{"id":36464,"date":"2019-05-10T07:07:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T14:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36464"},"modified":"2019-05-10T07:07:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T14:07:39","slug":"personal-update-5-10-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/10\/personal-update-5-10-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update – 5\/10\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The excessive heat is setting off my COPD.  I need to go back to bed.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:24 (average 5:36).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Take<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n

[R]esident Trump escalated his trade war with China on Friday morning, raising tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods and taking steps to tax nearly all of China\u2019s imports as punishment for what he said was Beijing\u2019s attempt to \u201crenegotiate\u201d a trade deal. <\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s decision to proceed with the tariff increase came after a pivotal round of trade talks in Washington on Thursday night failed to produce an agreement to forestall the higher levies. The White House said talks would resume again on Friday<\/a> but it remains uncertain whether the two sides can bridge the differences that have arisen over the past week. <\/p>\n

In his comments at the White House on Thursday afternoon, Mr. Trump vacillated between threatening China and suggesting a deal could still happen. The president said he had received a \u201cbeautiful letter\u201d from President Xi Jinping of China and would probably speak to him by phone, but said he was more than happy to keep hitting Beijing with tariffs. <\/p>\n

To be clear, China pays nothing for Trump’s tariffs. YOU pay it all, and the Republican Reich gets the money. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font> <\/p>\n

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The excessive heat is setting off my COPD.  I need to go back to bed. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today’s took me 3:24 (average 5:36).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Take: From NY Times: [R]esident Trump escalated his trade war with China on Friday morning, raising tariffs on $200 billion worth […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}