It started with the U.S. Commerce Department launching what it says was a routine antidumping review, based on allegations Italian pasta makers sold product into the US at below-market prices and undercut local competitors. That has led to a threat of 92% duties, which would come on top of the 15% tariff President Donald Trump’s administration imposed on European exports generally.

Let me try to understand this - someone please correct any poor assumptions on my part.

Imported pasta from Italy was cheaper for Americans, so Trump exacted duties to effectively double its cost, thereby making a western food staple significantly more expensive?

Very well stated, thank you.

Exactly, thank you.

Thank you for sharing this. It’s a very touching and inspiring photograph - perhaps quite appropriate for the challenges of our time.

You’re right and I like your attitude!

Also, your username is beautiful.

Some angry retired miners with black lung are fighting back, demanding that Donald Trump honor promises he made to the people who voted him in.

This is the epitome of the leopard meme. Still, I can’t help but feel sad - even for the misguided idiots that brought this harm into the world.

This is so encouraging. Thank you for the list!

Let’s all keep protesting the status quo. I feel it helps.

Sweet lord, this is beautiful. Thank you for sharing, OP.

I get it:

Everyone wants to vote for Mamdani.

And, frankly, I don’t blame them.

Word.

And she’ll try to cater to the centrist voter just like last time, and lose just like last time too.

Exactly. I fully agree.

There are no words…

Hardly.

Thank you.

Sweet lord, this is a beautiful picture.

I need to get into this movement. These folks are brilliant.

Word.

With credit to the Ohio composer, and not the political scientist with the same name, you may find the quote on the wrong Frank Wilhoit’s Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit

Namely:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Merciful war criming and merciful genociding. Yes, of course.

What a photograph. Look at her eyes. The courage! I wish she’d be President.

Thank you for posting this.

Actual title as I see it now:

JD Vance Plans to Honor Charlie Kirk by No Longer Shouting at His Own Wife