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Trump went on to blame Biden for egg prices, claiming he "let the price of eggs get out of control". Prices are high, but this has been linked to a bird flu outbreak in the US. Egg prices rose under Biden in 2023, and in January a dozen eggs averaged over $5, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). That is 53% above the average for the whole of 2024. The USDA has said a bird flu outbreak has led to US farmers having to kill millions of chickens, creating egg shortages, and has announced a $1bn (£780m) plan to help combat the issue. The outbreak started in February 2022 and last year the Biden administration allocated more than $800m to tackle it. The Trump administration recently fired a number of USDA officials who worked on the government's response to bird flu as part of cost-cutting measures by the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge). They are now reportedly attempting to rehire some of them. On its official website, Doge states that it has saved an estimated $105bn, from fraud detection, contract and grant cancellations, real estate lease terminations, asset sales, workforce reductions, programmatic changes, and regulatory savings. However, that figure cannot be independently verified as, so far, Doge has only published "receipts" for contract, grant and real estate lease cancellations on the website. These add up to about $18.6bn. We have asked the White House for evidence of the remaining $86bn of savings. US media outlets have also highlighted some accounting errors. For example, Doge initially listed its largest saving of $8bn from scrapping an immigration agency contract - it later corrected this to $8m. The Chinese embassy in Washington, in a post on X, said: "If war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we're ready to fight till the end." I like it. Real morons in charge.

I heard he found a bunch of fraud. Thank god.

Biden's environmental policies were making America unsafe. I wonder just how dumb you need to be to have this conman make sense to you. I guess dumb enough to blame Biden for egg prices.

Trump thinks he can run a country like a bad hotel. He isn't smart enough to realize animosity towards the entire world except for Russia is not going to go well. Make America Dumb Again.

I remember the daily meltdowns on here during Biden when the stock market dropped 1%. Now you are a triggered libtard if you are concerned. Imagine coming here to read what 15 people have to post then get triggered that you have to ignore them. 😆

I believe Rousseau is more highly graded by most analysts than he is on this board. Then again this board really doesn't like a single Bills player other than JA. So for the right price sure. Isn't that every single player though?

Looks like Warren has become a liberal snowflake!! Tariffs might be President Donald Trump’s favorite word. To legendary investor Warren Buffett, there is less to be excited about. “Tariffs are actually — we’ve had a lot of experience with them — they’re an act of war, to some degree,” Buffett said in an interview with CBS that aired on Sunday. The Berkshire Hathaway CEO and billionaire investor said tariffs over time serve as a tax on goods and could raise prices for consumers. “The Tooth Fairy doesn’t pay ‘em!” Buffett said with a laugh. Tariffs disrupt trade between countries by raising taxes on imported goods, and those new costs are often passed on to consumers through higher prices. Tariffs are considered by many economists a political cudgel — sometimes used in a trade war — and not an efficient framework for international trade. Buffett offered his thoughts in a rare sit-down interview, with CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell. The segment focused on the late Katharine Graham, former publisher of the Washington Post and a friend of Buffett’s, though he answered a few questions about the economy. The Oracle of Omaha said it’s critical to ask, “And then what?” when thinking about the implications of tariffs and who will bear the cost. “You always have to ask that question in economics: Always say, ‘And then what?’” Buffett said. Trump is set to go ahead with tariffs on America’s biggest trading partners on Tuesday, imposing 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico. Trump on Monday also raised tariffs implemented on China from 10% to 20%. The Trump administration has gone back and forth on its proposed tariff plans. Economists expect tariffs to increase the cost for US consumers on everyday goods that rely on international supply chains, from electronics to vehicles. Trump’s tariff proposals come at a time when US consumer confidence is declining and concerns of inflation are lingering. China has hit back at the United States with its own tariffs, stoking concerns of a trade war similar to Trump’s first term. And this time, the European Union and other trading partners are also targets, with Trump outlining a plan for “reciprocal tariffs” on countries that have tariffs on US goods. In an interview on The Situation Room on Monday with CNN’s Pamela Brown, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick dismissed Buffett’s comments about tariffs as “silly.” Lutnick said tariffs could replace the need for the Internal Revenue Service, which he incorrectly said was created when the US entered World War I. “The United States of America before 1913 only had tariffs, and then we created — when we entered World War I, we all had to pitch in, and we created, of course, the brilliantly named Internal Revenue Service,” Lutnick said. In fact, what became known as the IRS was initially created in 1862, during the Civil War. The federal income tax, collected by the IRS, was established in 1913 by the ratification of 16th amendment, four years before the US entered World War I. Since then, federal income tax has become the government’s largest source of revenue. It is true the US government used to rely on revenue from tariffs before the federal income tax was created, but the US economy of the 2020s — a global powerhouse deeply intertwined in international trade — has evolved tremendously in scope and complexity since the US economy of the late 1800s and early 1900s. In short, the proposal to abolish the IRS and supplement government revenue with tariffs is financially unrealistic and riddled with issues. While Buffett didn’t elaborate on his comment about tariffs being an act of war, tariffs have long been associated with protectionist trade policy that has influenced isolationist foreign policy. In the 1930s, after the United States hiked tariffs as part of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 (which exacerbated the Great Depression), the French media reportedly called it a declaration of (economic) war. Buffett has previously been outspoken about the negative effects of tariffs. In 2016, he said Trump’s proposals for tariffs on the campaign trail were “a very bad idea.”

