Trump’s Trade Shockwave: Why Didn’t
Anyone Do This Sooner?
Posted By: ladydawgfan, 5/12/2025 2:33:03 PM
While the press corps hyperventilates over a proposed luxury jet offered by a Middle Eastern royal family, Donald J. Trump is boldly doing something so strategically brilliant and economically seismic that historians will spend decades parsing its ripple effects. And no, he’s not exactly being quiet about it. Last week, Trump unveiled a landmark bilateral trade agreement with the United Kingdom. Billed as a “special partnership,” the deal is more than just ceremonial—it’s the opening shot in what promises to be a full-scale realignment of U.S. trade relationships. It prioritizes allies, punishes adversaries, and reasserts American economic strength as the center of global commerce.
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Wars seemed to be breaking out everywhere this week — in Kashmir, Congo, and in a new phase in Gaza. Closer to home, Democrats appear to be opening a hot civil war of their own.
Political veteran James Carville was punching down to the ingénue David Hogg, scolding him for ham-handedly seeking to primary party elders.
AOC and Bernie Sanders want to declare war against oligarchs who, ironically, mostly support Democrats and their causes.
The portly Gov. Pritzker is now competing in a speech to New Hampshire Democrats to be the party’s angriest man in the room
The first group of white South African refugees arrived in the United States on Monday.
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar welcomed the refugees, who are fleeing violence, racial discrimination and persecution. [Tweet]
Fifty-nine white South African refugees were welcomed in DC, proudly waving American flags. [Tweet]
The new refugees beamed as they waved American flags. [Tweet]
MSNBC’s Yamiche Alcindor said a lot of people are appalled after the Trump Admin reportedly said South Africans assimilate better.
“So the Trump admin, they’re saying that essentially these white South Africans assimilate better,
We reported on the chaos that three Democratic House members from New Jersey caused at an ICE detention facility in Newark last Friday. Democrats claimed they did nothing, but then the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released video that showed otherwise. [ Tweets, videos]
The DHS said they were still investigating the incident. They have not ruled out further arrests. The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, was arrested when it happened on Friday.
Meanwhile, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, one of the three, put her foot in her mouth by talking too much. (Snip) On Monday, protesters were out in front of the ICE facility again.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has become very, very busy since Donald Trump became president again and installed Border Czar Tom Homan to help clean up the massive illegal immigration mess that Joe Biden made.
Their latest operating theater: Houston, Texas, where they’ve nabbed over 400 “undocumented people”—many with extensive and disturbing criminal records. These are the kinds of folks Democrats keep going to bat for—not law-abiding Americans.
During the operation, ICE officers targeted some of the most dangerous criminals, including an illegal migrant wanted in Colombia on murder charges.
Fox News exclusively embedded with officers for 10 hours as ICE officers arrested an illegal alien they say is wanted for murder
Episcopal Church Shuts Down Its Migration
Ministries Over Trump Resettling White
South Africans 14 replies
Ministries Over Trump Resettling White
South Africans 14 replies
Remember Episcopal Bishop Marian Edgar Budde? On January 21, as presiding bishop for the National Cathedral's "Service of Prayer for the Nation," Budde decided to use a supposedly ecumenical and unifying prayer event to browbeat President Donald Trump and make her case for illegal immigrants and the LGBTQ-all-the-letters tribe. (Snip) We have not heard from Bishop Budde of late, but her denomination has let it be known that their vestments are in a wad. Why, you might ask? Because Trump has declared that white South African farmers, who are being murdered, persecuted, and having their lands confiscated, can now be resettled into the United States as refugees.
No, we're still not tired of winning yet. The numbers are in, and we learned on Monday that April's income from customs duties - mostly tariffs - is breaking records, topping $16 billion. That is, as someone once said, a big freaking deal.
Receipts from U.S. tariffs hit a record level in April as revenue from President Donald Trump’s trade war started kicking in.
Customs duties totaled $16.3 billion for the month, some 86% above the $8.75 billion collected during March and more than double the $7.1 billion a year ago, the Treasury Department reported Monday.
On Monday, Edan Alexander was finally released from captivity. The American citizen, now 21-years-old, was the last remaining living hostage held by Hamas since the October 7 attack perpetrated against Israel. President Donald Trump announced the news on Sunday from Truth Social, and Alexander was sure enough released from Gaza on Monday.
That same afternoon, the White House posted a picture of Alexander holding up a sign thanking the president for his role. As the sign he was holding up read, "Thank you President Trump!!!"
