Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

"As President Trump's once-postponed 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico are poised to transition from a threat to a reality, the auto industry is preparing for higher costs and an extraordinary disruption to their North American supply chains."

"Trump called his announcement "very exciting" for the auto industry and said it would benefit from his tariff plan. "So what they have to do is build their car plants, frankly, and other things in the United States, in which case they have no tariffs," Trump said.

"But the auto industry itself has been vocally opposed to these tariffs. And that's in large part because car plants in the U.S. rely on parts from Canada and Mexico."


"Trump called his announcement "very exciting" for the auto industry and said it would benefit from his tariff plan. "So what they have to do is build their car plants, frankly, and other things in the United States, in which case they have no tariffs," Trump said.

"...Detroit automakers will be particularly vulnerable, compared to their international competitors."


"The investment bank Jefferies has predicted prices would go up by about 6% on average, or $2,700, while two analyses cited by Kelley Blue Book agreed on a $3,000 average price bump.

"Vehicle prices, of course, are already quite high, averaging about $48,000, which is out of reach for many car shoppers."


https://www.npr.org/2025/03/03/nx-s1-5316162/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-cars-auto-industry

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

OMG!!!!!!  

OMG!:    
"Jack Daniel’s parent company says Canada pulling booze off shelves is even worse than tariffs"

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/business/jack-daniels-tariffs/index.html

BURP!

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

OMG!!!! 

What a tragedy! 

I'm guessing that since Canadian sales of Jack Daniels is a very, very small pittance of their overall sales, they probably won't even feel it.  

But hey with 38 Million Canadians compared to 345 Million US Citizens, I'd bet that won't amount to much of that parent company's revenue,  

What will that loss amount to, perhaps $1 of every $500 in profit?  

Gee, that parent company will probably go bankrupt don't you think??     LOL!  

Any other fear mongerers you can link?

I see, so that's why we see this:    "Tariffs are just another headache for Brown-Forman because of a slowdown in demand from shoppers. In January, the company laid off around 700 employees and closed a Kentucky cooperage, where wooden barrels are produced to age whiskey and bourbon."

And:  "The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS), a trade group that represents spirits makers, has also been vocal in its displeasure about the tariffs."

“American wines and spirits have benefitted from fair and reciprocal trade with Canada and Mexico,” DISCUS said in a statement Tuesday. “These US tariffs on Mexico and Canada will result in great harm to US companies and employees throughout the wine and spirits supply chain.”

But what do they knoe azboput their buisiness compared to RICH DAVIS!?

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

‘This is kinda small ball, friend.

Well, I  respectfully disagree with you on this one. If this had been Speaker Pelosi's chief of staff, it'd be all over conservative media, especially Faux, with congressional GOP representatives demanding an investigation into the ongoing threat to the public safety...

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

OMG!!!!   

Tell me something Miss hysterical lunatic, didn't our gov't shut down the US economy and make it a crime for small businesses that weren't on their list of "critical businesses", that were Non-essential to stay open??

Didn't Joe Biden shut them down??  

Didn't Joe Biden put over 100,000 small businesses in this country in a category that were Non-essential?

Let me correct your hysterics above with what happened during COVID.


These shut downs of businesses in the US because of the Dictator Joe Biden will result in great harm to US companies and employees throughout the wine and spirits supply chain.”

Is that more along the lines of what you meant to write, Miss Hysterical far left radical lunatic?

Did you have a problem then when Joe Biden destroyed 1000s of independent business owners?

Did you communist leftist fraudulent hysterical hypocrite?  

We know you want to dodge the topic but it wasn't Joe Biden that shut 'em down, it was covid: 

 https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2021/06/08/kamala-harris-small-business-closures-covid-fact-check/7602531002/

Burp! Crunch!:

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5178787-johnson-chief-of-staff-arrested-on-dui-charge-after-trump-address/

And Canada turns on MAGA:

"Elbows up: How Canadians are fighting back against Trump’s tariffs"

"Canadian officials responded swiftly to Trump’s move, with Ontario Premier Doug Ford directing workers at the province’s government-run liquor retailors to remove all US products – from California chardonnay to Jack Daniel’s whisky – from the shelves. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario is one of the world’s largest wholesalers and sells about $1 billion worth of US liquor per year, according to Ford."

"Ford told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday his province is implementing a 25% tariff on electricity exports to 1.5 million Americans’ homes in Minnesota, Michigan and New York next week."


https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/us/canada-trump-tariffs-reactions-intl-hnk/index.html

How could it be any other way?

"MAGA activists have turned against one of President Donald Trump's own appointees to the Supreme Court: Justice Amy Coney Barrett."

"MAGA supporters see what some call an independent streak as a sign she isn't sufficiently aligned with or loyal to Trump."

"She is a rattled law professor with her head up her a--," said Mike Davis, who once clerked at the Supreme Court for Justice Neil Gorsuch and described Barrett as "weak and timid."

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Honestly, I don't care about all this tit-for-tat renaming of mountains, monuments, etc. It is interesting to note, though, that Democrats want to change names to try and bring some closure and justice to our ugly social and cultural past. In contrast, Republicans only seem to care about continuing to celebrate Confederate traitors who took up arms to try and preserve chattel slavery and to honor robber barons and a sundry of other unethical actors in our history's past.

Well, James, I'm sorry but you're a bit remiss there since you didn't mention the latest DEI revisions that require and are being performed on other historical facts.

For example, the "Enola Gay", emblazoned on the B29 that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, is being removed from government/military records because it contains, the word "Gay". In actuality, the plane was named by a pilot who also flew that plane and that was his mother's name.

And, not to be further remiss, the contributions of the Tuskegee airmen are also being expunged...

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Honestly, I don't care about all this tit-for-tat renaming of mountains, monuments, etc. It is interesting to note, though, that Democrats want to change names to try and bring some closure and justice to our ugly social and cultural past. In contrast, Republicans only seem to care about continuing to celebrate Confederate traitors who took up arms to try and preserve chattel slavery and to honor robber barons and a sundry of other unethical actors in our history's past.

Oh, and one other thing James, since we're discussing revisionist history, it's Elon Musk versus Senator Mark Kelly:

"Elon Musk calls Sen. Mark Kelly a ‘traitor' over his social media posts in support of Ukraine"

"Kelly, a former Navy combat pilot, responded to the tech billionaire’s remark by saying “he’s not a serious guy” and should “go back to building rockets.""

"Elon Musk and Sen. Mark Kelly sparred on social media Monday, with the tech billionaire calling the Arizona Democrat a “traitor” over a series of posts in support of Ukraine and its people, NBC News reported."

“Traitor? Elon, if you don’t understand that defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe, maybe you should leave it to those of us who do,” Kelly responded."
 
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/elon-musk-calls-sen-mark-kelly-a-traitor-over-his-social-media-posts-in-support-of-ukraine/3650655/

Hmm, I wonder who Davis supports, Elon or Kelly?....