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Trump holding off on tariffs after Colombia agrees to accept deported migrants on military planes, White House says
Trump holding off on tariffs after Colombia agrees to accept deported migrants on military planes, White House says
Earlier Sunday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he rejected deportation flights because the deportees were being transported in military aircraft.
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lawtig02
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Isn’t that what the crypto bros, who now litter Trump’s administration and camp out at MAL, are counting on?
ZenMode
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It looks to me like Trump got exactly what he wanted - Colombia is now accepting the deportees on military planes.
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HintonJamesHeel
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I think it’s no harm no foul if you only look at this one situation but what Trump and his buffoons never understand is everything can’t be a fight. The world is complex. Provoking a fight on everything is stupid and wasteful. He huffs and puffs around and then when it lands back to where it was anyway - he claims victory when in reality, it was status quo and it was net negative because now relationships are strained.
Colombia accepted over 120 planes last year under Biden, an average of one every three days, without complaint or the US showing their ass. They accepted over 400 altogether. Trump "gained" something that was already there while making an ass out of himself and our country. This was theater and bad theater at that.
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And once again, the media doing Trump's bidding by reporting misleading info from the White House.Trump holding off on tariffs after Colombia agrees to accept deported migrants on military planes, White House says
Trump holding off on tariffs after Colombia agrees to accept deported migrants on military planes, White House says
Earlier Sunday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he rejected deportation flights because the deportees were being transported in military aircraft.
Let's be clear: Colombia has been accepting deported migrants on flights for years. They did it under Biden as well. The difference is that under Biden, they had pre-authorization to do it and didn't bring the migrants back to Colombia on military planes and in handcuffs.
Petro didn't accept the flights because they were military planes entering Colombia without any pre-authorization, instead of the civilian planes that the Biden administration used for the job. So of course he hand them turned away. This new round of negotiations, the one that right-wingers like to say that Trump forced Petro to back down on, was nothing more than Petro laying some ground rules for Trump to follow: Yes, we'll accept the flights as we've always done. But the migrants won't be handcuffed, and you'll need to get pre-authorization ahead of time.
It's unclear whether the military planes would be allowed. Trump's press secretary claims that Petro agreed to all his demands, including the use of military planes. Petro tweeted after the deal was reached that he would allow the flights on the condition that they arrived on civilian planes. I tend to believe him over Leavitt since she's already lied about Petro capitulating to all of Trump's demands. It sounds like Trump was the one capitulating in order to accomplish the same goal that the Biden administration had already accomplished over the last couple of years without using strongarm tactics.
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The article I posted seems to say basically of that. Under the agreement, military planes can be used, which is what Trump wanted, but the deportees won't be in handcuffs - what Petro wanted.
It made Trump look like the wimp he is. His idea was to be a rough ,tough bully and he ended up saying, "Please, Mr. Petro, is it okay if I use military planes? I promise to be more respectful." He also looked stupid for starting this in the first place.
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I think Trump overreacted, which isn't surprising, but he also got what he wanted - use of military planes.
Not sure where you get the groveling vibe.
Trump backed down. No tariffs, no handcuffs, no tough guy posturing. What difference do the planes make? That wasn't the real point and you know it. He wanted to look like a tough guy with the military hauling them off in literal chains. He ended up looking stupid.
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He got the military planes at a much higher cost to taxpayers. So yeah, big win!
ZenMode
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He backed down on handcuffs/chains but got military planes. Seems like both sides gave something and got something, right?
Great victory indeed. He weakened us in the eyes of the world, looked like a fool and got what, the ability to use a more expensive form of transportation while removing inventory from its military functions to do something commercial flights were doing without any hassle already. Go, team.
Yeah, he got egg on his face. I guess he wanted to do that now while they were more affordable. It's the same shit he's doing on the border. He's sending top notch combat troops to do garrison duty on the border, a total misuse of their training and almost guaranteed to hurt their efficiency. For the duties they can legally perform, he should have sent combat engineers and quartermasters and the like. He's all hat and no cattle.
