Althouse: Sunrise

December 8, 2025

Sunrise — 7:13.

Photo by Meade, who braved the cold when I did not.

Feel free to talk about whatever you want in the comments.

107 comments:

rehajm said...: Christmas Brunch is on at Trump Doral, 11am-2:00pm in the Crystal Ballroom…; 12/8/25, 4:58 PM
lonejustice said...: Trump's tariffs cost American farmers billions and billions of dollars in lost sales to overseas markets. So Trump's solution? Bail out our farmers with a 12 billion dollar payout from American taxpayers. This is progress? Making the American taxpayer pay for American farm products that previously other nations were more than glad to purchase?; 12/8/25, 5:03 PM
Achilles said...: lonejustice said...
Trump's tariffs cost American farmers billions and billions of dollars in lost sales to overseas markets. So Trump's solution? Bail out our farmers with a 12 billion dollar payout from American taxpayers. This is progress? Making the American taxpayer pay for American farm products that previously other nations were more than glad to purchase?

Yes. We more than covered that with revenue collected from corporate oligarchs who shipped jobs overseas.

Lonejustice just doesn’t like it when globalist oligarchs pay taxes.

He would rather tax Americans who build things here.; 12/8/25, 5:10 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: To me it seems like mismanagement on the part of the people who schedule trumps meetings ,trips and daily activities to set him up and have the world watch him sleep, talk nonsense as most 80 years olds start doing when coming in and out of stupors. The guy is too old and can't stay awake and the sycophants) Levitt say "he's only resting his eyes, you know just like you 80 year old grandpa would do, its part of aging. They may need a better scheduling team or spend more time hiding this fella. MISMANAGEMENT DELUXE.. Watching the president of the US fall asleep in front of the world is a BAD LOOK...Hide him more or manage the times when you can think he will stay awake , public appearance 101.So far they haven't had to wipe drool from him nodding out but its obvious we ain't far from that, A ROUTINE MRI ,ever heard of that or any other president getting one on physical 2x a year? Could be meds or something else beside old age, NOT A GOOD LOOK and not reassuring for someone who is supposed to be in charge as he has a lot of "I don't know " ANSWERS AGE LIMITS NEEDED; 12/8/25, 5:10 PM
Achilles said...: Dinky posts a word salad.

Thinks Trump speaks nonsense.; 12/8/25, 5:16 PM
Vance said...: I don't think Dinky knows what the "Return" key on his keyboard does.; 12/8/25, 5:26 PM
Maynard said...: It is very pleasant here in the Tucson area. AM temps (when I walk and hike) are usually in the 40's and it gets to about 70 during the day,

I moved here from the Midwest after retiring 7 1/2 years ago and do not regret it for an instant.; 12/8/25, 5:32 PM
narciso said...: Hanging out in blue scream does nothing for ones health; 12/8/25, 5:37 PM
gadfly said...: Our government is now in the business of running gulags. The following description appears in an Amnesty International report released Friday on the conditions of confinement for migrants at Alligator Alcatraz:

The four men interviewed by Amnesty International, as well as Florida-based organizations, told the organization about the ‘box’, described as a 2x2-foot cage-like structure located in the yard of “Alligator Alcatraz,” where individuals are sent for punishment. Individuals are put in the ‘box’, their hands are shackled, and their feet are attached to restraints on the ground. They are unable to sit down or move positions and are forced to remain there for hours in the heat with hardly any water or protection from the sun, heat, and insects. According to a man seeking safety, “People ended up in the ‘box’ just for asking the guards for anything. I saw a guy who was put in it for an entire day.”; 12/8/25, 5:54 PM
rehajm said...: The fuckers at Amnesty International conspicuously absent for the J6 political prisoners. Fuck them…; 12/8/25, 6:04 PM
narciso said...: You know right, the plantados in the capitol seven of whom comitted suicide; 12/8/25, 6:07 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: We have been talking about shoes and inflammation.
Yesterday it dawn on me that I might know when I'm experiencing inflammation, when my shoes feel too tight. I may be wrong about this. I don't know. And I haven't checked with AI.

