Trump’s surrogates went on TV this weekend to defend his disastrous tariffs—and it went exactly as you’d expect. Tim Miller takes on the most embarrassing appearances from Trump’s cabinet discussing the plan to “reset global trade.”
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Thanks for doing this wrap-up, Tim. It’s obvious that administration officials are only talking to people who live in Trumpist media bubbles because what they say is complete nonsense. Some further observations:
No Russia Tariffs – During the campaign I remember President Trump making a statement like “I have literally stopped wars with tariffs.” Of course, being Trump, there were never any details on that, but if President Trump did that (or believes he did that), then all the more reason for including tariffs and their magical war-stopping properties into the Russia-Ukraine negotiations. Unless tariffs on Ukraine were meant to make Russia retreat, in which case I would give that a down check as a negotiating tactic.
Treasury Secretary Bessent’s comment, “The markets are organic animals. And you never know what the reaction is going to be,” was as hilarious as it is untrue. I'm not a stock market guy or a finance wizard or even a biologist, but watching from the sidelines for the first two and being an "organic animal," it appears to me there are any number of stimuli that will produce completely predictable reactions on markets and organic animals alike ("If you cut us, do we not bleed?" “If you intentionally impose arbitrary draconian worldwide tariffs introducing phenomenal levels of business uncertainty, do we markets not fall?”). For weeks, they have been warning of pain coming from these tariffs and setting expectations about stock market losses, so apparently, someone other than Bessent seemed to know how the markets would react to this tariff news. No less an intellectual luminary than Vice President JD Vance was going around saying, "Well, the market losses were less than we thought," after Friday’s crash, so he had it figured out.
I have two more to share that are tangentially related:
Commerce Secretary Lutnick: To be fair, I misspeak on occasion, but I think I am pretty good at correcting myself. It seems Secretary Lutnick just doesn’t do that. Over the weekend I heard him say something along the lines of "We have a $36 trillion dollar deficit, why don't people understand that what we are doing is needed to address that..." No one called him on the difference between deficits and debt. Even if it were possible to run a $36T deficit, I guess we would all be freaking out quite a bit more, but it is bad enough as the National Debt, so let's not make it far worse.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: She started out comments the other day with “He [President Trump] was overwhelmingly elected by an overwhelming majority of the United States citizens to be our commander in chief and that’s what he’s been doing,” I realize Pam Bondi could care less about anyone who is not Republican, just as I realize she is not a mathematician, but as soon as I hear the words "overwhelmingly elected by an overwhelming majority" I stop listening because she is either lying right off the bat or she is too ignorant to understand that less than 50% is not an overwhelming amount of anything.
LOVED You nailed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The tariff disparity for Russia and Ukraine is telling. It's another way that Criminal Trump has tried to bully Ukraine into surrendering to Russia, like destroying USAID (which was giving Ukraine non-military aid). In every action Criminal Trump takes you can expect him to stick an extra dagger into Ukraine. Zelenskyy didn't help him corruptly find a way to attack Joe Biden, and Criminal Trump will never forget that.
Which reminds me, we need another long speech in the Senate. I don't expect 25 hours, but we should get a good 10 or 12 hours from someone, and I think they should educate their fellow Senators (and the American public) on the war in Ukraine. Start with the fact Russia and the U.S. guaranteed Ukraine secure borders in the Budapest Memorandum in the Nineties. Go over the crime of aggression Putin committed in invading Ukraine in 2014. Talk about the attacks on civilians, the kidnapping of Ukrainian children, the Russian rapes of men and women, the torture of captives, the murder of POWs, the destruction of property, the fouling of the land with toxic materials, the land mines, the clean up costs, the costs to Europe to house refugees.
And then follow that up by filing a bill to provide Ukraine another $50 billion or so for military aid this year. Put the Republicans on the defensive.
Ukraine is vastly more popular in the U.S. than Criminal Trump. Take advantage of that by doing the right thing.
I think it was Haitians they brought to Springfield, and that reminds me of another vicious inhumane action by the Criminal Trump people sending all those people home to be abused by their home countries--like they were before they came here for refuge.
