What the GOP and the Heritage foundation have set up to do is Basically Treason. They took an oath to defend the Constitution, Not a Dictator/King, and anyone that thinks what they are trying to do is OK, is Committing Treason Also...
He thinks he can, but I'm not so sure, outside of IT & Debt, the US does not export very much, in the places where PPL have a lot of disposable income imports from the US are not being purchased, Tesla is on the rack, and Canada will likely be substituting EU consumer goods imports for US ones...
Yes. As a Canadian I think the author is really understating the effect of the tariffs on the American economy and how wimpy Trump is. As soon as the market fell he backed down. He acts strong but hes weak he barely won.
Because he’s a bully and the cruelty is the point. Also he seems a little stupid and seems to believe his lies that tariffs would actually fix things (they won’t)
It's good to see The USA not having to act like a kicked cur hiding under the table ashamed of everything like we've been acting for years now. If Trump can get the illegals out and we can stop having our taxes stolen and given to the grifting politicians America will be great again.
For now, but hubris...America going it alone is not a wise long term strategy. Negotiating with someone who will never honour any trade agreement, change it at a whim, is a fool's errand. If it is always a WIN WIN for USA at the expense of other countries, you need an alternative economic plan.
He is trying to create a real free trade society. That could bring manufacturing back home to the US and every country instead of relying on countries that can work kids and ignore climate and pollution damaging practices just to make a product cheaper. A tariff for a tariff or none at all.
Yes. And I think what’s missing from the European perspective is that Trump is weak he has a slim majority and Americans have a no tolerance for stock market volatility
Because he is stupid bully and nothing else, his orange dye may be affecting his brain capacity to understand that tariffs kill the economy and raise inflation
I really think he’s taking shots at whoever hasn’t bent to his will, or has been known to publicly disagree with him. Just like a school bully keeping score.
It’s not even that he just enjoys the idea of the world bending to his will. That’s why he likes tariffs he could give a shit about the economic policy.
“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
Tariffs might look like tough talk, but they come at a cost—businesses and consumers end up footing the bill. Just because the U.S. can throw its weight around doesn’t mean it should.
He wants to use tariffs to offset the coming tax cuts for the wealthy. It’s a twofold strategy in that he can also use the tariffs to extort money out of the industries he is targeting. Social media companies don’t typically have tariff-able products so they pay in other ways.
Well technically he can’t act like this based on the constitution- the tariffs he is imposing are illegal even though he’s using the idea they respond to a national emergency as cover. And this article mentions considerations that can not form a legal basis for tariffs imposed by a president
Yes I think the author understated the effect on the American economy. Last time he instituted a steel and aluminum tariff it last a year because it was so unpopular.
Will this Felon ever stop holding up signed documents to the camera as though he did something momentous? It’s like a 4-year old holing up their first finger painting.
The orange clown forgets that California is one of the largest economies in the world!! What would happen if California decided to freeze their tax payments to the federal government?
On the plus side, the rest of the world is learning to coordinate in the absence of the US. For instance, Zelensky's increasingly popular idea of creating an EU Military.
The “tariff show” simply allows him to signal his true intentions. Zelenskyy is the last samurai. Every day, it becomes increasingly clear that Russia, the United States, China, and even India (Trump just said he’d “give” India F35s) are, one way or another, securing the vital territories they need.
Or rather, making a spectacle of trying to secure the territories they need, while failing. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and more, have all been examples of how the superpowers don't get things done.
Not this time. Greenland is gone. The boots are already on the ground. Just need to slowly increase the headcount. No Congress “approval” is needed. A “beautiful” operation, like Donnie would say, Crimea takeover deja vu. As for Canada, it will take a bit longer, but it will get there.
Vital...I'm glad you pointed that out...vital, as in essential, as in necessary, as in, if we don't get this for our people, they will rebel...and yes we are talking billions of people, always wanting more...
He might try to shove tariffs down their throats but I think he is going to find, as these countries band together, that they are going to shove tariffs up his 🫏.
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Why would FDI occur if there is uncertainty etc with regards to supply chain et al
By threatening close friends and allies, Trump is destroying the world’s trust in the US, isolating his country and emboldening its enemies.