Today the shoes feel terrific, back to normal.; 12/8/25, 6:12 PM
Beasts of England said...: It looks cold in that photo. Brrrr.; 12/8/25, 6:30 PM
narciso said...: How do the ducks unfreeze themselves; 12/8/25, 6:36 PM
Jaq said...: Failure to compensate the agrarian south for the tariffs that turned the industrial north into a world economic power was one of the causes of the Civil War, South Carolina tried to say that "state's rights" exempted them, but . Obviously tariffs are not a free market solution, and if we don't go into them with a "we are all in this together" attitude, they will be regionally divisive. So Trump is acting rationally.

Here, from ChatGPT

In 1832, South Carolina passed a state ordinance declaring two federal tariffs—
the Tariff of 1828 (“Tariff of Abominations”)
and the Tariff of 1832
to be “null and void” within the state. In other words, South Carolina claimed it had the right to refuse to collect or pay the federal tariff.
This was not symbolic. The state:
— Prepared its militia
— Threatened secession
— Warned that any federal attempt to collect tariffs by force would be met with force; 12/8/25, 6:41 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Notre Dame upset they got shut out of the playoffs. No bowls for the Irish. Hard to sympathize. 10-2 just like Miami. And Miami beat them.; 12/8/25, 6:45 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Notre Dame schedule is too much of them beating up on weaklings like Navy, Syracuse, or Stanford. Meanwhile Alabama takes on SEC powerhouses every week.; 12/8/25, 6:46 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: As part of my nostalgia tour, revisiting SNL 1990s. God was Chris Farley funny. What a talent. As were Norm and Phil Hartmann. Meanwhile, Al franken is still alive. As is A whitney brown. God must hate comedy.; 12/8/25, 6:50 PM
Mason G said...: Absent admitting everybody into the playoffs, nothing you do will prevent somebody from being unhappy they were shut out.; 12/8/25, 6:51 PM
narciso said...: Well its that deal with the devil,*a whitney brown thats a name i havent heard in ages
*like the simon and garfunkel sketch; 12/8/25, 6:52 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Achilles opines: "We more than covered that with revenue collected from corporate oligarchs who shipped jobs overseas."

I think you mean the consumption tax paid by US consumers. Also... see tax cuts for the US oligarchs.

Trump is a National Socialist after all. Nanny state, subsidy, tariffs, patronage, pork barrel -- the full socialist works.

Trump trying to bailout his base from his failed economic policy. No matter of aid is going to rescue American farmers from the long-term damage caused by the reorientation of food importers’ demand away from the US. And if Trump is looking for “positive supply shocks” from AI to rescue his rapidly declining ratings then he’s in deep trouble.; 12/8/25, 6:55 PM
narciso said...: Dennis miller i think out was burned out by the experience; 12/8/25, 6:56 PM
Jaq said...: That's right, anybody who opposed open borders, sending our factories overseas, and an endless supply of cheap labor to compete for the low skill jobs left in America is a "nazi."; 12/8/25, 7:02 PM
Kakistocracy said...: 'Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments.' ~ Donald Trump; 12/8/25, 7:05 PM
narciso said...: They really ought to get newer material; 12/8/25, 7:07 PM
narciso said...: Yeah the snl of the 80s seems like high art compared to the drivel they have offered now; 12/8/25, 7:12 PM
Jaq said...: "Now that I have pushed the world to the brink of WW3, I can just sit back and watch the world burn." - Joe Biden.; 12/8/25, 7:14 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump Unveils $12 Billion Bailout for Farmers ~ WSJ
'The financial aid comes as the agriculture sector grapples with the fallout from the president’s tariffs'

Same headline.

Seven years apart. 🤡

1) Impose massive tariffs on China
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt

Farm bankruptcies are up 60% in the first year of Trump's new term, compared to the last year of Biden's term.

