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WaPo: first round of China tariffs cut US exports 25% on average (Chinese imports only fell 5%). so good and easy to win professor zovek May 16, 18:40

whoops. $62m of farmer welfare paid out by US to two Brazilian crooks, guilty of bribing officials in their home country professor zovek May 16, 19:08

We are paying money to relatives of farmers supposedly affected by tariffs, including cousins. We are paying to subsidize farmer's markets. forlorne May 17, 09:32

US soybean farmers had a market: China. they didn't need any subsides before the tariffs destroyed that market. and it's not coming back professor zovek May 17, 10:50

i WAS agreeing with you, until you claimed there weren't previously subsidies {nm} forlorne May 17, 11:51

The Agriculture Dept has been subsidizing farmers for at least as long as I've been alive. (More than 50 years.) DTravel May 17, 12:48

sure. and some subsidies do make economic sense. the new ones are just a $12b payoff for wrecking their export market with dumb tariffs professor zovek May 17, 13:39

25% of 50 billion & 5% of 250 billion are actually the same $ amount... {nm} forlorne May 17, 08:39

Headlines are easy...math and logical analysis not as much {nm} forlorne May 17, 08:41

Oh indeed... {nm} Omar May 17, 09:14

John Deere will scale back production by 20% at its major plants as a result of the dumb steel tariffs, which stupidly depressed earnings professor zovek May 18, 12:40

New York AG reviewing the NRA's tax-exempt nonprofit status in light of reported massive fraudulent spending by Wayne LaPierre & Co. professor zovek May 16, 15:34

Survivor: B. islndr May 16, 05:54

Drew McWeeny has read The Joker script and it doesn't sound good professor zovek May 15, 18:04

NBC2: Florida audience member called 911 on comedian Ahmed Ahmed because “they feared for their lives” over a joke Antibody May 15, 15:18

i'm not being facetious when i say that under Florida's Stand Your Ground law, that's enough legal justification to shoot him {nm} professor zovek May 15, 15:28

Now do you really think you persuade people when you make ridiculous assertions like that? What the law REALLY says: forlorne May 16, 08:01

But at least you didn't include the word "literally", I appreciate that! {nm} forlorne May 16, 08:02

As someone I know says, "They're literally decimating the English language!" {nm} DTravel May 16, 17:10

Ha ha. So "they" are removing every tenth word from the English language, huh? {nm} forlorne May 17, 11:52

TNT: We’re back in the wrestling business! #AEW Antibody May 15, 11:04

Cody Rhodes and Jim Ross spoke with V Antibody May 15, 11:09

the NFL should start its own league with all the WWE cast-offs who couldn't make it to Smackdown {nm} professor zovek May 15, 11:14

Jane Crow in full effect across the former Confederacy. Georgia passes six-week "fetal heartbeat" abortion ban. Alabama: "hold our beer" professor zovek May 15, 08:06

Apparently even fundamentalist evangelist Pat Robinson thinks the Alabama bill goes too far. {nm} DTravel May 15, 13:20

lol Knicks {nm} professor zovek May 14, 20:57

lol *queue sad trombone music* {nm} NOLEAFCLOVR May 15, 00:23

V cover story: How Vince McMahon’s WWE Seized on TV Disruption to Become a Wall Street Champ Antibody May 14, 14:55

The company is a joke, safe for now by that new tv $. But when the ratings come in half of what The Cool Kids got?... {nm} islndr May 14, 15:24

PBS cartoon Arthur teacher came out as gay man mike255 May 14, 07:51

Bitcoin mania is back. Whole food, Home Depot and other store accepting bitcoin mike255 May 13, 22:01

Atlantic: An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry Antibody May 13, 11:30

doesn't he realize there's no such thing as "race"?! {nm} professor zovek May 13, 11:41

Shamefully awful writing, but no, I don't think he does realize there's no such thing. {nm} forlorne May 13, 13:30

Media not biased? Where's the reporting on the Colorado STEM shooter's political and ideological rants against Xians forlorne May 13, 10:42

dangerous ideologues of every persuasion should not have unfettered access to firearms, agreed {nm} professor zovek May 13, 10:44

The question was not about guns, it was about media bias. Do you have another explanation for the near complete forlorne May 13, 13:28

now i'm confused. last week the whole problem with US mass shootings was the media giving a platform for the shooters' name and face at all {nm} professor zovek May 13, 13:35

As a professor I'm sure you know your reply was a non-sequitur. No you're not confused, you're apparently unable to say the truth out loud. forlorne May 13, 13:42

Hate-speech and actions seem to be accepted and even encouraged if it's directed at certain groups. {nm} PhoneHome May 15, 13:33

Bitcoin just hit 8000. Bitcoin mania is back {nm} mike255 May 13, 09:48

please let me buy some from you! {nm} forlorne May 13, 13:31

KEY POINTS China will raise tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods in retaliation for the Trump administration’s latest decision to increase d mike255 May 13, 07:18

"trade wars are good, and easy to win" {nm} professor zovek May 13, 08:50

What is your answer? Do you think the status quo is acceptable? {nm} forlorne May 13, 10:43

not be an economic dip**** who has zero understanding how international trade actually works? {nm} professor zovek May 13, 10:45

That's what you WOULDN'T do. What is your answer to China's theft of property and patents, and the 2nd largest economy in the world forlorne May 13, 13:36

signing on to TPP, which anyone who knows their ass from an economic hole in the ground would realize is the way these disputes are fought professor zovek May 13, 14:29

All are on board with Trump on this except those who have no clue. Even your buddy Schumer is behind it. Reveals that you're anti-person PhoneHome May 14, 04:38

GOP senators admit the tariffs are harming their own constituents but refuse to oppose them because Trump professor zovek May 14, 08:16

"one former aide said: There’s little point trying to persuade Trump otherwise, because his belief in tariffs is "like theology." professor zovek May 14, 08:23

DJIA plummets 617 pts in response {nm} professor zovek May 13, 15:05

If that is evidence of something, what? And wouldn't the rises be evidence FOR the tariffs then? {nm} forlorne May 15, 07:24

lol, the Billion Dollar Loser ready to impose an additional $300b price increase on American consumers via remaining Chinese imports professor zovek May 13, 17:08

Is Trump and the GOP the only ones not knowing Americans are the ones paying for those tariffs? Not the Chineses??? {nm} Lukasck May 14, 14:08

they know {nm} professor zovek May 14, 14:12

yes, they know, but tariffs also reduce demand for Chinese products. Again, what is the alternative? And sorry, prof z, forlorne May 15, 07:23

not spoiling GoT to say it was... really bad professor zovek May 12, 19:34

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i don't know if the Warriors will win it all without KD but man the way they crush the Rockets' souls every year is Jordan-esque professor zovek May 11, 23:32

The Rockets have souls? huh. {nm} forlorne May 13, 13:37

I'm glad we can agree on something {nm} PhoneHome May 14, 06:52

Bitcoin just reach 7000 baby {nm} mike255 May 11, 17:27

UNLV chapter leader of college GOP grp Turning Point posts video w/ GF making white supremacist hand signs and liberally dropping the N-bomb professor zovek May 10, 18:09

Read beyond the headline: Turning Point quickly decried the video ― surfaced by the independent outlet It’s Going Down on Thursday night forlorne May 17, 11:57