But, once you get past that, the thing in this segment that's upsetting is a government official talking about screwing. It's just not done in polite society.
Apparently, no body bothered to tell Trump, "As ye sew so shall ye weep."
I don't like free trade and I don't like protectionism; what I like is managed trade.
We have been running an enormous trade deficit, the deficit that matters, for years. It sucks on the order of a half-trillion dollars a year out of our economy. We sell off assets or take loans against them to pay for that, and it runs up the cost of things like real estate, hurts funding for Social Security and Medicare, and depresses our employment levels.
My problem isn't with tariffs--it's with stupidity. It takes time (months, years) to build production capacity. A smart way to use a tariff is to identify an industry where we could reasonably produce goods and announce that in the future we will have a sensible tariff for that industry. This gives it time to build domestic production and hire U.S. workers for it, reducing the trade deficit.
Note that literally nothing in this sensible plan is happening here. Tariffs of maybe 5%, targeted to an industry in the future would encourage domestic production. The tariffs announced aren't sensible and are telegraphed. They are 10, 20, 50%. They are all over the place without regard to what can reasonably be produced in the U.S.
I'm not an economics professor. I'm not a hedge fund manager. But even I can see that what Criminal Trump is doing here is destructive. It's indefensible.
That's why clowns on TV can't defend it.
I actually like the idea of tariffs. I'm not too economically literate so I could still be totally wrong, but I wouldn't be opposed to using tariffs as a way to generate revenue, seems to me preferable to income taxes as a way to collect money. But it would have to be gradual, maybe raise tariffs a couple percent and see how it goes, don't just rip the economy a new asshole.
The problem with using tariffs to raise revenue is that they are a regressive tax. The people who pay most of them are poor people.
That's unfair, but it also hurts the economy. We need money flowing in the working part of the economy. This will drain money from that part of the economy.
Tariffs aren't necessarily bad. The way Criminal Trump is using them is. You can see my more extensive comment for details.
Also, why is Russia excluded but McDonald Islands aren’t? Clearly the penguins are dangerous strategic financial adversaries.
OR…
Or trump is PUTIN’s leather bitch sub and he already is going to get sooo much punishment for getting cheeky last week , saying that Putin had better agree to a cease fire… he is playing golf this weekend because he can’t sit down comfortably.
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Plain and simple, this is economic terrorism. At least it would be called that if a North Korean hacker caused it.
I'm here in Catania Sicily and EVERYONE here is worried about the il re arancione pazzo The Mad Orange King. Too bad the citizens of this planet could not vote since pazzo has impacted their lives as well!
Lutnick and Bessent in full-on Baghdad Bob mode lmfao
I believe, and I am sure it is coincidental, that T and family sold a substantial amount of stock the day before the tariff announcement. Again, I am sure it is completely unrelated.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/it-s-interesting-how-truth-social-moved-to-sell-stock-right-before-trump-s-tariffs-were-announced/ar-AA1CfipA
I don't want those assholes reordering my cutlery. Global trade order? *Snort.*
They were pathetic.
Tim I have listened to you for years and so appreciate your insights. But, honestly, you had me belly laughing multiple times with this post. And I so appreciated/needed it. Thank you. You are brilliant.
Tim, they knew what the market would do. I bet if you could check, you would find that they shorted the market OR had already moved to cash/gold. They are just trying to justify to MAGA moron base why their orange King just wiped out trillions of US wealth!!!!
Hard to be an engineer if you do NOT believe in math & science! On the other hand, if they get rid of education, menial factory jobs & picking veggies might be the only things Americans are qualified for in the future!!!
Did the interviewer ever ask about the Ukraine tariffs or did he “play” dumb on that question?
That doesn't make them brilliant. I knew what the market would do as soon as Criminal Trump was announced the winner last year. I told my broker what I expected as I was selling off market-related assets.
The lies continue from this administration
Trump made his announcement with a veritable smorgasbord of lies.