What a brilliant idea that no one ever thought about before! As consumers, we pay for the tariffs. Then as taxpayers, we get to pay again for the subsidies. Nothing like a good ole win-win.; 12/8/25, 7:14 PM
narciso said...: Take the phil hartmann 'mastermind" sketch vs whoever they have doing trump; 12/8/25, 7:16 PM
rehajm said...: They stopped trying to be entertaining, amusing, funny. Instead they are here to be ‘important’ politically. They are just another View or Colbert or Kimmel; 12/8/25, 7:19 PM
narciso said...: And they evil fail at that task; 12/8/25, 7:23 PM
Peachy said...: We've got biden all wrong. He's amazing!; 12/8/25, 7:26 PM
narciso said...: That wasnt a typo; 12/8/25, 7:26 PM
Peachy said...: kak is here to deliver some fake quotes.; 12/8/25, 7:27 PM
Derve said...: Tell him to stay home with his wife.
It's no big bragging thing that he went out in the cold to capture the daily picture. Your readers really can live without it. No big brag... no brownie/boy scout points for getting up and out early just to do something so trivial. It's not like he's getting up to drive a bus, or work a shift. It's not essential work. He's not proving anything. Let him stay home with his wife.; 12/8/25, 7:28 PM
narciso said...: Send it western union; 12/8/25, 7:28 PM
Derve said...: lonejustice said...
Trump's tariffs cost American farmers billions and billions of dollars in lost sales to overseas markets. So Trump's solution? Bail out our farmers with a 12 billion dollar payout from American taxpayers. This is progress? Making the American taxpayer pay for American farm products that previously other nations were more than glad to purchase?

12/8/25, 5:03 PM
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Trump's in it for the rich people.
He's not a good businessman, nor a fair thinker. Everyone with brains is afraid to speak up...
The Jews love him.; 12/8/25, 7:29 PM
Peachy said...: kak - yeah - we've never bailed out farmers before.
btw - the decline of small farms because of mass-farming - happened long ago. We are still paying for it.; 12/8/25, 7:29 PM
Peachy said...: Kak - Achilles has a point. What party is paid by China/ owned by china?; 12/8/25, 7:31 PM
Vance said...: Kak here supports 1) a full on fascist state, with unaccountable, all powerful government agency "experts" who rule with an iron fist and who make decisions rewarding and punishing people based only on their race and skin color and 2) calls other people "Nazi" for disagreeing with him.

And that is universal among the left, not just Kak.; 12/8/25, 7:32 PM
Derve said...: I don't care if the affordability issues started under Biden.
Trump said he'd work to fix them.
He's not. He's doing what Netanyahu and the Jewish lobby tell him. "Good news"? Only if you're a richie rich with trivial concerns...

Whose dick is the biggest in that cabinet anyway?
Some say JD not Marco. But who knows? Smart minds don't give a fuck... we have important issues to discuss and think about for the country's future.

Beware of the rich women and their kept husbands who try to distract with daily trivia. Someday, we will look back on this century and say, where were the wise minds who knew this war/foreign policies and economic policies and immigration policies were tanking our nation? Ann's blog will be held up as a permanent record of what people were concerned with... or not.

Dumb fucks all. Hit the tip jar. The meades won't stop til they've got enough...; 12/8/25, 7:33 PM
Derve said...: Shorter "Dinky":
The world is going to go on when the boomers are all dead. We have to override them now and start thinking about keeping the social safety nets secure for the people who come up after them... WE CARE if it all goes to shit after they're gone, even if they squirrel away enough for their children and grandchildren. The young minds are smarter in the way the younger bodies are prettier. If that offends our elders... tough shit. Truth matter, and justice too. Two elements long missing in our country this past century.

We're America, not Israel. We don't kill women and children here. We don't use guns to solve or problems; we can't bomb our way (and steal our way) ... to "success". It's false. We see right though the lives you lead... We want better for ourselves and our own.

