Any idea on how tariffs will affect shipments to US?

Trump talks literal nonsense attacking the Pope.

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New Hungarian President

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BLOCKADE FAILS IN REAL TIME: New reporting shows a U.S.-sanctioned Chinese tanker successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz despite Trump’s naval blockade, raising immediate questions about enforcement, strategy, and credibility.

According to shipping data, the tanker “Rich Starry,” sanctioned by the U.S. for dealings with Iran, carried roughly 250,000 barrels of methanol and made it through the chokepoint without being stopped. It’s reportedly the first vessel to exit the Gulf since the blockade began.

This is a major development.

The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most critical shipping lanes in the world. If sanctioned vessels can pass through anyway, it signals that the blockade may be far less effective than advertised—or not effective at all.

At the same time, NATO allies are refusing to participate, global tensions are rising, and markets are watching closely.

"I'm just contemplating the fact that one moron, one psychotic moron, one capricious idiot, has completely bollocksed up the global economy not only to the detriment of his own people, but the detriment of the planet. ... It's like how much more of this can the planet take?"

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The Federal Reserve released a study this week that says without trump's tariffs, inflation in consumer goods would have already fallen back to pre-pandemic levels.

Fed economists found that tariffs implemented through November 2025 raised core goods prices by 3.1 percent through February 2026, and that those tariffs explain the entirety of excess inflation in the core goods category relative to pre-pandemic inflation rates. Every single dollar of excess inflation hitting Americans right now on electronics, appliances, clothing and furniture traces directly back to one policy choice, made by one administration, on purpose.

Republicans have spent the better part of two years blaming trump's failure to bring down prices on Joe Biden. But The Economist, not exactly a publication with a liberal axe to grind, declared the American economy under Biden "the envy of the world," growing at double the rate of any other G7 country just a few months before the election. Yes, inflation was high during the Biden years. But Biden didn't start the pandemic and wasn't even president when it began. What he inherited was an economy in chaos, wrecked supply chains circling the globe, and prices spiking in every country on earth. He brought inflation down in America faster than anywhere else.

And now trump is engineering a whole new wave of it. With the Strait of Hormuz still largely closed after trump's war with Iran, oil prices have surged past $100 a barrel, gas at the pump has crossed $4 a gallon, and roughly a third of the world's fertilizer trade has been bottlenecked, which means food prices aren’t coming down anytime soon either. Iran also blew up Qatar's Ras Laffan complex, the world's largest LNG facility, crippling a key source of the natural gas that feeds fertilizer and plastics production worldwide, with repairs expected to take up to five years. And of course, trump was caught on a hot mic at a White House Easter lunch telling his budget director it's "not possible" to fund Medicare, Medicaid, or day care because "we're fighting wars." He said the quiet part out loud. The tariffs are trump's. The war is trump's. The bill is yours.

No Brownie Points For MAGA Now
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Former ambassador says negotiations were a decoy. Negotiations take time, weeks or more, so JD and Trump werent serious about it.

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Go Hungary. Stick one to Putin

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China's response to Trump trying to close the Strait Of Hormuz.

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Mary Trump

In case people had forgotten, Trumps Gestapo ICE is still killing people