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BeyondGeography

BeyondGeography's Journal
BeyondGeography's Journal
April 22, 2025

Tryin' Times - Roberta Flack

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April 20, 2025

Beethoven Sonata no.5 op.24 "Spring" - 2nd Movement

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April 20, 2025

Mofro - Cracka Break

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April 13, 2025

Wealth Won't Save Your Soul - Hank Williams Sr.

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April 10, 2025

Dr. Strangelove: Fluoridation

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April 10, 2025

"How is this not market manipulation?": Furious Dem Asks Trump Trade Rep 'WTF' as Tariffs Get Pulled

Nevada Rep. Steven Horsford grilled trade representative Jamieson Greer on President Donald Trump’s abrupt tariff pause during a committee hearing Wednesday, asking “How is this not market manipulation?”

“Tariffs are a tool, they can be used in the appropriate way to protect U.S. jobs and small businesses, but that’s not what this does,” Horsford said of Trump’s “strategy” which Greer tried to defend. “So if it’s not market manipulation, what is it? Who’s benefiting? What billionaire just got richer?” The Democratic representative proceeded to spotlight how Republicans “all left” the hearing because “they don’t even wanna defend this.”

“Meanwhile, the speaker [Mike Johnson] is rushing to the floor to pass a budget reconciliation to screw America by passing the biggest tax cut in history on the backs of the American people,” Horsford added. “WTF! Who’s in charge? Because it sure doesn’t look like it’s the trade representative—you just got the rug pulled out from under you.”

… Sen. Adam Schiff also took a jab at Trump on social media, criticizing the president for “creating giant market fluctuations with his on-again, off-again tariffs…These constant gyrations in policy provide dangerous opportunities for insider trading,” the California senator continued. “Who in the administration knew about Trump’s latest tariff flip flop ahead of time? Did anyone buy or sell stocks, and profit at the public’s expense?…I’m writing to the White House—the public has a right to know,” he concluded.

More at https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-steven-horsford-grills-jamieson-greer-on-trump-tariffs-pull/


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April 4, 2025

45 percent of our imports are inputs into American manufacturing

A fun fact from Jared Bernstein just now on MSNBC. The context was Trump tried to use tariffs to grow American manufacturing in his first term and left the sector worse off as a result.

April 3, 2025

"They send us wine and cheese and Mercedes; that's not rape and pillaging. We send them paper in response to that."

Steve Liesman dunking on MAGA Joe Kernan this morning. The comment is at the end of the clip:

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