God bless us all.; 12/8/25, 7:37 PM
Derve said...: Question: does mr. meadey bring bread to feed the duckies every morning? Is that his job/daily contribution? Hmmm.; 12/8/25, 7:38 PM
Mason G said...: "with unaccountable, all powerful Democrat government agency "experts" who rule with an iron fist"; 12/8/25, 7:39 PM
Curious George said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/8/25, 7:39 PM
Derve said...: Our government is now in the business of running gulags. The following description appears in an Amnesty International report released Friday on the conditions of confinement for migrants at Alligator Alcatraz:
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Was it Kissinger who said, some human lives matter more than others? The Jews look after their tribe, everyone else doesn't have much value.

Women like ann bought into that nonsense. Which is fine... just don't pretend to be a Christian for "extra points."; 12/8/25, 7:40 PM
Curious George said...: "RCOCEAN II said...
Notre Dame upset they got shut out of the playoffs. No bowls for the Irish. Hard to sympathize. 10-2 just like Miami. And Miami beat them."

The decision to not play in a bowl game was Notre Dame's. They chose to pout and end many of their player's football career.

"RCOCEAN II said...
Notre Dame schedule is too much of them beating up on weaklings like Navy, Syracuse, or Stanford. Meanwhile Alabama takes on SEC powerhouses every week."

They need to get in a conference.; 12/8/25, 7:42 PM
Derve said...: What a brilliant idea that no one ever thought about before! As consumers, we pay for the tariffs. Then as taxpayers, we get to pay again for the subsidies. Nothing like a good ole win-win.
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Look at the people who are more than comfortable and prospering today. Some of the dumb fuckers are even advertising it... buying enormous amounts of things they -- and their dogs -- don't need, and having it all delivered (and then returned, for free!) via amazon...

They are advertising who is "getting ahead" in this economy and still wants more. Hit the tip jar and buy more, (commission earrrrrrrned). Suppor the professor's work! Her pension and social security can't support her boy toy. He has needs, you know. That camper truck parked all winter isn't paying for itself. Not like you can live out of it in wintertime. It's a toy, and guys like that are never satisfied and want the women to buy them more and more... He'll move on if he doesn't get what he wants. Once you leave the first wife, you see how easy it is and there's always a dumb aging cluck waiting around the corner to take an "aw shucks" feller like that in, it seems...

Poor co-hens.; 12/8/25, 7:48 PM
Peachy said...: file under - Yep.
"She’s a sadistic clown using a widow as a prop to get more attention and money for herself. It’s downright demonic. Be more discerning."; 12/8/25, 7:50 PM
Derve said...: They need to get in a conference.
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Lol. Fucking no.
You can't incentivize everyone.
Suck up the financial losses from no ND playing in the Pop Tart bowl...
If you look back to the first game of the season when these young men -- not professional athletes -- are still gelling as a team and making mistakes early in the season, and don't focus on the recent win streak... and want to punish the independents/Catholics, stop whining when they refuse to play along...

You can't buy everyone.; 12/8/25, 7:51 PM
Derve said...: How bout them Wisco Badgers? lol
What is Wisconsin if not a drunken football school? Lolol.; 12/8/25, 7:52 PM
Peachy said...: Why biden was installed.; 12/8/25, 7:54 PM
Peachy said...: from link:
@amuse
"SCOTUS: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told the Court that presidents should not be able to fire the PhDs & experts who run the government. She even argued presidents should avoid control over transportation & the economy.

