I've started getting emails from small food businesses that I buy ingredients for my home cooking from - they are upset over Trump's tariff policies. Here's what I send back to all of them:
Dear (name of small business owner),
I love your products - thank you for enriching the dishes I make! I'm just a home cook, but for several decades I have bought as many of my cooking ingredients from small farmers and small business owners as possible. Among the ones I buy from: Rancho Gordo, Burlap & Barrel, Anson Mills, Maureen Abood, Porter Road, Heritage Pork, Get Hooked Seafood, The Date Lady, NY Shuk and local farms and businesses in my city, Santa Barbara. While I respect your right to express your political views, I don't share them. Please keep politics out of what you do. I don't boycott people I disagree with or key their cars or throw molotov cocktails or in any way try to censor them. But I don't cook with politics, I cook with love.
Yes, it is absoluletly impossible to provide conclusive scientific evidence for the effect of mitigation measures against a problem that cannot be scientifically verified to exist.
It is absolutely unacceptable that a single region would as much as consider to impose its own trade rules on the rest of the world, let alone start implementing that. Yet that is exactly what the morally bankrupt EU is doing, be it through its DSA, DMA or CSDDD. Other countries shall stand firm against the EU's inverted morals being imposed upon them and the United States State Department shall lead the charge. Really nothing should be off the table to tone down the EU's pretentious self-perception as global ruler, from imposing million percent tariffs, to sanctions, to threaten to exclude them from dollar denominated transactions, or to threaten to not deliver resources they direly need. Trade is an act of mutual balance, not one where one side thinks to be "morally superior" for all the wrong reasons and then has the arrogance to try and enforce its own morally deplete world view on others.
I've started getting emails from small food businesses that I buy ingredients for my home cooking from - they are upset over Trump's tariff policies. Here's what I send back to all of them:
Dear (name of small business owner),
I love your products - thank you for enriching the dishes I make! I'm just a home cook, but for several decades I have bought as many of my cooking ingredients from small farmers and small business owners as possible. Among the ones I buy from: Rancho Gordo, Burlap & Barrel, Anson Mills, Maureen Abood, Porter Road, Heritage Pork, Get Hooked Seafood, The Date Lady, NY Shuk and local farms and businesses in my city, Santa Barbara. While I respect your right to express your political views, I don't share them. Please keep politics out of what you do. I don't boycott people I disagree with or key their cars or throw molotov cocktails or in any way try to censor them. But I don't cook with politics, I cook with love.
Well done Polly!!
"The plan “must contain…conclusive scientific evidence.” Their words.
They have yet to produce conclusive scientific evidence supporting their climate claims, only "consensus", therefore the plan is bunk. Just say no.
Yes, it is absoluletly impossible to provide conclusive scientific evidence for the effect of mitigation measures against a problem that cannot be scientifically verified to exist.
It is absolutely unacceptable that a single region would as much as consider to impose its own trade rules on the rest of the world, let alone start implementing that. Yet that is exactly what the morally bankrupt EU is doing, be it through its DSA, DMA or CSDDD. Other countries shall stand firm against the EU's inverted morals being imposed upon them and the United States State Department shall lead the charge. Really nothing should be off the table to tone down the EU's pretentious self-perception as global ruler, from imposing million percent tariffs, to sanctions, to threaten to exclude them from dollar denominated transactions, or to threaten to not deliver resources they direly need. Trade is an act of mutual balance, not one where one side thinks to be "morally superior" for all the wrong reasons and then has the arrogance to try and enforce its own morally deplete world view on others.