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Trump has made astronomical estimates about how much money tariffs can raise.
“We will take in trillions and trillions of dollars and create jobs like we have never seen before,” he said during his recent joint address to Congress. “Tariffs are about making America rich again and making America great again.”
Last Sunday on Air Force One, Trump was even more ebullient. “We’re going to become so rich, you’re not going to know where to spend all that money,” he said.
Trump says he’ll use revenue from tariffs to “offset” more big tax cuts.
Those tax cuts will disproportionately benefit wealthy Americans and big corporations.
But revenue raised from tariffs will be coming disproportionately from average working people.
It's another scam.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-economic-plan/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
We're going to find out, so I'll take what ends up happening as the truth over the people you quote that denied we were in a recession for the better part of Joe Biden*'s administration, and it cost about $9 Trillion to keep up the illusion that we weren't in that amount of time.
You are a simple minded fool.
If Trump and his team are as simple minded as you, then we're in a world of hurt and Democrats will rise from the grave.
If not, you're going to look really stupid again. Just like you always do.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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China: 34% (charges U.S. 67%)—though Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the 34% will be in addition to tariffs China already faces, bringing its tariff rate to 54%.
European Union: 20% (charges U.S. 39%)
Vietnam: 46% (charges U.S 90%)
Taiwan: 32% (charges U.S. 64%)
Japan: 24% (charges U.S. 46%)
India: 26% (charges U.S. 52%)
South Korea: 25% (charges U.S. 50%)
Thailand: 36% (charges U.S. 72%)
Switzerland: 31% (charges U.S. 61%)
Indonesia: 32% (charges U.S. 64%)
Malaysia: 24% (charges U.S. 47%)
Cambodia: 49% (charges U.S. 97%)
United Kingdom: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
South Africa: 30% (charges U.S. 60%)
Brazil: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Bangladesh: 37% (charges U.S. 74%)
Singapore: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Israel: 17% (charges U.S. 33%)
Philippines: 17% (charges U.S. 34%)
Chile: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Australia: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Pakistan: 29% (charges U.S. 58%)
Turkey: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Sri Lanka: 44% (charges U.S. 88%)
Colombia: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Peru: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Nicaragua: 18% (charges U.S. 36%)
Norway: 15% (charges U.S. 30%)
Costa Rica: 10% (charges U.S. 17%)
Jordan: 20% (charges U.S. 40%)
Dominican Republic: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
United Arab Emirates: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
New Zealand: 10% (charges U.S. 20%)
Argentina: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Ecuador: 10% (charges U.S. 12%)
Guatemala: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Honduras: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Madagascar: 47% (charges U.S. 93%)
Myanmar (Burma): 44% (charges U.S. 88%)
Tunisia: 28% (charges U.S. 55%)
Kazakhstan: 27% (charges U.S. 54%)
Serbia: 37% (charges U.S. 74%)
Egypt: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Saudi Arabia: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
El Salvador: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Côte d’Ivoire: 21% (charges U.S. 41%)
Laos: 48% (charges U.S. 95%)
Botswana: 37% (charges U.S. 74%)
Trinidad and Tobago: 10% (charges U.S. 12%)
Morocco: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Algeria: 30% (charges U.S. 59%)
Oman: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Uruguay: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Bahamas: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Lesotho: 50% (charges U.S. 99%)
Ukraine: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Bahrain: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Qatar: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Mauritius: 40% (charges U.S. 80%)
Fiji: 32% (charges U.S. 63%)
Iceland: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Kenya: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Liechtenstein: 37% (charges U.S. 73%)
Guyana: 38% (charges U.S. 76%)
Haiti: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Bosnia and Herzegovina: 35% (charges U.S. 70%)
Nigeria: 14% (charges U.S. 27%)
Namibia: 21% (charges U.S. 42%)
Brunei: 24% (charges U.S. 47%)
Bolivia: 10% (charges U.S. 20%)
Panama: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Venezuela: 15% (charges U.S. 29%)
North Macedonia: 33% (charges U.S. 65%)
Ethiopia: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Ghana: 10% (charges U.S. 17%)
Moldova: 31% (charges U.S. 61%)
Angola: 32% (charges U.S. 63%)
Democratic Republic of the Congo: 11% (charges U.S. 22%)
Jamaica: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Mozambique: 16% (charges U.S. 31%)
Paraguay: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Zambia: 17% (charges U.S. 33%)
Lebanon: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Tanzania: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Iraq: 39% (charges U.S. 78%)
Georgia: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Senegal: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Azerbaijan: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Cameroon: 11% (charges U.S. 22%)
Uganda: 10% (charges U.S. 20%)
Albania: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Armenia: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Nepal: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Sint Maarten: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Falkland Islands: 41% (charges U.S. 82%)
Gabon: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Kuwait: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Togo: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Suriname: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Belize: 10% (charges U.S. 10%)
Papua New Guinea: 10% (charges U.S. 15%)
Malawi: 17% (charges U.S. 34%)
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Quote:To tell people who never knew Signym how evil Signym is in person: Signym supports Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the mass murder and torture that followed.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I have never seen or heard of an evil person, corporation, or nation that believed they were other than "good,"'
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
SECOND
Signym, I have made crystal clear that the only workable method to control evil people, either drunken employees, embezzlers, contract breaking subcontractors, or Nazis during WWII or Confederate slave-owners is to harm them.
