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59 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

They slapped a tariff on heavily-accented call center workers that need access to your computer to remove dangerous malware?

What's going to happened to Bob and Jim?

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3 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

SCOTUS will issue an unsigned overruling by sundown.

This.  The same SC that said Biden didn't have the authority to forgive student loans will say Trump has 100% authority to do whatever he wants.  They've already done this on other issues.

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12 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

SCOTUS will issue an unsigned overruling by sundown.

 

11 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Yea why does anyone think this matters? Everything he does is illegal. He just says “make me” and then continues.

The NYT alert I just got says they can remain in place, despite being illegal. Because we live in fucking loony toons land. 

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2 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

 

The NYT alert I just got says they can remain in place, despite being illegal. Because we live in fucking loony toons land. 

This is my shocked face

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1 hour ago, hobbes2702 said:

Yea why does anyone think this matters? Everything he does is illegal. He just says “make me” and then continues.

And now we know the real reason the National Guard is already deployed in DC, and about to occupy major cities. 

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Love that the Admin's argument is going to be that if SCOTUS eliminates the tariffs, it will cost the US govt billions and billions to refund the tariff money. Yeah, MF. that's what happens when you enact an illegal tax/tariff knowing that it is most likely illegal. The refund amount isn't the problem of the courts.

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-26/trump-100pc-tariff-on-drugs-us-politics-/105820198?future=true&

 

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The United States will impose a 100 per cent tariff on imports of branded or patented pharmaceutical products from October 1, unless a pharmaceutical company is building a manufacturing plant in the US, President Donald Trump said on Thursday.

"There will, therefore, be no Tariff on these pharmaceutical products if construction has started," Trump said on Truth Social.

Pharmaceutical drugs imported to the US were already slapped with a 25 per cent tariff in May.

 

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The US president said the new tariff on any branded or patented pharmaceutical product would apply to all imports unless the company had already broken ground on a manufacturing plant in the United States.

In July, Mr Trump threatened to hit drug manufacturers with a tariff as high as 200 per cent if they did not move manufacturing to the US. 

 

 

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I remember when several polls came out  during the Biden administration that most Americans thought it was wrong to use the justice department to go after political foes. Wonder what that same poll would say now. 

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Jore called this feeling of concern for the wellbeing of the agricultural economy “deja vu.” 

 

During Trump’s first administration, U.S. farmers lost $27 billion in agricultural exports between mid-2018 and 2019 as a result of a trade war with China, according to a 2022 report from the USDA. During that same period, the U.S. market share of Chinese soybean imports plummeted to a 30-year low of 19%, the ASA reported. Brazil’s market share reached its peak of 75%. Years later, U.S. soybean farmers have yet to fully recover, Todd Main, the director of market development at the Illinois Soybean Association, told Fortune.

 

“The takeaway that we have from the data of the last time we did this is that the U.S. lost about 20% of our market share, and it never came back,” Main said.

https://fortune.com/2025/09/25/the-frustration-is-overwhelming-soybean-farmers-feel-betrayed-as-argentina-blows-a-hole-in-rural-americas-47-billion-soybean-bonanza/

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China no longer buying American soybeans. They haven't bought any since May. Brazil and Argentina all too happy to pick up the slack.  A key GOP voting bloc, soybean farmers, is learning what tariffs are going to do to them right before the 2026 midterms.  

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/28/soybeans-sacrificed-in-trumps-china-gamble-00583232


Tariffs crushing small liquor stores in the U.S., as well as wineries and whiskey producers.  American whiskey producers are seeing far less demand for their product in China, Japan and Europe because those folks are voting with their pocketbooks. 


https://reason.com/2025/09/27/tariffs-are-starting-to-crush-americas-small-liquor-businesses




 

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29 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

China no longer buying American soybeans. They haven't bought any since May. Brazil and Argentina all too happy to pick up the slack.  A key GOP voting bloc, soybean farmers, is learning what tariffs are going to do to them right before the 2026 midterms.  

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/28/soybeans-sacrificed-in-trumps-china-gamble-00583232


Tariffs crushing small liquor stores in the U.S., as well as wineries and whiskey producers.  American whiskey producers are seeing far less demand for their product in China, Japan and Europe because those folks are voting with their pocketbooks. 


https://reason.com/2025/09/27/tariffs-are-starting-to-crush-americas-small-liquor-businesses




 

Don't worry.  The regime will just flat-out gift those farmers tax dollars to make up for buttfucking them.  Because, you know....party of fiscal responsibility, right fellas?

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1 hour ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

China no longer buying American soybeans. They haven't bought any since May. Brazil and Argentina all too happy to pick up the slack.  A key GOP voting bloc, soybean farmers, is learning what tariffs are going to do to them right before the 2026 midterms.  

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/28/soybeans-sacrificed-in-trumps-china-gamble-00583232

Trump offering a bailout to Argentina just for them to turn around and eat American soybean farming trumpers lunch is incredible. No notes. Let the face eating continue 

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Posted
17 minutes ago, immamac said:

When is the american consumer going to throw shit in the fan. 

Depends.   Is Survivor a repeat episode this week or a new one?  

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On 9/25/2025 at 8:06 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:


Doesn’t congress have to institute tariffs that are directly tied to national security? 

And somehow the national security issue goes away when they’re extorted into building a manufacturing plant?

Oh and I’m sure they have to actually build it? Or just say they will, making him look like he got a win, but really it’s just a show? 

Or maybe a ‘we’ll build it’ and nice donation to his slush fund?

I know. I know. 
Asking such stupid questions is just the same left wing Trump derangement syndrome.

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Not that I think it will matter, but Trump not being smart enough to stay within a lane that would make his unilateral usurping of Congressional tariff power more palatable to Roberts and company is at least some good news.   

He has no strategy and he has no nuance. He just has a variety of sledgehammers at his disposal that he picks up and uses with his mood changes.  But the way he is using those sledgehammers actually supports the legal position that he doesn’t have the power to do everything that he’s doing.

At some point the conservative Supremes might get a clue that he’s destroying the country more than they will allow for partisan dipshittery, which might mean a key vote or two in the future as things get worse prior to the Supreme Court’s consideration of the constitutionality of his tariff debacle.

See again, not that it will probably matter, but I’m looking for any faint sign of hope.  imagine if some smart Autocrat was in charge instead of that dip shit.



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