Brook wants everybody to raise their own chickens in their backyard...which is cool
Put them on your apartment balcony, just make sure you have chicken wire to keep them from falling off.
We will all need victory gardens, as well. Although I guess we should call them Liberation Gardens this time around?
Cheaper than Ozempic
You left out when Nutlick said the Penguins were tariffed because they might be used as middlemen
Penguins are great fishers, and I'm sure Criminal Trump didn't want them to compete with our domestic fishing industry.
Lutnick sounds like Billie Mays hawking Oxy Clean....no dis respect to Billie
Lutnick understands merely how to generate vast sums of money for doing no manly:) work; he knows how to extract rents from Wall Street. And speaking of “unmanly,” it’s just sad to watch formerly respected corporate leaders bend the knee (or don the knee pads, more accurately) to defend Trump’s tariff lunacy. At any rate, in November Lutnick stated as follows: “When you are running for office, you make broad statements so people understand you. … But he understands, don’t tariff stuff we don’t make.” Oh really (you moronic cuck)? That’s not what your Orange O-Ring has been saying, and is certainly not what he has done.
Cantnor Fitzgerald lost several people on 9/11. They were written about in a way that made me care about them and believe they had decent leadership. Seeing Lutnick is disheartening and stunning in his idiocy and lack of any sense of reality. (His SS example about his mother and fraudsters. Good grief!!!)
On further reflection, it makes sense that Bessnet is talking about how impressive it was that the markets could handle the trading on Wall Street, Friday. If you read about any of the mass hirings, it seems that hardly anyone knows if they are still employed and then rehired and certainly not their supervisors. So perhaps Bessnet is comparing the efficiency of the market versus their ineptitude.
Really, while there were I think 90sh countries on the tarriff list, it really doesn't take but a few eyes reading over the list to realize that a couple of these countries they had never heard of so perhaps, they should double check the list for accuracy.
Musicals come to mind: when I feel someone struggling to express themselves. That’s The Agriculure in Chief trying to explain away.
And- Penguin Lessons. Please watch.
Also, tip every usher, buy every box of Popcorn, clean up after yourself, because no one is there for the money.
Today's Lessons in Epic Stupidity are once again cogently framed and explained as to why they are preposterous by our expert teacher, Tim Miller! Thank you, Tim. It's hard to pick a winner today. Truly, we go from out-of-bounds stupid to stupid outside the stratosphere. Hard to know how we'll get out of this mess.
47% on Madagascar, are you f#&king kidding; I couldn't afford vanilla extract before the tariffs. Got to laugh to keep from crying
This was an awesome show. They really are morons!
What is most ridiculous and just mendacious about Lutnick's reference to an "army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws" coming to the US is that the captains of industry have been enthusiastically and mercilessly eliminating exactly those kinds of jobs for several decades now, along with cashiers, bank tellers, customer service reps and anything else that can be automated. Now they're revving up to make even more jobs obsolete with the implementation of AI. And the Republican Party is their stalwart cheering section.
Who the fuck did Brooke Rollins work with before if the Trump administration has the smartest people she has ever worked with? Earthworms?
Maybe Nutlick’s mother can give up her social security benefits to go work in a factory screwing in screws.
It's funny, but the truth is this is what they want. The gilded age is not a joke . . . they think it was a great time when the robber barons and bosses could exploit workers, including children, in their factories and coal mines, force them to buy things at company stores, have no safety and labor laws, etc. That's where they want to go.
Bahahahahha!
