The situation with Russian and Ukraine is similar. Putin has called Trump’s bluff. The situation is nothing like the way he’s characterized it during his campaign or since. Trump is actually weakened America’s hand and that situation by breaking with its long term allies. Trump has proved that America can’t be trusted as a player on the world stage economically or diplomatically.
A player? What is the game?
Power. What did you think was going on?
Do you think Trump acts by himself without anyone giving any input whatsoever?
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First 2 levels - Pre futarani society.
First 5 levels - Post futarani society.
Have you ever had a business where you sold product on?
Yes and it didn’t go that well.
But now I have evolved.
Most of the products I buy online seem to be built by idiots for idiots. If I was a billionaire running a business, the average product would be much higher quality than what you see in stores today. Of course because I am poor and don’t have the funding to run a real business, so you will continue to receive your usual shit and slop at your box stores.
No, Trump gets input. He has discontinued the morning intelligence briefings because he gets bored. He has a short attention span. He likes pictures and graphics. Sometimes the tangents he goes on are evoked by the last person he talked to. In short, he’s erratic. The people he appointed to his cabinet in this administration were picked not because they’re qualified, but because they’re people who will do what he says and tell him what he likes to hear.
Thank you for giving me a reason not to believe a single word you say.
You’re welcome.
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President Threatens E.U. With 50% Tariffs
President Trump warned that he would impose tariffs, saying that talks on a trade deal “are going nowhere.” He also said that foreign-made iPhones could face levies.
The EU should respond to Tump’s threats just like China did, which is to say not at all. Wait him out and he’ll back down. Most of his antics of late are to distract people from the contracting US economy he is single handedly creating.
Trump’s big beautiful budget bill transfers wealth, from the poor to the rich, from the young to the old and from the future to the past. It’s tax cuts are mostly regressive meaning slanted towards high income people. It includes the largest cut to Medicaid in history and SNAP the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that provides financial assistance to low-income individuals and families to purchase food. It eliminates climate change related tax credits, and cuts funds to programs like Headstart that help children. It will cost an estimated $4 trillion during a period when interest rates are high. The bond market is shaking. By piling on more debt interests rates and inflation will go higher when Trump promised to lower them.
On May 16, 2025, Moody’s downgraded the United States’ credit rating from its highest AAA rating to Aa1, citing rising government debt and a worsening fiscal outlook. This marks the third major credit agency to downgrade the U.S., after Standard & Poor’s in 2011 and Fitch in 2023. Of course, lenders who make money off America’s debt will do better than ever. The cost of owning a home, already out of reach for most households, will skyrocket.
Trump claims this will stimulate economic growth which will trickle down to the working class. This is what Republicans have been claiming for decades which the real earning of most Americans have shrank to record level lows. That said there are more than a handfull of Senators that have problems with the bill and it is unlikely to get passed without significant changes.
RepublicanSenators Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and Rand Paul from Kentucky have joined the resistance by calling out Donald Trump for his “big beautiful budget bill”. If passed, the bill would increase the federal debt by an estimated $4 trillion. As Rand Paul said “ The emperor has no clothes”. The severe cuts to Medicaid and SNAP would drastically affect their Republican constituents and consequently their political futures. The obvious thing would be for the billionaires to do the right thing and pay their fair share of the tax burden. But that would go against their “greed is good” ethic. After all, they supported Trump precisely so that they could get more tax cuts. So what will the Republican majority do? What happened to the political party that produced the “Tea Party” to protest deficit spending? Trump is a profligate spender especially when it’s other people’s money.
Meanwhile, most Democrats are still acting like a deer caught in the headlights. Stunning revelations about attempts to cover up Biden‘s health problems are adding to their apoplexy. New leadership as yet to emerge. How bad will it have to get before that happens? June 14th may be a turning point when Trump’s throws himself a boondoggle of a military parade on the taxpayer’s dime and the Resistance comes out to rain on his parade.
Elon Musk has publicly expressed disappointment with the
“One Big Beautiful Bill Act," a sweeping spending and tax cuts package supported by President Trump. Musk believes the bill undermines DOGE’s work on reducing the budget deficit. Ever the libertarian, Musk quipped “I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don’t know if it can be both.” There’s something to hate about this bill for everybody. Like Trump’s “flood the zone” strategy, the idea was to rush it out of the House as quickly as possible before anyone could get a good look at it. Musk is basically siding with the deficit hawks. The thought is: If you’re going to cut services to people on the bottom half of the pyramid, at least, you shouldn’t stick their children with the burden of paying the interest on the massive debt your leaving. From a political standpoint, Musk is undercutting Trump, the big-man himself. With the fall-out from Trump’s feckless tariff games, and failing foreign finagling, time is not on Mr. Trump’s side.
