pdxcitizen.bsky.social
Lawyer, Gator, Dad, not necessarily in that order
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You beclown yourself.
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Most US citizens have no interest in making Canada the 51st state, but I think many of us envy Canada for its new PM, who has come across as firm, well-spoken and intelligent.
He makes our President look like an ill-informed, ill-spoken bully.
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Why should she care about the Pulitzer, she’s no longer a journalist.
What’s the equivalent of the Pulitzer for PR hacks?
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I’m sure our farmers and companies like Boeing, Deere, Caterpillar and yes Tesla loved hearing our President say he doesn’t care about foreign markets.
I thought barriers to foreign markets were what started this whole thing?
He is just babbling out of his ass.
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None of that makes any sense.
He is blurting out contradictory rationales and updates on a daily basis.
His department store example is a 4 year old’s depiction of global trade.
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One Wedding and an Afternoon Tea
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Tax Returns to be released!
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What a buffoon, there are Disney Worlds in Paris and Shanghai, our Hollywood storytelling has spread American values across the globe, but for President Small Brain the glass is always half empty
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SNL should do some presidential daily briefing skits, although the real ones may be beyond parody.
how do you brief someone whose ignorance is trumped only by his disinterest in any topic other than himself, and has about a 15 second attention span.
I would pay $1M for video of those briefings.
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She's about to boil a rabbit on the house floor isn't she?
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I laugh even though the joke is at my expense.
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He's so full of shit, he just loves to talk tough, but he blinks when push comes to shove.
We've elected the wimpiest, least fearsome schoolyard bully to the White House.
I'm going to enjoy watching the EU and China make him blink again.
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That was the whole point. The IRS was doing its job.
C(3)'s only get tax-exempt status if they are formed for a charitable purpose.
Not political.
The IRS was trying to enforce that distinction in good faith.
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The language of the agreements that have been publicized are so vague and indefinite that neither party could actually enforce them against the other.
The idea of achieving a "meeting of the minds" with someone like Trump is laughable because he focuses solely on optics, there is no mind to meet.
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Any explanation why? I guess the inflation caused from post- COVID relief programs?
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Rubio looks like his soul has left him.
What can you say? His deep, ego-driven need to breath deep of the soiled underpants of raw power overwhelmed his morals, his intellect, his shame.
Faust made his bargain, and so has Rubio.
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I'm just a layman, but I'd expect a Trump-appointed chair to lower interest rates and help run the economy hot, allowing Trump & Congress to pass more debt-supported tax cuts and leave us and the next Pres. w/ a smoking hole where the economy was.
Short term, this would support full employment.
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She makes her own gelatin for her lips from the feet of the chickens and pigs she raises
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Love J Press!
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Congrats!
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Get the f’in black masks off our law enforcement personnel, I hate seeing this.
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This is where someone posts the Kevin Bacon clip at the end of Animal House....
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To paraphrase Dean Wormer, "weird, corrupt and megalomaniacal is no way to go through life son."
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Time to sweep out the trash.
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I tell you what, if and when the US and Canada do negotiate, this guy would take Trump to the cleaners.
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But the patient wasn't sick.
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That's more a hope than a suggestion.
Its just a big shakedown.
If the EU, UK, Japan, & other free market countries stick together, Trump & USA (my country) couldn't withstand the pain for long.
Why negotiate with someone who just tore up the deals already in place?
His word means nothing.
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Is he really though?
He seems to be a poster child for too many of our public servants who seek office, looking for the shortest path to power and taking it, with principles, intellect and facts left by the wayside.
Elise Stefanik and Marco Rubio seem to be cut from the same cloth.
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What Mr. Summers gets wrong is that this isn't intended to be rational policy. Its the threat of a bully to hand over your lunch money or be slugged.
We elected Biff from BTTF as President, and now Biff is holding countries and industries upside down and taking the change that falls out of pockets.
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Exactly.
So long as countries, companies, and industries play along, and supplicate themselves to Trump for exceptions, many of the tariffs will be pulled.
Come to Trump with a quid pro quo, and you will be spared.
They are just a platform for corruption, and the nursing of grievances.
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Hey, Mark Burnett, we’re talking about you.
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It makes sense because Trump & Co. don’t expect the tariffs to remain as they’ve been announced.
They expect countries, companies, and industries to go to the White House and supplicate themselves to Trump for an exception. 
Trump gets to play king, and extract a quid pro quo concession.
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Bessent saying the quiet part out loud.

The tariffs are an invitation to countries, companies and entire industries to go to the White House, supplicate themselves to Trump, and see what kind of quid pro quo arrangement they can offer him.
 They are a platform for corruption and nursing grudges.
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What is a "bootloader?"
Did he mean bootlegger?
Did he mean freeloader?
This won't end well, for him or the country.
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2) destroy the western alliance that oversees the world financial system, through SWIFT, US$ reserve currency, and control of all major commodity exchanges;
3) levy harshest tariffs v SE Asia, pushing them to China's orbit;
4) end immigration, the US' antidote to declining birthrates.
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(1/2) I guess I'm a conspiracy theorist now, because it seems to me he is doing EXACTLY what a Russian asset would do to weaken the USA's greatest strengths:
1) attack our research institutions and universities, the foundation of American innovation since WWII;
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Let me check my calendar:
March 31: Pump
April 1: Dump
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Yes.
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I'm so glad Trump is leading us into the 21st Century, its cutting edge tech like this that will make America Great Again.
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Its not just the economic impact of the tariffs, but the sheer Keystone Kops behavior of Trump & his advisors.
Tariffs are on again, off again, on again, treating it like a game show with a big reveal ("And for Finland, behind Door #3...").
What a clownshow. Its Smoot-Hawley with a big red nose.
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Yeah, the heartbreak of the 20th century, infant mortality reduced by 50+%, Adult lifespan increased by 20 years, smallpox & polio eradicated, American standard of living and wealth has never been higher (see below).
Invention of the automobile, radio, television, internet.
Such a disaster.
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"Open to interpreation..."
I bet its open to interpretation. What a clusterf...
Just a huge black box to let Trump pick winners and losers.
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That's the way to maximize the grift, countries and major companies now have to go to Trump hat in hand and beg for a lower band.
Give Trump a chance to wet his beak a little, and you can reduce your tariff hit.
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It’s not only a question of skill or ability, these firms have shown that they will drop or abandon you as a client if a more remunerative or beneficial arrangement shows up.