#tariffs #blowback

"Sales to China of key commodities, like soybeans and pork, are plunging as the trade war begins to impact the domestic economy.

Why it matters: U.S. farmers export more than $176 billion in agricultural products annually — almost 10% of which is just soybean and pork shipments to China.

Losing even a fraction of those exports for the long term could be economically devastating.

By the numbers: In the week of April 11-17, net soybean sales were down 50% week over week and down 25% versus the four-week average, per data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service released Thursday.

Net pork sales were down 72% week on week and 82% versus the four-week average, the USDA said.

What they're saying: 'This is directly related to the tariff situation. There's no doubt about it, there's not some other magic behind-the-scenes thing going on,' Rob Dongoski, global lead for food and agribusiness at consultancy Kearney, tells Axios."

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/26/trump-china-soybeans-pork-tariffs

Tesla stock dips as EV maker offers free self-driving trial in China

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-stock-dips-as-ev-maker-offers-free-self-driving-trial-in-china-152247936.html
#Tesla #EVs #ElectricVehicles #Cars #Musk #Blowback #China

House #Republicans hit the brakes on town halls after #blowback over Trump's cuts

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/26/house-republicans-hit-the-brakes-on-town-halls-after-blowback-over-trumps-cuts.html?__source=androidappshare

#GOP leaders urging them to stop townhall meetings altogether.

The basic idea of the "new" #capitalist #economy in the #USA is to make ANY #competition to them illegal on this planet.

No matter whether thats #ElectricCars, #CommunicationEquipment, #FighterJets or whatever, really.

They think the #world has no choice but to adapt to their ideas & demands, but oh boy they will look surprised when #blowback comes home. 😜

https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2025/01/16/saab-gripen-sale-to-colombia-threatened-by-u-s-parts-veto/

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Craig Murray: Twisting the Terrorism Narrative
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/08/craig-murray-twisting-the-terrorism-narrative/
Just as soon as Western powers installed terrorists to power in Damascus, examples of terrorist blowback immediately followed in the U.S., with some very strange details. By Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk There was absolutely nothing stopping them. But not one single…
#Politics #Commentary #HumanRights #Israel #Lebanon #Media #Palestine #Syria #U.s. #UnitedKingdon #Blowback #CraigMurray #Hts(hay’atTahrirAlSham) #NewOrleans #ShamsudDinJabbar #U.k.TerrorismAct

Well, congratulations #AmeriK3a #ied s and asymmetrical #terrorism has come to your doors #Blowback ? from you Decades of #Statesponsoredterrorism ?

@MeanwhileinCanada Doubly ironic, given that the US and Britain helped to overthrow Iran’s democratically-elected government in 1953, which eventually led to the Iranian Revolution in 1979 that turned Iran into the Islamic theocracy it is today.

#Blowback, bіtches!

Listening to the podcast #Blowback is painful, I know this very well, but still you should endure the #painting and listen.

You may think you already know how #evil #murrica and murricans are, but you're wrong.

You need to listen.

#Gay #Republican #leader shocked to find his fellow #conservatives calling him a #pedophile.

The president of the #LogCabinRepublicans said the new #GOP #platform wasn't #antiLGBTQ+. He didn't expect the #blowback he got.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/07/gay-republican-leader-shocked-to-find-his-fellow-conservatives-calling-him-a-pedophile/

A magnificent album.. Tricky rules

#tricky #albums #covers #blowback

@mariusor

#blowback

A note on #Microsoft's "#Recall" feature, the #blowback its announcement caused due to it being a #security and #privacy disaster, and their #WalkItBack attempt by announcing it will, after all, be #OptIn, rather than #OptOut.

Keep this in mind: Microsoft has not #earned your #trust. They made some strides starting in the mid-late oughts, but fell back into their previous ways starting some years ago.

You can see this in their constant selling-the-customer-down-the-river.

1/x

#sell #SellOut

Watched the end of Out of Africa, which I had started last night. It didn't disappoint. Amazing that the Brits have finally been hoisted by their colonial petard. I mean, Africa, it used to be a paradise until colonial powers stole it. We're all going to get what's coming to us. #blowback

Now I'm going to begin 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Kirk Douglas, Peter Lorre and James Mason. Yes, it's the Disney version. #noregrets #film #disney

and please stop accusing anyone who criticizes the western war industry of "supporting Putin". Nobody on the left supports Putin except some morons living in their parents basement. And we don't watch Tucker Carlson either (a despicable CIA failson and right-wing opportunist who never held a principled position on this or any conflict), please be serious.

now that 150K Ukrainians have died in #Ukraine while having gained nothing, and with the Western military industrial complex hot on the trail of its latest greatest bloodlust rampage, nobody has any sympathy for these accusations anymore. its clear that they are used purely for intimidation and to make caricatures of legitimate criticism. all in order to treat the people you claim to support like cannon fodder.

the antiwar left urged peace negotiations as soon as they arrived at the table, already in March 2022. we were right, if they would have negotiated early, 100K+ Ukrainian lives would be saved and most of Ukraine would not have been reduced to rubble.

this isn't even beginning to consider the #blowback which is guaranteed to erupt in the coming years. like #Iraq -- which #MENA is still reeling from -- the consequences of treating #Ukrainians like valorized pawns will haunt the West for decades.

Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad- She described the hearing as a case of people like me teaching classes which she identified in her opening remarks as the real problem, as a prime example of #antiracism and #criticalracetheory creating institutional #antisemitism. That’s a lie. It’s a form of #fascist #propaganda. Jews have been used as a wedge for the right to take down all the entire edifice that has been put in place to deal with #structuralracism in the society.
one would have to understand the war against Indigenous people, the #genocide committed against them and forms of settler colonialism that birthed this country. This is an evocation of that history in Rufo, who is leading the charge against people like me, against Claudine Gay, against everyone who works in a university who believes in truth and justice and a future that is better than our past.
#Blowback #GenocideJoeKnows #AntiPalestinianMcCartyIsm #CRTisHistory

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/3/harvard_president_claudine_gay_resigns

#GenocideJoeKnows: The first #AfricanAmerican and second #woman to lead Harvard University resigned Tuesday after allegations of plagiarism.
One of the authors Rufo accused Gay of plagiarizing was her thesis adviser, Gary King, who has dismissed the allegations, telling The Daily Beast, quote, “There’s not a conceivable case that this is plagiarism. … Her dissertation and every draft I read of it met the highest academic standards,” he said.

Stefanik “disciplinary action be taken against students or applicants who say “from the river to the sea””is a major Trump ally who was removed from a Harvard advisory board in 2021 over her comments about voter fraud in the 2020 election that had, quote, “no basis in evidence.”
#GenocideTaxBuysApartheidFromTheRiverToTheSea #AsymetricBorderRuleCreatesAutocrats #Blowback

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-white-house-congress-border-security-detention-deportation/

#Blowback from Gaza as #GenocideJoe tracks right toward MAGA fascist priorities over immigration to aide his weapons industrial complex in his proxy forever war.

#PeaceIsTheWay #NoHumanIsIllegal

https://indi.ca/americas-only-election-choices-are-imperialism-or-fascism/

#Blowback: The point is that one cannot gaze long into the abyss before the abyss gazes back. Americans should thus not be surprised when their country becomes openly fascist, it’s always been fascist somewhere, just to non-white people they didn’t care about.

#FinancingBiPartisanCarbonBombs #COP28BlahBlahBlah