The entire reason you curb the exercise of arbitrary power is it prevents one asshole's mood swings from wrecking an entire country! You don't praise it when it momentarily swings in your favor
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Sahil Kapur
Positive early Senate GOP reaction to Trump pausing his own tariffs:
“Terrific,” says Ted Cruz.
“Relieved “ says Ron Johnson.
“Great leadership,” says Eric Schmitt.
Susan Collins says it’s not enough and Congress needs to retake its power to impose tariffs from the executive.
“Terrific,” says Ted Cruz.
“Relieved “ says Ron Johnson.
“Great leadership,” says Eric Schmitt.
Susan Collins says it’s not enough and Congress needs to retake its power to impose tariffs from the executive.
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Beats the shit out of you but refrains from curb-stomping you today, so praise him for his restraint. Until the next beating.
Good gwad.
- every Congressional Republican
Let that one stew for a moment.
There needs to be a true purge of malign influence at the end of the failure that is the Trump experiment.
No loopholes, no wiggle room, nobody grandfathered in.
BY WHO?!
“I’m only going to kick us in the balls once & punch us really hard in the balls… instead of kicking us in the balls 4 times”
is not a pause on self ball-kicking.
No, kidding, the entire WORLD economy.
WHEN will Americans wake up???
They are eating the dicks!
They are eating the balls!
Cruz and the other assholes are fucking idiots and cowards.
My response:
He raised tariffs on all trading partners except Russia.
There has been no pause on tariffs.
He literally just said that there are 10% tariffs on most trading partners. Including ones which had free trade agreements in place with the US.
He just shit on the economy.
The damage his on again, off again tariff scheme is causing is incalculable.
Moreover, the back and forth has opened trading markets to rampant corruption.
Not good at all.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5355907/trump-tariffs-zanny-minton-beddoes
"See, that's why you are a genius" - Republican leadership who are happy with him holding a gun
We have a 145% tariff on China (that is already bankrupting & straining US small biz owners), 25% tariff on non-USMCA imports + tariffs on steel, energy, potash & a blanket 10% tariff on everyone / thing else on earth.
We're still losing. We are losers.