Tim, I love your videos and articles on Substack. You have become one of the top two political pundits I go to daily to find out what has become my life’s obsession over the past 10 years. Being retired gives me even more time to indulge in politics. If you are wondering who else is on my top two list, it is Rachel Maddow. I think it was probably MSNBC where I first started paying attention to you and lead me to The Bulwark. I have always been a Democrat since my first vote for Jimmy Carter. I am sure that was the result of taking Civics in my senior year of parochial high school when every day was practical application of subject during The Watergate Scandal/ Investigation. Both my parents were lifelong Republicans and I can remember them making excuses for Nixon. At least by 2017 they had come to respect my opinions and both left their party. My dad went Democrat, I think for my step-mother and I, while my mother went Independent, which I also think about doing when my party does stupid things! I guess it is why I cannot hold a grudge against all Republicans, and respect quite a few more than some Democrats. But I wanted you to know, for whatever it’s worth, how highly I hold you in regard and share you with like minded people. I am hoping to see you in person on stage sometime. It would be as big a thrill as when I got to hear Liz Cheney, Elizabeth Warren, or Jamie Raskin speak in person (Jamie just yesterday 4/5/25 at the Washington Monument). Better even than Seeing the Rollings Stones and Pink! This last year. That should convince you how old I am. Keep up the great work, your husband and daughter should be extremely proud of you. You help me keep on keeping on!
The New York stock market had electricity. 🎉🎉
The “people working on this are *serious, intentional and patriotic*”? I’m glad she said that, especially the “intentional” part. So they’re intentionally raising taxes substantially on the consumer? Excellent. I’m sure “Joe Sixpack” (thanks, Sarah!) really appreciates that. (Although, Joe needs a serious reality check and this is it.) It will all work out in the long run, they say? Well, “In the long run we’re all dead.”
Heh heh heh Tim I heard you slip in an extra Nutlick there, accidentally on purpose of course. 😂
I know Lutnick sounds crazy, but if you read Yarvin, that is in fact the plan: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/how-to-govern-the-libs
The fact that Vance, Musk, and the tech bros know him well makes you wonder if all those new factories they are talking about building as we bring manufacturing back to the US, are in fact for us. Terrifying.
So, I guess George didnt have access to the same information that Tim had, so of course he could not ask a follow up question. Tim has access to secret internets.
Definitely not a fan of tariffs, but if we've been getting ripped off by the penguins, then those little bastards deserve it. Who knew?
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I dunno, when my university job goes away, I can screw in little screws on iPhones.
Beta males, a disgrace to free markets/free trade.
Why isn't every republican in the house and senate being confronted by journalists demanding answers and justification not just to the market but what is the plan when the US is no longer the world currency - what happens to average family when china demands the deficit be paid? There is so much more than the market
Nutlick 😂
Where's the contempt for Peter Navarro? He's in on the beautiful tariffs. Peter Navarro of the Green Bay Sweep. Back in first T admin, I watched MSNBC every day, and watched him, with extravagant hand gestures, explain the Green Bay Sweep, which was an effort to overturn the 20 election. He's a true believer with a mighty high opinion of himself, who of course dwells in the maga delusion den 4 stories under the ground. Worthy of a 9+ contempt score.
What if Trump is just trying to help big businesses crush small businesses by driving them out of business. Small businesses will always struggle to take this economic hit. But large ones while damaged are probably far more likely to survive
I for one am immensely grateful to Trump for getting even with Lesotho, they have been ripping us off for YEARS and must be punished!
Diamonds are now twice as costly.
I would recommend cubic zirconia but..... unfortunately a lot of that comes from China and Thailand, sorry
I have inner bling.
These people didn't know there would be questions when they went on TV? They seemed dumbfounded.
You're right they are all horrible and they must think we're all idiots to believe what they're saying.
and probably 50% of the electorate does believe them.
“ The fact that the market crashed this week was a reflection of the fact that the market overestimated Trump.”
Overestimated his intelligence? Underestimated his stupidity? Or maybe his desire to show just what an asshole he is? Any would have probably given us the same result.
And I could have told people that the market would crash given the tariffs. The guy is a real cult member.
FWIW, my grandfather worked with a guy 3 of whose kids went to Texas A&M, then all moved to Corpus Christi (not really know for ag, and they weren't military either).
I shouldn't talk. At least a dozen of my high school classmates went to Cal Poly SLO. If you don't think there were cracks about the 'slow kids' you need a better imagination.
Dear Bulwark. These headlines sound like the fucking Enquirer wrote this shit. I love you guys dearly. Scale back on the click bait headlines. It’s what made yall different and trustworthy. Please.
It’s not yet a plan but it is in the concept stage?