So, since YOU'RE an evil person ...?
Hey, that describes you!
Or at least you keep telling us how good you are!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Lessons from far enough in the past might be instructive. Here is story about a government official officially killing Americans. Apparently, nobody would stop him with a bullet because good people believe killing evil people is wrong while evil people don’t see a reason to stop other evil people:
My great-grandfather poisoned drinkers during Prohibition
By Rebecca Lester | 1 April 2025
https://psyche.co/ideas/my-great-grandfather-poisoned-drinkers-during-
prohibition
I am the great-granddaughter of Wayne B Wheeler, leader of the Anti-Saloon League in the era of Prohibition. While this may sound like a mundane bureaucratic position, Wayne B (as he was known in the family) was no mere bureaucrat. He was passionately, fanatically and obsessively opposed to the consumption of alcohol, and spent much of his adult years trying to eradicate this ‘poison’ from American life.
After the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution banning alcohol, Wayne B, who had championed the effort, expected Americans’ cravings for alcohol to evaporate. But they did not. Bootleggers transported and sold illegal alcohol, speakeasies flourished across America, and people devised ways to distill industrial alcohol to make it drinkable.
In response, the Bureau of Prohibition, under Wayne B’s guidance, decided to try a new tactic. In 1926, they began mixing poison – yes, poison – with industrial alcohol to prevent people from distilling and drinking it. Moderate voices in the anti-saloon movement suggested using non-lethal additives like soap to achieve the same ends, but Wayne B insisted on deadly poison, reasoning that ‘the Government is under no obligation to furnish people with alcohol that is drinkable when the Constitution forbids it.’
During the next seven years, until Prohibition was repealed in 1933, between 10,000 and 50,000 Americans were blinded, crippled or died horrific, agonising deaths from drinking this poisoned alcohol. It was a national catastrophe. News outlets and social service organisations raised the alarm and desperately pleaded for people to avoid distilled alcohol; yet the deaths continued. Wayne B was gratified and unrepentant: ‘The person who drinks this industrial alcohol,’ he reasoned, ‘is a deliberate suicide.’ Wayne B washed his hands of these deaths, comfortable in the conviction that people who drank alcohol illegally and died had simply got what was coming to them.
A hundred years later, when I learned of Wayne B’s poison campaign for the first time, I couldn’t believe what I was reading. I felt sick to my stomach, not only because of the sheer callousness of Wayne B’s actions but also because of my family’s history of alcoholism.
More at https://psyche.co/ideas/my-great-grandfather-poisoned-drinkers-during-
prohibition
Wayne B’s poison campaign was trivialized as callousness when it should have been seen as mass murder. A bullet would have penetrated the callous and made Wayne B feel what he was doing.
The
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The above story about the Federal government adding poison to alcohol during prohibition was far enough in the past that it might be instructive. Here is a story that is happening now. Trump is killing the American vaccine industry but there are no good people communicating to Trump “Stop or you are dead, you evil asshole.” Good people won’t do more than complain about elected authorities exercising authority.
Abandoning mRNA vaccines is bad science, bad medicine, bad public health and bad business. This is just stupid. Which defines the Trump administration.
MRNA Vaccines Threatens American Biotech Dominance
The United States led the world in developing the technology that beat the COVID-19 pandemic. Action from lawmakers may leave that legacy—and a $70 billion market—behind.
By Alex Knapp | Mar 31, 2025, 10:36am EDT
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2025/03/28/trump-administration
s-attack-on-mrna-vaccines-threatens-american-biotech-dominance/
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was a top spreader of vaccine misinformation during the pandemic. Now he leads America's health efforts.
Less than a year after COVID-19 upended life as we know it and killed the first of what would become more than 7 million people, the FDA and other regulators around the world authorized the first mRNA vaccine. Co-developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the vaccine was based on new biotechnology that uses the body’s own machinery to produce disease-fighting antibodies. Authorization for a second mRNA vaccine from Moderna followed shortly after. The speed with which they were developed and distributed was unprecedented; The mumps vaccine had taken four years.
