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altmin said:
Well good news for Florida farmers: they have less customers now, so maybe they won't need to hire so many people to pick oranges anymore.

www.ctvnews.ca

Declining imports of Florida orange juice highlights changing tastes for Canadian consumers

Shipments of U.S. orange juice to Canada fell in June to their lowest in more than 20 years, according to newly released U.S. Census Bureau data, as a combination of agricultural setbacks, shifting consumer habits and trade tensions squeeze supply.
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Trump has already said American businesses losing key customers is not a concern for him.

Trump is bad for business.
 
finesse said:
If you were to assume that my board name referred to a posting style as well as to my love for bridge, a relative dexterity at things like pool, darts, and horseshoes and a life as a skilled tradesman, would that be sarcasm, irony , subtlety or bullshit?
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Yes
 
Bobfripp said:
"I’m a registered Republican who just watched her party spend much of the summer pushing through new cuts to Medicaid."

🎁 -> Opinion | I’m a Proud Conservative. My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live.

And she might as well say ...
"And now that Trump's policies affects me and my disabled child negatively, I'm mad. ... But I'd vote for him again! "

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Read that this morning and felt absolutely nothing for this woman. I might not be able to feel sympathy for any magat anymore. Visiting fellow Rachel Roth Aldhizer is smart enough to know what was coming with a trump presidency. She wasn’t duped. She was fully aware of the pain he intended to inflict on certain groups.
 
Molotov Mocktail said:
Read that this morning and felt absolutely nothing for this woman. I might not be able to feel sympathy for any magat anymore. Visiting fellow Rachel Roth Aldhizer is smart enough to know what was coming with a trump presidency. She wasn’t duped. She was fully aware of the pain he intended to inflict on certain groups.
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Molotov Mocktail said:
Read that this morning and felt absolutely nothing for this woman. I might not be able to feel sympathy for any magat anymore. Visiting fellow Rachel Roth Aldhizer is smart enough to know what was coming with a trump presidency. She wasn’t duped. She was fully aware of the pain he intended to inflict on certain groups.
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They're perfectly fine with MAGA cruelty towards others as long as it doesn't affect them directly. Then they whine and complain about how this isn't what they expected when they voted for Trump. There were articles about this as far back as 2017 - a woman in a small Florida town where the main economic base was a federal prison told a reporter when Trump 1.0 cut funding for the prison that her problem with Dear Leader was that "he wasn't hurting the right people" or something to that effect. It definitely is hard to have much sympathy for those people.
 
Bobfripp said:
"I’m a registered Republican who just watched her party spend much of the summer pushing through new cuts to Medicaid."

🎁 -> Opinion | I’m a Proud Conservative. My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live.

And she might as well say ...
"And now that Trump's policies affect me and my disabled child negatively, I'm mad. ... But I'd vote for him again! "

Temper Tantrum GIF
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Rachel Roth Aldhizer and her husband need to get really good jobs…….jobs with platinum level medical insurance.

It appears that “Visiting Scholar” at the “Ethics and Public Policy Center” doesn’t pay well or come with good benefits.

Just where is the husband and father in this?

Now, she wants welfare.
 
Another Montgomery County educator, Rhonda Perkins, who voted for Trump, defended her support for the president to The Washington Post, while at the same time, criticizing him for some of his policies.

“I think he’s awful, but he protected my values,” Perkins said.

Translation: He may hurt me economically, but he hates the same other people that I do

www.rawstory.com

'I resent it': Teacher exodus hits 'Trump stronghold' due to federal budget cuts

A county in North Carolina where nearly 70% of voters favored President Donald Trump in 2024 is facing an exodus of educators following budget cuts to the Department of Education, cuts that have left some residents feeling betrayed.During Trump’s second term, the Education Department has seen...
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news.fiu.edu

FIU Cuba Poll 2024: Cuban American voters’ support for Trump at an all-time high

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Sixty-eight percent of likely Cuban Americans voters in Miami-Dade County said they would check off the name of former President Donald Trump on the ballot in November, according to the 2024 FIU Cuba Poll released today. Twenty-three percent reported they plan to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. Five percent remained undecided.

