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The Bigot[emoji]8482[/emoji] backing out of the TPP will end up hurting the people who voted for him, ironically.
U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to back out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, a $62 billion market for U.S. farmers, provides a fresh threat to a slumping agricultural economy that has grown increasingly dependent on exports.

Agricultural groups expressed disappointment over the move and urged the new administration to find alternative ways to boost product shipments to Asian countries. Trump announced the cancellation on Monday, quickly fulfilling a campaign promise.

Trump won nearly two-thirds of the rural vote in November, with big agricultural states including Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio and Indiana all lining up for the Republican.

The TPP, which was never approved by Congress, was a 12-nation trade pact which the Obama administration framed as way for the United States to establish economic leadership in the region. But Trump, who wants to boost manufacturing, claimed the deal hurt the U.S. job market. 

"The TPP held great promise for us, and has been a key priority for several years now. We're very disappointed to see the withdrawal," said Ron Moore, president of the American Soybean Association.
The United States is a net exporter of agricultural goods, and shipments to the 11 other countries in the TPP deal totaled $61.735 billion in 2015, latest data shows. The Obama administration had touted TPP as a trigger for further gains. At its annual Outlook Forum in 2016, the USDA had themed its trade-related sessions "U.S. Exports in the warm glow of a completed Trans-Pacific Partnership." 

Trump signaled he wants to strike trade pacts with individual countries instead of joining TPP, said U.S. Senator Charles Grassley, a Republican from Iowa. The message to the country was: "I like trade and we need to negotiate down barriers," Grassley told reporters on a conference call on Tuesday.

Negotiating bilateral deals could take years, though, Grassley said, adding that "it's just not an easy thing to do." Japan is the top priority, he added.
U.S. farmers and trade groups are also concerned that backing out of the deal could provide other countries with better access to China, a major agriculture goods importer that was not part of the TPP negotiations.
U.S. meat exporters could have made their biggest potential gains in Japan, which bought $2.88 billion of U.S. beef and pork in 2015, and Vietnam if TPP had been implemented, said Joe Schuele, federation spokesman. He declined to quantify in dollar amounts those possible gains.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-agriculture-idUSKBN1582O9
 
Smack's face in the back after the zoom in is the best part of this gif 
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*“On Monday, he will move into the White House, continuing his long tradition of evicting black families,” said Triumph the Insult Comic Dog as he rolled through the crowds at Donald Trump’s Inauguration.

And he was just getting started.

In a “Make America Great Again” hat tilted to the side, the trash-talking puppet (and his handler Robert Smigel) worked the “overweight , overage, predominantly white” crowd and proceeded to viciously skewer them for a “Conan” segment.

“If a Walmart could vomit, this is what it would look like,” he said as the camera panned over white people dressed in American flag garb.

The roasting goes on for more than 7 minutes. Upon seeing former President Bill Clinton, Triumph joked it was, “a stark reminder of a more dignified, gentile administration when vaginas were probed by cigar, not by hand.”
 
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So a faulty study that claimed that 14% of non-citizens voted in 2008 when in reality it was closer to 0% has now been cited by Spicer as don dump's reason for contesting the 2016 election. Not only that, but he now says 14% of ballots were cast by non-citizens.

14% of ballots in 2016 is over 16 million votes. So maybe don dump didn't even win the electoral college either.

I almost feel bad for Spicer. He has been given a Herculean task, which is to make don dump sound like a reasonable human and now the POS that he is.
 
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Donnie Trumpet is making it his mission to destroy Obeezies legacy :rofl:

It just seems clear that somebody else is running the shoe and calling the shots, while he just signs on the dotted line
 
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Donnie Trumpet is making it his mission to destroy Obeezies legacy :rofl:

It just seems clear that somebody else is running the shoe and calling the shots, while he just signs on the dotted line

Obama ethered him plenty times during that birther nonsense
Got Trump so mad that this is his revenge now, even if it comes at a cost of hurting millions of people
 
Donnie Trumpet is making it his mission to destroy Obeezies legacy :rofl:

It just seems clear that somebody else is running the shoe and calling the shots, while he just signs on the dotted line

Obama ethered him plenty times during that birther nonsense
Got Trump so mad that this is his revenge now, even if it comes at a cost of hurting millions of people

Looks like even the reinstatement of the global gag order on charitable organizations funded with USaid money is a response to the more successful women's march.

Dude is petty as hell.
 
