Oh, dear. I’ve been doing football wrong my whole life.
I’m the odd dude who sits there quietly watching the game, never getting too excited, clapping, and occasionally saying helpful things like, “get him!” or "there you go! "
“We’re going to bring up electronics too. Electronics. We buy everything away. When you see the sophistication of the product I just saw at this place. Electronics is peanuts”
“If you go back 70 years, our greatest country, greatest company by far was the United States steel”
“If you’d like to go here to let’s say Washington to look after we fix it up, make it safe again which will take approximately like quickly”
“If you steal $950 are less, they will leave you alone. We see criminals going into stores with little computer adding it up. They don’t get prosecuted above that. The only one who gets prosecuted is somebody talk about the unfair election”
“What would happen if we had a war? We won’t, with me. But you will have World War 3 I believe without me. But we won’t have. But what would happen if we did?”
“You know, they do polls on this stuff, and I’m at like 93%,” Trump said, referring to surveys that apparently exist in his imagination. “I said, ‘So why are we having an election? They didn’t have an election. Why are we having an election?’”
I would blame it on the following. While it is the case that the cost of higher tariffs in the end come from the consumer, they also aren’t good for the businesses on which they are imposed because with artificially high prices, they lose sales, which is why they are often used as a threat to compel behavior. Now Trump views all negotiations as zero sum games. One side wins the deal only if the other side loses, and vice versa. So if tariffs are bad for China they must be good for the US.
Except that both sides lose, if you’re just looking at the money issues.
One legitimate reason for using tariffs is to protect local industry against foreign competition, particularly for things that that are of critical importance to national defence. This is why there’s usually an exception for such things in the trade treaties. You can’t buy steel from China if you’re at war with them.
But that works by letting the national industries charge their customers more for the same product. Without the tariff, it would cost $X. With the tariffs, you choose between Chinese products at $1.2X, or American products at $1.15X. You still pay more as the consumer. A good idea if it really is critical, but still a drain on resources, and if not actually critical, that drain is compounded.
It should have been less than ten percent, and they should be voting while he was in prison. Your “less than fifty percent” is less of a brag and more of a major embarrassment.
The overwhelming majority of this board (at least) can remember when neither party did it by holding primaries.
And the number of times I’ve seen complaints that the Democratic Party should pick better candidates suggests that some folks wouldn’t mind going back to ‘smoke filled rooms’ and ‘party bosses’ selecting the candidate(s).