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My guess would be zero if they're coming from Mexico due to NAFTA.

So, a general question ... with all the talk of tariffs that fmr Pres Trump spouts in his rally speeches, how does he balance the cost of those tariffs being passed on to consumers with his comments about lowering inflation?

He doesn't. It's that simple. In Trump's reality, tariffs are paid by foreign manufacturers, not American consumers and no one is going to change his mind on that. So his inability to tie higher domestic prices for goods to inflation is simply another liberal plot or fake news, no more no less.

This is why criticisms of Harris are so maddening. Trump talks complete gibberish or creates his own reality that doesn't exist, yet it's Harris who can't verbally communicate effectively according to our resident gaslighting champion.

If Trump and Trumpers didn't have projection, they'd never gained any political traction whatsoever. Whatever the accuse Democrats of doing is the very thing they're doing in spades.

It's obvious why her team has kept her from the press.

Hmmmmmm, who to believe, Mark Cuban or Strawlighter......

It could become a major Category 4 hurricane.

It is now officially a Cat 4 storm.

Even in the friendliest environments she fails to answer basic questions that should be a no- brained for a presidential candidate.

Name one question Trump has answered during his entire 3 year campaign to become President again.

Sometimes I think you just fell off a turnip truck. No candidate answers any question that they don't want to. Harris didn't start it, and she certainly won't be the last.

Binary idiots like you want to criticise others for what you allow in yourself and others you support. Questions about what someone would do NOW, or what someone thought THEN are wholly irrelevant to future decisions they might have to make because life isn't static, and what's true right now may be inoperative tomorrow, so why create an impression in simple minds that can be endlessly criticized if one needs to change approach or opinion? Intelligent people innately understand this, while morons stay chained to stupid zero sum mentalities of their own creation.

That describes you and Trump to a T.

Kamala Harris is roundly criticized for feeding America a steady diet of word salads

A career prosecutor whose entire adult life has been spent speaking in open court or in front of the public representing the offices she was elected to lead?

It's truly pathetic the extent you go in order to gaslight what any sentient person with ears has never thought when listening to the entirety of Harris' remarks about anything.

As a citizen, veteran and voter, I was not comfortable with many of the policy recommendations that Democrats offered at their convention in Chicago or those Republicans articulated in Milwaukee. My views tend more toward the center of the political spectrum. And although I have opinions on high-profile issues, like abortion, gun safety and immigration, that's not why I made my decision.

Character is the ultimate measure of leadership for those who seek the highest office in our land. The American revolutionary Thomas Paine is said to have written, "Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us." Regardless of what a person says, character is ultimately laid bare in his or her actions. So I pay attention to what a leader does.

I've thought deeply about my choice and considered what I've seen and heard and what I owe my three granddaughters. I've concluded that it isn't political slogans or cultural tribalism; it is the best president my vote might help select. So I have cast my vote for character, and that vote is for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Ms. Harris has the strength, the temperament and, importantly, the values to serve as commander in chief. When she sits down with world leaders like President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, representing the United States on the global stage, I have no doubt that she is working in our national interest, not her own.

I would urge others to vote as I have. But whatever decision you make, let it be thoughtfully considered, carefully reached and yours alone. We'll all have to live with it.

There simply are no words. Exactly what voters think that this person deserves to sit in the People's House, representing the constituency of his district - which I'm fairly sure includes at least some Haitian-Americans?

He could give less than a dump about how any Haitian Americas feel. The Haitians here are here exactly because their home is a corrupted hellscape masquerading as a nation-state. They came to escape that, not relive it here by an ignorant bigot elected to Congress evidently to hate on our diaspora.

Those are among the findings of a Senate Finance Committee inquiry into the operations of Affinity Partners, the Miami-based firm Mr. Kushner set up.

The committee opened an investigation this spring in response to reporting in The New York Times examining the firm's first three years of work.

Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, the committee's chairman, said the new information had only deepened his concerns that Mr. Kushner's firm creates conflicts of interest, particularly with his father-in-law running for re-election.

Mr. Wyden asked why Affinity Partners had not "distributed a penny of earnings back to clients," and suggested that perhaps it was set up primarily as a way for foreign entities to pay the Kushners rather than a typical fund in which partners reap the returns of deployed capital.

"Affinity's investors may not be motivated by commercial considerations but rather the opportunity to funnel foreign government money to members of President Trump's family, namely Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump," Mr. Wyden wrote in a letter to Affinity this week, asking two dozen questions.

