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Trump rips ‘always wrong’ Wall Street Journal for criticizing his tariffs
By Tara Suter – 02/02/25, 5:31 PM ET
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5121945-trump-rips-always-wrong-wal
l-street-journal-for-criticizing-his-tariffs/
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The "Tariff Lobby," headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify Countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many others to name, continue the decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS that are allowed to so freely flow into AMERICA. THOSE DAYS ARE OVER! The USA has major deficits with Canada, Mexico, and China (and almost all countries!), owes 36 Trillion Dollars, and we're not going to be the "Stupid Country" any longer. MAKE YOUR PRODUCT IN THE USA AND THERE ARE NO TARIFFS! Why should the United States lose TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SUBSIDIZING OTHER COUNTRIES, and why should these other countries pay a small fraction of the cost of what USA citizens pay for Drugs and Pharmaceuticals, as an example? THIS WILL BE THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA! WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!). BUT WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID. WE ARE A COUNTRY THAT IS NOW BEING RUN WITH COMMON SENSE — AND THE RESULTS WILL BE SPECTACULAR!!!
Feb 02, 2025, 9:09 AM
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How Trump’s tariffs blew up the price of washing machines seven years ago
Wondering what tariffs might do to you? Here's what happened to washing machines and dryers after Trump tariffed them in 2018:
Three years later they were 20% more expensive instead of continuing a trend that would have made them 20% less expensive. Now multiply that by everything and you'll get a sense of what Trump's latest tariffs are going to do to us.
https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-how-tariffs-blew-up-the-price-of-wa
shing-machines-seven-years-ago/
Price of Laundry Equipment Before and After 2018 tariffs
https://www.google.com/search?q=Price+of+Laundry+Equipment+Before+and+
After+2018+tariffs
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Kevin Drum only reserves that graph for the stupidest people.
If nobody put tariffs on washing machines in 2018, they'd basically have been free by 2030.
That no good Trump!
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Anyway, the fact remains: Trump is imposing destructive (and self-destructive) tariffs on an ally that has done nothing wrong.
Canada has done everything wrong under Justin.
He won't be a problem for much longer.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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On Friday night, reports emerged that Elon Musk’s aides had tussled with Office of Personnel Management and Treasury staffers while demanding access to troves of information about federal employees. And on Sunday, it was reported that Musk had ousted top officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development for refusing him access to classified security and personnel information.
Those of us within the ranks of the federal workforce looked on in horror at all of this. Those outside the federal government might not understand the gravity of this situation. Think of OPM and the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service as the valet sheds of the federal government. They’re not flashy or big, but they hold all the keys. OPM maintains the private information of federal civil servants—bank codes, addresses, insurance information, retirement accounts, employment records. The Treasury’s system processes every payment to everyone from grandmothers waiting for their Social Security check to cancer researchers working to crack the cure. Now there’s a ham-fisted goon in an ill-fitting valet attendant’s coat rummaging in broad daylight through all of the keys — all of that private information, previously given in trust, handled with care, and regulated by law.
Now is the moment to act. We should not be waiting until the perps are driving off with every Bimmer in the lot. This information demands careful management, and transparency around its collection and use. Its inadvertent disclosure could irreparably harm millions of American families. And it’s being taken by people that still can’t figure out how to send an email from within the government without having it flagged as a likely phishing attempt.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/elon-musk-us-aid-social-se
curity-data-heist-trump.html
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Did the Trump prosecutions backfire?
The Trump prosecutions were supposed to save democracy. They may have imperiled it further.
By Andrew Prokop | Feb 3, 2025, 5:01 AM CST
https://www.vox.com/politics/393285/trump-prosecutions-investigations-
failed-threat-democracy
Donald Trump’s return to the presidency will mark an end to eight years of his critics’ hopes that he could be taken down through the legal process.
The Russia investigation, four criminal prosecutions, and a conviction at trial on 34 felony counts ultimately did not dissuade voters from handing Trump another term in November.