The speed was only possible thanks to the more than $330 million in federal NIH grants that had supported three decades of underlying research into mRNA. Much of the heavy lifting of discovery and even testing had been done by the time the Biden and Trump Administrations spent over $30 billion to develop, purchase and distribute the vaccines. Today underlying mRNA technology, which helped save millions of lives, prevent hospitalizations and mitigate instances of long Covid, is now also being used to tackle a wide range of diseases — bird flu, cancer, heart failure.
But despite those COVID successes — and Trump’s ongoing attempts for take credit for them — the president’s administration and base are now attacking mRNA. And they’re doing it in a way that might threaten not only next-generation vaccines for the pandemics to come, but U.S. biotechnology leadership in a market estimated to be worth almost $20 billion.
Misinformation about mRNA vaccines is widespread, false claims that they are deadly, change people’s DNA or somehow enable mind control. And though widely debunked, these conspiracies have inspired concerted efforts around the country to end federal funding for the development of vaccines and other treatments based on mRNA.
“Removing federal funding of mRNA vaccine technology would compromise pandemic preparedness greatly.”
Amesh Adalja
Kentucky lawmakers don’t want mRNA vaccines given to minors. Idaho legislators want to ban their use for the next 10 years; Texas legislators want to ban them entirely. And, under the leadership of one of the biggest spreaders of mRNA vaccine misinformation, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun a review of its investments in related vaccine research as part of a looming gutting of the Department of Health and Human Services that will see over 10,000 jobs cut in addition to 10,000 workers who’ve already taken a voluntary layoff.
Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician and assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University, told Forbes that efforts to pull funding for mRNA vaccine research would hamstring scientists preparing for outbreaks of new diseases with pandemic risk like avian flu. “Removing federal funding of mRNA vaccine technology would compromise pandemic preparedness greatly,” he said. “There are multiple projects aimed at using this vaccine platform agains
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Quote:Trump Goes Crazy on Trade
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China: 34% (charges U.S. 67%)—though Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the 34% will be in addition to tariffs China already faces, bringing its tariff rate to 54%.
European Union: 20% (charges U.S. 39%)
Vietnam: 46% (charges U.S 90%)
Taiwan: 32% (charges U.S. 64%)
Japan: 24% (charges U.S. 46%)
“Liberation Day” is even worse than expected
By Paul Krugman | Apr 02, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-goes-crazy-on-trade
Just a quick update after Trump’s Rose Garden speech.
I guess it’s just possible that when we get details about the Trump tariffs they will be lower than what he just announced, but based on what he said, he’s gone full-on crazy. It’s not just that he appears to be imposing much higher tariffs than almost anyone expected. He’s also making false claims about our trading partners — not sure in this case whether they’re lies, because he may be truly ignorant — that will both enrage them and make it very hard to back down.
Basically, he’s claiming that the rest of the world is placing very high tariffs on U.S. products, and that he’s imposing “reciprocal” tariffs that are only half what they impose on us. Here’s the chart he showed:
The left column show the tariffs others are supposedly charging on US products — and it’s completely crazy. Focus on the European Union. The EU, like the United States, has generally low tariffs; the average tariff it charges on US goods is less than 3 percent.
So where does this 39 percent number come from? I have no idea. Many people speculated that Trump would count value-added taxes as tariffs, even though they aren’t — European producers selling to the EU market pay the same VAT as US producers, so it doesn’t discriminate and therefore isn’t protectionist. But even if you get that wrong, EU VAT rates are in the vicinity of 20 percent, so you still can’t get anywhere close to 39 percent.
You have to wonder whether Elon Musk’s Dunning-Kruger kids are now producing tariff numbers.
But you know that having once claimed that Europe charges tariffs more than 10 times as high as reality, Trump will never drop that claim. I don’t know how many people noticed, but he’s still claiming that we’re subsidizing Canada by $200 billion a year. Aside from the basic mistake of claiming that a Canadian trade surplus means that we’re somehow subsidizing Canada, he’s inflating the actual trade surplus by a factor of three. Many, many people have pointed out the error, but Trump is sticking with it, the same way Musk is sticking with the millions of dead Social Security beneficiaries thing.
If you had any hopes that Trump would step back from the brink, this announcement, between the very high tariff rates and the complete falsehoods about what other countries do, should kill them.
Full Speech: Trump Announces Reciprocal Tariff, Baseline Tariff Plan | WSJ
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Will Malignant Stupidity Kill the World Economy?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We're going to find out, so I'll take what ends up happening as the truth over the people you quote that denied we were in a recession for the better part of Joe Biden*'s administration, and it cost about $9 Trillion to keep up the illusion that we weren't in that amount of time.
You are a simple minded fool.
