which basially means tariffs are to be imposed by Congress, not by the Regent. Unless, of course, they punt to the WH and give him blanket authority to manage tariffs.
The President is supposed to carry out (the “execute” in “Executive Branch”) the directives of Congress, suggest to them what they should tell him to do, and say “no, I don’ wanna dothat (unless you really, really insist)” (veto power). It was not intended to be top-down, the dissenters do not want it to be top-down, the proponents do want it to be top-down, and the precipitous change of sides every cycle promotes societal instability.
which reminded me that during Vietnam there was a meme (although the term hadn’t yet been invented) among the Right that the peace sign was the “Footprint of the Great American Chicken.” I wonder if the “mute inglorious Milton” who came up with the expression could have realized that someday it would literally be true.
Interestingly enough, it was originally the symbol for nuclear disarmament, as symbol combined the semaphore of “N” and “D” superimposed on each other. It originated in Britain.
It later was adopted as a general sign of peace internationally. I’ve heard it called a “crow’s foot” many times, never a “chicken’s foot”, which is funny because I was a conservative for a long time and consumed a lot of conservative media. Then again, this was long after the Vietnam War, so that meme may have died out before I was old enough to have heard of it.
The problem to show that Trump is a chicken is multifold. I suspect that he was bullied by his father and classmates. I mean, come on, he’s a worm.
But NOW with the power of the Presidency he may say ‘Oh yeah? I’ll show you’. No one will stop him. SCOTUS and Congress continue to examine their belly button lint, while a ‘man’ destroys the United States of America.
He’s taking credit for the core inflation rate being at its lowest in four years. And, of course, his believers are convinced that this means he’s right about everything economic.
I love the person trying to “correct” Cecil to say it was designed to represent B-52 bombers in Vietnam and Cambodia, despite the symbol predating those military actions by a number of years. Also, I don’t know why the British would have created it to protest American actions in SE Asia.