Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
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No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
https://substack.com/redirect/ef44bd4a-aa18-4f4d-96ce-b998b0ae0ffe?j=eyJ1IjoiOXFvazUifQ.66PjpJMazCMarU8_j0dHKYI17HseOJUmZx2zPRUNoCs
Why? Because they watched how kings and despots used spending and taxes to control their subjects.
Our own revolution was spurred by the King’s use of heavy taxation of the colonies to punish our push for self governance.
The King’s message was simple: stop protesting and I’ll stop taxing.
He is using access to government funds to bully universities, law firms and state and local governments into loyalty pledges.
We're trying to get it back.
https://theplotagainstamerica.com/
The tariffs are Trump’s tool to erode that independence. Now, one by one, every industry or company will need to pledge loyalty to Trump in order to get sanctions relief.
But you should have stopped short of giving your Big Law buddies a pass.
I agree that they should be independent. You are telling us that they are not.
there’s balls on a belle
and there’s the aba
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=q26w2Wa-oJisJ1_r
Or is someone else telling him...
https://theplotagainstamerica.com
I don’t know how else to interpret the insanity. That it’s not ‘insanity’ but a calculated plan. Putin? This harms more than only US.
Trump may be immune, but no one else is. Why has no one stopped the Muskovites from doing more damage?
Explain why law firms can get manipulated the same way. Because they shouldn’t be receiving federal funds.
Someone or a group who has his ear knows.
The deficit year to year is bigger too.
Now using OUR money to bend the government to destroy people he doesn’t like! Unreal
But Flynn, Bannon and Vought do! As does Leo. All bad actors!!
https://theplotagainstamerica.com/
And lost his colonies.
But heads were retained on this go-round.
That's why King George kept his head, because he was literally a figurehead with no actual power.
https://www.idabwellscenter.net/our-core-exposition/
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/02/trade-with-penguins-places-10-tariff-on-uninhabited-antarctic-islands/
Hard to know whether you'd be monarchy or republic, but if it were the latter you'd have devised a better system than inflexibly and literally interpreting documents from the 1700s, pioneering though they were for their time.
More to your point, there’s not a day that dawns where I don’t consider how this enterprise would likely have been better had we just followed the model Australia and Canada used. Revolution can be vastly overrated.
https://www.idabwellscenter.net/our-core-exposition/
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How do you know a politician is lying?
His lips are moving.
George Washington caused a war and some of the colonists didn't want to pay their "fair share".
Washington, did however, want land in the Ohio country in spite of the Proclamation of 1763.
Plus, it’s stimulated some great historical discussion! I’m liking and reposting like a madman!!
My ancestors fought the American Revolution to get rid of kings and wannabe dictators…
Some of us seem to have forgotten that we did that.
So, Looks like imma need to load up the ol’ family musket again. 😕
At his core Trump is the worst sort of bully
This is Tax not Tariff
Trump’s Importation Tax
TIT
Is just a manifestation of the bully
It is bullying
Ask Roberts how it feels to know he may have facilitated the death of America?
From Wikipedia:
"In June 1628, England's Parliament passed the Petition of Right which among other measures, prohibited the use of taxes without its agreement."
Also (maybe) true. Lusting for his deserved spoils as righftul King of America, second of his name, Trump has recently commissioned a new (US made) iron throne for the Oval.
Some images have just now leaked.
The human centipede if GOP grifters will not.
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If Senator Murphy really cared to fight, he'd be calling for Schumer to step down.
JFC. 🙄
How do we get around the Bill that Mike Johnson has proposed to stop this insanity of tariffs?
as long as your ass is covered.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4L60BDkw9ms4VHuZoj6kph?si=SQbbK5FpTmyUJDUX9UgkLw&pi=RNbdgShnSOiJa
https://www.brittleviews.com/p/its-crackers-jerry
#PoliticalTheater #FakeMath #BrittleViews #bsky
1. Surround Self with Billionaires
2. Fire employees
3. Surrender to Putin
4. Abandon Allies
5. $5 Trillion in Tax Cuts for wealthy
6. Increase Debt by $5 Trillion
7. Raise sales taxes $600 Million annually
8. Cut Social Security
9. Slash Medicaid
10. Punish Disloyalty
The super complicated process for determining the actual amount of Trumps “reciprocal” tariffs is simply this:
Tariff % = Trade Deficit / GDP
I’m so glad they employed incredibly complicated economic analysis to be fair and balanced.
WHAT A BUNCH OF FUCKING MORONS!!
https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct.bsky.social/post/3lluxkmx7wc2m
Trump’s actions, decisions, rhetoric make it blatantly clear that he operates as a Kremlin asset. Whether he’s knowingly complicit or simply useful to Putin, end result is the same: Trump has consistently advanced Russian interests while undermining America’s global standing.
Tragically, it'll be the American everyday man who'll inevitably suffer the most, longterm - victim of their own demise.
https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/research/638199_A_Users_Guide_to_Restructuring_the_Global_Trading_System.pdf
It's super easy to manipulate one once you understand what drives them.
If not, why ask?
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#Tesla / #DOW Pump-and-Dump Thread: https://bsky.app/profile/idiokratie.bsky.social/post/3lk4jryeoes2u
And those public servants losing jobs & millions destroyed access to services?!