How will this issue play out over the summer? Will the Trump distraction machine be enough to offset the cognitive dissonance?
There is no real resistance in the United States, democrats are shamefully equally bad.
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A US federal court has blocked President Donald Trump’s sweeping global trade tariffs, in a major blow to a key component of his economic policies.
The Court of International Trade ruled that an emergency law invoked by the White House did not give the president unilateral authority to impose tariffs on nearly every one of the world’s countries.
The New York-based court said the US Constitution gave Congress exclusive powers to regulate commerce with other nations, and that this was not superseded by the president’s remit to safeguard the economy.
The White House has asked the court to block the order suspending tariffs while it appeals the case.
The ruling was based on two separate cases. The nonpartisan Liberty Justice Center brought one case on behalf of several small businesses that import goods from countries that were targeted by the duties, while a coalition of US state governments also challenged the import taxes.
The two cases marked the first major legal challenges to Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs and went to the Court of International Trade, a part of the federal court system with specific authority over trade.
A three-judge panel ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a 1977 law that Trump cited to justify the tariffs, did not give him the power to impose the sweeping import taxes.
The court also blocked a separate set of levies the Trump administration imposed on China, Mexico and Canada, in response to what the administration said was the unacceptable flow of drugs and illegal immigrants into the US.
However, the court was not asked to address tariffs imposed on some specific goods like cars, steel and aluminium, which fall under a different law.
Source: BBC
Much of Trump’s “flood the zone” strategy is a test to see what he can get away with as he attempts to push the powers of the presidency beyond it’s constitutional limits. Of course he will appeal this to the Supreme Court where he is likely to get an equivocal ruling on this.
The power to impose tariffs, which are essentially taxes on imported goods, rests with Congress. The U.S. Constitution, specifically Article I, Section 8, explicitly grants Congress the authority “to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises”. This provision gives Congress the sole authority to regulate tariffs and other taxes.
Congress has delegated tariff powers to the president through laws like the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act which allow the president to negotiate trade deals and adjust tariff rates without additional Congressional approval in certain cases. What I would like to see is for the court to reject his ability to enact tariffs while he appeals and for SCOTUS to require Congress to vote before he can proceed. That is the Constitutional and democratic remedy that would allow the people’s congressional representatives decide if Trump’s tariffs, should be allowed.
Keep watching this space.
Democrats act like they’re better than republicans, they’re really not.
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Ah. A Trump apologist, his argument being “I’m just doing out in the open what the corrupt politicians of the swamp are doing secretly.” If so, I challenge you to show any President in the history of America who has monetized the Presidency for personal gain as Trump has in his first 150 days. He is flagrantly violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution over and over. This presidency is all about feathering his bed for his retirement.
“When Hillary Clinton was first lady, a furor erupted over reports that she had once made $100,000 from a $1,000 investment in cattle futures. Even though it had happened a dozen years before her husband became president, it became a scandal that lasted weeks and forced the White House to initiate a review.
Thirty-one years later, after dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Jeff Bezos agreed to finance a promotional film about Melania Trump that will reportedly put $28 million directly in her pocket — 280 times the Clinton lucre and in this case from a person with a vested interest in policies set by her husband’s government. Scandal? Furor? Washington moved on while barely taking notice.
The Trumps are hardly the first presidential family to profit from their time in power, but they have done more to monetize the presidency than anyone who has ever occupied the White House. The scale and the scope of the presidential mercantilism has been breathtaking. The Trump family and its business partners have collected $320 million in fees from a new cryptocurrency, brokered overseas real estate deals worth billions of dollars and are opening an exclusive club in Washington called the Executive Branch charging $500,000 apiece to join, all in the past few months alone.
Just last week, Qatar handed over a luxury jet meant for Mr. Trump’s use not just in his official capacity but also for his presidential library after he leaves office. Experts have valued the plane, formally donated to the Air Force, at $200 million, more than all of the foreign gifts bestowed on all previous American presidents combined.
And Mr. Trump hosted an exclusive dinner at his Virginia club for 220 investors in the $TRUMP cryptocurrency that he started days before taking office in January. Access was openly sold based on how much money they chipped in — not to a campaign account but to a business that benefits Mr. Trump personally.” [NYT]
I hate republicans and democrats equally. I am a communist.