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Penguins explained:
Commerce Secretary Explains Why Trump Is Tariffing Penguins

Everyone knows Donald Trump’s new import taxes are hitting China, Vietnam, and plenty of other countries that have spent decades stealing American jobs. But were you aware they apply to penguins, too?

Heard and McDonald Islands, positioned west of Australia and exclusively inhabited by those flightless birds, are among the dozens of territories facing the new 10% levies. Commerce chief Howard Lutnick explained why on Sunday, saying, “The idea is that there are no countries left off’’ the White House’s list.

“What happens is, if you leave anything off the list, the countries that try to basically arbitrage America go through those countries to us,’’ he told CBS’s Face the Nation. “Any country. Like, we had tariffs — the president put tariffs on China, right, in 2018 — and then what China started doing is they started going through other countries to America.”

It’s worth wondering if the penguin development could unlock a new liberal electoral strategy. Whether we like it or not, these tariffs will probably make the fowls pretty anti-Trump. Will the Left try to flood America with millions of penguins in hopes of them becoming loyal Democrat voters as they have with illegal immigrants? We wouldn’t put it past them. Read more. Not much more: https://nypost.com/2025/04/07/us-news...

Laughing, I don't have any, I only take offense to STUPIDITY! and stupid will take offense because it involves Mike Lindell. They've boycotted My Pillow in favor of lying their heads on a Rock . . . now we know why they are so cranky ! ! !

Reading the story and the comments I'd have to agree it should be up to Israel and surrounding area to take care of but I suspect there is more to this than meets the eye, knowing Trump,

Oh, maybe it's just me but I wouldn't trust Grok as far as I could delete it.

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Indeed, and it won't offend your political sensibilities either!

Once in a great while, Ron Paul is wrong, and this is one such time.

Thanks for your support . . .

It also kept you from listening to that salty cracker puttin on the Ritz in the meme preceding.

Cool! . . . as in, it won't burn!

As a nuclear engineer, I fully support this order. First of all, for technical reasons, nuclear energy is not really suitable for "load following." Over a 24 hour cycle, power demand follows peaks with reduced demand in between. Demand peaks during dinner time when people are preparing meals, and demand is usually least during the middle of the night when people are asleep. However, there is always a minimum demand, for home heating, powering refrigerators, etc. If a nuclear power plant has to follow these ups and downs, reactor core temperatures also cycle, which is not good for long term materials performance. Nuclear reactors perform best when brought up to 100% full power and then left there for 2-3 years until the next refueling outage (or even longer if the reactor is a Gen IV fast reactor). On the other hand, coal (and hydro power where available) are ideally suited to fill in the demand during peak hours. So yes, what we need is an optimal mix of power generation sources, and with increased overall demand due to the massive new data and compute server centers that "big tech" wants, we need economical, reliable, and non-intermittent power sources, which wind and solar cannot possibly satisfy.

I agree with Ron Paul.
https://twitter.com/i/status/19018330...

Certainly Israel has interests there, but so does the entire non-Muslim world. Yes, we have dealt with pirates in many places. Some times we dealt with pirates better than others (Tripoli - good; Somalia - not so good - See Captain Phillips).

I think it is Israel's interests that are being defended.
Pirates attack American private craft all over the world and the US Navy doesn't send a fleet to attack the pirates.
imo, this is Trump responding to the Israel lobby for political reasons, not American economic reasons.
The economic effects to America as shown in the article are trivial and the military response is a ridiculous waste.

Removing the looters and moochers definitely hurt my portfolio some, but it is like pruning a bush so that it grows back even stronger.

What we are defending is our own economic interests. Period.

Are the Houthis wrong for their actions on unrelated civilian ships? Of course, but
why not let the people who are most affected by that take the action to stop them?
Let Israel do their own dirty work. Let the EU defend their imported goods.
They wouldn't be shooting at US Navy unless the US Navy was loitering there.
This action by the US military is the opposite of all the rest of Trump's goals.
If it was such a big issue and the US stayed out, wouldn't Israel and the EU
take military action?

The inflation graph is interesting. It went really high and prices are still high...just not inflating at the previously high rates. Ugh...

100% wrong
they ARE are problem
they shoot at American Navy ships and civilian ships

TOS
The Return of the Archons
What are Little Girls Made of?
The Changeling
The Ultimate Computer

Two Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes summarize such emergence succinctly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Soil

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/...

Regarding the MyPillow meme: Buy a MyPillow, and you are supporting my Florida Tech (er, Patrick Henry) university. Prof. Gordon Nelson, with whom I am a minor collaborator, developed the flame-retardant polymer foam that is in MyPillow, and licensed it to Mike Lindell. That paid for a new building at my campus. As I pay Galt's Gulch for advertising on this site, I thought you should know part of what is being advertised.

Why do so many people cling to the cancer of globalism? Like cancer in the human body, some financial entities are deemed "too big to fail".

That's a deal!

Dino MA . . .?

Fabulous LOL LOL! 👍