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9 hours ago, Okie State said:

Of course all of that. Somebody told him something though and he latched onto it. What was it?

His first bit of analysis here was that before income taxes, tariffs were a or the primary revenue source of the US Government.  So, more tariffs = no income tax.

Someone else told him that tariffs can also be used to incent domestic purchasing and manufacture.

That's about all the analysis he's ever done.

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2 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

My theory:

Trump does not buy stuff.  Most of our leaders don't.  If they want a hamburger they ask an aide and a hamburger appears.
Trump does know what he thinks his net worth is, and higher is better.

So, to Trump, having more money is the goal since he does nothing to get the stuff he actually uses.  Rounds of golf, transportation on a private 747, food, clothing, shelter.  He gets what he wants not by trading money for goods, but by asking someone else to make them appear.  If the person fails to make the goods appear, they are fired, which he enjoys doing, and he has a person that will make a new person appear who will attempt to make the goods he wants appear. And if they don't, he will fire them too, which he enjoys doing.

Along with many of our leaders, he is disconnected from the experience of the average American.

Yep.  And when it comes to actually spending money, like on one of his projects, he seems to be a colossal cheapskate, even though it's not his money.

No or less spending means Trump richer.  No consideration whatsoever for what the spending purchases or its value.  If he's spending, it means someone's getting over on him.  The zero-sum, transactional nature of that fucking guy.

That's why he loves licensing his name more than anything else.  He doesn't come out of pocket at all.

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I find it mind bottling how many bullshit statements by Trump and his minions (taken at their word as true) will be enough to pull up the market.

I mean, Trump was quoted saying, “80% tariff sounds about right”.    In what fucking world is most every Chinese made good being 80% more expensive a benefit to American families or our economy?  TEMU should have a tariff add-on to the spin wheel.   And yet, the markets will probably joyously react that it’s not 140%.  So bizarre.  

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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

I'm guessing Mr. Greer will be unemployed soon:

 

 

 

I can't prove it, obviously, but Trump I's USTR, Robert Lighthizer, had been a GOP trade guy for a long time.  Although he is by reputation a trade hawk, it seems he kept Navarro and some of Trump's worst instincts tamped down, like a lot of people in Trump I.

This guy was Lighthizer's number 2, which I guess means isn't the same guy but maybe close.  Fairly obviously, he didn't have Navarro and Trump tamped down.  He looks pretty young/junior to me.

Although I'm pretty sure I hate Bessent, the fact that he and this guy seem to be dominating the discussion these days may be a positive sign for the rationals.

That's one of the best posts I've ever seen from Empty wheel, though.  The clips of the legal briefs show that review of a president's declaration of emergency for tariff purposes may be unreviewable. 

Congress needs to get off its ass and take back tariff power ASAP.

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1 hour ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Evergreen

 

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Only beef I have with this pictjre is dolan’s pile is bigger in the 3rd panel than in the 1st. 

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37 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

the man is a complete idiot 

 

He is an idiot. But 65% of Americans only read up to stocks soar. So he is the biggest idiot in control of a large group of idiots. 

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I think we can all breathe a sigh of relief that everything we buy from China is now only 30% more expensive.   Thank God, Bezos and Elmo won’t have to pay those crippling taxes anymore.

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Eventually, a trade "deal" with china will be reached. Will it be "better" than before? Who the fuck knows. But what will happen is that in the meantime, lots of businesses will go out of business, lots of people will be laid off, and it will take a long time before the rest of the world trusts us again, if they ever do. 

But oligarchs will get richer. DoTARd thinks he is an oligarch. 

 

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2 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Tariffs have still increased, meaning the average citizen will pay more... but they have not increased enough 1) for any company to move manufacturing stateside or 2) to eliminate income taxes.

So, all of the downside without any of the (admittedly bullshit) upside.  ART OF THE DEAL!

An increase however small is not good, but regardless of how you think this gets to an endgame, 145% tariffs were gonna fucking blow shit up in a way no one was really prepared for. 

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8 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

Eventually, a trade "deal" with china will be reached. Will it be "better" than before? Who the fuck knows. But what will happen is that in the meantime, lots of businesses will go out of business, lots of people will be laid off, and it will take a long time before the rest of the world trusts us again, if they ever do. 

But oligarchs will get richer. DoTARd thinks he is an oligarch. 

 

People have short memories. A "trade deal" was reached in his first tenure, which lead to.....wait for it....increased costs and prices and didn't do shit for manufacturing in the US.

Trump is a rapist, felon, grifter fucking idiot who peddles his bullshit to his dipshit base who only know the lies they are feed in his bullshit tweets. America is fucking stupid.

 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/donald-trump-china-tariffs-trade-war-xi-jinping-video/

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5 minutes ago, immamac said:

An increase however small is not good, but regardless of how you think this gets to an endgame, 145% tariffs were gonna fucking blow shit up in a way no one was really prepared for. 

100%, but we shouldn't give him credit for taking steps to fight the fire he started... especially when there's still a fucking fire happening.

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4 minutes ago, immamac said:

An increase however small is not good, but regardless of how you think this gets to an endgame, 145% tariffs were gonna fucking blow shit up in a way no one was really prepared for. 

So it drops to 30% or whatever fucking number. Now he's being lauded for partly dousing a raging fire that he delibertately set. 

His dipshit base will sing his praises for being the fireman but conveniently forget that he was the fucking arson.

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19 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Tariffs have still increased, meaning the average citizen will pay more... but they have not increased enough 1) for any company to move manufacturing stateside or 2) to eliminate income taxes.

This.

Will tariff revenues be large enough to meaningfully offset income taxes?  NOPE.

Will tariffs be high enough to truly force companies to move meaningful volumes of manufacturing back to the US?   NOPE.

Will tariffs be high enough that John and Jane consumer will see additional price inflation on countless goods they offer, likely in the range of 10-30%, when we were told that 8% inflation at the height of the supply chain crisis was "the worst thing ever?"  YEP.

Nothing but losing, as far as the eye can see.

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So what about all the supposed money that’s been pouring in due to the massive tariffs? According to Leader Dotard anyway. Why does he want to put a stop to that?

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1 hour ago, Clintonaldo said:

You guys act like this is the end of it. He will get bored in a week or two and start this stupid shit all over again. 

this was more my point than saying anything he did was good. This is a retreat away from certain doom, there's no way he would have politically survived 145% tariffs it was a nuke with almost as much fallout and follow on effects as a real one that they got to defuse before it went off. 

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1 hour ago, Clintonaldo said:

You guys act like this is the end of it. He will get bored in a week or two and start this stupid shit all over again. 

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This a millions times over.  Tomorrow will just be another chaos grenade, another explosion, and chucking some dirt in the crater saying: 

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2 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

But oligarchs will get richer. DoTARd thinks he is an oligarch. 

 

Nope, this doesn't help them either

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And the market's up 3%, and Trump's hedge fund managers were out in front of it, again, guaranteed.

That's all this is really about.  Rich people are getting richer by cheating.  They don't actually give a shit if your Nikes cost 10% more at Walmart or not.  Hell, they don't give a shit if your feet fall off.

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7 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Hell, they don't give a shit if your feet fall off.

The ones who have the inside scoop on making and selling prosthetics care.

Everything comes back to one singularity: oligarchs with the inside track in this admin will profit.  It is exactly like the Russian system.

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