Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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I eat out a lot and have not been subjected the scourge of paper straws very often the last few years now. But I don’t tend to use a straw unless it’s already in my drink or for my giant unsweet tea from Bojangles.
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This is the first Trump EO I can get behind (of course, it is completely unenforceable, except maybe at federal cafeterias).
 

India’s pissed off now:

US officials kept around 100 deported Indian migrants in shackles for their 40-hour flight home, including during bathroom breaks, in the latest incident to spark anger overseas at President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown.

Indian lawmakers demonstrated outside parliament on Thursday, some wearing shackles and others mocking the much-touted friendship between Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Elsewhere in New Delhi, members of the youth wing of India’s main opposition party burned an effigy of Trump.
 
nycfan said:


I eat out a lot and have not been subjected the scourge of paper straws very often the last few years now. But I don’t tend to use a straw unless it’s already in my drink or for my giant unsweet tea from Bojangles.
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Now this is honestly something I can get behind. Those paper straws positively suck. Still, this has more of a "class president" vibe, doesn't it? What about the price of eggs?
(ETA: Sorry CFord! Just saw your post above. Great minds think alike! ;)
 


“President Donald Trump said Friday he will announce next week “reciprocal tariffs” affecting all U.S. trading partners, a potentially massive shift in the nation’s approach to foreign trade.

“I’ll be announcing that next week. Reciprocal trade so that we’re treated evenly with other countries. We don’t want any more or any less,” the president said, without offering details.

…“If India, China, or any other country hits us with a 100 or 200 percent tariff on American-made goods, we will hit them with the same exact tariff. In other words, 100 percent is 100 percent. If they charge US, we charge THEM — an eye for an eye, a tariff for a tariff, same exact amount,” he said in 2023.

On Friday, the president described his reciprocal approach as “pretty simple.” But unilaterally overhauling the existing U.S. tariff structure could run afoul of U.S. commitments to the World Trade Organization and would upend global trade patterns.

One former U.S. trade negotiator said the president’s plan would represent the most significant trade policy change since the late 1940s.

“Moving away from what is known as ‘unconditional MFN’ where each WTO member pledges to give to every other member the lowest rate they offer to any country is the biggest change in global trade since” 1947, said John Veroneau, a partner at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. …”
 
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“… All WTO members are required to offer the same tariff rates to all other members, with a few exceptions such as in cases of national security. Switching to a reciprocal system would mean scores of different tariff rates for different trading partners.

Individual nations generally choose tariffs to protect industries or products of special importance.

The United States, for example, maintains a 35 percent import tax on pickup trucks made overseas, essentially closing the market to foreign-made models to protect domestic automakers’ most profitable business.

Matching other nations’ tariffs would cause the United States to erect high protective tariffs to defend products that it may not even produce, resulting in higher costs for consumers, according to trade analysts. …”
 
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“… All WTO members are required to offer the same tariff rates to all other members, with a few exceptions such as in cases of national security. Switching to a reciprocal system would mean scores of different tariff rates for different trading partners.

Individual nations generally choose tariffs to protect industries or products of special importance.

The United States, for example, maintains a 35 percent import tax on pickup trucks made overseas, essentially closing the market to foreign-made models to protect domestic automakers’ most profitable business.

Matching other nations’ tariffs would cause the United States to erect high protective tariffs to defend products that it may not even produce, resulting in higher costs for consumers, according to trade analysts. …”
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Dozens of countries, including Germany, South Africa and Mexico, said Friday that President Donald Trump’s decision to sanction the International Criminal Court would “erode the international rule of law.”

The joint statement by 79 countries came hours after Trump signed an executive order slapping financial sanctions and visa restrictions against ICC staff and their family members, alleging the court has improperly targeted the United States and Israel.


“Such measures increase the risk of impunity for the most serious crimes and threaten to erode the international rule of law, which is crucial for promoting global order and security,” the 79 countries, including Canada and France, said in a statement publicly released by numerous governments.

The statement added that “sanctions could jeopardize the confidentiality of sensitive information and the safety of those involved—including victims, witnesses, and court officials, many of whom are our nationals.”

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Dozens of countries reject Trump administration sanctions on ICC

Trump on Thursday signed an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court, accusing it of improperly targeting the United States and Israel.
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nycfan said:


Elon may be a bit misguided by how easy it was to take down USAID — a valuable but heretofore obscure program without a large domestic constituency to rally to the defense of cultural support of democracy and helping the poor and displaced across the globe via a series of relatively small local interventions.

He may find much more organized and powerful resistance if he goes after the Pentagon and the military industrial complex. Will Hegseth be willing to give Musk access to the national security mainframe and spending apparatus? Will the GOP still defer then?
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Welp, I guess we shall see if the DOGE treatment works at the Pentagon …
 
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