Other side of the moat, French public broadcaster has been doing alright. I haven't dug into what they're putting out in writing, but they usually move beyond stenography. https://youtu.be/avEtMcELaPU
Trump imposed tariffs on 180 countries-including uninhabited places like the Heard and McDonald Islands, which have no population and zero exports to the U.S.
Yes, you read that right. We’re taxing nothing from no one.
& why is NO ONE saying this?
The US gov doesn't pay tariffs 2 ANY foreign country! The tariffs R paid by the IMPORTING COMPANY in the country that buys products from US companies!!!
(just like the companies in the US are who pay the tariffs R country places on products imported from other countries)
Oh, so you haven’t heard of the tariffs place on the US on guano from Heard Island and McDonald Island? Those “colonies of seals, penguins and other birds” are a threat to US guano production.
"Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the Decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type."
Outstanding analysis by James Surowiecki, especially on the fantasy that returning manufacturing enterprises to the US will boost jobs.
He notes that such industries are highly automated & generally low paid.
It’s a fascist platform, and musk aims to make it into the same nightmare social credit site as the ccp runs. Starve the beast, quit working for nazis. #BoycottX #DestroyX
These are New Tariffs- they are not on the World- Folks Americans will pay the extra costs and our gov will grow trillions richer on each tariff. The lower and middle class will bear the brunt of these taxes in addition to being sucked dry from property, income taxes, food- durable goods taxes. OMG!
The most fundamental responsibility of a journalist is NOT to blindly repeat false information just because it came out of the mouth of a powerful person.
Multiple NYT politics reporters (including the recent comparison of Trump's rambling to "James Joyce") got their start under Maureen Dowd in NYT opinion in questionable hiring according to everyone involved https://www.nytco.com/press/shawn-mccreesh-rejoins-the-times/
Their recent egregious sanewashing and just bad writing:
So now journalists are deciding what is true? Sorry, that is for the person on the other side of the story. And readers make a judgement based on the information. Journalists don’t pick a side.
Reporters aren’t responsible for the problems in your country. It’s the wannabe journalists that are all over the Internet. And right wing talk show hosts polluting minds of those unable to think for themselves.
How so? Reporters report. Columnists and editorial writers can call out liars. If a city editor, which I was in the stone ages, assigns a story, the expectation is the story is balanced. We didn’t run one source stories.
You know the “it’s raining,” one person says. “It’s not raining,” another says. So why doesn’t the reporter look out the window and say whether or not it’s raining. No, we report both sides and the reader can look out the window.
Not everything is a debate, not everything has 2 equal & balanced sides. There are objective truths out there. Just tell us, as readers can't and shouldn't need to make a judgment on every single topic or every alleged "debate." That's the dumbest thing to expect and has gotten us to where we are
And might I add, blind repetition of Trump's marketing phrase "Liberation Day" came out of the mouths of every single news outlet I tuned in to. Despicable, lazy, just plain dumb. Do they believe it makes them sound cool?
I must be a dinosaur. I thought reporters reported both sides of a story. Like I said, other sources can challenge the opinions of the one who is untruthful. The reporter doesn’t make that judgement.
Yeah, you seem to think journalists are supposed to write "choose your own adventure" books instead of being clear about what's factual and what's not.
I mean so many journalists are just photogenic stenographers. The actual journalists that investigate, get at the facts and do similar things are getting thin on the ground.
That's not the problem. The problem is they all have editors that will fire them if they speak the truth. They're all owned by Bezos and other billionaires.
I spoke with NPR reps about 10 years ago regarding misinformation they were broadcasting about frack/ “produced” water, and both who spoke with me indicated that decisions had been made to placate rather than challenge Big O&G and other powerful corporations. Why? Because they were afraid.
CNN had this gem "In most cases, Trump said the rates are “half” the tariff rate that the other countries and trading blocs charge the US.... It’s unclear precisely how the administration arrived at those numbers."
From James Surowiecki about the bogus “Tariffs charged to the USA” column in Trump’s chart: “So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.”
