They are not recycling “EV batteries” per se, but rather the standard lead-acid batteries every car has had since the electric starter was invented 100+ years ago.

Hummus, as in

GM and Ford will soon be another part of the Stellantis portfolio.

“The Hunger Games,” part IV.

Isn’t this part of the same 1960s-1970s stereotypes of the left being tax-and-spend and soft on crime?

Sadaam was horrible, but he didn’t have WMDs. We forget that from 1993 (Gulf War I) until the 2003 invasion we had no-fly zones over Iraq, patrolled by US forces. Hans Blix inspected weaponry on the ground almost non-stop. The idea that Iraq had weaponry we didn’t know about defied expectation.

Is this net outflows?

You don’t hide your face if you’re proud of what you do.

I’m not sure I understand from the clip how supply shock ends up in recession without also a price shock and / or shortages.

Sounds like a version of Amazon Prime to me.

The poor are wondering how anyone ever could afford two dolls let alone thirty.

If I were tasked with making sense, I'd argue that this is a "mortality per gram" calculation. The point is not that two-thirds of the US population would die, but that the amount of material seized is incredibly large. Of course, there are more artful ways of stating this.

If US exports are just 12 percent of China’s overall trade, don’t they just reassign those factories to other countries and continue as normal?

Won't good jobs in factories of the future require advanced degrees in engineering and computer science?

I guess in the plus side, carbon emissions should fall.

At least let me deduct the cost of tariffs.

This sort of treatment predates DOGE, of course. Over the years, I’ve had dealings with the IRS where I would wait on hold for hours, and then be abruptly hung up on with the message, “Our offices are now closed. Goodbye.” Sometimes trying on different days and hours helps.

We're in Princess Bride territory, never start a (land/trade) war in Asia.

If the hope is to replace the income tax with tariffs, is there any sense of how high they'd need to go? I seem to recall that income taxes bring in around $4-5 trillion, and the tariffs we have now are forecasted at $600 billion -- so maybe 8 times as high? Or higher to account for substitution?