What has Trump done now?

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

I don't know why we import beef, but if you study Free Trade agreements, you'll probably find the answers. 

[kgwilson]

Most of the beef we export to the USA is lean beef mixed with fattier US beef for hamburgers, you know Trumps favoutite big Mac. The US cattle herd has been in decline for decades reaching a low of 86.2 million down from over 90 million a decade ago. It has been in decline for over 75 years.

[onetrack]

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Now I see that USA has exported $700,000,000 worth of beef to Australia.

No, that's an incorrect assumption. The article says "$700M worth of agricultural exports". That amount would be comprised largely of agricultural machinery. We have no tractor industry left in Australia, so we import American-built tractors, harvesters and tillage equipment by the shipload.

And they are all big-ticket items. Some of the headers and tractors are now approaching the $1M mark for purchase price.

The amount of American beef shipped to Australia can barely be measured, they can't supply enough beef to Americans, so they ship in ... wait for it ... AU$5.2B worth of Australian beef each year!

The level of American shipments of beef to Australia is estimated to be around US$1M to US$2M at a maximum - a drop in the ocean compared to the AU$19.5B worth of beef that Australia exported in total in 2024.

 

https://globalaginvesting.com/australia-opens-market-to-u-s-beef-imports-after-two-decades/

 

Edited yesterday at 12:40 AM by onetrack

[old man emu]

Regarding oil. I believe that Australia's reserves of crude oil are stored in Texas. If the USA cannot import crude oil due to the war, how long would it be before Trump commandeeers our stored crude?

[kgwilson]

That seems a pretty dumb place to store our crude given the geographical distance. We probably have no means to refines it here anyway but the yanks always do whatever they like irrespective of agreements and/or water tight contracts.

[facthunter]

That was arranged By ANGUS TAYLOR.  80 Mil worth of crude if I recall correctly.  Nev

[onetrack]

The 1.7M barrels of oil purchased in 2020 as part of Australia's storage reserves, and stored in a Texas salt cavern, was severely criticised by opponents after it was purchased, with opponents claiming it would be of little use to us in the event of a war, because of the time lag in accessing/shipping it (2 to 3 weeks), and the risk of loss via enemy attack in shipping channels, when on its way here.

 

The message must have been heeded, because that oil reserve was sold off in 2022. I have no idea whether a financial loss or gain was incurred in the sale - but it may been sold at a profit, as oil prices spiked in 2022, thanks to the Ukraine invasion by Russia. 

 

Regardless, the simple fact remains, we still do not have the stipulated 90 days of oil reserves in hand, as required by the IEA. Our fuel reserves are currently around 34 to 36 days, and that should be of great concern to every politician with more than one functioning brain cell. Unfortunately, we have quite a number of politicians who seem to lack any functioning brain cells.

[red750]

Mary Trump explains why Donald is fighting the was against Iran.

 

"Regarding his 'true' motivations, she claimed: "For Donald, there is one reason and one reason alone. He's in trouble, and he knows it. This isn't simply about changing the subject. That, of course, would be bad enough.

 

"This is to keep himself and the world from knowing what an inept, depraved, compromised fraud he is. This is about his unfathomable desperation to avoid being humiliated."

 

Mary Lea concluded by explaining that the President is a 'desperately weak man' who must distract people from this fact, adding: "That is a difficult tight rope for the weakest man I've ever known to be walking.

 

"And yet, somehow, he has been allowed to walk it for his whole life. His whole miserable, useless, selfish life."

[rgmwa]

She obviously doesn't like him much.

[onetrack]

She was brought up alongside him, and knows him better than a lot of people - and she holds a PhD in clinical psychology, so she knows well, what drives people.

[nomadpete]

19 hours ago, onetrack said:

American shipments of beef to Australia is estimated to be around US$1M to US$2M at a maximum - a drop in the ocean compared to the AU$19.5B worth of beef that Australia exported in total in 2024.

Thanks, but my point remains.... why on earth woild we want or need to ship ANY beef from USA to Australia?

Like importing ice to Eskimos.

[nomadpete]

Further to the Trump - Epstein saga:

Thanks to the corrupt DOJ and their redactions, along with other high level supression of proper investigation, we are not likely to see the whole picture.

