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The Reaction on Fox News Really Said It All About About Trump’s Sudden Tariff Reversal Today
"Trump is back!” they screamed, apparently unaware that the tariffs were his idea in the first place.
By David Mack | April 09, 2025 6:26 PM
https://slate.com/business/2025/04/donald-trump-tariffs-the-reaction-o
n-fox-news-really-said-it-all-about-trumps-sudden-reversal.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Reaction on Fox News Really Said It All About About Trump’s Sudden Tariff Reversal Today
"Trump is back!” they screamed, apparently unaware that the tariffs were his idea in the first place.
By David Mack | April 09, 2025 6:26 PM
https://slate.com/business/2025/04/donald-trump-tariffs-the-reaction-o
n-fox-news-really-said-it-all-about-trumps-sudden-reversal.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Trump never went anywhere.
FOX News is Establishment trash.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I am absolutely certain
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I think he's just 10 times as smart as you, and you dummies are playing checkers.
He's outsmarted all of the dipshits that you voted for, time and time and time again. And he's made them all, along with the entire legacy media, eat crow for dinner for almost a decade now.
You keep cheerleading and praying for the downfall of America.
Because at this point, outside of finally shutting the fuck up, that's all your failed and dead Party has left for you to do.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
You've been certain about a lot of things. None of them have ever panned out the way you thought they would, or more accurately, none of them have ever panned out the way the Legacy Media programmed you to believe that they would.
And they all lead you to right here, right now. An outcome that would have happened whether or not you or I even existed to post here every day.
Nobody cares about your borrowed "opinion" on any issue.
I read at least half a dozen disingenuously well-written newspaper headlines every day that are more insightful than you.
And half of those are probably written by A.I. in 2025.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:For a century, American newspapers wrote editorials about the evils of slavery. Did people act against slavery? No. Well, there was the Underground Railroad, but that didn't stop slavery. Did slave-owners act? No. Well, there was George Washington who freed his slaves, but only after his death. So, how did slavery end?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I am absolutely certain
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I think he's just 10 times as smart as you, and you dummies are playing checkers.
He's outsmarted all of the dipshits that you voted for, time and time and time again. And he's made them all, along with the entire legacy media, eat crow for dinner for almost a decade now.
You keep cheerleading and praying for the downfall of America.
Because at this point, outside of finally shutting the fuck up, that's all your failed and dead Party has left for you to do.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
You've been certain about a lot of things. None of them have ever panned out the way you thought they would, or more accurately, none of them have ever panned out the way the Legacy Media programmed you to believe that they would.
And they all lead you to right here, right now. An outcome that would have happened whether or not you or I even existed to post here every day.
Nobody cares about your borrowed "opinion" on any issue.
I read at least half a dozen disingenuously well-written newspaper headlines every day that are more insightful than you.
And half of those are probably written by A.I. in 2025.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
The slave-owners got convinced that slavery was positively good and that people saying it was evil were the true evil. At that point, the editorial writers became aware that words were insufficient. The writers kept writing and changing nothing in America but some of the readers decided it was time to kill the evil slave-owners. And the killing was not limited to the most famous examples of slave-owners.
The United States is headed in that same direction, today. The Trumptards are convinced that Trumpism is positively good and that people saying it is evil are the true evil.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump Is Stupid, Erratic and Weak
The disaster of Trumponomics continues
By Paul Krugman | Apr 10, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-stupid-erratic-and-weak
Anyone sounding the all-clear on tariffs, or Trump economic policy in general, should be kept away from sharp objects and banned from operating heavy machinery. We’re in a hardly better place than we were before Donald Trump announced a tariff pause (in a Truth Social post, of course.) In fact, we may be in a worse place.
Let me make four points about Trump’s post-pause tariff regime.
1. Even the post-pause tariff rates represent a huge protectionist shock
2. Destructive uncertainty about future policy has increased
3. We’re still at risk of a major financial crisis
4. The world now knows that Trump is weak as well as erratic
Still a huge protectionist shock
Yesterday Trump announced that he wasn’t going to impose all those tariffs he announced last week after all. Instead, he’s putting a 10 percent tariff on everyone, and 125 percent on China.
