple countries:

en.wikipedia.org

#112 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-01-28 11:33 PM

I found it telling here that like AOC, a number of libbies here care more about the cost of coffee than ridding the US of criminals who have preyed on American citizens. Then again, typical of the left who continualyl try to give criminals a pass, and rarely speak out about their victims.

#113 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-01-29 04:52 PM

MSG is so worried about criminals, he voted for one for President.

Stop lying MSG, it's not criminals you fear, it's brown people.

#114 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-29 04:54 PM

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