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Has Buffet talked about this "import certificate" idea recently? For all we know, he may have abandoned the idea.

@jon-nyc said in Trump 100-Day Approval Ratings:

Why is he underwater on guns?

Maybe tariffs raise prices for guns and ammo?
@Jolly, any insight there?

From https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-first-100-days-president-trumps-second-term

Maybe this will give you a clue:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5266301-trump-memo-targeting-actblue/amp/

[Trump] directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate allegations of straw donations and contributions made from foreigners, according to a White House official.

Hegseth had Signal messaging app installed on an office computer

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/23/hegseth-signal-pentagon-computer/

The move was intended to circumvent a lack of cellphone service in much of the Pentagon and enable easier communication with other Trump officials, said people familiar with the matter.

First YouTube video was uploaded on 2005 April 23.

Only twenty years, and it changed the entertainment and media landscape across the world.

The economy has been so bad even @Mik and @Tom-K have to tighten their belts!

@LuFins-Dad said in Trump softens tone on trade wars:

... she would have been passed out in a pool of Cardbordeaux.

That would still be better than the current reality.

@Mik said in Trump softens tone on trade wars:

As I've said other places, I think he's taken some very bad advice.

Even Kamala wouldn't have fell for these bad advice.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/23/dead-social-security-doge-musk/

Follow-up reporting ... 6000+ supposed "illegal immigrants" have been added to the Social Security "Death Master File," with DOGE pushing to add millions more; while more mistakes and disregards of due diligence are reported.

@Mik wrote:

... why I buy nothing from anyone other than school kids who knock on my door.

To give them hope for a career in door-to-door sales, only to have that dashed once they get out of school.

This one praises MAGA and its aspiration to bring back manufacturing jobs:

Fake, of course. AI may be involved.

Hungary's ideas:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-fertility-birthrate-sexism.html

It included government loans of 10 million Hungarian forints (at the time almost $35,000) to women under 40 when they married, which would be forgiven if they had at least three children. Large families would receive help buying cars and houses, and women who had at least four children would be exempt from personal income taxes for life.

@taiwan_girl said in Preach the gospel at all times.:

I am going to start a pool as to when even @jolly has had enough. LOL

Even tougher pool would be "when @LuFins-Dad stopped thinking 'this is still better than the alternative.'"

Who are those two green arrows?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/baby-bonuses-fertility-planning-trump-aides-assess-ideas-to-boost-birthrate.html

The White House is soliciting policy proposals designed to give women incentives to have more children, ...

Well, any idea?

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/52037-what-americans-think-of-120-political-leaders

Obama tops the list with highest net favorable rating.
McConnell tops the list with highest net unfavorable rating.

Republicans eye Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. as equally favorable!

So much for "local control," so much for "state rights," so much for the Tenth Amendment.

My condolences.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-jet-returns-us-china-victim-trumps-tariff-war-2025-04-20/

A completed, air-worthy Boeing 737 MAX that was already in China got returned to the USA -- because Xiamen Airlines, the supposed recipient of that airplane, cannot afford the tariffs and thus cannot take delivery.