As Townhall has been covering, there's been trade negotiations going on between the United States and China. Rather than celebrate any kind of progress, though, Democrats in Congress are predictably going after President Donald Trump and his administration. There's not only Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), which is to be expected, but Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has had a rather noteworthy take as well.
In a quoted repost from the White House about the trade deal announcement, Schumer lambasted the update, claiming "it looks like China once again got the better of Trump."
While the press corps hyperventilates over a proposed luxury jet offered by a Middle Eastern royal family, Donald J. Trump is boldly doing something so strategically brilliant and economically seismic that historians will spend decades parsing its ripple effects.
And no, he’s not exactly being quiet about it.
Last week, Trump unveiled a landmark bilateral trade agreement with the United Kingdom. Billed as a “special partnership,” the deal is more than just ceremonial—it’s the opening shot in what promises to be a full-scale realignment of U.S. trade relationships. It prioritizes allies, punishes adversaries, and reasserts American economic strength as the center of global commerce.
Time to Punt Thom Tillis
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Perhaps we could breed Senator Thom Tillis (alleged R-NC) with Senator Mazie Hirono (D-uh) to produce a senatorial super-moron, a legislator so unbelievably stupid that it needs a constant reminder to breathe. But, upon reflection, Frankenstein-like experiments to create the ultimate moron might be amusing, but what we really need to do now is get rid of Thom Tillis. He needs to go. He needs to be gone. Republicans need to stop screwing around with pols like him. North Carolina Republicans, primary this jerk.
President Trump has to be nice and polite with this guy, at least for now, but I don’t. This guy is a loser,
Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) claimed on Saturday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials would use “manufactured” footage to make it appear as though law enforcement agents were body slammed during the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at the Delaney Hall Detention Center last week.
Watson Coleman said, “We were there for a tour. ICE was giving us the runaround. We finally got into a facility. We heard some noise. We came out, we found that the mayor was there and they were an ICE was having conversations with him. They asked him to leave the facility. He left the facility.”
Representative LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that she did not body slam anyone during the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at the Delaney Hall Detention Center last week.
Host Dana Bash said, “I want to go back to some of the footage we were looking at, at some, and I want our viewers to see that you are the woman in the red blazer as we show them, DHS says that obviously that there were chaos, that maybe you were trespassing. You can talk about that. But DHS also says that, in their words, you were body slamming an ICE officer.
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This dad is one unhappy mouseketeer.
A father-of-three who went viral for his posts about how much Walt Disney World costs says the $1,400 he spent for one day was not worth it.
In TikTok that has been viewed by millions, Craig Stowell said a trip to the famed Orlando theme park with his wife and three kids blew up his wallet for only a modicum of enjoyment when faced with the never ending stream of lines at Disney.[snip]
The frustrated dad said he spent $974 for five single-day tickets, and that’s with the Florida resident discount. “It started with the ticket purchase,
The Biden administration claimed to have added almost 400,000 jobs from July through September of last year, but new data released this week suggest none of those jobs ever existed. Despite constantly gaslighting by the mainstream media, Americans knew the economy was in poor shape and these latest numbers prove it. Month after month, the government bean-counters under former-president Biden published overly optimistic estimates for everything from job growth to the size of the economy, only to have those numbers routinely—and quietly—revised down later.
Every month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) produces estimates for the number of nonfarm payrolls in the country,
Jasmine Crockett, the Texas congresswoman who reliably and routinely beclowns herself every single time she opens her mouth, is now going after her own party because as she asserts, they’re considering running the “safest white boy” in 2028 as their next presidential candidate.
What would she prefer? The opposite? A problematic black woman? News flash Crockett, y’all just did that, and it was the biggest beating you Democrats have had at the ballot box in more than forty years—since Ronald Reagan, and that was lifetimes ago!
She doesn’t like “safe” and “white,” so is “dangerous” and “black” better? Sounds like her ideal candidate would be George Floyd, or O.J. Simpson.
Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell on Friday reportedly signed an executive order to establish protocols for various Metro Nashville departments to provide the mayor’s office with any information deemed “immigration communications,” which might reflect forthcoming federal immigration enforcement in the city.
O’Connell appears to have actually amended his Executive Order 30, which is titled Communications Between Federal Immigration Authorities and the Metropolitan Government. The order mandates any communication to Nashville police, fire, emergency management, or emergency communications personnel by federal immigration law enforcement, or their federal agencies, be reported to the Mayor’s Office of New Americans.