Mr. Kushner, in interviews with The Times, acknowledged that his firm had moved slowly at first to invest the $3 billion it had collected from its investors since it formed in 2021. He said that was, in part, because a flood of venture capital moving into markets made it difficult initially to find attractive deals. That meant a delay in generating profits to return money to his investors.

When asked to address the report, Secret Service communications chief Anthony Guglielmi confirmed the agency "is investigating a misconduct allegation involving an employee."

"The Secret Service holds its personnel to the highest standards," he continued. "The employee has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation."

The alleged event took place in the staffer's hotel room, where she returned with the agent and other campaign staff after the group drank and dined at a local restaurant. One source told Real Clear Politics that the accused agent was so drunk that his coworkers had kicked him out of his hotel room and he passed out in the hallway.

If Harris becomes President, I certainly hope she appoints someone to overhaul the Service and return it to what it's always been before.

You don't know what biden and putin said to each other comrade. But everyone knows who pushed the LAUNCH button on this war. Putin wants to re assemble the USSR, and when he thought the USA was weakest he began his effort to do just that.

Effete doesn't know anything except how to highjack a thread about Melania Trump grifting at a level commiserate to her last name. He knows nothing of the Russia he thinks can win in any conventional war with NATO, much less the US. Russia's military is a joke. How do I know? Because a career officer of the Russian army educated me about things I had no idea about. The only military assets which Russia can depend on are Russians forced to the front of Putin's 3 day special operation (SVO in the story).

Graft was endemic in the Russian military, permeating every level from the top brass to the grunts. "The scale is astounding," said Sergei Fridinsky, one of Russia's chief military prosecutors. "Sometimes it seems that people have simply lost their sense of moderation and conscience." Theft was hard to root out, even if someone wanted to - it was less about criminality and more a mentality. The thinking was simple: It's one thing to serve the motherland, but you can't forget about yourself.

Pig was among the many commanders who stole state-subsidized fuel from the military and sold it on the side at the civilian market price. There were a number of methods for doing this - blatantly filling a commercial truck at a military gas station; filling a military transport, siphoning fuel from its tank to other carriers and then adding fake kilometers to trucks to explain the difference on the accounting end. Pig was also ordering his subordinates to saw wood from the base's firing range so he could sell it. Everyone did it.

Russia's turn-of-the-century prosperity had tapered off with the 2008 financial crisis and falling oil revenue. Though the government's official statistics suggest that poverty hovers around 10 percent, an investigation by the Russian outlet The Insider shows that the reality is much worse: Roughly half of Russian families in many regions live below the poverty line. Outside the major cities, more than 10 million people do not have gas in their houses; they collect wood for heating. Many families still do not have indoor toilets. They -------- in holes in the ground.

This incredible story only reinforces that anything America can do to lessen the grip of Putin over Russia is a step towards liberation for the long-suffering Russian peoples. Though this story is about one man's tale of his experience in today's Russian Army officer class, his ultimate assignment to the Ukraine front, and his survival against the odds in executing an escape James Bond would be proud of, this is really an inside look at a Russia that is not what we've been told it is, though it's one Donald Trump would feel right at home in since naked theft and graft appear to be the national pastimes.

The link at the top (not the FB one) is a gifted one that anyone can read if they want to. This reads like a Robert Ludlum novel more than a non-fiction account of real lives lived under head-shaking circumstances. It's simply impossible to stop reading once you start. Trust me on this.

To qualify for Temporary Protected Status, which maybe renewed indefinitely under Biden/Harris

any sitting US President, because it's a federal regulation which Donald Trump tried to unilaterally take away from the Haitian immigrants for no other reason than his deeply-held racism, and he was rebuffed by our federal courts.

A small town losing population due to a high unemployment rate that has been averaging 7% above US unemployment rate from 2019-2023,

To qualify for Temporary Protected Status, which maybe renewed indefinitely under Biden/Harris

any sitting US President, because it's a federal regulation which Donald Trump tried to unilaterally take away from the Haitian immigrants for no other reason than his deeply-held racism, and he was rebuffed by our federal courts.

A small town losing population due to a high unemployment rate that has been averaging 7% above US unemployment rate from 2019-2023,

#11

As usual, totally false on a number of fronts.

I find the overconfidence of liberals on this site disturbing.

I don't see any "overconfidence" on this thread. I see the factual reporting of trends and polls which are only snapshots of now, not what will happen on election day.