Remember. If the stock market goes down under Trump that means the economy is flourishing. Stay calm. Yes. We already got the idea from your avatar.

This was an interesting comment on the budget If you think there are too much waste in federal government spending, then feel free to go look up the top 10 programs that federal government spends its discretionary budget on. Let me know how much of a cut you think is reasonable for each program with military spending being number one and accounts for about 50% of that total spending. Then tell me what the aggregate amount of that saving is and what percent of the national debt that comes out to. Now, go look up the average corporate income tax rate of the Fortune 500 companies today, and then the corporate income tax rate of the 1950s and 60s. Then, calculate how much additional tax revenue we would get if Fortune 500 companies simply paid the 1950s or 1960s tax rate with an aggregate income of $18.8 trillion dollars last year (publicly available information). Now, tell me what percentage of the national debt would that additional tax revenue be? Finally, if you are honest then you will understand it's not a spending problem, it's a revenue problem by a long shot. And it's on purpose and by design. They simply don't want to pay their fair share like the good old days ever since they invented "trickledown economics" propaganda and are sticking with it. They are using the "debt crisis" they've manufactured as an excuse to take away the few crumbs that are left for the poor, the working class, the elderly and the veterans.

This thread really makes me think…..

He is better but I haven't given up on Samuel. I think he will do fine next season. Let's hope. Is your main issue with Debo the salary, not the draft pick? Which I can understand.

Only losers don’t love corporate America. Thank you for taking care of us!

So we couldn’t give a better pick? I would ***** love Debo on the Bills.

My dog found a tennis ball on the trail today.

This thread is the dividing line of people who think NOAA makes simple weather predictions and what real science is. How else do you explain... The Trump administration is stripping away support for scientific research in the US and overseas that contains a word it finds particularly inconvenient: “climate.” There is a difference between thinking your house is cluttered and arbitrarily throwing out furniture and boxes. It is also quite idiotic to think anyone who doesn't worship trump is a ***** liberal.

Trump will tweet the weather!! Tell us commie overlord! How much snow we getting!! Hope its wrong so we troll the liberals!!

Don’t you mean next 1st Q FG by opposing team.

I think it proves the Bills players are like this board. NON STOP WHINERS!!! hahahahahaha. I kid. They better figure this ***** out.

With Bean's first round picking, doesn't it make sense we just trade them for studs? I guess financially that would become problematic.

Andrew Tate has been an outspoken supporter of Trump, and the feeling amongst the president’s family is mutual; Donald Trump Jr. has described the Tate brothers’ imprisonment as “absolute insanity.” One of Tate’s lawyers, Paul Ingrassia, now works in the Trump White House as a liaison to the Justice Department.

Back to this you alright stupidity when you got nothing ha? Remember when the libs were all pedos? Meanwhile pedos in the White House.