If Trump and his team are as simple minded as you, then we're in a world of hurt and Democrats will rise from the grave.
If not, you're going to look really stupid again. Just like you always do.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Trump’s tariffs are a disaster. His policy process is worse.
By Paul Krugman | Apr 03, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-careless-stupidity-kill-the
America created the modern world trading system. The rules governing tariffs and the negotiating process that brought those tariffs down over time grew out of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, devised by FDR in 1934. The growth in international trade under that system had some negative aspects but was on balance very good for America and the world. It was, in fact, one of our greatest policy achievements.
Yesterday Donald Trump burned it all down. Here’s what just happened to the average U.S. tariff rate:
Source: USITC and Yale Budget Lab
The tariffs Trump announced were higher than almost anyone expected. This is a much bigger shock to the economy than the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, especially when you bear in mind that international trade is about three times as important now as it was then.
The size of the tariffs, however, wasn’t the only shocking thing about the Rose Garden announcement. Arguably what we learned about how the Trump team arrived at those tariff rates — the sheer malignant stupidity of the whole thing — was even worse.
You might be tempted to dismiss complaints about the policy process as elitist snobbery. But credibility is a crucial part of policymaking. Businesses can’t plan if they have no idea what to expect next. Foreign governments won’t make policies that help America if they don’t expect us to respond rationally.
So what do we know about how the Trumpists arrived at their tariff plan? Trump claimed that the tariff rates imposed on different countries reflected their policies, but James Surowiecki soon noted that the tariffs applied to each country appeared to be derived from a crude formula based on the U.S. trade deficit with that country. Trump officials denied this, while at the same time the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released a note confirming Surowiecki’s guess.
More at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-careless-stupidity-kill-the
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump’s lawyer, Roy Cohn, was also Senator Joe McCarthy’s lawyer. Trump is upending the nation similar to how McCarthy did with Roy Cohn except Trump has the equivalent of a thousand Roy Cohns.
Newly Declassified Documents Reveal the Untold Stories of the Red Scare, a Hunt for Communists in Postwar America
In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joseph McCarthy upended the nation
By Sara Georgini - Historian, Massachusetts Historical Society | April 1, 2025
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newly-declassified-documents-re
veal-the-untold-stories-of-the-red-scare-a-hunt-for-communists-in-postwar-america-180986344/
Thousands of innocent Americans would see their lives upended by the politically motivated witch hunt between roughly 1947 and 1954.
Risen’s new book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America, draws on newly declassified documents to tell these overlooked stories and paint a lively portrait of the postwar era’s political climate. To mark the book’s release, Smithsonian magazine chatted with Risen about the roots of the Red Scare, the Hollywood blacklist and more. Read on for a condensed and edited version of the conversation.
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One of the main arguments in my book is that the Red Scare is at the heart largely a culture war. It’s one that pits the progressive New Deal culture of the 1930s against a revanchist, certainly anti-New Deal, but also anti-progressive conservatism. In the 1930s, there was not just the New Deal, and not just the tumult of the Great Depression, but the emergence of a culture in America that was very different from what had come before, certainly what had existed in the 1920s. It was cosmopolitan, pluralistic, very, very much in favor of an expansive government—but also in favor of things like women’s rights and civil rights and labor rights. It was a very much a different conception of America.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I guess this is “an upside” for Trump's rollback on green initiatives and the push for more coal, deforestation, and oil:
US banks predict climate goals will fail – but air conditioning firms will thrive
Reports predict global heating will bring catastrophes and that the air conditioning market could grow by 41%.
By Oliver Milman | Wed 2 Apr 2025 13.39 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/02/us-banks-climate-g
oals-fail-air-conditioning
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I love how riled up Trump has gotten our idiots.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Will Malignant Stupidity Kill the World Economy?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We're going to find out, so I'll take what ends up happening as the truth over the people you quote that denied we were in a recession for the better part of Joe Biden*'s administration, and it cost about $9 Trillion to keep up the illusion that we weren't in that amount of time.
You are a simple minded fool.
If Trump and his team are as simple minded as you, then we're in a world of hurt and Democrats will rise from the grave.
If not, you're going to look really stupid again. Just like you always do.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Trump’s tariffs are a disaster. His policy process is worse.
By Paul Krugman | Apr 03, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-careless-stupidity-kill-the
America created the modern world trading system. The rules governing tariffs and the negotiating process that brought those tariffs down over time grew out of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, devised by FDR in 1934. The growth in international trade under that system had some negative aspects but was on balance very good for America and the world. It was, in fact, one of our greatest policy achievements.
National Debt in 1934: $27 Billion
National Debt in 2024: $35,464 Billion
Shut the fuck up, Paul.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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