 

This vid seems to summarise a fair bit:

 

 

It seems a lot of very powerful folk are still keen to sweep it under the carpet.

[randomx]

2 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Thanks, but my point remains.... why on earth woild we want or need to ship ANY beef from USA to Australia?

Like importing ice to Eskimos.

 

Bc Aus is so bloody hopeless basically. 

Same our gas, power , everything. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[facthunter]

Where would you rather live?  Nev

[randomx]

14 hours ago, red750 said:

Mary Trump explains why Donald is fighting the was against Iran.

 

"Regarding his 'true' motivations, she claimed: "For Donald, there is one reason and one reason alone. He's in trouble, and he knows it. This isn't simply about changing the subject. That, of course, would be bad enough.

 

"This is to keep himself and the world from knowing what an inept, depraved, compromised fraud he is. This is about his unfathomable desperation to avoid being humiliated."

 

Mary Lea concluded by explaining that the President is a 'desperately weak man' who must distract people from this fact, adding: "That is a difficult tight rope for the weakest man I've ever known to be walking.

 

"And yet, somehow, he has been allowed to walk it for his whole life. His whole miserable, useless, selfish life."

 

The mans a chaotic bloody silly old half ucked in the head fool.

That's pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain.

Yet here's our all so wise Sky news basically worshipping the ground he walks on man it's pathetic.

Personally, l'll give it to him for getting Europe off their arses, can't belive the othe US fools have been letting them twiddle their knitting needles all those yrs.

And now that Canada has a v decent pm , l like the way Trumps alienated their supposed best friend to such a degree that Carney's basically told him to shove it where the sun don't shine , in front of the whole world and making a fool of him. And that they're now joining up with us among others and reshaping the lot. Bloody great stuff bout bloody time Aus showed some sort of mind of it;'s own.

 

This war though , ridiculous. Got my own theories but eh what would l know nevertheless though. l reckon there's a few things goin on.

Distraction from all his other rubbish, their economies tanking, Epstein, all his other chaos, Canada making him look like a joke which wouldn't take much, also reckon there's other agenders like trying to remind China and Russia of how tough the yanks are and probably about 50 other things.

That one could backfire famously if they really are so low of stuff couldn't even keep it going a mth or two.

 

 

 

 

Edited 19 hours ago by randomx

[randomx]

22 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Where would you rather live?  Nev

 

Spain ha ha.

Nah not goin anywhere, tis my land, can't leave it, goods and bads.

 

 

 

[old man emu]

The free trade agreement between Canada, Mexico and the USA (which, ironically, Trump signed for in his first term) is coming up for review. We have heard a lot from Canada dealing with a number of areas of trade, but Mexico has been quiet. I wonder of the Mexican Government is quietly letting Canada do the talking and Mexico is standing in the shadow of Canada going , 'Yeah! Us, too."

 

I think that Canada is more important to the USA in terms of energy supply. Imagine if Canada simplyt switched off the power to the USA for a day. I don't think Carney would be so mean to US citizens.

[facthunter]

They  threatened that a while ago and Trump went OFF his tiny Brain and chucked all his toys out of his Pram. Nev

[red750]

He wore a baseball cap to greet the 6 military personnel killed in his illegal war,

[rgmwa]

The ceremony would have been a lot more respectful if he hadn't shown up at all.

[red750]

[red750]

4 hours ago, red750 said:

He wore a baseball cap to greet the 6 military personnel killed in his illegal war,

Maybe he didn't want his combover to blow around.

[onetrack]

Is anybody counting down the "FOUR WEEKS" end time for this great war?? Like everything that comes out of the Tangerine Toddlers mouth - unadulterated, pure BS.

 

America will still be bogged down in this war in 6 months time, and the hardline Iranians, and Hezbollah and Hamas supporters, will ensure it goes on for as long as it can.

 

Neither Trump nor Hegseth has a co-ordinated plan to ensure this war ends swiftly and results in a regime change for the better. As fast as they kill new Iranian leaders, the hardliners will produce new ones.

I note Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, said recently, "There is no experience that shows an air campaign alone will result in positive regime change."

 

Trump will soon find himself arse-deep in crocodiles, while he thought he was simply wading in to drain the swamp.

He'll soon find out that running a successful war is a whole lot different to cheating at golf, and those crocodiles have got a vicious bite.