'Screwing in little screws' drew many funny comments on Bluesky - the more these guys speak in public the more support for the resistance. Perhaps these are the jobs planned for children in red states (14 year olds in Florida).
Yep, we’re bringing back all the jobs that pay poorly, require little training or education, and are repetitive and monotonous. Woo hoo!
Man. I was a first generation college student and I was so relieved and happy to escape the factory town where I grew up.
I’m all for good jobs that pay well and allow people to provide for their families without an advanced degree. But when I look at the attacks on higher education, research, and public health, I see a very different goal for our country: factory jobs for everyone except for our billionaire oligarchs.
Higher education is correlated with voting Democratic. I think that’s one reason they’re trying to put it out of reach of all but the most wealthy.
"I love the poorly educated!"
Exactly! Those are the people who vote for me (Not that poorly educated people can’t have critical thinking skills, but it is a talent that can be taught- - or at least honed - by education.
There is no one more repulsive than Lutnick but Bessent and Hassett give him good competition.
Luttnick- master Shmuck! Always pontificating his false premises with a a sneer on his face.
I love how nutlick (the best) doesn’t talk about where or how the factories will magically appear. If they were serious they would be subsiding the sectors they want to come back to the US. I’m beginning to believe the conspiracy this is all so the billionaires can buy up everything cheap.
Thanks so much for this, Tim!!!
What a shmuck!! Market volume that evaporated!
One of the best signs reported at yesterday’s HANDS OFF demonstrations were the ones that said, “IKEA has a Better Cabinet”.
I like “Trump doesn’t have a Cabinet. He has a junk drawer.”
Great point about Ukraine getting hit with tariffs, Tim. Why didn’t George Stephanopoulos make the same point? Would it be so hard for his staff to maybe look up the obvious before the interview?
MSM just has a "gotcha" question lined up for these interviews.
Trump's minions just talk over the host or BS their way through and they've done their job. It's just a waste of our time and attention.
Aggie that explains a lot.
A student from Texas A&M, a student from The University of Texas, and a pig were in the hospital waiting room, each awaiting the birth of his firstborn. Suddenly, the lights went out. Fortunately, power was restored shortly thereafter and the head nurse made her way to the waiting room.
"Good news and bad news, gentlemen and pig," she announced. "Despite the electrical outage, two healthy young boys and one healthy piglet have been delivered. "However, since the lights went out at the most inopportune time, we aren't sure which firstborn belongs to whom. The only way we know to resolve the problem is to draw straws and have the winner choose first."
The three proud papas agreed, and the Longhorn won the drawing. He was escorted into the delivery room and looked at the three newborns for a painstakingly long time. Finally, with head bowed, he scooped up the piglet and headed for the door.
"Sir, are you quite certain that you've made the right choice?" the nurse asked.
"No, I'm not," replied the Longhorn. "But I just couldn't take the chance of choosing the Aggie."
I apologize to any Aggies who may be reading, but I would note almost every Aggie joke I’ve heard over the course of my life has Ben Tod me by a former Aggie.
Trump turns everyone who works for him into Bagdad Bob.
Disagree. They underestimated his stupidity.
They are trying so hard to give Trump-approved answers that they are knowingly making themselves look like (or they are) total idiots.
Next week Trump is going to make them all do these interviews while wearing his underwear on their heads.
Ukraine got tariffs. So not going after Russia has nothing to do with the conflict. That is crap.
Nah. It just means that Putin can't walk and chew gum at the same time.
I think I can make some sense out of this. We tarrifed the Penguin islands so that we could make it too expensive to live there. THEN we invade Greenland, which has no penguins, and we drive the Greenlanders to Canada (which we will later also invade, but wait on that), and we repopulate Greenland with penguins. We THEN create a thriving tourist industry on Greenland, which is much closer and more convenient to get to than Antarctica, where people go to see penguins and play golf at Trump's new chain of Melting Always Glaciers Away (MAGA) resorts.
Get it now libtards?