Sixty-eight percent is the highest recorded approval rate for Trump among Cuban Americans on the FIU Cuba Poll, which is the longest running survey of Cuban Americans in the country, tracking the community since 1991. The 2016 poll registered 35% approval for Trump, while the 2020 came in at 59%. The 2024 approval rate is also greater than the actual Cuban American vote for Trump in the last two presidential elections.
 
Re: FAFO - I'm waiting for the rich bastards with all of the stock holdings - who only voted Trump/Maga for the benefit of their wallet - to finally get their comeuppance. The Markets are still booming with the S&P 500 going over 6500 and the Dow getting a new record high. The government said US GDP rose 3.3% in the second quarter, a surprise bump up from its first estimate.

1) Is the Wall Street economy really reacting to Trump policies positively? Or is this some sort of calm before the storm - with folks now trying to "get ahead" of looming tariff repercussions - before the tsunami hits Wall St.?

2) Can we even trust reports coming out of the Government for accurate and truthful data - now that it's surely to be skewed to "look" better than what it really is? Can we even trust reporting from the corporate-run Media (especially Legacy Media) now that they've bent the knee and sucked off Donnie?

As long as Reuters and AP remain neutral, truthful and accurate I'll keep my lethal combination of sleeping pills and hard liquor in the cupboard... for now... However, I reserve the right to have my libations in a moderate fashion on the daily... for now...
 
altmin said:


news.fiu.edu

FIU Cuba Poll 2024: Cuban American voters’ support for Trump at an all-time high

news.fiu.edu news.fiu.edu

Sixty-eight percent of likely Cuban Americans voters in Miami-Dade County said they would check off the name of former President Donald Trump on the ballot in November, according to the 2024 FIU Cuba Poll released today. Twenty-three percent reported they plan to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. Five percent remained undecided.

Sixty-eight percent is the highest recorded approval rate for Trump among Cuban Americans on the FIU Cuba Poll, which is the longest running survey of Cuban Americans in the country, tracking the community since 1991. The 2016 poll registered 35% approval for Trump, while the 2020 came in at 59%. The 2024 approval rate is also greater than the actual Cuban American vote for Trump in the last two presidential elections.
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Cuban-Americans have usually voted Republican since they gained the right to vote here. Lots of lingering bitterness over what they saw as JFK's failure to fully support them during the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion (which might have started WW3) kept them voting Republican for a long time, along with heavy doses of social/cultural conservatism. Hard to feel much sympathy for them given their voting history - I guess they're now starting to realize how Republicans really feel about them, and likely always have.
 
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Centerpiece said:
Re: FAFO - I'm waiting for the rich bastards with all of the stock holdings - who only voted Trump/Maga for the benefit of their wallet - to finally get their comeuppance. The Markets are still booming with the S&P 500 going over 6500 and the Dow getting a new record high. The government said US GDP rose 3.3% in the second quarter, a surprise bump up from its first estimate.

1) Is the Wall Street economy really reacting to Trump policies positively? Or is this some sort of calm before the storm - with folks now trying to "get ahead" of looming tariff repercussions - before the tsunami hits Wall St.?

2) Can we even trust reports coming out of the Government for accurate and truthful data - now that it's surely to be skewed to "look" better than what it really is? Can we even trust reporting from the corporate-run Media (especially Legacy Media) now that they've bent the knee and sucked off Donnie?

As long as Reuters and AP remain neutral, truthful and accurate I'll keep my lethal combination of sleeping pills and hard liquor in the cupboard... for now... However, I reserve the right to have my libations in a moderate fashion on the daily... for now...
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It's unclear if the stock market actually continues to process news or estimates with any accuracy or reliability.

For years, the lions' share of trading has been done by high frequency trading algorithms that don't know of or care about anything fundamental. Combine that with bubbles that have persisted for a long time and the stock market might be mostly just a big game of poker. Crypto doesn't help at all. You have a generation of young people who have made a lot of money buying stupid shit with no value, watching it go up in price, and then crash, but go up again, and still goes up, all despite there being absolutely no use or value to that crap.

I have no idea what drives the Wall Street economy at all.
 
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