So when does it go down? When do Mike (Pence) and the Mechanics (cabinet) bring in a fake doctor to declare Trump mentally unfit for office and invoke the 25th?
Wouldn’t matter, I guess, as it still requires congressional approval and Putin’s got his right hand so far up the GOP’s ass he controls the movement of their lips.
I gotta admit, the evil angel on my one shoulder would love it if the idiot farmers and small shopkeepers in flyover country got fucked so badly by Trump’s trade war that it put them into bankruptcy.
Carl Icahn dumped millions of dollars worth of steel stocks last week.
Just sayin’.
EU threatens retaliatory tariffs on Harleys, bourbon, and American blue jeans if Trump’s tariffs go into affect.
Ha! Joke’s on them, all that shit is made in China.
And I suspect this is where many of the plutocratic Republicans (the ones not actually in Congress) may get off the Trump train. Maybe not all at once, but it may start happening. They’ve been holding their noses and smiling politely because he’s largely kept things in the economy stable and even passed a very nice tax break for them. But now his stink is starting to get on them in the form of unstable markets, and potential loss of revenue. He’s been the unsavory guest at the party who, heretofore, has merely been passing the occasional gas or telling an off-color story or twelve. But if he starts dropping deuces onto the dinner plates, it may be time to call security.
I hope you’re right, but I’m afraid the security company has assigned Godot to this detail. For over two years now, I’ve been fruitlessly hoping the Republicans in Congress would turn on Trump in sufficient quantity and with sufficient vigor to actually do something. Maybe Godot will show up this time, but if not today then surely he will tomorrow.
One of our Members sent an email to its customers that due to Loser Donnie’s tariffs, the price of their products will increase. They said that both the size and frequency of the price increases will likely accelerate.
What an amazing “coincidence”. :dubious:
They’re his people, his base, his Deplorables. At this point, they DESERVE it.
Wall Street Journal calls out the steel tariff as the worst mistake of Trump’s administration.
Same here. shudder
So far…
I suspect that this is when Trump is going to discover who’s the muppet in this relationship and who’s the hand. The Republican majority in Congress have been happy to let Trump spout nonsense while they quietly enact their real agenda for their donors. But once Trump tries to do something that the Republican special interests don’t approve of, he’s going to find out how little power he has to act on his own. Trump needs Congress a lot more than Congress needs Trump.
My speculation is this tariff will go nowhere. Congress can revise the laws that allow a President to impose tariffs by claiming a national security issue. Trump will back down and pretend he never said anything.
How does the President have this power. Seems like this should be Congress’s job.
This.
This is the problem with getting into trade wars (well, one of many): they’re unpredictable. I’d rather have rising energy prices and similar cost-push inflation than a trade war. Free trade is a sign that companies are largely operating in a climate of trust, with agreed-upon rules that all sides generally respect and with procedures to resolve disputes. They’re how people buy and sell goods across borders during times of economic and political stability. They engender cooperation.
Trade wars signal the opposite: a climate of discord and distrust. They’re what people do when there’s increased skepticism and they represent a political platform that advocates competition over cooperation. They can lead to bitter feelings that lead to more dramatic forms economic and political retaliation. This is not the first time we’ve had economic globalization. It existed in the late 1800 and early 1900s. It ended with Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination. And it ended for good when a young Austrian became Chancellor of Germany not 20 years later.
Surely this nomination can’t have a negatives, right?
“Fox, this is the hen house. Hens, this is your new chief of security.”
:rolleyes:
The AP story even notes:
Also, why does this story feel familiar?
The rather lengthy article describes many incidents of shady business dealings by Coastal, going back several years. Oh, and there was this:
And this:
You know… morons.
At this point, what we should all want is to keep armies out of the hands of a dangerous person.