Evil woman who tortured bunnies to death
for clicks launches GoFundMe to stop Trump
deporting her 17 replies
for clicks launches GoFundMe to stop Trump
deporting her 17 replies
An evil animal abuser who tortured animals including bunnies to death on YouTube has launched a GoFundMe to try and stop Donald Trump deporting her.
Anigar Monsee, 28, was convicted of felony animal cruelty on Wednesday and faces seven years behind bars - but is now playing the victim on her fundraiser.
'Hi, my name is Anigar Monsee, and I’m a single mother doing my best to raise my daughter on my own,' wrote Monsee, a Liberian national who now lives in Delaware.
'Right now, I’m facing the most terrifying moment of my life—I may be sent to jail or even deported over something I never imagined
Just yesterday, I wrote about Britain’s decline as its embrace of unlimited immigration from Third World (mostly Muslim) countries and its commitment to the insane Net Zero carbon dioxide metric are leading it toward a Muslim-controlled polity and a pre-modern energy infrastructure. Today, I awoke to two more reports about Britain’s decline, this time related to speech and self-defense. These reports matter because the leftist British approach to governance is what the Democrat party desperately wants to see in America.
The first story comes from The Telegraph, Britain’s (slightly) right-of-center outlet, and its title says it all:
Episcopal Church Shuts Down Its Migration
Ministries Over Trump Resettling White
South Africans 14 replies
Ministries Over Trump Resettling White
South Africans 14 replies
Remember Episcopal Bishop Marian Edgar Budde? On January 21, as presiding bishop for the National Cathedral's "Service of Prayer for the Nation," Budde decided to use a supposedly ecumenical and unifying prayer event to browbeat President Donald Trump and make her case for illegal immigrants and the LGBTQ-all-the-letters tribe. (Snip) We have not heard from Bishop Budde of late, but her denomination has let it be known that their vestments are in a wad. Why, you might ask? Because Trump has declared that white South African farmers, who are being murdered, persecuted, and having their lands confiscated, can now be resettled into the United States as refugees.
DENVER — The impact of President Donald Trump's new policies and executive orders have been felt around the country, including in Denver classrooms. Data from Denver Public Schools found that in the weeks and months after Trump took office, his mass deportation plans and the fear they instilled in some communities had a big impact on how many kids came to class. Inside Arielle Walker's kindergarten class, students learn the important lessons. Their teacher helps keep students engaged and the classroom bright. "It is crazy hair day for 'Spirit Week' and 'Teacher Appreciation Week,'" Walker said, laughing and pointing the neon
If you haven't heard, the Democrat Party is in disarray. If you don't believe me, check any of your favorite conservative websites. But David Hogg, DNC Vice Chair and progressive visionary, may have crafted the perfect plan to bring young men back to the party. Lure them with promises of fun and sex.
Appearing on "Real Time With Bill Maher," Hogg opined:
What I think happened last election is younger men — they would rather vote for somebody who they don’t completely agree with, they don’t feel judged by, than somebody who they do agree with, that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly… Young people
A university report published last month shows that more than half of those who identify as being left of center on the political spectrum believe assassinating President Donald Trump would be justified. This didn’t come about organically. It’s the product of a vicious campaign waged by the Democratic Party-mainstream media axis.
According to a Rutgers Social Perception Lab-Network Contagion Research Institute brief, 55.2% of Americans on the left “reported that if someone murdered Donald Trump, they would be at least somewhat justified.” Overall, 38.5% hold the same belief.
Trump, who has survived a pair of assassination attempts
Get a load of the pope's brothers
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It's as if God has a sense of humor.
Imagine getting elected to the 2,000-year-old Chair of St. Peter. You'd become the head of state of an unbroken succession of popes as well as the leader of the world's largest religion, one watched and followed closely by others, every word you said dissected closely. Your blessings would be sought, you'd deliver the global pieties, you'd avoid grubby politics, focusing on the tenets of your faith.
But then, you have these guys behind you, your two brothers, at least one of whom loves himself some Trump.
The Argentine Supreme Court has found documentation associated with the Nazi regime among its archives including propaganda material that was used to spread Adolf Hitler’s ideology in the South American nation, a judicial authority from the court told The Associated Press on Sunday.
The court came across the material when preparing for the creation of a museum with its historical documents, the judicial authority said. The official requested anonymity due to internal policies.
Among the documents, they found postcards, photographs, and propaganda material from the German regime.
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To answer the question posed by the title, President Trump is doing this for the good of this country. It wasn't tried before because NOT doing it kept certain pockets lined and bank accounts fat. It took an independently wealthy businessman to show everyone the difference.