Once an Idiot, Always an Idiot

Trump continues his display of incompetence!

I want to begin discussing this transfer of Maxwell to the minimum security (luxury) prison exclusively for the ‘rich and famous’ in Texas.

First, she’s a convicted felon. But then again, so is Trump, and look where he’s at! She’s a sexual predator, a pedophile, a sex trafficker. She worked with, in cahoots with, Epstein. They, according to what I’ve learned, picked up their women at Mar-a-Lago, or women that had been affiliated with or visited Mar-a-Lago. Now, this in itself raises all kinds of ‘red flags’. Trump is sitting back saying that he knows nothing about the case at all. That is another bald-faced lie. He, Maxwell, and Epstein were all in bed together. You can bet your ass that Trump had either already bedded the women that they abducted and turned out to sex trafficking, or bedded them after being abducted. But he knew about each and every one of them.

This move brings another question to light. Just what the hell can Maxwell tell now to get such a cushy deal? You know she’s not going to turn on Trump, and Epstein is a non-starter. He’s done, out of the picture. So, just what, over two days of private interviews, can Maxwell possibly tell them that they give her a luxury cell in a minimum security ‘high-profile’ client prison camp?

For the life of me, I can’t think of anything.

Now, let’s discuss the tariffs, what they really mean for us, the American people.

First, just exactly is a ‘tariff’?

Short answer, it’s a ‘tax’. Period.

Now, let’s look at the ‘official’ Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition:

tariff

1 of 2

noun

tar· iff ˈter-əf ˈta-rəf

Synonyms of tariff

1

a

: a schedule of duties imposed by a government on imported or in some countries exported goods

b

: a duty or rate of duty imposed in such a schedule

2

: a schedule of rates or charges of a business or a public utility

3

: PRICE, CHARGE

tariff

2 of 2

verb

tariffed; tariffing; tariffs

transitive verb

: to subject to a tariff

Examples of tariff in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage.Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors

Noun

Overall, the tariff deal between Europe and the United States impacts consumers and business owners in both jurisdictions at multiple levels.

—Priya Prakash Royal Esq. Ll.m. Mba Aep Tep, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025

The company plans to raise prices on 25% of its North American products due to tariff impacts and product innovation.

—Alexander Coolidge, USA Today, 31 July 2025

Verb

The plan is that Indonesia will remove all tariffs on U.S. imports while Indonesian exports to the U.S. will be tariffed at 19%, Trump told reporters.

—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 16 July 2025

Both South Korea and Japan will be tariffed at 25%.

Now, what, exactly does a tariff do? My opinion, it costs the American taxpayer, us, money. I lay here and just looking around me. I have a medicine cup, a small paper cup used by hospitals all over the country for distribution of medication to patients. This cup is “Made in Vietnam”! What the underlying issue here is this, which is something most people don’t know, or don’t think about. The paper it took for that cup to be made in Vietnam actually came from the United States. Probably from a company like ‘Georgia-Pacific’ or other paper company.

This means the trees are cut, paper made, shipped to Vietnam, cups made, shipped back to the United States. Now insert the tariffs. You have the tariff to ship the paper to Vietnam. The tariff to ship the made medicine cups to the United States.

What did cost $.03 to manufacture from tree to cup sitting on the medicine cart in the hospital now cost $.08, or more, because of the tariffs paid. And, if you are a mathematician, you will realize that’s over 200% increase in price.

Now, look at the steel, to make automobiles, trucks, vehicle parts. Those, history come from where? Japan, China, Korea, Germany, England. That truck you drive, or car you drive, they might tell you it was manufactured here in the United States. BUT, did you know the parts it takes to make that vehicle come from all over the world? Not the United States.

Right now, today, a pickup truck you could buy brand new in 2020 for $30,000 yiu can’t touch in the new truck lot for less than $60,000. That’s for a simple ‘work’ pickup truck. No ‘bells and whistles’. No ‘frills’. If you add the extras to make it a ‘luxury truck’ you ate up close to, if not over $100,000!!! Really!!!

Question is Simple. Why???

Now, need I discuss the food aspect of this tariff dealing? It’s simple. When Trump started this ‘trade war’, these tariffs, in his first administration run through destroying our economy and democracy, we had tons and tons of fresh food literally dumped into the oceans all around the world. We had thousands upon thousands of animals, livestock, dumped into the sea all around the world because they starved to death on the ships.

If you recall, there were ships sitting off the coast of the United States west, and east, coast that were not allowed to port because of the trade war, tariffs, and the produce eventually had to be dumped because it rotted on the ships. The animals died from starvation, dumped into the sea. Nobody wins.

If you again recall those years. The grocery shelves became extremely bare. Not a lot offered. That memory should give you some idea where our food truly comes from. The food in the grocery stores.

Something else I want to remind folks. During this same time, the farmers lost their asses. The farmers lost their farms, their livelihoods. Everything. Over 35,000 small farmers had to declare bankruptcy and sell off their farms and goods. That’s over 35,000 farmers no longer producing food for us to eat. Food that now comes from another country, with a rather stiff tariff attached to it. Creating the high costs of food in the grocery stores.

The United States Border Patrol, the office responsible for collecting these tariffs, in the month of July, 2025, just last month, collected over $125 Billion dollars in tariffs.

• Where’s the money?

• What are they doing with the money?

• What do they plan on doing with this money?

What I’ve given you here this evening is simply two things to seriously think about. The first, raises questions that I personally think we need to contact our congressmen/women and demand answers why such a criminal can get such preferential treatment.

The second, I’ll be contacting them wanting answers to the obvious questions. Especially since we are the ones actually paying these tariffs. You can bet your ass these companies are not going to absorb any costs, especially tariff costs, without passing that cost on to the consumers. Which is exactly what all of the companies have said will happen.