The administration argues that relying on imported metals could reduce demand for American-made materials, leaving the US with less domestic production and fewer critical supplies in the event of a national emergency.
And because brass instruments are made mostly from copper and zinc, they have been swept into the same net as fire extinguishers, floor safes, electrical cables, welding-machine parts, and tanker trailers.
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Goldfinger have been real silent since this dropped
Ska bands are now under constant watch.
Anything to make you forget he’s a sex offender pedophile drug addict with a hole in the top of his mouth
He’s paranoid someone will hide a gun in one. He’s lived most of his adult life afraid and the older he gets, the more afraid he is. It’s the same reason he eats fast food. He thinks it would be harder to poison him that way.
trump does something stupid film at 11.
Here comes the brass tax.
We finally got down to it.
Entirely un-oniony article
Brass Against the Machine
Brass Against is a rock+brass band that started doing covers of Rage Against The Machine, they also cover other rock and metal acts. Pretty cool.
Yeah, I thought of them, wasn’t sure about the name. Shortened like this it could also be a reference to Rise Against.
The revolution will have the most epic marches.
I couldn’t help but think about Severance’s season 2 finale
Mmm what about gym equipment?
What about it? The country is in the vast middle of an obesity epidemic.
On the plus side, RFK Jr said eating aluminium foil is perfectly healthy. He even offered to teach some abdominal exercises that can help roll the foil around the roadkill in your gut, to help keep it unfresh between digestion cycles, which are totally a thing, too.
Wtf am I reading??
You can not make this up. The next person stating that this or that plot line or twist does not make sense needs to stop for a moment, take a deep breath and have a sip of water.
I am waiting for a real life deus ex machina moment next.
Watch trump putting ICE agents in the polling booths, just as Mussolini used to do
Well Trump wouldn’t need to do that if those crazy terrorist libtards would stop chasing him with them.
He Used Italian marble in the bathroom renovations at the White House.
This is all nonsense.
And by the looks of it we have pretty good marble here.
I don’t consider myself particularly patriotic but I do feel like national state buildings should be made with materials from this country.
It’s big enough. We have the basics here. Marble. Wood.
Why not showcase this countries materials ?
Also did you see the bathroom?. It’s so ugly.
Tbh if I didn’t hate the man I’d like the bathroom.
But yeah I feel that public buildings should use American materials. Really they should prioritize materials within their jurisdiction, and where it’s not possible as close to the level of jurisdiction as possible, including continent level. That means if we don’t have it then we should check if canada or Mexico do. And I’m not saying to use the gray granite that my link included, we can bypass for concerns of beauty and practicality, but there’s beautiful stone in America. And in general I feel it adds to the local identity to use materials from there. New Mexico, Vermont, and Minnesota shouldn’t have state houses that look the same.
Exceptions of course for gifts, like, actual gifts, not grift gifts. The statue of liberty being french bronze is great, it remains a symbol of the fact that they used to like us back in the day.
All of the rules and laws he wants apparently have no jurisdiction on him. Just like hiring undocumented immigrants in his businesses
The move is part of the Trump administration’s broader tariff strategy, which it says will encourage people to buy American-made goods and attract investment from foreign companies.
So…isn’t this just an admission that it really has nothing to do with national security?
Does Trump have any brass instrument investments? This feels like an episode of The Goon Show… (In “Lurgi Strikes Britain”, the fictional Lurgi/Lurgy illness is used to boost sales of brass band instruments, which supposedly protect against the disease.)
John Paulson, a major Trump supporter, has an investment firm that owns musical instrument manufacturer Conn-Selmer. Probably just mere coincidence.
Which makes little sense because Conn-Selmer doesn’t just manufacture brass instruments and saxophones, they also exclusively import a lot of the European and Asian “alternatives” (i.e. illusions of choice). The Selmer (not Selmer (USA)) part of Conn-Selmer are made in France and like half of the other brands are Chinese or Japanese.
I mean, regardless of what happens, Conn-Selmer has a practical monopoly, but even though Conn-Selmer does manufacture in the US, they probably still rely on importing metals, right?