Here's what Paul Krugman has to say. "He’s making false claims about our trading partners — not sure in this case whether they’re lies, because he may be truly ignorant — that will both enrage them and make it very hard to back down."
The Lying King says tariffs are good for the economy!
But what he is doing is illegal that’s the homily!
The stock market is plummeting thanks to him!
The only one making money is Muskrat, The Lying King and their friends!
There is no way these are reciprocal. My best guess is that they averaged product specific tariffs from foreign countries to create their "discounted" "reciprocal" tariffs across product categories. Nonsensical & destructive. Targeting some of the poorest countries and hurting the poorest among us
Let’s ask the penguins in Antarctica who he slapped a 25% across the board import tariff onto today. There’s no people on their island so it may take some time for them to get back to us as they have to learn what technology is and how to work it before they can respond…
He doesn't care. He doesn't even seem to know that there is *already* an agency that collects tariffs. He wants to create a new one (efficiency!) to collect his special tariffs.
Personally, I think his main goal is break America. I believe he wants a market crash. I believe he & GOP want to be dictators over us and they need an avenue to get there.
I agree. And if you have any bank account that the IRS ever used, I would encourage people to close it/any tied to it, and open a new one. Or keep a balance you might be willing to lose. Plausible, criminal and another way to disenfranchise us. It'll be called "a mistake".
That's his goal. Trump is wanting to declare Martial Law. The power of martial law, once held to be nearly absolute, has few limitations. Civilians may not be tried by military tribunals as long as civilian courts are functional, but a military commander's authority is virtually unlimited.
10 years with more than 30,000 lies, and the media still takes what Trump says at face value. The story here first and foremost needs to be Trump's claims of huge tariffs are wildly dishonest. The US faces tariffs around 1 to 1.5%, less than it charges.
I posted my own response.
It’s a bit wordy but I get it.
There’s nothing, nothing “ reciprocal “ about this gouging of cost of living crisis against the American people. This was started by Trump against beloved allies who trade with us at a lower price to help us.
An intentional crisis by Trump .
The Trump admin is not doing tit-for-tat reciprocal tariffs on targeted items, but are instead applying blanket tariffs on the countries they perceive as having the largest trade deficits with the US.
This is the likely list of countries per CBS:
Has anyone explained how any of his actions are lawful?
Executive orders are not laws, or legislation, that’s the job of Congress, ask your Congress why they aren’t doing their job
There actually are some. Not everyone is fooled or will stay silent re: Trumps idiocy and new taxes on the people. Lawrence O'Donnell sp? Did a great piece last night.
Give it up. Legacy Media spent the past 10 years normalizing and sanewashing the First Felon. They gave him a free pass for every outrage while denigrating every Democratic accomplishment. They were complicit in his re-election. Now they are actively collaborating. American journalism is dead.
You can tell when Trump *learns* a new word: He repeats it frequently and yet, continues to use it improperly. Then send in the clowns to repeat his idiocy. He doesn’t even understand numbers - just uses them as superlatives. Of course he doesn’t know what reciprocal means in any context. Absolute 🤡
I thought Donald said he is calling them reciprocal tariffs bc he considers the our tariffs as a response to the unfair restrictions other countries place on us. (ex. Canada/milk) He then repeated the word “reciprocal” about 4x. It’s not accurate, but explains his reasoning. I guess.
Trump has No idea what words mean when he constantly uses them. He uses them to sound important, and because it makes him feel smart. If you were to ask him to explain reciprocal he would not be able to. He'd be stammering and stepping on his tongue. Hell he can't even pronounce Tesla right.
Wrong. The reasoning is to get "reciprocal" added to all discussion because it sounds like we're just doing to them what they're doing to us even though that's not what's happening. Blindly parroting reciprocal just gives them the messaging they want. Our "journalists" will mostly dutifully comply
I don’t know if anyone has said that. Possibly The View, believe it or not. They let it all out and Trump mentioned having them removed from airing. But they just keep it going!
true but even they don't mention that the additional tarrifs on China are on top of the current tarrifs - although KKK Leavitt might have been lying about that.....
