Tariffs Catch-All

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superrific said:
I think he meant that it was not foreseeable that Trump would be allowed to do something so fundamentally irrational.

Which is clearly hilarious -- I mean, whatever you thought Trump was going to do, it was obviously foreseeable that he might do what he said he would do. But it does capture the mindset of the Trump backers. "We'll elect him, and then we'll control him" they thought. Hahaha.
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Oh, I got that. Bill’s passive aggression towards Dems and his implied “but why won’t someone stop him!” conveyed that Bill assumed some sense of responsibility and integrity existed within a con congress. Similarly, the zzlp analysis that started up this summer (you particularly, IIRC) factored in the opposite congressional input. I don’t see how someone paying even cursory attention to the political realities of the last 4-5 years could ever come to Bill’s conclusion.
 
Healing said:
Oh, I got that. Bill’s passive aggression towards Dems and his implied “but why won’t someone stop him!” conveyed that Bill assumed some sense of responsibility and integrity existed within a con congress. Similarly, the zzlp analysis that started up this summer (you particularly, IIRC) factored in the opposite congressional input. I don’t see how someone paying even cursory attention to the political realities of the last 4-5 years could ever come to Bill’s conclusion.
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You're not wrong, but motivated reasoning can be blinding.

Ackman, I think, lost his fucking mind about the O7 protests, and then even more when people noticed that his wife had done exactly what the Harvard pres had done but more. I think that's why he went R. Not the only reason, but that's one of them probably.

These people don't like to have their views challenged. For the most part, the people able to challenge their views are liberals, due to the education effect and also generally differences in viewpoint. So then the masters of the universe types get angry at liberals and decide that liberals are their enemies. This has to be why Andreessen talks about how his companies were forced to hire Marxists who were trying to destroy his firms' from the inside. That's such transparent bullshit that I think he actually managed to convince himself of its truth, all to explain why obviously correct critiques from liberals were actually completely wrong.
 
Huh? said:
I'm waiting for the EU to tariff our services. That's when it'll really get interesting...
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Gonna be hilarious if Trump accepts the EU offer to drop all industrial tariffs, a concession he rejected as part of the TTIP back in 2017. With his attempts to negotiate with Iran after killing the Iran Nuclear Deal and his anger at USMCA, which his administration authored, reversing all his foreign-policy decisions from 8 years ago might end up a trend. Not sure how the calculus differs now as to then.
 


“Why does @BillAckman act so shocked that Trump is crashing the economy?

Last October, he published a 33-point treatise on the importance of supporting Trump and dared anyone to refute point by point.

So I did.

He said he would post a response but he "had a day job." He never did.

Now, his company has lost a fourth of its value.”
 


"...A document obtained by Reuters reveals that Europe will impose 25% tariffs on a broad range of American goods, with the first wave set to take effect on May 16, and a second round scheduled for December 1.

The move is a direct response to the Trump administration's earlier decision to slap 25% tariffs on imported steel and aluminum—policies that have already begun to ripple across global markets and strain diplomatic ties. ..."

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EU is trying to avoid a trade war but has no choice but to respond, however cautiously for now.
 
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