What until it get throw the courts. He and his minions (he's not smart enough to do this) just break laws and hope the courts won't charge against them before the mid-terms.
You can thank the weak & scaredy-cat Republicans in the House & Senate for enabling that lunatic! They have the power to stop all this insanity, because it’s supposed to be THEIR power! 😰
This is why the world will never follow America's lead again. It'll take years, but countries are going to diversify their trade relationships which is to the good. The question is how rough is it going to get along the way?
ya think? but we all sort of went on the trust your buddy system, do the right thing system and now that the world has been turned upside down by a group that think the rules don't apply to them? we find the buddy system has no teeth for evil men/women who simply don't care about their buddies.
It may be flawed but 90 million people stayed home in November and a fuck this on of Gaza protesters cast protest votes. Not a perfect system but we did this. It’s on us. Fuck people who don’t vote and demand action. You know who you are.
I think now that we have a global economy it is both asinine and stupid that we do not have a global government.
What kind of idiots would we have to be to all allow that to continue? If one ruler of one country can unilaterally topple the entire global economy that cannot be allowed to continue.
He’s not supposed to be able to do what he’s doing, but the Republican Congress is allowing him to. The legislative branch is supposed to deal with things like tariffs. This whole regime has been a sham. It’s a one-man show whose puppet masters has carefully constructed a New World order.
To be fair, this is not just anybody. This is the genius who managed to bankrupt two casinos. The 'perfect storm' of ignorance, stupidity, arrogance, and narcissism.
If the Republicans in Congress were doing their job, it wouldn’t be happening. There is a system, but the Republican Administration threw it out the window
Seems wilder still that the only people with the power to actually stop him peacefully, are a bunch of lapdogs that are supposed to be checking his power. But these so called "patriots" will let him burn it all to the ground, because loyalty to their party is greater than loyalty to their country.
Imagine you're driving your car (a complex machine with thousands of parts working in precise tandem to produce the desired results) down the highway and the brake system decides it's not going to do its job anymore because the gas pedal is a malignant narcissist.
I believe that Congress has delegated authority to the executive to administer tariffs and that any changes to that structure would require a new bill that would be subject to a veto. But there is still required periodic congressional oversight of tariffs that is not subject to veto.
I don’t believe it is legal for the legislative branch to hand over its authority to the executive like this. Otherwise, why have checks and balances at all?
Fair point, but Congress did just that when they passed the reciprocal trade agreements act in 1934. Unfortunately, a lot has been done to erode the balance of powers that the founders envisioned 220 years ago. Americans were just lucky that no one tried to recklessly exploit that until now.
Kinda hinged on millions of people not forming a cult around a man with a combover who paints his face orange and can't form coherent thoughts. Seemed like a decent bet.
Yeah I just said the same thing on a Facebook post of mine...we've had significant stock market drops previously that are larger, but they haven't been caused by a single person doing something so stupid.
The fact is that it is not just "one guy" but "one gang" of evildoers (and pretty dumb evildoers, witness taxing penguins...). Trump & Musk are just a bit more than their spokespersons.
its pretty mad that anybody would believe it given all the players in the world, and the fact that voids and gaps will be immediatelly filled by other actors
Don't think this is going to collapse the global economy. Just the US economy. The rest of the globe might have a bump in the road but we are losing the roads, the bridges, the partnerships that built all of it... we are going to suffer. The rest of the globe will be fine.
He hasn't collapsed the global economy, he's collapsed your economy. Stop acting like your country is the center of the universe. We are all gonna figure out how to get by without you.
To be fair, he doesn't actually have that power without support of the GOP led congress, who could stop a mad tyrant if they wished, but, since they're 100% cucked, instead choose to abdicate their responsibility as a co-equal branch of govt and allow Trump to act as king.
Because Congress is dead! They gave up their power to an unpredictable loser to destroy everything in the country and around the globe. Americans’ retirements are wiped out in one day while Elmo wants to take away Social security. We may see more people losing their jobs!
They-all the cynical, arrogant people who think they know better make up conspiracy theories to make the complex simple-have taken advantage of our system with no fidelity and no integrity, grifted it and bastardized it.
They-with Trump as lead gangster-take all our system and bend it to THEIR will- not the people's- not the law's! Our system is Great-THEY have bent it! We can build it back!
Donald Trump won't collapse the global economy, he will give it a hell of a shock though. However, he will collapse the US economy because other countries will simply find alternative suppliers and customers if this drags on.
Even if it doesn’t drag on, we are through. Would YOU trust us? Fuck no and we aren’t going to be able to ever recover. Fuck every single voter who put him in office, there will be no forgiveness.
Definitely not but it takes time to switch a countries supply chains and markets but, once they do, it's gone forever. Just as the US has seen with it's own outsourcing of production to places like Asia. Those jobs will NEVER return.
Craven collaborators in Congress made it possible by abdicating their Constitutional powers. No system can account for every possible scenario that grifters and collaborators may create.
No, it's not the system - it's the people. The system actually prevents one guy from collapsing the global economy through Congress. Unfortunately, the majority of the people in Congress are now an obedient cult willing to sell out their own power to that one guy.
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but still.
(Really, it's Congress in general that holds the power. But repubs hold majorities in both chambers.)
Trump is just the one pulling the lever. They could stop this at any time.
Give or take a few.
Unfortunately....
77 million people voted for a guy whose stated policy preferences would inevitably crash the global economy
They additionally elected 53 GOP Senators and 220 GOP Reps who could impeach and convict Trump at any time
Its an effort by the Executive and a majority of the Legislature
It's one guy propped up by a cult of populism. Populism is the problem.
This is why you can't populism your way out of it.
What kind of idiots would we have to be to all allow that to continue? If one ruler of one country can unilaterally topple the entire global economy that cannot be allowed to continue.
REPUBLICAN SENATE
and
REPUBLICAN HOUSE
and
SLY news
--have been backing him every step of the way.
World economies will be rethinking their dependence on USA.
Yeah, no shit
Is bummer to be one of the crash dummies.
Dead –
Balances are dead
That's Republicans!
GOP is also doing this
2/3 majority is for overriding a president's veto (refusal to sign) a piece of legislation passed by congress
They all must go.
The system could stop it.
Just a patchwork of fixes and work-arounds.
Seems like a good time to overthrow the rich.
It collapsed not with a bang but a brain fart
They could stop the madness in an instant, but chose not to!
I think the same thing about the internet… all it takes is one guy to hack a system and bring the whole thing down for everybody.
Blame the 1/10,000,000 who actually control things, not the millions of people who mostly just want to pay their bills.