Comments
https://youtu.be/avEtMcELaPU
Its never going to materialize since he just killed the global economy.
But the Cheeto-dusted dicktator is treating us like a fool. This won't end well for Americans.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-160453846
May 9, 2023: Jury -
LIABLE FOR SEXUAL ABUSE.
SEX OFFENDER!
Registered Or Not!
May 30, 2024: Jury -
GUILTY OF 34 FELONIES.
CONVICTED FELON!
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CONVICT!
Incarcerated Or Not!
Yes, you read that right. We’re taxing nothing from no one.
And the world is watching 🌓✨
https://substack.com/@shadowandlight1/note/p-160474075?r=32a29y&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-goes-crazy-on-trade
Krugman has a quick response
The US gov doesn't pay tariffs 2 ANY foreign country! The tariffs R paid by the IMPORTING COMPANY in the country that buys products from US companies!!!
(just like the companies in the US are who pay the tariffs R country places on products imported from other countries)
Make America Shitty Again! 🤦♂️
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/trump-tariffs-australia-uninhabited-heard-mcdonald-islands
Some businessman he is…
"Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the Decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type."
https://bsky.app/profile/dansinker.com/post/3llunnyfeoj2v
He notes that such industries are highly automated & generally low paid.
xcancel version and screenshot for those rightfully avoiding
That's just PR.
https://bsky.app/profile/idiokratie.bsky.social/post/3lhwr6ysvhi2r
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-power.html
Trump primer thread https://bsky.app/profile/idiokratie.bsky.social/post/3lfciagootr2q
Media literacy Thread: https://bsky.app/profile/idiokratie.bsky.social/post/3lg7dfrnufz22
https://www.nytco.com/press/shawn-mccreesh-rejoins-the-times/
Their recent egregious sanewashing and just bad writing:
Everybody working in media is trying to pay bills and the only people hiring are billionaires who love fascism.
The purpose of a machine is what it does.
“Economists were quick to dispute the validity of the tariffs Donald Trump imposed on countries around the world.”
That is how Trump’s bullshit can be called out but you certainly know that.
defund NPR; it is toast
I really should have said: local NPR is good, national is bad
someone explained to me that is cause Biden didn't get rid of the board of governors appointed by Trump in his 1st term
So at least they question the math!
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/04/02/business/liberation-day-trump-tariffs/index.html
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/557038/confusion-as-donald-trump-says-nz-has-a-20-percent-tariff-against-the-us
No need to investigate/report/interpret/describe
It's kinda pathetic 😕
He never learns. Anything.
https://bsky.app/profile/politico.eu/post/3llv2g7qjsk2j
https://bsky.app/profile/amyhoy.bsky.social/post/3lluo7jmsss2w
https://bsky.app/profile/darkglade.bsky.social/post/3llusjnb5ts22
But what he is doing is illegal that’s the homily!
The stock market is plummeting thanks to him!
The only one making money is Muskrat, The Lying King and their friends!
Too much trouble
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2025/04/02/heres-the-full-list-of-trumps-reciprocal-tariffs-announced-wednesday/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regulating-imports-with-a-reciprocal-tariff-to-rectify-trade-practices-that-contribute-to-large-and-persistent-annual-united-states-goods-trade-deficits/
Serious question.
"You wanna hear about the weather, big boy?"
So don’t be afraid. Stay angry. And channel your anger into action.
Seriously though, they used ChatGPT.
It’s a bit wordy but I get it.
There’s nothing, nothing “ reciprocal “ about this gouging of cost of living crisis against the American people. This was started by Trump against beloved allies who trade with us at a lower price to help us.
An intentional crisis by Trump .
This is the likely list of countries per CBS:
Executive orders are not laws, or legislation, that’s the job of Congress, ask your Congress why they aren’t doing their job
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/politics/fact-check-trump-tariffs-trade/index.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reciprocal-tariffs-trump-countries-2025/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/economy/reciprocal-tariff-math/index.html
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/557049/fact-check-donald-trump-s-false-claims-about-tariffs-and-trade