Re: PING! Michael

On 11/27/2024 8:44 PM, gm wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 3:07:20 +0000, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-11-27, Janet <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>   Mexico is one of the countries targeted for Trump's
>>> tariffs on his first day in office.
>>
>>>  You'll be paying a lot more for them in January.
>>
>>
>> We may have to start being more interested in our own winter vegetables.
>> What do you bet, we do? If we don't regulate our own farmers and
>> ranchers
>> out of existence, we'll be fine.
>>
>> leo
> 
> 
> Some here don't realize that Trump is using the *threat* of tariffs as a
> *bargaining chip*... the latest:
> 
> Trump says Mexico will stop flow of migrants after speaking with Mexican
> president following tariff threats
> 
> Trump threatened to impose a 25% across-the-board tariff on Mexico on
> the first day of his presidency
> 
> 
> www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-mexico-stop-flow-migrants-after-speaking-mexican-president-following-tariff-threats
> 
> "On Wednesday, Trump said he spoke with  Sheinbaum about the matter...
> 
> "Just had a wonderful conversation with the new President of Mexico,
> Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo," he wrote on Truth Social. "She has agreed to
> stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively
> closing our Southern Border. We also talked about what can be done to
> stop the massive drug inflow into the United States, and also, U.S.
> consumption of these drugs. It was a very productive conversation!".
> 
> 
> In a post on X, Sheinbaum said she spoke with Trump by phone and that
> the two discussed "strengthening collaboration on security issues" and
> that the conversation was "excellent," Reuters reported..."
> 
> O:-)
> 
> -- 
> GM


First Turdumb, now hair-bun Claudia - a 25% tariff makes for good 
neighbors!!

Mending Wall

By Robert Frost
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’