So what did all those investigations and prosecutions of the president-elect amount to?
Some would argue that the answer is: nothing. Because voters ultimately shrugged off Trump’s legal woes, he won the election. This will let him end the two federal prosecutions of him and avoid consequences for the two state ones. Meaning: He’ll get off scot-free.
The outcome may even be worse than that. For years, many in the country’s liberal and centrist elite argued that these investigations were righteous attempts to hold a corrupt figure accountable for his rampant lawbreaking. They argued that Trump posed an imminent threat to democracy and that the best way to defend the rule of law was by thoroughly investigating and prosecuting him.
And yet the most salient legacy of the Trump cases may be that they’ve helped trap the country in a destructive tit-for-tat spiral of politicized lawfare, or legal warfare.
Trump now will take office far more embittered with the Department of Justice that indicted him — and perhaps more determined to weaponize that department against his opponents — than ever before. The investigations did not make Trump a corrupt person: He was pledging to send the DOJ after his political rivals before he was even elected in 2016. But his personal peril may have focused his resentment, so that he’ll be more hell-bent on making sure the department serves his whims.
Perhaps more consequentially, he’ll now have much more cover from the GOP. Republicans at all levels of the party have increasingly accepted Trump’s argument that he was being unfairly persecuted by Democrats and a politicized “deep state.” They’ve become polarized and radicalized against federal law enforcement institutions — and perhaps more likely to confirm nominees who would have seemed unthinkably extreme a few years ago.
It is far from clear that investigators could have followed some alternate path that would have avoided this outcome completely. A confrontation between Trump and the rule of law was likely inevitable as soon as he was first elected — he is who he is.
Investigators were regularly faced with the no-win choice between ignoring potential Trumpian wrongdoing, and thoroughly investigating in a way sure to invite attacks and reprisals. Letting real malfeasance, like Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election, go unpunished would have been galling.
But, as the saying goes, if you come at the king, you best not miss. They missed — and now the country will reap the consequences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
• The threat to democracy: It’s time for some game theory
• A confrontation between Trump and investigators was probably inevitable
• Trump was actually prosecuted for specific things. Were those prosecutions justified — or overreach?
• The New York case is the least defensible
• Is there any way to get out of the spiral?
Much more at https://www.vox.com/politics/393285/trump-prosecutions-investigations-
failed-threat-democracy
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Quote:... to corrupt or hostile foreign entities, to incompetent departments like HUD, to MIC contractors getting paid for defective or unuseable weapons, to programs like setting up EV stations, to NGOs and semi-attached regime-change organizations like USAID ...
The Treasury’s system processes every payment to everyone from grandmothers waiting for their Social Security check to cancer researchers working to crack the cure....
And here is one such payment processed by the Treasury.
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Trump To Suspend Funding To South Africa Over Land Expropriation
Monday, Feb 03, 2025 - 08:45 AM
Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he would suspend future U.S. funding to South Africa in response to the country’s new controversial expropriation law, which allows land seizures by the state.
Oh, there's a lot of hardworking government employees working in legitimate (and often underfunded) offices ... like Social Security... but I'll bet there are also a lot of legitimately puckered managerial butts.
TIME FOR SUNSHINE.
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Did the Trump prosecutions backfire?
The Trump prosecutions were supposed to save democracy. They may have imperiled it further.
By Andrew Prokop | Feb 3, 2025, 5:01 AM CST
https://www.vox.com/politics/393285/trump-prosecutions-investigations-
failed-threat-democracy
Donald Trump’s return to the presidency will mark an end to eight years of his critics’ hopes that he could be taken down through the legal process.
The Russia investigation, four criminal prosecutions, and a conviction at trial on 34 felony counts ultimately did not dissuade voters from handing Trump another term in November.
So what did all those investigations and prosecutions of the president-elect amount to?