Folks, if the plan is to RESET GLOBAL TRADE that can ONLY HAPPEN if we, (you know, the fat, stupid, lazy American's who cost too much and like to buy cheap stuff) essentially flatten ourselves to the level of the rest of the world. To do this, we have to work for less, work for longer, and have less stuff.
I've been involved in manufacturing for well over 30 years. Nearly the entirety of my professional career has been adapting to the changes wrought by outsourcing to Asia (mostly China). In nearly every case, it was adapt to this reality or die (well, lose you job, which is tantamount to dying professionally). When Trump did his first round of tariffs, I spent years attempting to coax vendors to build plants in Mexico or the US. It took years and a few built Mexico plants, but most went to places like Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia. When they built new factories, even in these low wage countries, there was still a significant emphasis on automation. They were not hiring thousands or hundreds, they were hiring tens of people and building automated production lines.
While I'd love to see more manufacturing stateside, I just don't see it happening. Much as they do elsewhere in the world, it would be heavily automated (there would not be thousands of people turning little screws). Meanwhile, I can hire 10 to 12 design engineers in Taiwan for the cost of my mid-level engineering salary. They work longer and are more focused than your typical American engineer who's watching Twitch everyday at their desk. You think an American engineer is going to work for $10K a year? Nope! Forget finding folks who are willing to turn a screw for 8 hours a day, 6 days a week. I've watched as production facilities be set up in communities with high unemployment struggle to find workers. Immigrants will show up to do the work eventually, but I've heard many stories of locals showing up for a couple weeks, getting their first pay check, and then disappearing.
Yeah but they're eating the cats. They're eating the dogs. Of the people who live there.
Far from talking Trump off the ledge, Bessent is badly performing talking points that anyone outside North Korea knows is bull puckey.
Occam's razor: he is a moron.
Florida is getting a jump on screwing in the little screws, they are allowing child labor again, little fingers will be faster on the tiny screws.
Nutlick - LOL!
yeah I gotta admit I'm a child and I giggled
He and his cronies bought low everytime the market tanked when he put tarriffs on. Then when he says a few days later, "just kidding" and the market soars they sell at a profit. Insider trading. Very illegal.
Henceforth, he shall be known as Nutlick.
Uh, yeah... The only humans that would be willing to "screw little screws into iPhones" for work would be IMMIGRANTS. Oops
I could make a joke about screwing and Melania and immigrants doing a job that no American would do. But I won’t.
Why not? We need all of the laughs we can get.
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The fact that Hassett has a seat at the table just proves the intellectual bankruptcy of Republican economic ideas.
RE: Bessent's ridiculous "but then...on the other hand..."
1. While it is true that the markets are organic and respond to external events; unlike the Treasury Sec'y, the markets do know how to respond to anti-market capricious policies.
2. As a former institutional investments executive working with mutual fund portfolio managers to craft content for both lay public investors and seasoned asset manager pro audiences, I have never heard such absurdity as to cite the extremely high volume of trading as a mark of great market conditions.
I'd have more respect for this douche if he didn't condescend by saying the markets are great becuase they could handle the sheer magnitude of sales.
"America...what a country!"
I admire the efficiency with which my retirement was stolen!
Funny...but tragically sad!😭
Sometimes humor is the rock bottom of my coping bag of tricks. This is surreal.
I tuned into the interview this morning. When I heard him say that, I turned off the radio. You can't even call that misdirection it was so bad.
I immediately thought "What have they done?"
He’s hoping that we’re all too stupid to know what tariffs would do to a market and what typical order flow should look like.
The irony of these tariffs are they are essentially a global DEI program for MAGA Morons who can't compete for jobs in a historically favorable job market for US workers.
Since there are a bunch of entitled idiots who want high-paying, low-skilled manufacturing jobs, we are crippling the merit based global market for an MEI (MAGA Equity and Inclusion) based global market.
Exactly.
I try hard NOT to call them stupid, but racists/ sexists are because that's their cop out of their own incompetence, so they will swallow any MAGA delusion.
