Things Are About To Get Ugly
How ugly, America? Well now....
Let's hear from the Canadians first.
Make that make sense."
It doesn't make sense, Mr. Trudeau...
except when you have a Russian asset in the White House now orchestrating the collapse of the United States of America.
Trudeau said that Canada would plaster retaliatory tariffs on more than $100 billion of American goods in response to Trump's tariffs on Candian goods.
Well now...that's certain to be great for the American economy.
And now, let's hear from Mexico.
Marcelo Ebrard, head of the Mexican Ministry of Economy, warned that these taxes would represent an approximate cost of $20.5 billion for about 89 million American families. He also warned of the possible inflationary impact on products such as computers, televisions, refrigerators, agricultural goods, auto parts, and vehicles.
Mexico is a key trading partner for the United States. Between January and November 2024, Mexican exports totaled $466.6 billion, while American exports reached $309.4 billion.
The automotive industry has shown significant regional integration under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). This agreement allows foreign companies that produce in Mexico or Canada and use locally sourced materials to export their products to the United States at low tax rates.
Trump is now violating the agreement that he pushed for and signed with our closest neighbors.
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| Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, U.S. president Donald Trump, and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau signed the USMCA agreement during the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 30, 2018. |
Mexico's National Auto Parts Industry has warned that the imposition of tariffs on Mexican imports will weaken trade, reduce competitiveness in the region, and affect economic stability.
In a statement, it stressed that the automotive and auto parts sector is a pillar of North American exports, with the capacity to generate more than 11 million jobs in the USMCA countries. The association foresees that assemblers in Mexico could reduce production by as much as 1 million units this year due to the new taxes, which would affect product availability, job creation, and the supply chain.
88 percent of the pickups sold in the United States come from Mexico and are assembled by companies such as General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis. The minister of economy emphasized that the tariffs would represent the United States shooting itself in the foot, as it would directly impact its own automotive companies, which depend on Mexican production to supply their domestic market.
The electronics and appliance sector will also be affected. In November 2024, Mexican exports of electrical and electronic equipment reached $8.9 billion, 89 percent of which was destined for the US. The production of these devices is concentrated in Baja California, Chihuahua, and Nuevo León, where thousands of jobs and assembly plants could be at risk.
Trump's tariffs will have significant implications for US consumers. An SEC study estimates that the additional levy would cost an extra $7.1 billion for 40 million families purchasing computers. Likewise, it is expected that around 32 million households would pay up to $2.4 million more when purchasing new monitors, and around 5 million families would assume an extra expense of $817 million when purchasing refrigerators.
An analysis by the US Congress warns that the unilateral imposition of these tariffs could violate the USMCA agreement, which would unleash a trade war with serious economic consequences for the countries involved. “The tariffs would be a violation of the USMCA, which would allow Mexico to file a trade dispute. This could affect US exports valued at billions of dollars,” the report states.
The impact will not only be seen in domestic spending, says Gutiérrez. “The US market buys many raw materials from Mexico. A product that is produced in the United States and that would not be affected by the tariffs directly, will see changes in its production price due to the cost increase in the supply chain.” She adds that Trump's tariff measures “jeopardize the production chain in North America, one of the most integrated at a global level. They threaten jobs and make us less efficient and resilient to compete with other economies, such as China.”
Economic analyst Roberto Aguilar told WIRED that Mexico will be the main loser, since the US strategy seeks to strengthen its local production. “The nearshoring is on hold and will wait until certainty returns, both externally and internally. A recession in the Mexican economy is highly probable, since, beyond the trade threat, the country began a downward trend last year due to the lack of certainty and investment,” he says. The consequences of a severe recession in Mexico will include increased instability and threaten the progress made by Mexico in the recent decade to retain its labor force.
Well now...that's all certain to be great for the American economy.
[Plus, he's so dang hot, is he not?]
with your dog, Mr. Putin!
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| Bill Bramhall; New York Daily News, 2025. |
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Today marks one month since Donald Trump began his second term as president.
It’s been thirty one days of chaos, conflicts of interest and lawbreaking.
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| Deng Coy Miel, Singapore News |
Thirty-one days of Donald Trump and his billionaire cronies moving fast and breaking things (in this case, the law, the Constitution and crucial government agencies), hoping that the American people will be so overwhelmed that they’ll simply tune them out.
So just to review what Trump has spent the last month doing:
- He illegally fired 18 inspectors general, who worked in federal agencies to catch fraud, corruption and wrongdoing in the government.
- He paused the disbursement, probably illegally, of federal funds authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
- He illegally tried to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right, by executive order.
- He is trying to illegally reclassify non-partisan federal employees, apparently in order to fire them and replace them with political loyalists.
- His Justice Department has fired dozens of career prosecutors and FBI agents, while also creating a new working group to probe officials who investigated his crimes.
- He gave Elon Musk and DOGE virtually unlimited access to sensitive information and allowed them to offer a potentially illegal “buyout offer” to 2.3 million federal employees.
