If headlines start taking about how impotent he looks maybe he'll take some action.

What is the legal recourse for defense against an authoritarian administrative state that is bent on targeting and persecuting any person or institution it perceives as an enemy, and taking retribution and increasing its targeting upon any who resist or challenge administrative penalties?

If I didn't realise it had all been planned by a very stable genius using third grade math, I might start to worry. #econsky

I think he just considers tariffs a great way to shift the burden of taxes onto the working classes so that he can reduce income taxes. So from his perspective it's working just fine. The clever part is that he was able to sell it to so many as though it was a free lunch. "China pays us".

Wonder if the SEC will be policing whether members of the administration short sold stock before this announcement tanked the market. Law and order? Corruption? ....

Tariffs = Taxes

In Australia solar and wind are now cheaper than coal. I wonder if the USA is close to that tipping point. Maybe in the southern states?

It's like they're in junior high school.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

Draining the swamp? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

Voters are fickle and easily manipulated. Democracy is really the worst system except for most of the others, like if you get a person the average voter thinks is really smart, and let him decide everything. Still, they won the election so they are entitled to screw everything up for a while.

Remember when you couldn't stand George W Bush? Well that ended. This will too. ... Hang in there!

Good thing the A Team has shown up to clarify.

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For too long the economy has been based on cheap undocumented labour while politicians wink and nod and demonize the undocumented labourers. We should either legalise this labour with proper visas and documentation or accept the higher costs of not having it.

Gosh. Have they reported on the billion dollar free media campaign being run to confuse voters and spread misinformation in his favour? Poor victim.

Australia has preferential voting so you can rank your choices and put Dutton last.

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Probably I'd just call them crybabies.