In a remarkable exchange in Trump v Slaughter, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed the president should have no power to fire expert bureaucrats. She said economists, PhDs, scientists, & transportation officials should operate beyond presidential reach. Such a view would carve the heart out of Article II & cement rule by permanent insiders rather than elected leadership. Jackson’s theory elevates the deep state over the voters who choose a president. That is a constitutional revolution in plain sight."; 12/8/25, 7:56 PM
gspencer said...: All those construction cranes are telling you, Citizen, "We're getting bigger and we'll make you a subject yet."; 12/8/25, 8:06 PM
FullMoon said...: Possibly not true, awaiting confirmation
Nigerian Prince Scammed By Somali Immigrant
.; 12/8/25, 8:07 PM
buwaya said...: The effect of the EU (and its predecessors) has been to bring Southern and Eastern Europe into the first world.
Up close and personal. My grandparents retired to my grandpas ancestral fishing village. We kids lived there for a few years in the 1960s while my dad ran around Europe being a manufacturers rep/machinery dealer. At that time it really was a fishing village, everyone was poor, the harbor was full of little fishing boats. And the piers were crowded with women repairing nets. It smelled like, well, fish.
Today the harbor is filled with yachts and leisure craft, the homes are summer houses for the old fishermens kids and grandkids, and there are at least three gourmet cafes. In spring and summer parking is impossible. It doesn't smell like fish.
There arent many tourist here btw.
Thats the effect of the (EU) reduction in risk premiums and thus enormous local investment and FDI. That too is whats been going on in Eastern Europe.
If, say, Orban seriously suggested leaving the EU he'd be lynched.; 12/8/25, 8:16 PM
Achilles said...: buwaya said...

The effect of the EU (and its predecessors) has been to bring Southern and Eastern Europe into the first world.

The effect of the US providing security guarantees for Europe brought southern and eastern Europe into the first world.

Pretty soon you all get to go back to the real world.; 12/8/25, 8:28 PM
Achilles said...: Kakistocracy said...

What a brilliant idea that no one ever thought about before! As consumers, we pay for the tariffs. Then as taxpayers, we get to pay again for the subsidies. Nothing like a good ole win-win.

Actually globalist oligarchs who imported things to the US paid the tariffs.

Which more than covered the subsidies to farmers.

But go on ahead in your little retard land.; 12/8/25, 8:31 PM
Original Mike said...: Sounds like Europe could afford to pay for its own defense.; 12/8/25, 8:32 PM
Achilles said...: Kakistocracy said...

Achilles opines: "We more than covered that with revenue collected from corporate oligarchs who shipped jobs overseas."

I think you mean the consumption tax paid by US consumers. Also... see tax cuts for the US oligarchs.

Retard yesterday: MAKE RICH PAY FAIR SHAIR! EAT DA RICH! TRUMP TAX CUTS FOR RICH DUH!

Retard today: Globalist Oligarchs pass on tariffs to consumers. MSNBC told me so.; 12/8/25, 8:33 PM
buwaya said...: Interesting point. Who are these "globalist oligarchs", exactly?
Surely you can name names. BTW Farage got famous backing the commodity market "punters", back in the day. Are these guys the "oligarchs"?; 12/8/25, 8:35 PM
buwaya said...: Some parts of Europe have foolishly let in far too many immigrants, and of the wrong sorts besides. Thats a problem. They need to fix that. Thankfully they are starting to (save for the UK, stuck as it is in a political trap).; 12/8/25, 8:42 PM
Mason G said...: "The effect of the EU (and its predecessors) has been to bring Southern and Eastern Europe into the first world."

As Achilles noted, you can do lots of good things for your countries when somebody else's taxpayers cover your security expenses.

I wonder what sort of good things US taxpayers might have done for themselves with their money, had it not been shipped overseas.; 12/8/25, 8:53 PM
Josephbleau said...: The sad thing about France is that the smartest and best educated 1/3 of the population work for the government and don’t produce goods for an income.; 12/8/25, 8:54 PM
buwaya said...: US military spending is global, and a minor part was devoted to Europe after most US troops were withdrawn from Europe in the 1990s. There are many overblown claims about US NATO "subsidies". Its a talking point, not reality.; 12/8/25, 9:00 PM
buwaya said...: And France (and friends) still manages to own the global commercial aircraft industry.; 12/8/25, 9:03 PM
buwaya said...: US military spending is wildly inefficient btw. Your money is being spent, and wasted, in the US. Its really a massive jobs program and government subsidy to the US economy.; 12/8/25, 9:06 PM
Original Mike said...: "There are many overblown claims about US NATO "subsidies". Its a talking point, not reality."