Question of the day: Does the 10 percent rate still apply to the penguins of the Heard and McDonald islands?
Anyway, this new announcement still sets tariffs at a much higher level than they were before Trump took office, indeed higher than he suggested during the campaign. For example, during the campaign researchers at the Peterson Institute for International Economics constructed a model assuming Trump implemented a 10 percent tariffs across the board and 60 percent on China. The researchers concluded that this regime would impose a nasty shock on the US economy. Now we are facing a tariffs of more than twice that level against China as well as 10 percent on all other countries.
How high are overall tariffs after the “pause” was announced?
That’s actually a tricky question. China accounted for 13 percent of U.S. imports in 2024, and if you apply the newly announced rates to 2024 imports you come up with an average rate of 24.95 — higher than before the pause. Incredibly high tariff rates on China will, however, lead to lower imports from China, so a calculation based on 2024 trade is problematic.
However, not importing from China is also very costly: if we no longer import a good from China we must either shift to other, more expensive suppliers or the good simply disappears from the shelves. In the chart below I’ve made an estimate of the “effective” tariff rate post-pause. The effective tariff takes into account both direct and indirect costs, and reflects the increase in the cost of living imposed by the tariff. With a 125% tariff on Chinese imports and a 10% tariff on all other imports, I arrive at an effective tariff rate that is slightly below the Smoot-Hawley level of 1930. But this still represents a huge jump in tariffs in a US economy that now imports three times as much as it did in 1930. Trump’s post-pause tariff regime remains the biggest trade shock in U.S., and I think world history.
It's the uncertainty, stupid
Like many other observers, I’ve been arguing that uncertainty about Trump’s policies is as big a drag on the economy as the policies themselves. Before the Rose Garden announcement, I warned that it wouldn’t be the end of the story:
Trump may impose further tariffs, or slash them as suddenly as he raised them, depending on who spoke to him last. L’Etat, c’est Trump.
This kind of uncertainty is paralyzing for businesses, who are realizing that any kind of long-term commitment can turn out to have been a disastrous mistake. Build a plant that depends on imported parts, and Trump may cut you off at the knees with new tariffs. Build a plant that’s only profitable if tariffs stay in place, and Trump may cut you off at the knees by backing down.
Again, the point is that there really isn’t a MAGA economic phi
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Tariff Flip-Flop – Outrage grows over Trump's chaotic about-face
We could end up with the worst of all outcomes — a series of unfavorable special interest deals, all the economic damage caused by tariff uncertainty, no trade re-balancing, no increase in U.S. manufacturing capacity, and no new job opportunities.
https://www.alternet.org/tariff-flip-flop/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Tariffgate: How Trump’s trade war blew up in his face
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Stocks Pump'n'Dump As Beijing's 'Nope' Trumps Bessent's Hope
The president's calls to buy stocks after the market slumped and his subsequent climbdown over tariffs have led to accusations of insider trading. Together with scandalous economic incompetence, this could be his Watergate
By Simon Walters | Thursday 10 April 2025 13:15 BST
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/tariffgate-trump-trade-war-b27307
92.html
Markets duly surged – as did social media, with accusations that the president’s “art of the deal” was, in fact, a reverse “pump and dump” whereby stock prices were hammered down and then bought before they rose. The Democrats, led by California Senator Adam Schiff, are calling for an investigation into insider trading. Even Trump himself seemed muddled over when he decided to make this change, telling reporters in the same sentence that it was “over the last few days” and “fairly early this morning.”
