Tariffs Catch-All

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Clear as mud as usual







BTW, the extent to which cabinet members grovel and fellate him in these meetings remains as astonishing to me now as the first time he had one of those so-called cabinet meetings back in 2017. I cannot believe how many people have so little self-respect around Trump.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
Maybe, but there are plenty of people on the Republican side that are also concerned with the deficit. But if history is an indication, you're absolutely right.
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Based on this morning's vote, your "plenty of people on the Republican side that are also concerned with the deficit" numbers two. Once again, your statement is wrong - what's unique is that it was objectively disproven in a matter of hours.

Your side doesn't care one whit about the deficit. If you have any sense of shame, you will not bring up this canard of a both-sides argument again.
 
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nycfan said:
Clear as mud as usual







BTW, the extent to which cabinet members grovel and fellate him in these meetings remains as astonishing to me now as the first time he had one of those so-called cabinet meetings back in 2017. I cannot believe how many people have so little self-respect around Trump.
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Everyone is in on the game except Trump (well, and some MAGA types who do nothing but consume conservative media all day).

All Republicans in power know that the groveling is just performance art. It has gotten to the point that no one actually takes it seriously or thinks less of the grovellers. It is just the cost of doing business, like a ticket to enter the stadium.

At least some of the law firms had backbone. I hope the law firms that gave into Trump lose a bunch of clients over it.
 
Huh? said:
Word on the street is that the penguins want to sign a trade deal, but are waiting for evolution to give them opposable thumbs to hold the pen...
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Trump said he would accept their autopen, only Biden's was illegal and cancelled the signature.
 
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nycfan said:


In another, more important sense, he is my enemy as evidenced by our trade war
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He plans to do a Ximazing deal with China!

For most countries, his idea of a "fair deal" is what they reportedly proposed to Ukraine re its rare earth metals. US gets all of it, none for any other country in Europe or anywhere else.
 
Calheel said:
At least some of the law firms had backbone. I hope the law firms that gave into Trump lose a bunch of clients over it.
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The law firms that gave in can just refuse to comply with what Trump is demanding and I very much doubt that the required provision of pro bono work would be constitutional. The executive cannot create an army of private lawyers through extortion.

I mean, who knows. The Supreme Court has made a complete mess of everything. Imagine how much simpler everything would be, and how much better it would work, if not for this stupid unitary executive shit that has crawled into the law like a shit-covered skunk. We wouldn't even have to ask these questions -- it would be obvious that the executive does not have this sort of power. And if it did, it couldn't wield it however it chooses.

The fucking morons who focus on the first few words of Article II, while ignoring the works "take care that the laws are faithfully executed", have created such a crisis. If "faithfully executed" were enforced (which surely it can be, if the unitary executive can be), we wouldn't have any of these Trump problems. Or a lot fewer, I should say.
 
wmheel1287 said:
I've seen no evidence that any significant number of Republicans currently in office at the federal level are actually concerned AT ALL with the deficit.
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They've road that horse since Reagan first talked about it, but no republican president has decreased the deficit 50 years. It's just a talking point.

If they wanted to decrease the deficit and debt, they wouldn't start every campaign with "tax cuts".
 
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