I'd call Article 5 a great big whopping subsidy.; 12/8/25, 9:13 PM
Peachy said...: Kilauea erupts. Bigly.; 12/8/25, 9:13 PM
gspencer said...: England and France - always there when they need us/US.; 12/8/25, 9:14 PM
buwaya said...: For 25+ years Article 5 was highly theoretical as nobody perceived a threat. Thats why there were about two US brigades in Europe and US bases were used mainly as stopovers and logistics support for Middle Eastern endeavors.
Poland in the meantime was yelling about Russia. Nobody was listening.; 12/8/25, 9:20 PM
Josephbleau said...: Yes airbus does well 55% vs Boeing 45%. But on global abs gdp it’s us 28% eu 18%. Europe needs a Silicon Valley and a spacex. Perhaps they will take over everything someday.

Where the eu does really well is on global tax shelters like Lux and Swiss and Ireland.; 12/8/25, 9:25 PM
Original Mike said...: From 2008 to 2023, the U.S. GDP grew by 87%, while the EU's GDP increased by only 13.5%. But please, lecture us some more on the economic miracle that is Europe.; 12/8/25, 9:35 PM
Iman said...: Spain’s Defense Spending:
Underinvestment: Consistently spent below NATO's 2% GDP guideline, reaching about 1.24% in 2024, the lowest among NATO members.; 12/8/25, 9:37 PM
Iman said...: I must say I am not impressed.; 12/8/25, 9:38 PM
buwaya said...: US - 30T PPP 89.6K per capita
EU - 29T PPP 65.1K per capita
Btw, yes Europe can easily afford to finance the Ukraine war itself.; 12/8/25, 9:38 PM
Mason G said...: "But please, lecture us some more on the economic miracle that is Europe."

I don't know... I'm sure those muslim immigrants will be turning things around any time now.; 12/8/25, 9:38 PM
Iman said...: “Btw, yes Europe can easily afford to finance the Ukraine war itself.”

Believe THAT when you see it.; 12/8/25, 9:40 PM
Eva Marie said...: Is this funny?
https://youtu.be/Xyts9RWVr5M?si=axulPjx5nFdYYgxE; 12/8/25, 9:45 PM
buwaya said...: Spain sucks in defense spending. We have had a bare majority socialist government that still hates the military and cant be made to adjust its views as all other Euro governments have since 2022 (and moreso in 2025).
Defense spending is something that cant be regionally devolved like most other things, that keeps Spanish domestic policies generally sane.; 12/8/25, 9:45 PM
buwaya said...: Lesson is dont elect socialists.; 12/8/25, 9:48 PM
buwaya said...: As for Europe in general, standard of living is well above the US on the whole, cultural differences taken into account. I have lived in Oakland CA, which is not a selling point for the USA, and I know there are far, far worse even than that.; 12/8/25, 9:52 PM
Original Mike said...: You couldn't pay me enough to live in Oakland.; 12/8/25, 9:54 PM
buwaya said...: Will I trade you Muslim immigrants for American blacks?
Hmmm.; 12/8/25, 9:54 PM
buwaya said...: Parts of Oakland are very pretty, even grand. Do not however walk there at night. I was held up at gunpoint twice. Guess by who.; 12/8/25, 9:56 PM
Josephbleau said...: One of my associates was waxing fond of the old Kennedy horseshit, Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. So my country has no obligation to me at all, its interest is elsewhere, don’t even ask. And my purpose is to serve that country, and ask what it desires from me, its slave.

That really sounds nice.; 12/8/25, 10:16 PM
Jupiter said...: "I was held up at gunpoint twice. Guess by who."
Gun owners?
Probably some of my friends. I apologize.; 12/8/25, 10:21 PM
Achilles said...: buwaya said...

US - 30T PPP 89.6K per capita
EU - 29T PPP 65.1K per capita
Btw, yes Europe can easily afford to finance the Ukraine war itself.

Good. You will get the chance.

buwaya said...

Interesting point. Who are these "globalist oligarchs", exactly?
Surely you can name names. BTW Farage got famous backing the commodity market "punters", back in the day. Are these guys the "oligarchs"?

