tarheelbillie
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Same applies to most red states. Reduce federal investment, grants, etc. and they are little more than rubble. I live in one of the fastest growing areas and its all dependent on fed money.
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American Soybean Association takes aim at U.S. health secretary Kennedy | The Western Producer
America’s soybean industry has fired a loud warning shot at seed oil skeptics.
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On Tuesday, the American Soybean Association said that a ban on seed oils in the U.S. food supply would inflict billions in economic damage to farmers and force American consumers to spend an additional USD$7.7 billion annually on replacement products like palm oil, olive oil and animal fat.
The data comes from a study commissioned by the United Soybean Board, which hired the World Agricultural Economic and Environmental Services, a consultancy, to evaluate the impacts of a U.S. ban on seed oils like soybean, canola, corn, sunflower and cottonseed oil.
The ban would force the U.S. to import large volumes of palm and olive oil, thus driving up the price of palm oil, the study found.
“Since significant quantities of olive and palm oil are not produced domestically, the US becomes more reliant on imports of vegetable oils,” the report says.
“Under the flat veg oil consumption scenario, the shift in US food consumption to palm oil results in higher palm oil prices with palm selling at a 78 per cent average premium to soybean oil prices over the 2025/26-2035/36 period.”
Plus, Americans consume about 58 lbs of soybean, canola and corn oil annually, per capita. Replacing that with other oils and fats would be complicated and costly, the report noted.
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FEMA slashes $300 million in flooding, hurricane relief projects in Florida
The cancellation of the program comes as the Trump administration says it may scrap FEMA altogether.
Nearly $300 million in federal aid meant to help protect Florida communities from flooding, hurricanes and other natural disasters has been frozen since President Donald Trump took office in January.
Now the state will never get the money, leaving dozens of projects in limbo, from a plan to raise roads in St. Augustine to a $150 million effort to strengthen canals in South Florida.
Calling it a “wasteful, politicized grant program,” Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Cameron Hamilton last week ended the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, or BRIC, program.
BRIC is only a portion — but a significant one — of all FEMA funds received by Florida. The cancellation of the program comes as the Trump administration says it may scrap FEMA altogether and give funds directly to the states to deal with disaster response as they see fit.
Hamilton canceled all BRIC grants from 2020 to 2023, so any approved but not-yet-used money cannot be spent and must be returned to the federal government.
Florida will lose $293 million of the $312 million Congress okayed for hurricane relief and flood mitigation efforts. It had so far spent only $19 million, or 6%, of its BRIC grants.
The head of this trade group was interviewed on NPR this morning. He said these tariffs will be devastating to these farmers and force many out of business if not listed. He said he voted for Trump 3 times. When asked if he still supports Trump he said yes and that he believes Trump has Americas best interest at heart, but wanted the Tariffs to end.American Soybean Association takes aim at U.S. health secretary Kennedy | The Western Producer
America’s soybean industry has fired a loud warning shot at seed oil skeptics.
On Tuesday, the American Soybean Association said that a ban on seed oils in the U.S. food supply would inflict billions in economic damage to farmers and force American consumers to spend an additional USD$7.7 billion annually on replacement products like palm oil, olive oil and animal fat.
The data comes from a study commissioned by the United Soybean Board, which hired the World Agricultural Economic and Environmental Services, a consultancy, to evaluate the impacts of a U.S. ban on seed oils like soybean, canola, corn, sunflower and cottonseed oil.
The ban would force the U.S. to import large volumes of palm and olive oil, thus driving up the price of palm oil, the study found.
“Since significant quantities of olive and palm oil are not produced domestically, the US becomes more reliant on imports of vegetable oils,” the report says.
“Under the flat veg oil consumption scenario, the shift in US food consumption to palm oil results in higher palm oil prices with palm selling at a 78 per cent average premium to soybean oil prices over the 2025/26-2035/36 period.”
Plus, Americans consume about 58 lbs of soybean, canola and corn oil annually, per capita. Replacing that with other oils and fats would be complicated and costly, the report noted.
These MAGAts are part of a cult and will definitely drink the cool aide.
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I'm starting to worry that my eyes are going to get stuck in the back of my head if I keep rolling them as often and as hard as I have been lately. I mean, it was a concern before but now I'm convinced it's going to happen one day soon.
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In fairness, the head of the trade group would be objectively bad at his job if he said anything other than he still supports Trump.
If you're trying to get trade policy in your peeps' favor, don't broadcast that you oppose Trump. The new coin of the realm is flattery, the more obsequious the better.
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MAGA Suddenly Alarmed That Christians Might Be Subject To Trump's Deportation Program
Evangelical Trump supporters are suddenly concerned about the Trump administration's deportation policy because Latino Christians might become victims.
When a group of religious-right activists and Christian nationalists were invited to the White House to pray over President Donald Trump at in the Oval Office last month, they also sat down for a meeting with faith adviser Paula White and members of the White House Faith Office.
Among the topics discussed at the meeting, according to former Trump administration official and an ardent Christian nationalist William Wolfe, was conservative Christians' desire to see Trump carry out mass deportations.
