The Goat Pen

Well damn. Why didn’t you say it was Reuters in the first place.. Didn’t realize it was them. Of course it has to be true if it’s Reuters. Never mind then. Withdrawing my previous post. Carry on everybody.

I forgot your go-to news source is Mandy Pancakes on TikTok. We have met the enemy and he is you..

Getting the South Koreans and Japanese to work together with the CCP....

God help us all

Mortal enemies now joined against a greater menace…

Wish mortality wasn’t your enemy.

Why do they call her Mandy Pancakes?

ICE arrests illegal alien on the steps outside a Massachusetts courthouse where the illegal alien was entering to face state charges.



Apparently, Trump, Homan, and everyone else in this administration is sick and tired of sanctuary judges giving illegal aliens sanctuary in their state courtroom until such time as they could sneak them out the back door of the courthouse so they could escape the clutches of ICE. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 1:25 pm "There probably are 60 million illegal immigrants claiming to have social security numbers that they dont have."

Link?

Wall Street Apes. Very credible I'm sure. lol

I wish that some network (ANY other network) other than Fox, would report on this



I am sure that there are others. Still looking. Haven't given up

Jungle Rat wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:57 pm Wall Street Apes. Very credible I'm sure. lol

yea, thats an AI generated video of Elon Musk breaking it down in front of a room full of people

I'm sure that he has no reason to lie to advance his agenda. Oligarchs always act with pure intention....

He has made all sorts of outlandish claims that keep getting disproven / walked back when investigated. He's a Bond villain come to life, and like the far right, authoritarian Christian nationalist types used Trump originally, the Oligarchs are joining in with gusto this term to further destroy what's left of America.

I don't agree with Hedges on quite a few things to say the least, but I think he makes a valid point regarding Corporatists versus Oligarchs.

If Hedge ever made a valid point it was on accident

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 5:01 am I don't agree with Hedges on quite a few things to say the least, but I think he makes a valid point regarding Corporatists versus Oligarchs.

DS, serious question, ignoring the Wikipedia definition of Oligarchy, what is YOUR definition of what Oligarchy is and how does it apply/differ to US businesses and their influence over the federal government specifically? I am not going to condemn you or come down on you. We might even be in agreement. I just want to understand your point from an objective measurement. I'll share my opinion of what it is after you respond.

Happy National Tariff (Liberation) day

Does Canada fold or do they stay defiant liberals?

Trump needs to go after trade limits as well as tariffs at this point.

eCat wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 10:45 am Happy National Tariff (Liberation) day

Does Canada fold or do they stay defiant liberals?

Trump needs to go after trade limits as well as tariffs at this point.

So fucking short-sighted and just plain dumb (eCat's post, I mean). Trump is creating allies left and right, just none with the US. And the eCat's of the world are just fine with that. Y'all are fixin to find out just how stupid this whole exercise is...

This is one of America’s most shocking economic defeats in 40 years
Donald Trump’s intimidation tactics risk leaving Americans poorer and more isolated
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Donald Trump has achieved his first global peace deal. China, Japan and South Korea have kissed and made up after years of trade quarrels. They have pledged to deepen ties and reorganise the Asian and global trading systems under what amounts to Chinese leadership.

The picture blazoned across Asia’s front pages – though barely registering in the US – showed the trade ministers of the three economic powers holding hands in a collective gesture of Asian defiance.

It is one of the most striking economic defeats suffered by America that I have witnessed in more than 40 years covering international affairs. Trump’s “liberation day” cuts two ways.

They agreed to forge ahead with free trade agreements but also to flesh out the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world’s largest trade pact on paper and a venture viewed by US hardliners as a Trojan horse for Chinese commercial hegemony.

“For all intents and purposes, the US is now a rogue nation when it comes to trade,” said Michael Gasiorek, the director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory at the University of Sussex.

“I don’t think there is a global trade war going on. The US is fighting a trade war with everybody but the others are keen to co-operate even more.”

...

This was unthinkable just weeks ago, when the Commission’s mantra was “derisking” the supply chain, and the two sides were daggers drawn over EU tariffs on electric vehicles.

China is still smarting over the EU’s sweeping investigations into Chinese technology theft and predatory investments. The EU is still smarting over the tsunami of Chinese exports flooding its market, which has pushed China’s structural trade surplus with Europe above €300bn (£250bn).

But they both have a bigger wolf to contend with today.

He Lifeng, China’s vice-premier, said the two economic blocs should team up to defend themselves against Trump’s assault on the global trading order.

“China is willing to work with the EU to handle economic differences in the proper manner,” he said.