Walmart Inc.
94,889 (underreported; est. 1M+)
Retail
Apparel, electronics, consumer goods
World's largest retailer; heavy from China/Mexico.
2
Amazon.com Inc.
21,773 (underreported; est. 400K+)
E-commerce
Electronics, books, household items
Surged post-2020; via third-party sellers.
3
Home Depot
18,493
Retail
Tools, hardware, building materials
From China, Canada; up 3% from 2022.
4
Target Corp.
~15,000–20,000 (est.)
Retail
Apparel, toys, groceries
Not fully ranked due to sourcing; est. 200K+ actual.
5
Lowe's Companies Inc.
17,101
Retail
Home improvement, appliances
Similar to Home Depot; China-heavy.
6
Samsung Electronics America
18,082
Electronics
Phones, TVs, semiconductors
From South Korea/Vietnam; up 10% YoY.
7
LG Electronics USA
16,160
Electronics
Appliances, displays
South Korea/China; stable volume.
8
Dollar General Corp.
15,854
Retail
Discount goods, household
Budget imports from Asia.
9
BJ's Wholesale Club
18,493
Wholesale
Bulk consumer goods
Similar to Costco; up 7% from 2022.
10
Canadian Solar USA
18,082
Renewables
Solar panels/cells
From Canada/Asia; green energy boom.; 12/8/25, 10:24 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: of course Trump bailed out farmers before .his 1st debacle. President Trump's administration provided billions of dollars in aid to farmers during his first term in response to losses they incurred from the China-US trade war and retaliatory tariffs.
The aid was distributed through several multi-billion dollar packages:
In 2018, an initial aid package of $12 billion was announced.
In 2019, a second round of aid increased the total to approximately $16 billion.
Further aid was provided in 2020, with a package that reached nearly $46 billion, though much of that funding was related to the COVID-19 pandemic relief efforts.
The total amount of tariff-related aid during his first term has been estimated at over $23 billion, and potentially as high as $28 billion when combined across the various programs. The aid was intended to be a temporary solution, or "bridge payment," for farmers who had lost significant export markets, particularly for soybeans, as China shifted purchases to other countries.
The bailouts were a point of contention, with some farmers and farm groups stating they preferred access to stable markets over government aid, which often disproportionately benefited the largest farms.; 12/8/25, 11:26 PM
Original Mike said...: "European countries are threatening tariffs on China over massive trade deficits, arguing Beijing is undercutting their economies and endangering vital industries, echoing the arguments made by President Donald Trump in the United States."

50% tariff on imported steel.
I'm sure Kak will be along to tell them what a mistake they're making.; 12/8/25, 11:28 PM
Humperdink said...: “I was held up at gunpoint twice. Guess by who."

I think being held up once would do it for me.

I am looking for a warmer place to live during Jan-Feb. After looking at temperatures, my next criteria is the crime rate.; 12/9/25, 5:11 AM
rehajm said...: There are many overblown claims about US NATO "subsidies". Its a talking point, not reality

Holy carp! Guess you won’t miss them when they’re gone then…; 12/9/25, 5:57 AM
Big Mike said...: Original Mike said...

You couldn't pay me enough to live in Oakland.

Hell, you couldn’t pay me enough to live in Madison, Wisconsin.; 12/9/25, 6:04 AM
Jaq said...: I think that Trump did make a serious misstep with soybeans and China, tariffs have a history, so does trade, and tariffs benefited the manufacturing north, but hurt the south, but the south thought that they had an ace in the hole, "King Cotton," and they thought that they could extract higher prices for it from the British, but the British just found or developed other sources for cotton and never really came back.