Trump-loving right-wing pastor Jim Garlow was among those, along with Wolfe, who were invited to meet Trump and attend the meeting with Trump's faith advisers, but he does not seem to share Wolfe's desire to see mass deportations, at least if they involve Christians.
On Sunday's episode of his "World Prayer Network" podcast, Garlow brought on immigration attorney Esther Valdes Clayton to sound the alarm over the prospect that tens of thousands of Latino Christians could be forcibly deported from the United States because of the Trump administration's policies.
Valdes Clayton opened her remarks by working to reassure Garlow's conservative audience that these Latinos share their values.
"I just want to reassure everybody ... that Latinos love God," she said. "We have the same God. We have a monotheistic religion. Our tradition, our values; 97% of Latinos go to church. We believe in a male and female. No transgender. Our language is gendered. Everything ends in an O and an A, meaning that everything is masculine and feminine, and we go to church regularly."
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The idea of illegal Latinos and Hispanics coming here to ALWAYS vote for the Democrats was total BS. Those folks HATE the LGBTQ and they HATE abortion rights AND they're hardcore Christians - many are Catholic - and we know how strict that denomination is on those social issues. Those folks are always going to be automatic Religious right-wing voters, if and when they're eligible to vote legally. The concept of Hillary et.al. encouraging illegals to cross the southern border so they could "get their vote" was totally bogus and misguided. First of all, they can't/couldn't vote, as they weren't legal and registered to vote. And secondly, once they get "legal" and registered they're going to vote right wing because "reasons".
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This guy is arguing against the only thing trump is doing that even remotely resembles an economic plan, yet he still supports him. That racist deportation component must be a hell of an addictive drug.
Agree
. And the fact that the Dems allowed that narrative to root and grow without sufficiently quashing it is yet another example of why we’re in the mess we’re in today. Dem messaging is abysmal.
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For many of them, their religious leaders have presented Trump as a special gift from God. To some he’s an imperfect vessel. To the truly delusional he is a nearly perfect person. In either case, they’ve allowed their religious beliefs to be so tied with Trump that it is almost impossible to ever admit that they were wrong about him without causing a crisis in their belief structure.
And for others they just can’t allow themselves to believe that the liberals might be right. That also goes back to the religious aspect as they can’t admit to themselves that the liberal churches were right about Trump.
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They understand that Santa and the Easter bunny are myth, yet they believe in a mythical being with no beginning and no end, that created the universe, implanted his son into a virgin human women. And on and on... they will believe anything and they are trained to believe in kings.
Of course they believe the con man is a diety, that's a story as old as civilization.
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a religious freak will never admit they are wrong. i warned my family at gatherings that jim and tammy faye bakker were nothing but fake greedy con artists. I was cast aside and almost stoned to death by them. when the shit hit the fan not one single apology from any of them. i rubbed it in their faces hardcore because thats just how i roll when i sense emotional weaknesses.
Don't be too hard on yourself.
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“And you stare at me in your Jesus Christ pose.”MAGA Suddenly Alarmed That Christians Might Be Subject To Trump's Deportation Program
Evangelical Trump supporters are suddenly concerned about the Trump administration's deportation policy because Latino Christians might become victims.www.peoplefor.org
When a group of religious-right activists and Christian nationalists were invited to the White House to pray over President Donald Trump at in the Oval Office last month, they also sat down for a meeting with faith adviser Paula White and members of the White House Faith Office.
Among the topics discussed at the meeting, according to former Trump administration official and an ardent Christian nationalist William Wolfe, was conservative Christians' desire to see Trump carry out mass deportations.
Trump-loving right-wing pastor Jim Garlow was among those, along with Wolfe, who were invited to meet Trump and attend the meeting with Trump's faith advisers, but he does not seem to share Wolfe's desire to see mass deportations, at least if they involve Christians.
On Sunday's episode of his "World Prayer Network" podcast, Garlow brought on immigration attorney Esther Valdes Clayton to sound the alarm over the prospect that tens of thousands of Latino Christians could be forcibly deported from the United States because of the Trump administration's policies.
Valdes Clayton opened her remarks by working to reassure Garlow's conservative audience that these Latinos share their values.
"I just want to reassure everybody ... that Latinos love God," she said. "We have the same God. We have a monotheistic religion. Our tradition, our values; 97% of Latinos go to church. We believe in a male and female. No transgender. Our language is gendered. Everything ends in an O and an A, meaning that everything is masculine and feminine, and we go to church regularly."
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exactly right.
the "migrant caravans" funded by the dems and soros and all of that nonsense was always just blatantly racist, fear-mongering fantasy.
but of course vanilla ISIS / Y'allQaeda buys it all hook, line and sinker.
there are some folks from honduras who live in my parents neighborhood who are a perfect example of this nonsense. they aren't citizens, i guess maybe they're green card holders? they STILL have a damn campaign sign in their yard with the attempted PA assassination photo and "vote republican, save america" on it.
absolute insanity. i hope they get deported.
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