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FAVORITE POLITICAL CARTOON
OF THE MONTH
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| Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News |
Two months ago,
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| Terry's Political Cartoons |
self-designed political cartoon
in which I predicted
our Russian asset
in the White House
would waste no time
giving Putin exactly what he wanted.
"It Took Trump Only 24 Days To Sell Out Ukraine"
"Christmas came early for Putin this year."
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Recommended Jan. 28, 2025:
Heather Cox Richardson's essay,
Immigration & Deportations:
Under Biden, Under Trump
January 20, 2025:
My thoughts on a Megalomaniac's Inaugural
AN EMBARRASSMENT
we're honest enough
to put this question
on our students'
U.S. History Final Exam:
Question:
What could be more embarrassing than
what a U.S. President
and a mob of sore losers
did on January 6, 2021?
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| A Minute-by-Minute Historical Account of The Events of Jan 6, 2021 |
Answer:
The same U.S. President
being returned to power
in order to
re-write that history
and pretend it never happened.
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Meet a U.S. Capitol Security Officer
who would prefer we didn't forget
Jan 6, 2021.
We all know that a Vampire
can not see his reflection
in a mirror;
and, apparently,
can not put his hand
on a Bible
when asked to swear
to defend the
Constitution of the United States of America.
about where their allegiance lies -
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| The wealthy industrialist, & member of our nation's Fascist Party, gave our new Fuhrer the NAZI salute. I suppose that this is what's actually in store for our U. S. History classrooms.  |
America the Beautiful.
Warner Bros. Cartoons'
wardrobe closet --
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| Enough said about January 20, 2025 |
a great Darkness fell over the land...
January 1, 2025:
Favorite Quotes
of 2024:
“No, I don’t think I’m judge and jury.
I’m just a little fed up.”
Luigi Mangione, 26, reportedly wrote the line
in a notebook that expressed
'hostility towards the health insurance industry'
prior to shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO
Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan.
“They’re eating the dogs.
They’re eating the cats.
They’re eating the pets
of the people who live there.”
Donald Trump, revealing what happens
when you’ve stooped to believing
what’s reported on social media.
“Why not? I paid for it.”
Elon Musk, ostensibly referring to
the reason he is currently crashing in
a small pad at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort
– although most believe
he was referring to much more.
“With my leadership women will be
happy, healthy, confident, and free
– no longer having to think about abortion
because it will now be decided for them,
with the States
where it always had to be.”
– Donald Trump,
long-time protector of women.
“Our war is not with the people of Gaza,
it’s with Hamas.”
– Benjamin Netanyahu,
Prime Minister of Israel,
speaking about the 15-month-old war
between Israel and Hamas in Gaza
where the death toll
has surpassed 44,000.
“The word grocery.
It’s a sorta simple word,
but it sorta means like
everything you eat.”
– Donald Trump, etymologist.
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December 1, 2025:
Terry's New
Political Cartoon Series
America's
Inglorious
Restoration
INTRODUCTION:
Welcome to my
"political commentary with humor" page.
If we must put up with him for another 4 years
(and, let's face it, we'll be damn lucky if it is
just 4 years given his past behavior)
then I say let us not allow an opportunity
to laugh go to waste.
Let's have some fun with it
(otherwise we'll go insane).
& the Rise of Trump
may not have been the future we envisioned
But let's not pretend this outcome isn't one long ago predicted.
The philosopher Aristotle warned us what would happen in a democracy where demagogues rose up and assumed immunity to the laws of that democracy.
"For in democracies where the laws are not supreme, demagogues spring up. . . . Demagoguery is to a democracy . . . what tyranny is to other forms of monarchy. The spirit of both is the same, and they alike exercise a despotic rule over the better citizens. The decrees of the [demagogues] correspond to the edicts of the tyrant . . . . Such a democracy is fairly open to the objection that it is not a constitution at all; for where the laws are no longer applied to a privileged few, including the demagogue, there is no constitution. The law ought to be supreme over all . . . .when that is no longer true, a constitutional republic no longer exists."
And so, my friends, being delighted that I will have four years of material falling into my lap courtesy of
the emperor who wears no clothes,
I humbly present to you:
America's Inglorious Restoration
Volume 1
"It's Christmas in Moscow"
Vol 1; Issue 2; Dec. 30, 2024
"The Inaugural" (8 panels)
Terry's November Endorsement
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| Who do I support? |
Enjoy looking through my Library
Terry’s “Good Living” Guide:
Avoid the 3 PsBsSs
Processed Foods, Phthalates, Plastics;
Beef, Butter, Breads;
you’ll be feeling better in no time!
Avoid the 3 F’s
misinformation, fear, anger and hate!
JOIN ME IN ENSURING AN EDUCATED CITIZENRY!
JOIN ME IN ENSURING AN EDUCATED CITIZENRY!
I drink it morning through late afternoon.
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| Best Bean Ever! |
While on vacation in Oregon I fell in love with the many varieties I discovered at Portland Coffee Roasters.
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