another thing that an opposition party might do is mention even once that the authority to impose tariffs belongs to the legislative branch but we don't have one of those so don't worry about it
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So true. And where are the Dems who should be hootin' and hollerin' about this? Where is everyone? And now Musk has taken control of the computer systems that hold information about who receives government grants! Geez!
If you again baselessly slander Democrats / Liberals like you've just done, especially without actually knowing WTF you're talking about; sowing partial or incomplete disinformation to slander Democrats, we will ALL BLOCK YOU. So "watch your tongue" and DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DIVIDE DEMOCRATS HERE AGAIN.
AND just so you know, everyone here has already identified and blocked multiple Russian trolls who are unjustifiably, baselessly slandering and accusing honorable Democrats for the Putin/Trump carnage. Dems are the ONLY org. who can defeat Putin's pet traitor Trump- Putin/Trump FEAR Liberals UNITING
This is why Trump declared a BS National Emergency: Presidential Discretionary Authority over Tariffs. Section 5(b) of Trading with the Enemy Act, Section 203 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act empower the President in a time of war or emergency to impose tariffs on imports= AUTOCRAT
Nah, the legislative branch gave the tariff power away. The trade expansion act gave the power to unilaterally enact tariffs for national security reasons. During his first term, there was noise about changing the law, but they never did.
My spideysense is that DOGE and the P2025 folks are all too happy to let 47 play his favorite game of “let’s make a deal” while they ride roughshod over our administrative state.
The Felon in Chief doesn’t seem to care about these things. He did this before with his EO’s, circumventing the legislative branch just to do what HE wanted. Now the Federalist Society is writing the EO’s and then, while on camera, they explain what he is signing. Pathetic excuse for a president.
True, but ONLY because USA voters were ignorant and misinformed enough to give corrupt, anti-American, lying Republicans full power in the House and Senate. If Dems had power, they could stop Putin's fascist lying anti-American traitor pig Trump.
Oh wow a speech, glad he learned in his decades in the senate on not how to do parliamentary obstruction while his colleagues showed him every fucking trick in the book.
oh its because X is a joke in the name of a fucking coup and nazi take over you fucking moron. Especially with the useless old fucks who ushered this shit in for decades. Glad to come to my ted talk of why you are a fucking moron.
It's no wonder this all too typical rhetoric and reasoning is part of how you genius political analysts have built a working class coalition of hundreds of bitter white guys.
Unfortunately not true. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) can be invoked to institute immediate tariffs. They may face scrutiny after-the-fact, but that law gives him the ability to do this without legislature or really ANY checks and balances.
remember George W. Bush when everyone was like, hey, why do Democrats keep letting the Republican president give himself new authoritarian powers, and they were giving him standing ovations and voting to support his policies near unanimously "bc 9/11"
seems kinda like there's a pattern of Democrats failing to function as an opposition party that has led down a straight path to a presidential pseudo-dictatorship
Congress stupidly delegated that power to the president decades ago. Of they could take it back if they wanted. But that's not going to be done by the opposition party.
FALSE...LEARN THE LAW REGARDING TARIFFS AND WHO HAS THE POWER TO ENACT THEM. This is why Trump declared a bogus National Emergency; which gives HIM the power to enact any tariffs.
Presidents have to ask for a line item allotment for each executive order. He's not doing that. Dems won't question him on it because they also like to embezzle cash.
The opposition party has come out and said they are going to allow things to go really wrong to teach a lesson to those who didn't vote for them. Ultimately so they can continue to remain right of center to make their donors happy and still win.
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Autocracy and going straight to Authoritarian rule.
Like pepsi and coke, fighting a mock war, but in reality the same shite sugar water, owned by the same people.
A: He didn't do X
B: He did X on this date
A: Oh, wow, only X, how pathetic
to be fair, sometimes we get
A: Too little too late
or other variations.
worthless, feckless enablers.
We need a new party to rise up