Andrew Tate, a self-proclaimed misogynist and notorious leader of the right-wing “manosphere,” unexpectedly landed in Florida on Thursday morning after years of imprisonment and house arrest in Romania. Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, were arrested two years ago for allegedly forming a criminal gang to exploit and sexually assault women. The charges included the alleged rape of a minor. The Romanian government suddenly lifted international travel restrictionsThursday morning, and the Tate brothers promptly boarded a plane for the United States. It’s not clear why, or how, this happened, but it followed a pressure campaign from the Trump administration, which reportedly pressed Romanian authorities earlier this month to lift the travel restriction. Trump denied on Thursday during a brief press availability that he was involved in the Tate brothers’ freedom. You an Andrew Tate fan? @Albwan how about you? you guys worship rapists?

I remember his laptop too!! Thank god that is resolved. Maybe he should have pardoned the BLM rioters. Just to troll you idiots.

Ahhh Turmpers taking delight in anyone's pain or misfortune. What a common occurrence now. Oh no was a trolled????? Liberals were nuts with some of their policies. But they weren't scumbags.

The drama going on between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine raises one of the most disturbing questions I’ve ever had to ask about my own country: Are we being led by a dupe for Vladimir Putin — by someone ready to swallow whole the Russian president’s warped view of who started the war in Ukraine and how it must end? Or are we being led by a Mafia godfather, looking to carve up territory with Russia the way the heads of crime families operate? “I’ll take Greenland, and you can take Crimea. I’ll take Panama, and you can have the oil in the Arctic. And we’ll split the rare earths of Ukraine. It’s only fair.” Either way, my fellow Americans and our friends abroad, for the next four years at least, the America you knew is over. The bedrock values, allies and truths America could always be counted upon to defend are now all in doubt — or for sale. Trump is not just thinking out of the box. He is thinking without a box, without any fidelity to truth or norms that animated America in the past. I can’t blame our traditional friends for being disoriented. Read the sorrowful essay last week by the heroic Soviet dissident and freedom fighter Natan Sharansky: “When I first heard President Donald Trump’s words on the tarmac — when he blamed Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, for starting the war that Russia launched against Ukraine — I was absolutely shocked,” Sharansky wrote for The Free Press. “Trump seems to have adopted the rhetoric of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. He repeated a line from the Kremlin that sounded like Soviet-style propaganda: that Zelensky is not a legitimate leader. When Putin, the seemingly eternal leader of Russia, says it, it is laughable. When the president of the United States says it, it’s alarming, tragic, and does not comply with common sense.” That’s a benign interpretation of Trump — that he is just besotted with Putin, Russia’s Christian nationalist, anti-woke crusader, and not applying the common sense that he promised. But then there is also another explanation: Trump does not see American power as the cavalry coming to rescue the weak seeking freedom from those out to quash them; he sees America as coming to shake down the weak. He’s running a protection racket. Consider this stunning paragraph from a Wall Street Journal article about Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s recent meeting in Kyiv with Zelensky. Bessent presented Zelensky with an offer he couldn’t refuse — to sign over Ukrainian mineral rights to America, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, to compensate for U.S. aid. It was a scene right out of “The Godfather”: “Bessent pushed the paper across the table, demanding that Zelensky sign it …. Zelensky took a quick look and said he would discuss it with his team. Bessent then pushed the paper closer to Zelensky. ‘You really need to sign this,’ the Treasury secretary said. Zelensky said he was told ‘people back in Washington’ would be very upset if he didn’t. The Ukrainian leader said he took the document but didn’t commit to signing.” This whole story shows you again what happens when Trump is no longer surrounded by buffers but only by amplifiers. Bessent, a savvy investor, surely knew that the president of Ukraine could not just sign a piece of paper turning over hundreds of billions in mineral rights without checking with his lawyers, his Parliament or his people. But the Treasury secretary felt he had to do Trump’s bidding, no matter how foul or absurd. If the president wants to empty Gaza and make it a casino, then that’s what you sell. Extort Ukraine in the middle of war? That’s what you do. A serious U.S. president would recognize that Putin is playing a very weak hand that we should exploit. As The Economist noted last week, most of Russia’s “gains were in the first weeks of the war. In April 2022, following Russia’s retreat from the north of Ukraine, it controlled 19.6 percent of Ukrainian territory; its casualties (dead and wounded) were perhaps 20,000. Today Russia occupies 19.2 percent and its casualties are 800,000, reckon British sources. … More than half of the 7,300 tanks [Russia] had in storage are gone. Of those that remain, only 500 can be reconditioned quickly. By April, Russia may run out of its T-80 tanks. Last year it lost twice as many artillery systems as in the preceding two years. … The reallocation of resources from productive sectors to the military complex has fueled double-digit inflation. Interest rates are 21 percent.” If this were poker, Putin is holding a pair of twos and bluffing by going all in. Trump, instead of calling Putin’s bluff, is saying, “I think I’ll fold.” Instead of rallying all our European allies, doubling down on the military pressure on Putin and making the Russian leader “an offer he can’t refuse,” Trump did just the opposite. He divided us from our allies at the U.N. by refusing to join them in a resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine — voting with the likes of North Korea — and began a lie-filled campaign to delegitimize Zelensky, not Putin. Besides falsely claiming that Ukraine started the war, Trump declared that Zelensky’s popularity rating is 4 percent (his popularity rating is 57 percent, 13 points higher than Trump’s) and that Zelensky is a “dictator” and should submit to an election. Meanwhile, he gave Putin — who sentenced his biggest rival for the presidency, Alexei Navalny, to a total of 28 years in an Arctic hellhole, where he mysteriously died — a total free pass. Zelensky apparently feels he has no choice but to sign some kind of cockamamie minerals deal, even though Trump is demanding three times or four times the roughly $120 billion the United States has given Ukraine in military, humanitarian and other financial aid — aid Ukrainians used to fight to protect the West from the Russian aggressor. The whole thing is just shameful. Trump, in effect, is looking to make a profit off Ukrainians as a result of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine while making no demand on Putin for reparations or promising any future U.S. protection for Kyiv. As the White House made clear, “This economic agreement with Ukraine will not be a guarantee of future aid for war, nor will it include any commitment of U.S. personnel in the region.” I have no problem with America asking for preferred access for our companies to investments in Ukraine’s natural resources after the war, as a thank-you for our aid. But doing it now, and with no security guarantees in return? Don Corleone would be embarrassed to ask for that. But not Don Trump. Trump completely misreads Putin. He thinks Putin just needs a little positive attention, a little understanding, a little concern for his security needs — a hug! — and he will sign the peace Trump so badly desires. Nonsense. As the Russia specialist Leon Aron, the author of the acclaimed “Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Uses of War,” remarked to me: Putin is not looking for “peace in Ukraine. He is looking for victory in Ukraine" — because without a victory, “he is very vulnerable at home. Capitalist democracies will do anything for peace, and Putin’s autocracy will do anything for victory. We need to switch that around.” The way to do that, Aron added, would be by signaling to Putin that the Western allies will see his bet and raise him one — “not maligning a heroic nation” that has been fighting to preserve a Europe whole and free. We should back the Ukrainians to get the best deal they can. It will most likely have to include a cease-fire in place, so that Putin’s de facto control of parts of eastern Ukraine is acknowledged; a moratorium on Ukrainian membership in NATO; and a lifting of Western sanctions on Russia, but only once Russia demobilizes its offensive army from Ukrainian soil. In return, Putin will have to accept European peacekeeping troops in, and a no-fly-zone over, a free and sovereign Ukraine, backstopped by the United States to guarantee that Putin’s army cannot return, plus Russian noninterference in Ukraine’s process of entering the European Union. It is critical that the United States insist Ukraine be allowed to enter the European Union — a negotiating process that Kyiv is in the midst of right now. I want Russians to look over at Ukraine every day and see a prosperous, Slavic, free-market democracy and ask themselves why they are living in Putin’s Slavic thieving autocracy. In my view, this whole war has never been about Putin keeping Ukraine out of NATO. It is Ukraine in the E.U. that Putin really fears. A Russian international affairs scholar, who can speak only privately, remarked to me from Moscow that Putin’s team sees Trump’s team as a clown car, full of amateurs — easy pickings for the savvy and cynical Putin’s ultimate goal: “MRGA — Make Russia Great Again (and Make America Less Great Again).” Putin’s long-term goal, he added, is to manage the decline of U.S. hegemony so that America is “just one of the peer great powers,” focused on the Western Hemisphere and withdrawn militarily from Europe and Asia. Putin sees Trump as his blunt instrument “to manage that inevitable decline.” Will Trump and his G.O.P. bobbleheads ever wake up to that? Maybe — when it’s too late.