Some would argue that the answer is: nothing. Because voters ultimately shrugged off Trump’s legal woes, he won the election. This will let him end the two federal prosecutions of him and avoid consequences for the two state ones. Meaning: He’ll get off scot-free.
The outcome may even be worse than that. For years, many in the country’s liberal and centrist elite argued that these investigations were righteous attempts to hold a corrupt figure accountable for his rampant lawbreaking. They argued that Trump posed an imminent threat to democracy and that the best way to defend the rule of law was by thoroughly investigating and prosecuting him.
And yet the most salient legacy of the Trump cases may be that they’ve helped trap the country in a destructive tit-for-tat spiral of politicized lawfare, or legal warfare.
Trump now will take office far more embittered with the Department of Justice that indicted him — and perhaps more determined to weaponize that department against his opponents — than ever before. The investigations did not make Trump a corrupt person: He was pledging to send the DOJ after his political rivals before he was even elected in 2016. But his personal peril may have focused his resentment, so that he’ll be more hell-bent on making sure the department serves his whims.
Perhaps more consequentially, he’ll now have much more cover from the GOP. Republicans at all levels of the party have increasingly accepted Trump’s argument that he was being unfairly persecuted by Democrats and a politicized “deep state.” They’ve become polarized and radicalized against federal law enforcement institutions — and perhaps more likely to confirm nominees who would have seemed unthinkably extreme a few years ago.
It is far from clear that investigators could have followed some alternate path that would have avoided this outcome completely. A confrontation between Trump and the rule of law was likely inevitable as soon as he was first elected — he is who he is.
Investigators were regularly faced with the no-win choice between ignoring potential Trumpian wrongdoing, and thoroughly investigating in a way sure to invite attacks and reprisals. Letting real malfeasance, like Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election, go unpunished would have been galling.
But, as the saying goes, if you come at the king, you best not miss. They missed — and now the country will reap the consequences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
• The threat to democracy: It’s time for some game theory
• A confrontation between Trump and investigators was probably inevitable
• Trump was actually prosecuted for specific things. Were those prosecutions justified — or overreach?
• The New York case is the least defensible
• Is there any way to get out of the spiral?
Much more at https://www.vox.com/politics/393285/trump-prosecutions-investigations-
failed-threat-democracy
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
This is the saddest fucking thing I've ever read.
The bell tolls for thee, Vox.
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“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead.” — Elon Musk
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Putin claims European politicians will stand at Trump's feet and "wag their tails"
The end of Uncle Sugardaddy.
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“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead.” — Elon MuskQuote:
Putin claims European politicians will stand at Trump's feet and "wag their tails"
The end of Uncle Sugardaddy.
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Yup.
Now let's see how long everyone's free healthcare worldwide lasts once they wake up and realize they all have their own military to fund and they've let in the first and second wave of combatants while clothing and feeding them until it was time.
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This is the saddest fucking thing I've ever read.
Trump's Maybe/Maybe Not Trade War
Trump folded. OK, supposedly the tariffs are only on hold for a month, but some wags are already joking that “tariff month” will become the new “infrastructure week.”
Supposedly both Mexico and Canada made some concessions in return for the tariff hold. But there’s really nothing there; neither country is doing anything it wouldn’t have done without the tariff threat. The U.S., on the other hand, agreed to crack down on weapons shipments to Mexico. Trump will spin this as a victory; low-information voters and some intimidated media outlets may go along with the lie. But basically America backed down.
So is Trump the classic bully who runs away when someone stands up to him? It definitely looks that way.
Let’s be clear, however: this isn’t a case of no harm, no foul. By making the tariff threat in the first place, Trump made it clear that America is no longer a nation that honors its agreements. By caving at the first sign of opposition, he also made himself look weak. China must be very pleased at how all this has played out.
The now ever-present threat of tariffs will have a chilling effect on business planning, inhibiting economic integration and damaging manufacturing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/politics/trump-infrastructure-we
ek.html
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