Donnie Trumpet is making it his mission to destroy Obeezies legacy :rofl:

It just seems clear that somebody else is running the shoe and calling the shots, while he just signs on the dotted line

Obama ethered him plenty times during that birther nonsense
Got Trump so mad that this is his revenge now, even if it comes at a cost of hurting millions of people

Looks like even the reinstatement of the global gag order on charitable organizations funded with USaid money is a response to the more successful women's march.

Dude is petty as hell.
Well that was already on the Republicans to do list, but he's taking the credit for it :rofl:
Dude really gonna be a scapegoat for the GOP establishment the next coming years.
 
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/badland...ironment/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=33741393

Badlands National Park Twitter account goes rogue, starts tweeting scientific facts

Just days after The National Park Service (NPS) was forced to shut down its Twitter activity over two retweets the Department of the Interior deemed inconsistent with the agency’s mission, the Twitter account for Badlands National Park in South Dakota seems to have gone rogue, tweeting numerous scientific facts about climate change that have since been deleted.

The first tweet about climate science came at 11:40 a.m. local time Tuesday. It said: “The pre-industrial concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 280 parts per million (ppm). As of December 2016, 404.93 ppm.”

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Just moments later, the same account tweeted, “Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years” — with the hashtag “#climate” added for good measure.

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Then, at 12:25 p.m., the next tweet said: “Flipside of the atmosphere; ocean acidity has increased 30% since the Industrial Revolution. ‘Ocean Acidification’ #climate #carboncycle”

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But the messages were short-lived. As of 5:35 p.m., all the above tweets have been deleted. In response to that action, Democratic National Committee press secretary Adrienne Watson released the following statement: “Vladimir Putin would be proud.”

This comes as the Trump administration has instituted a temporary media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency, causing the EPA’s social media accounts to fall silent after Friday’s Inauguration Day. The EPA’s final tweet before the social media blackout simply reads, “@GinaEPA shares a report about actions taken by the agency under the Clean Air Act during the last eight years,” with a link to a blog post by now-former Obama EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy.

While the main National Parks Service Twitter account is now back up and tweeting, its posts since the temporary halt at that agency have remained largely innocuous: benign tweets about new research libraries, sled dogs in Denali and the motivational power of the mountains. Those posts seem certain not to rub the Trump administration the wrong way. Badlands’ posts on the carbon cycle and climate change, however, seem to have proven otherwise.

President Trump has, in the past, tweeted that he believes climate change is a hoax perpetrated by China. During their confirmation hearings, however, several of Trump’s Cabinet nominees disagreed with that notion, including ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, Trump’s choice to take over the EPA.

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012

On Monday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer answered a question from the Huffington Post’s Jennifer Bendery on climate change — specifically, about the fact that 2016 was the hottest year on record and how President Trump plans to deal with that fact — by saying, “He’s going to meet with his team and figure out what policies are best for the environment. One of the things he talked about during the campaign is there’s a balance, and he’s trying to make sure we use our resources appropriately, that we maximize things to make sure that we don’t do so at the detriment of economic growth and job creation.”
 
Trump trying to redirect climate and agricultural research to be in line with his ideals has a very interesting precedent in Russia (lysenkoism) between 1920 and 1964. The USSR got rid of all its scientists working on genetics, banned the study of genetics, and crop yields plummeted.

So I applaud that National Parks Services employee. I won't support the stiffling of evidence-based policies in favor of voodoo economics.
 
@ReutersPoltiics: @ReutersPolitics: Exclusive: Trump expected to sign executive actions on immigration Wednesday

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If he messes with the dreamers, Ninja said he would flip on his papi

Let's see how this turns out.

But real talk, I am sacred for the people that may be affect

Donald is going to rule by executive order. I hope all the Obama critics are ready to hear about it.
 
^ i remember that clown oneilmatt spouting that bs that Obama was overreaching with his executive orders :x

hope he eats his crow in a bit
 
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Many folks, myself included, **** on Hillary for her Goldman Sachs ties yet Goldman Sachs is lowkey gonna have a huge say in economic/monetary policy under this current administration :lol: :x :smh:

@dkberman: Goldman Sachs awards $100 million exit package to president Gary Cohn, who is now Trump's top economic adviser.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/gary-cohns-goldman-exit-tops-100-million-1485300905

"He's for us the little guy,not the elite donor class"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Love how Trump gives absolutely zero ***** about the appearance of payola in this new admin word to Betsy Devos :lol:
 
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