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There IS that. Maybe DOGE can get involved.He got the military planes at a much higher cost to taxpayers. So yeah, big win!
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Why RFK Jr. Is Dangerous to Public Health
He’s made millions from referring clients to trial lawyers, and he advocates mass tort litigation that would ruin the vaccine industry.
“… Mr. Kennedy is scheduled to appear before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday. Expect him to obfuscate about his ties to trial lawyers, anti-vaccine views, and support for sundry progressive causes. While presenting himself as a truth-teller and slayer of government corruption, he’s as slippery as Anthony Fauci.
… He says he merely wants to ensure that vaccines are safe and thoroughly studied—who doesn’t?—and that Americans have access to more information. In Mr. Kennedy’s case, this means opening the industry to lawsuits by the trial bar. …
But as HHS Secretary, Mr. Kennedy could take action to assist his trial-lawyer pals.
… The HHS Secretary can add or remove vaccines from the compensation program [National Vaccine Injury Compensation], as well as specify injuries eligible for compensation. Removing vaccines from the program would open up manufacturers to mass torts based on weak evidence, including animal studies and scattered human cases that purport to link injuries to the shots.
… Another danger is that Mr. Kennedy could turn over vaccine proprietary data in Food and Drug Administration filings to trial lawyers posing as vaccine safety advocates.
… The risk is high that Mr. Kennedy will use his power and pulpit at HHS to enrich his trial-lawyer friends at the expense of public health and medical innovation. It’s telling that Mr. Kennedy hasn’t agreed to stop taking payments from these allies in the Gardasil lawsuit. Senators would be wise to believe RFK Jr.’s career of spreading falsehoods rather than his confirmation conversions.“
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Tying RJK Jr to MAGA boogeymen (Fauci — who they never mention or even allude to again after using his name as a MAGA jump scare) and more traditional Republican/WSJ enemies (trial lawyers) with this editorial.
I actually think the WSJ Editorial Board is right that RFK Jr could and likely would feed the trial bar to try to destroy the vaccine industry with litigation, BTW. But I also think they won’t care if RFK is replaced by an anti-vax candidate who also hates trial lawyers and would try to destroy vaccinations in this country by lies and regulations.
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Fuck the Eagles and Commanders fans though!
Also, he really does think his election is cast a “bright light” over the world, doesn’t he?
Reminds me of Rocky Horror Picture Show
There's a light
Over at the Frankenstein place
There's a light
Burning in the fireplace
There's a light, a light
In the darkness of everybody's life
The darkness must go down the river of night's dreaming
Flow morphia slow, let the sun and light come streaming
Into my life, into my life
There's a light
Over at the Frankenstein place
There's a light
Burning in the fireplace
There's a light, a light
In the darkness of everybody's life
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What is weird is Colombia has been doing so for years — their original complaint here was the conditions of the transport (a complaint Brazil has also lodged).
Both leaders are blowhards and it seems both are claiming victory from their tweet duel.
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From the Yahoo link above
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Edgar Da Silva Moura, a 31-year-old computer technician, was on the flight, after seven months in detention in the United States.
"On the plane they didn't give us water, we were tied hands and feet, they wouldn't even let us go to the bathroom," he told AFP.
"It was very hot, some people fainted."
Luis Antonio Rodrigues Santos, a 21-year-old freelancer, recounted the "nightmare" of people with "respiratory problems" during "four hours without air conditioning" due to technical issues on the plane. …”
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Edgar Da Silva Moura, a 31-year-old computer technician, was on the flight, after seven months in detention in the United States.
"On the plane they didn't give us water, we were tied hands and feet, they wouldn't even let us go to the bathroom," he told AFP.
"It was very hot, some people fainted."
Luis Antonio Rodrigues Santos, a 21-year-old freelancer, recounted the "nightmare" of people with "respiratory problems" during "four hours without air conditioning" due to technical issues on the plane. …”
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Well, they did their old men yelling and sorted it out without a trade war, so red alert rescinded for Valentines flowers. For now.If you and your significant other celebrate Valentine’s Day, you may want to plan ahead about the flower sitch this year.