There are two possible explanations for Trump’s Tariffgate: it was reckless incompetence on a scale never seen before in global economics. Or, as Adam Schiff has claimed, it was market manipulation. Maybe it was a combination of both. Anything is possible in Trump’s mad and disturbing world. Either way, it is a scandal that deserves to rank with Watergate.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Tariffgate: How Trump’s trade war blew up in his face
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Stocks Pump'n'Dump As Beijing's 'Nope' Trumps Bessent's Hope
The president's calls to buy stocks after the market slumped and his subsequent climbdown over tariffs have led to accusations of insider trading. Together with scandalous economic incompetence, this could be his Watergate
By Simon Walters | Thursday 10 April 2025 13:15 BST
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/tariffgate-trump-trade-war-b27307
92.html
Markets duly surged – as did social media, with accusations that the president’s “art of the deal” was, in fact, a reverse “pump and dump” whereby stock prices were hammered down and then bought before they rose. The Democrats, led by California Senator Adam Schiff, are calling for an investigation into insider trading. Even Trump himself seemed muddled over when he decided to make this change, telling reporters in the same sentence that it was “over the last few days” and “fairly early this morning.”
There are two possible explanations for Trump’s Tariffgate: it was reckless incompetence on a scale never seen before in global economics. Or, as Adam Schiff has claimed, it was market manipulation. Maybe it was a combination of both. Anything is possible in Trump’s mad and disturbing world. Either way, it is a scandal that deserves to rank with Watergate.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
Are we going to have to listen to you fucking goons freak out about the fucking market on a daily basis now?
Is he "stupid, erratic and weak" on economic policy like Paul Krugman said, or he is Nancy Pelosi like The Atlantic says?
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:For a century, American newspapers wrote editorials about the evils of slavery. Did people act against slavery? No. Well, there was the Underground Railroad, but that didn't stop slavery. Did slave-owners act? No. Well, there was George Washington who freed his slaves, but only after his death. So, how did slavery end?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I am absolutely certain
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I think he's just 10 times as smart as you, and you dummies are playing checkers.
He's outsmarted all of the dipshits that you voted for, time and time and time again. And he's made them all, along with the entire legacy media, eat crow for dinner for almost a decade now.
You keep cheerleading and praying for the downfall of America.
Because at this point, outside of finally shutting the fuck up, that's all your failed and dead Party has left for you to do.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
You've been certain about a lot of things. None of them have ever panned out the way you thought they would, or more accurately, none of them have ever panned out the way the Legacy Media programmed you to believe that they would.
And they all lead you to right here, right now. An outcome that would have happened whether or not you or I even existed to post here every day.
Nobody cares about your borrowed "opinion" on any issue.
I read at least half a dozen disingenuously well-written newspaper headlines every day that are more insightful than you.
And half of those are probably written by A.I. in 2025.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
The slave-owners got convinced that slavery was positively good and that people saying it was evil were the true evil. At that point, the editorial writers became aware that words were insufficient. The writers kept writing and changing nothing in America but some of the readers decided it was time to kill the evil slave-owners. And the killing was not limited to the most famous examples of slave-owners.
The United States is headed in that same direction, today. The Trumptards are convinced that Trumpism is positively good and that people saying it is evil are the true evil.
Is that what you think you're doing here, for the benefit of 5 people who still post here, Mr. Billionaire? You're fighting evil? You're Bruce Wayne in your own little made up world?
You're so fucked dude.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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I used to think that Vietnam warped SECOND.
After his unusually honest post where he admitted that he never intended to be "good" I now realize that shooting people from a helicopter, risk free, liberated the evil in him. And he believes that his mission in life is a continuation of that: To punish, hopefully kill, "evil" people, as long as there's no personal risk to himself.
Even tho he's a would-be killer, he separates himself from "evil" people bc
1) He's a Democrat
2) He lives a healthy lifestyle
3) He pays his taxes (!!!)
4) He's rich, and only good/smart people prosper
So he can continue his "war" (He believes he's fighting a holy war; he said so. And all is fair in war...) without having to acknowledge that he's a sniveling, lying sociopath.
I also now think that the reason why he hates Republicans began with Nixon. Not bc Nixon convinced him to leave Jehovah's Witness and kill in war, but bc Nixon negotiated a withdrawal from Vietnam and ended the war against "evil".
Right, SECOND?
So, yes: SECOND thinks he's Batman.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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