So tired of politicians.
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-03-theyre-not-tariffs-theyre-sanctions/
I heard that elections can be posptponed in a national emergency
And last night I heard people calling the trade issue a national emergency
Fool me once, shame on you - fool me twice...
Yarvin is a deadly enemy of Americans' health, lives & our Republic.
His goal of destroying our science & biomedicine will kill millions.
But only if we let him.
https://5calls.org/issue/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico/
We need your leadership in this fight. Keep fighting for us! We will do what we can to protest with you and support strong leadership.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/world/europe/russia-envoy-us-visit-trump-dmitriev.html
Trump's tariffs are the most expensive and masochistic the US has pursued in decades.
A very crude estimate of Trump's tariffs puts the projected loss at $20 trillion dollars, or well over $200,000 per family of four.
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He was a joke in the rarified NY real estate world. A bit player who puffed himself up at every opportunity.
It's now a tragedy the electorate was so taken by this conman.
It’s not like any of this is a surprise to any voter with more than 2 neurons.
Please don’t back down.
I hope all companies, banks etc don’t bend a knee which is what he wants. Then he will control everything
We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate.
https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/donald-trump-usa-rueckkehr-ins-weisse-haus-im-ticker-22-854403701512
Canadians aren't vacationing in USA nor buying US goods regardless of the tariffs.
look at Tesla, it is collapsing.
Let's say he gives you a waiver. You think Canada is going to? Cowards who ask will likely get hit harder by the rest of the world as a message.
He's put us all in an impossible situation.
https://youtu.be/NANQg6b06rY
But a small part of me wants the tariffs to rip. The only way MAGA understands a fwcking thing is for it to affect their lives.
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Early Russian revolutionaries (elites!) started by teaching their (they owned them!)
A PLAN.
To bring America & Americans to their knees,
to BREAK us by destroying our economic security, food security, and SOCIAL SECURITY.
FUKKK ALL OF THEM.
America BELONGS TO US.
#StrongerTogether
#RaiseYourVoice
DO YOUR FUCKING JOBS AND REVOKE HIS 'EMERGENCY' POWERS.
YOU ALONE HAVE TARRIFF AUTHORITY.
Tariffs are always about more than just money
Clearly those standing with Trump are compromised or corrupt.
These are not #ReaganRepublicans.
The day Trump, a lying draft Dodger insulted #JohnMccains Service to Our Country, should have been the day he lost all Republican support. And ppl like #LindseyGraham betrayed their friends & Our Country.
It would help me, to understand the formula.
Why? Because you don’t know them, and you could not determine them either in this very case.
Why? Because maybe you can determine it for a product but not a nation.
Dang!
The Christian fundamentalists
elected the anti-Christ President.
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The dead-letter-literal-interpretation of the Bible,
white nationalists, evangelical Christian fundamentalists
elected the Antichrist
that they have been warning about
for years,
their lord and savior Donald Trump.
The Christian fundamentalists
elected the anti-Christ President.
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Suggestion: The Dems need to be A LOT better with your messaging. This reporting on what we know to be happening, is BS. We know it’s Halle I g because we are going broke. I’m not a millionaire like you Chris.
Trump is modeling himself after Putin.
Take control of the Party.
Attack Democracy.
Muzzle the Press.
Break the Institutions.
Stifle dissent.
Attack and purge the Judiciary.
Make all financial transactions flow through him.
It's here.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
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
Absolute Incompetent Administration.
Absolutely no Accountability.
Absolute Worthless Twats.
Fight Fascism with everything you have.
Freedom, Liberty,
and Democracy will Prevail.
#Fight #Fascism
#Freedom #Liberty #Democracy
I KNOW they aren't that stupid but as you say, I'm reading lots of confused economists wondering why he would tank the excellent economy Joe Biden handed him.
Feature, not bug as the kids say.
Democats.
Also, Trump wants to see chaos bring social disorder so he can declare martial law. He wants riots.
They can't help it.
Same guy who “coordinated” J6 & same guy who coordinated his Pa “assassination” attempt.
Greatest intel op in history.
#FreeKilmer
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/supreme-court-analysis-trump-black-sites.htm
Using chaos as a weapon - demanding loyalty - rise as the saviour of the world.
Loosers are democratic values and democracy itself.
Methinks instead
Is another example of how our democracy has gaps in it that allowed to be abused until a statute is in place to specifically stop unintentional authority
POTUS can pretty easily start a war on his own though.
Just exercising right under International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977.
https://constitutioncenter.org/amp/blog/how-congress-delegates-its-tariff-powers-to-the-president
This is all discussed in the article I linked.
Under the Act, Congress reserved power to override POTUS emergency declaration by joint resolution by both chambers (simple majority).
https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909416/is-the-nerd-reich-taking-over-the-government
They’ll only have to buy a few Trump Crypto Meme Coins for a few $m for relief.
Nothing wrong with that, just normal way to do Gov business, not extortion at all.
The Mafia are fucking fuming they didn’t think of it.
Businesses work in BILLIONS not millions.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-27-2025?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3mow5y
Thanks for posting ❤️
The even shorter version for everyone in the back is coming. Chris Murphy wasn't writing for them. It was for us to explain to everyone else.
If I never ever see a TL:/DR or whatever the hell is it will be way too soon.