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Shipping specific issues so far…

Well tariffs will hurt shipping, and ship building in the U.S.

Then the U.S. imports half our oil from Canada, so that hurts us.

Musk talking over and shutting down USAID likely stops Food For Peace shipments, so that hurts us.

Effects on the National Maritime Center remain to be seen.

Has anyone heard if funding for the marine security program is being effected (yet)?

Higher fuel prices and fewer imports, won’t go well for us.

Does anyone have any good news?

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Looks like we’re going to invade Canada. But No LST work there. We can load the landing crafts in Bellingham WA. Only a short hop from there to White Rock BC. Wonderful scenery. Nice sand beaches to storm. Be careful with the lawn! Fish-and-chips shops right on the beach. Great gelato.

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Ever seen the film Canadian Bacon?

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I’ve decided to write a few Jimmy Buffet/Toby Kieth type, feel good country music songs with the words Gulf of America in them. Sounds like easy money to me…

Wasting away again in the Gulf of Americian Soldier.

Some people say there’s a fascist tech-bro to blame

But I know it’s the voters own damn fault.

I can’t imagine that the farm states are going to love elimination of USAID and the foreign food aid. Maybe it does move over under State, and there’s a 2-3% reduction in head count. Maybe not.

It does illustrate a serious point though; there is no government waste in the Federal budget, there is only critical spending, put in there for good reason. Now the size of the constituency that considers each dollar of spending to be critical may vary, but every dime means something to at least one someone and it will be very interesting to watch interest groups form and dissolve various coalitions to defend and maybe even expand their pieces of the pie.

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You have to know your audience. I was thinking something along the lines of Margaritaville & How Do You Like Me Now. One side would like it because it would say Gulf of America in it & the opposite side would like it because they continually misread & mis-interpret Trumps base, believing they have some regrets. Me personally, I don’t think Trumps base regrets anything. The left cried wolf over the Columbia 25% tariffs & the president of Columbia folded after 6 hours. The left cried insanity over the buy Greenland rhetoric & Denmark came up with a Greenland defense bill to the tune of 2 billion dollars. The left cried wolf over Trumps buy back Panama Canal rhetoric because of national defense & just today the President of Panama canceled a China deal after meeting with Rubio over the weekend. So who knows what will happen? The wolf has to come eventually I guess?

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Therecare some who regret their votes, but for the most part no.

When the bad things happen to them, and they will, they will blame anyone but Trump

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For the most part you are correct, but I recall some of them turning on him during his last term. Even on this forum, Leeshore & a couple other Trumpers started pointing out his flaws & mistakes during the pandemic on here. But that really reflects badly on the left because almost 100% of the left still refuses to admit the last potus’s diminished mental capacity, their party’s role in the high inflation, Hamas taking American hostages without fear, Putin invading Ukraine again under a Democrat President & our catch & release, open border policy over the last 4 years. Every time I read capt phonx write & argue that the border was secured I was dumbstruck that a person could drink so much kool-aid. I’m anxious to see how many, if any MAGA’ers will point out Trump when the time comes. BTW, I fully stopped being an Obama supporter after he placed a tax on poor people for being too poor to buy insurance & he continued W & Chaney’s plan of spreading death & destruction in the Middle East. Very, very few dems held Obama to the same standards they held W to.

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The Trump tariffs, like a lot of the other things he spouts, are 90% bluster and bullshit. At the end of the day, most things won’t change too much.

I have a lot more faith in Elon than I do in Trump, but Elon is certainly capable of major screw ups too (just look at Twitter).

Overall, I think Elon and the other “Tech Bro”billionaires will be a very positive moderating influence on Trump.

I’ve seen enough of the federal bureaucracy in ultra high cost inaction ( e.g. USCG NMC) to know that it is badly in need of major disruption.

The welfare state and the nanny state certainly need to be slashed. The values of productive work and self-sufficiency need to be reintroduced in American society.

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I heard he was bringing back $1 gas and cheap eggs.

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I thought this retard was gonna bring down egg prices day one. I get off the ship where they only givin me 3 eggs and I see this shit at the local grocery store.

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I can’t give an exact number WRT how many tons of American grains I
delivered overseas in Scandinavian and (mostly) American bottoms since the early Seventies due to PL480 and USAID, but it’s well over a million. Haven’t done so since the late Nineties. I think the farmers appreciated the sales, even though top dollar was not always obtained.

The problem with eggs is that due to the bird flu, there have been 145 MILLION chickens, ducks, and turkeys killed since 2022. In the last quarter, more than 20 million egg-laying chickens have been killed. It will take about a year to raise new egg-laying chickens to replace what has been lost. The price of eggs is more of a 'science" problem than a political problem. NOT Biden’s fault, NOT Trump’s fault.

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Unfortunately, with USAID, according to some sources, many millions, or even billions of dollars have been turned into some kind of “slush fund” with money not being accounted for. Does the US really need to fund another “Sesame Street” in Iraq? To the tune of $20 million? And there are other examples. $1.5 million to promote LGBTQ workplace inclusion in SERBIA? From what I understand, USAID was to promote “humanitarian aid” and I’m fine with that. Feed the hungry, try to heal the sick and injured. But Serbia’s problem should be their problem, not ours. Nigeria? A top ten receiver of USAID. What is Nigerian known for? Since 2014, over 50,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria, the same country that the US removed from a list of countries with “religious freedom concerns”. And we have given Nigeria $7.8 billion in the last ten years? (Side note, the UN has decided the slaughter in NIgeria is people “fighting over goat pastures”.) My concern is that if the US is going to “aid”, there needs to be accountability and better oversight.

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“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One,”

:clown_face:

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Let’s wait and see how the chicken farmers manage during that year when the $31 billion in farm aid gets turned over to president Musk while Trump is golfing.

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Why don’t seagulls get bird flu? Or sparrows? Pigeons?

Nope, only edible birds get bird flu because that’s how the controllers of the world destroy the food security of western nations. Some flunkey from the Department of Bird Flu Eradication throws his dart at a map and then declares the area around it as a bid flu contamination area for complete elimination of the tasty birds therein. He magically detects bird flu from a bird in the area at his specialist bird flu testing laboratory (no farmer can check or question this process) and the case is proven to the requisite standard.

Anybody noticed the huge uptick in fires, explosions, disasters and suchlike happening to food production and processing facilities throughout the US over the last few years? Check it out.

Beware the entire pandemic/epidemic narrative. More fiction than fact.

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Glad to read your confession about your posting history here. Please go spread your filth and conspiracy crap some place else.

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