Yo, brother Hassett better stay on the White House grounds. If he nerd wanders the mean streets of D.C., he’s gonna get rolled, and lose that fancy watch, and them gold plated Ben Franklin glasses he’s sportin (poorly).
As for Howard NutLick, he’s talkin so crazy he must be lapping up the 12 cases of bourbon that Peter Navarro forgot he stashed in the White House pantry back in 2020!!!
Where do I sign up for the screwing? Oh, wait, I already am! SCREWED, that is!
Thanks, I needed that.
Oh jeez. Kevin Hassett is the comic book guy that JVL wrote about right?
Hassett is the guy who wrote Dow 36,000 right before the dot com bubble burst and the Dow crashed from 12,000
A lawyer friend tells me a more 'supportable' reason for Russia being left off is that due to existing sanctions, a BIS license would be required from Treasury to implement. Why do I have better excuses than the cabinet? Incompetence!
I would have lied with "sanctions," too. These fucks are bad at everything.
“Markets are organic animals and we never know what a response will be. “ Scott Bessent. Uhh we all knew Scotty. This is why they try this tariff crap every 100 years and we haven’t tried this since 1930. Tariffs have a place in the economy but this isn’t how you apply them.
Yes, tariffs can be effective if carefully targeted. I don't think many people remember the 1983 tariff that saved Harley-Davidson.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_motorcycle_tariff
I’m telling you all right now,, these billionaires are intentionally crashing our economy to get a recession in order to enrich themselves. They’re banking (no pun intended) on businesses losing their buildings so they can scoop them up, buying market shares that are short, hoping the real estate market crashes, all to cash in for themselves. This is bloody sickening 😡
Right on point! And in addition, they can bring the entire general population to their financial knees, and those who still have work too afraid of getting fired to complain or ask for living wages. Disenfranchisement of vulnerable groups (women included) of SAVE Act (failed in 2024 118th Congress) passes 2025 119th Congress will help push Project 2025 objectives further.
It’s also to make us more pliant and willing to cede our rights to a strongman. Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel have said as much.
Agreed 💯! It’s a malevolent scheme to transfer, what wealth we have, into the hands of billionaires! People with no resources have very little power to fight back. It’s all to bring the masses to their knees and he and his cronies will decide who survives. While we have some power left we must yank these theives out of the White House! You fight a coup with a coup!
How many times do we have to scream this? Why are professional journalists and analysts continuing to call Trump peeps dumb, making mistakes etc. THIS IS INTENTIONAL. The plan. Project 2025, it all ties together.
I can't help but agree. These people cannot possibly be so economically illiterate that they buy all this.
They also want to count any tariff revenue as an offset for their tax cuts coming down the pike so it's siphoned over to them.
Yup. It’s a shell game. “Where’s the money now?”
I’ve said this before, but the Cantor Fitzgerald employees must be glad to never be stuck riding next to Lutnick in an elevator anymore.
??? I hope you're not being tasteless. On 09/11, Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 people from the top of the WTC. Seen the pics of the people jumping out of the Towers? Yeah. Nuttlick wasn't downtown that Tuesday.
My comment was based solely on how unsavory an experience it must be to have to be physically in the presence of anyone that loathsome, especially in an enclosed space.
I thought as much.
I think it’s you being tasteless here. Of course that wasn’t a tacit reference to 9/11, come on.
Hence my opening question marks of disbelief. There are crass among us on here, too.
I have very few sand lines, one of which is 9/11 metooness. Nutlick was always on the wrong side of it and, now, his utter lack of character demonstrates why.
I mean if you studied Ag, maybe you should know that penguins don’t have jobs or wallets? 🤷🏻♀️
But penguins apparently ARE gender fluid according to a children’s book, so Tariff Away!
The Trump surrogates are like people who ask,"other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
Would love JVL’s take on the NYT giving Douthat his own long form interview podcast
I’d rather drink bleach than listen to that pontificating douchebag. I’m still boiling from that time he was on the pod with Tim after Roe fell, and he was mulling over whether that was a fair tradeoff for the damage Trump caused to society. Spoiler alert: yes, praise Jesus. 🤯