What you see are people that are hopeful America is ready to put Donald Trump in its rearview mirror, once and for all. But I don't see anyone who isn't fully cognizant that what looks promising today could again turn into a nightmare at any time through November 5th.

It's all coming down to getting Harris voters to the polls in key states in greater number than Trump's. Nothing else really matters, but it is much more heartening to feel positive about this race than to be immersed in dread and worry about Trump repeating his 2016 outcome.

Tough night last night as Connecticut throttled the Fever by 24 in Game 1 of the best of 3. Fever need to win Wednesday night or their season will end in New England.

Unfortunately, Indiana teams have a long history of seeing their seasons ended by teams from New England be they Patriots, Celtics, UConn Huskies, and now possibly the Sun.

Trump supported banning TikTok, only to reverse course after chatting with Jeff Yass, a billionaire hedge fund manager - and prospective campaign donor - who has a multibillion-dollar stake in ByteDance, TikTok's parent corporation. Something similar appears to have happened with the cryptocurrency industry.

Trump also started hedging on some of his immigration policies around the time he met with wealthy corporate executives at a Business Roundtable meeting.

A few months earlier, Trump publicly suggested that conservatives should give up on their opposition to Anheuser-Busch shortly before he attended a fundraiser hosted by an Anheuser-Busch lobbyist.

Perhaps most importantly, Trump abandoned his long-time skepticism about cryptocurrencies after having some chats with prospective donors at Mar-a-Lago.

Former president Donald Trump offered enthusiastic support for vaping on Friday, promising to protect the industry following a private meeting earlier in the day with a leading vaping lobbyist. Trump wrote on Truth Social, his social media platform, that he "saved Flavored Vaping in 2019" and would "save Vaping again!"

Of particular interest was the process through which Trump changed his mind. Trump's new position "is consistent with the recent financial support he has received from the tobacco industry." It also came "just after a meeting with the head of the Vapor Technology Association, which describes itself as the leading vaping trade association, representing more than 100 members of the industry."

Trump isn't saying, "I'll change my position in exchange for money," he's instead effectively saying, "Since I don't care about governing or public policy anyway, I'll just align my beliefs with the preferences of wealthy people and prospective donors who have my ear behind closed doors."

#24

I live in one of the cities on the list. During Covid in late 2021, I purchased my 2 bdrm condo on a 30 yr mortgage at 3.3%. My mortgage started at $1061 (including homeowner's insurance and tax escrow) and after 2 1/2 years is down to $931 due to lower taxes and the removal of mortgage insurance because of rapid appreciation. My unit appraised for $100,000 more than the amount I owe after only 30 months. If I were to rent this unit, the current market price would be $2200-$2500 per month.

My daughter moved in with me in 2021 and then bought her own suburban house in the summer of 2023 since her mortgage - even at double my own rate - still left her payment hundreds less than lessor rental apartments in this market.

I hope younger people are able to take advantage of the current bifurcated markets in many cities around the country and invest in their futures by owning instead of renting.

I'm no Dem fanboi, but people need to stop throwing out the baby with the bathwater, stop cutting off their nose to spite their face.

Uh oh.... Isn't that the equivalent of saying "Laura Mohr, Laura Mohr, Laura Mohr" out loud?

Now you've done it! Prepare to reap the whirlwind. ; ^ )

On the campaign trail, Trump has said that immigrants are "animals" and "not human," and implied that millions are crossing the border each month; publicly available data show that the real number has never exceeded 200,000 a month this year. When Vance took to X to declare that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating their neighbors' pets, and Trump repeated the lie in a nationally televised debate the next day, those of us who have studied the United States' history of dehumanizing immigrants felt as if the clock had turned back 150 years, to when the same specious claim was used to justify vigilante violence against Chinese Americans, and laws including the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Trump and Vance's claims, along with other copycat assertions meant to imply that nonwhite immigrants are inherently immoral, such as the one about "Haitian prostitutes" aired at a Springfield city-commission meeting, have surfaced throughout American history. This summer, a survey ... found that nearly a quarter of Americans now believe that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country" and that "many immigrants are terrorists." More than a third of respondents said that "millions of undocumented immigrants illegally cast votes in our elections."

American voters have consistently indicated that they want order at the southern border, yet many economists agree that the large amount of immigration the U.S. experienced in recent years is a major reason the economy bounced back from the COVID-related downturn faster than that of any other nation in the world[EM]. This complex picture of immigration and its implications calls for the hard work of policy making and statesmanship. Again and again, misinformation and fearmongering have only made things worse.