Am I the only one who can't fucking breathe right now.
Nothing Trump is saying in this tariff announcement seems like it can be verified. It is as if he just makes up his own numbers and facts. It is just another firehose of bullshit.
This all seems like madness.
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probably all of it FALSE. Almost certainly
No matter how many pups we have at the time, when we lose one, the emotions and grief are unbearable. And then watching the surviving pups mourn their sibling’s death, and trying to comfort them, feeling their pain, is so difficult.
Please know that your DU animal-loving family is right there with you sending hugs and puppy love to you and his brother.
I get it. Lost my kitty of 17 years a few weeks ago. I know how painful it is, they are family and the pain is awful. 
My wife and I have been through that four times and it's pure hell.
Hugs to you dem4decades. 
My sweet girl is a couple of months shy of 15, and she means the whole world to me.
I hope you can begin to feel better soon.
We’ve been through this too many times. The worst was Duncan, whom I rescued from a family whose son was apparently a drug dealer and figured he’d breed dogs on the side. He was shot in a drug deal and his folks had to take in his kids but didn’t want the dogs.
Poor little guy must’ve been nearby when it happened because fireworks and gunfire sent him into panic mode for hours. He’d been shut out in a lanai for three months and was a pathetic little guy (and out in the Florida dampness, he had at least three kinds of worms to get rid of…)
Once we got him, he was the sweetest, most loving dog ever. He even smiled in his sleep. We had him for over 16 years, when his vision started going bad (my Maine coon began walking him around the house to guide him to his food dish), he didn’t hear well, and one day, he started losing control of his hind legs. He spent six months pretty much in hospice-type care, wearing diapers and finally just hanging out in a nest near one of us until he finally gave up.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, we later adopted a beautiful orange tabby who six months later started losing control of *his* hind legs. ER vet diagnosed him with FIP (feline infectious peritonitis)—incurable. We did the same diaper and hand-holding routine for Hamish for his last three months.
I wouldn’t give up those experiences, though, no matter how painful, because they brought so much love into our lives.
I also have four parrots—two Orange wing Amazons and two African greys—and they’ll present the opposite problem because parrots live perhaps 80-100 years and we’ll have to think of someone worthy of taking them when the time comes.
dem, it’s a shitty deal to suffer such a loss, but give it time and let another one into your life. It’s a good way to channel the love for the one you lost into making a better life for another one who needs you.
Meanwhile, maybe Duncan will be on the welcoming committee over the rainbow bridge.
Pulling hair 
Yes, we shall see. We tried preparing to move to countries besides China. Now there’s tariffs on those countries. I need a drink.
IT'S COMPLETE MADNESS
This is from Twitter (currently known as X). I posted the text instead of the links.
This is coming from Daniel Dale of CNN. Here is a link to his CNN profile.
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/daniel-dale
Daniel Dale is a senior reporter in CNN's Washington Bureau, where he fact-checks political claims.
The attached image below is from the USMCA (US, Mexico & Canada Agreement) that Pendejo45 negotiated.
The president lied that there's a low tariff on merely "the first little carton of milk" exported to Canada, but after that, it's a massive Canadian tariff. In fact, *as negotiated by Trump's first administration in the USMCA,* *tens of thousands of metric tons per year* of US milk exports to Canada are *tariff-free* - and *the US isn't even exporting half the tariff-free maximum,* so the tariffs aren't close to being applied.
There is a complicated debate about why the US isn't coming close to its tariff-free quota maximum; the US industry alleges administrative shenanigans by Canada, Canada says that's nonsense. Regardless, the claim that only a tiny quantity of US milk is tariff-free is very false.
This is Trump's first administration correctly touting how the USMCA got Canada to agree to tens of thousands of tariff-free tons of US milk imports per year: https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/united-states-mexico-canada-agreement/fact-sheets/market-access-and-dairy-outcomes