Of course these market moves are inevitable, and just like finding the cheapest labor, and moving manufacturing jobs to that country, commodities buyers will find the "most efficient" producers, countries where labor is cheap and land is cheap, and the US can either look inward, or join the race to the bottom.; 12/9/25, 6:09 AM
Kakistocracy said...: US judge strikes down Donald Trump’s ban on new wind permits ~ AP

'Court vacates president’s January executive order that froze approval of new projects'

Good. This ruling also sets a precedent for the equally arbitrary and capricious Trump administration not approving the huge solar project in Nevada, which will likely move forward at some point too.; 12/9/25, 6:10 AM
Jaq said...: Kak is a big advocate of "labor flexibility" which boils down to neutered unions, if unions are allowed at all, and "best shoring" of manufacturing, which means were labor is cheapest and environmental laws are the most friendly. Tariffs have tradeoffs, but the free market economics that he advocates have laid waste to a large part of the industrial heartland of America.

The irony is that Kak still thinks that we can gut our industrial base, and still have the unquestioned military power to order other countries around and take their resources at looters' prices.; 12/9/25, 6:14 AM
Jaq said...: "US Judge"

Another little self-appointed "King of the United States" is heard from.; 12/9/25, 6:16 AM
Jaq said...: Kak had no problem, of course, with Joe Biden killing the Twin Metals mine, nor did any "US Judge." That's what our military is for, to get us nickel and lithium!; 12/9/25, 6:17 AM
rehajm said...: "US Judge“

Hawaiian Judge…; 12/9/25, 6:31 AM
Jaq said...: Is Europe going to beggar itself so that Ukrainians can rule over Russians in land that belonged to Russia for centuries, and which, when gifted to Ukraine, the Ukrainians immediately disowned the treaty by which they were granted independence?

They were granted independence on promises, enshrined in their constitution, to not have nuclear weapons, and to remain non-aligned.
Of course they immediately squawked when Russia removed their nuclear weapons from the country, the weapons their own constitution forbid them to have, and neutrality? They were trying to join that hostile military alliance, which is NATO, almost from the get go.

NATO is probably cooked. It's a joke, and has been exposed as one. Finland is now balking at security guarantees for Ukraine, "you mean we have to fight Russia?" The only countries that are "gung ho" for this fight are countries where democratic norms have been demolished in order to nullify elections that would have removed them from power. This will be known, in a century, as the "Third War of NATO Expansion." NATO has not brought peace to Europe, and it has not brought prosperity.

These sanctions have bankrupted Europe, whatever their nominal GDP is, they are sliding deeper and deeper into debt that they cannot afford. Either they ban democracy altogether, or the governments there will be replaced by governments who can get a long with Russia as a neighbor.; 12/9/25, 7:16 AM
Achilles said...: Humperdink said...

“I was held up at gunpoint twice. Guess by who."

I think being held up once would do it for me.

I am looking for a warmer place to live during Jan-Feb. After looking at temperatures, my next criteria is the crime rate.

That is racist.; 12/9/25, 8:00 AM
Original Mike said...: "Hell, you couldn’t pay me enough to live in Madison, Wisconsin."

Glad to hear it.; 12/9/25, 8:49 AM
Kai Akker said...: @Meade, could your photo be a composite of two? Used to seeing those ducks in the foreground with a long vista of the lake before the buildings arise. There is that band of blur in between the two subject areas.; 12/9/25, 10:00 AM
Rusty said...: Meade.
Madison looks, dystopian.; 12/9/25, 10:34 AM
Hassayamper said...: I am looking for a warmer place to live during Jan-Feb. After looking at temperatures, my next criteria is the crime rate.

While the tough parts of Phoenix and Tucson are pretty tough, the outlying suburbs are quite safe, and you can carry any firearm you like, openly or concealed, with no permission slip[ from any government piece of shit.

Scottsdale has a violent crime rate of 165 per 100,000 population, and a murder rate of 1.2 per 100,000. Those beat the European average quite handily.; 12/9/25, 12:29 PM
Ann Althouse said...: "@Meade, could your photo be a composite of two? Used to seeing those ducks in the foreground with a long vista of the lake before the buildings arise. There is that band of blur in between the two subject areas."

He's just zooming in to the distant shore. The "band of blur" is steam fog. The birds go where they will and he framed them into the shot.; 12/9/25, 12:48 PM
Kai Akker said...: Thanks, AA. That is sharp focus for the zoom.; 12/9/25, 6:10 PM