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I lol at “minor inconveniences during a pandemic.” Disingenuous flattening of a complicated, ever changing situation that stretched over multiple years. Gets more pronounced the further away we get from it.

What are the minimum domestic market size + minimum natural resource abundance + minimum collective national IQ standards that are apparently necessary requirements for tariffs to work? Because apparently the argument is that no other country now, or ever, has met them. And even if one ever did...

Yeah, but if small businesses can’t come to the White House and shower Trump with gifts and compliments, like Tim Cook/Apple, do they even deserve to remain in business?

This is the part where MAGA would point to an example of this working somewhere (anywhere) else. But they can’t. Because one does not exist.

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There’s not a country MAGA can point to that followed their blueprint and had a better country to show for it. But silly me, we’re not supposed to point to any history pre-COVID because we trashed that data as irrelevant.

LOL, not sure why that would be expected, but sure, I’m happy to go on the record and say these countries are dumb for keeping up trade barriers.

“…and by the way, I can walk down the street and diagnose children with mitochondrial challenges just by looking at them.”

Lmao

Who’s this “you” you’re referring to, because if it’s me, I’d love to see the receipts…

I like Nate, but when the hell did (D) “go high?”

I find it funny that operation warp speed is one of the only things government got right during the pandemic, and Trump and Co can’t take the win because the base is insane.

I think I’ve given up trying to understand the goal of MAGAnomics. Some in that camp want tariffs to bring back manufacturing, some want to replace taxes with tariff revenues, some want to stick it to China, some want to use them to negotiate border enforcement, some have no particular stance...

Sad but true

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/deere-tariff-costs-farm-belt-jason-smith-donald-trump-josh-beal-f42ea4ab?mod=opinion_lead_pos2 The Moline, Ill., company is laying off 238 workers at three factories in Moline, East Moline, and Waterloo, Iowa, in the coming weeks. This month the company reported a...

https://www.cato.org/blog/tariff-inclusion-process-comes-high-costs-absurd-outcomes-extra-cronyism The Trump administration quietly announced that imports of more than 400 additional products—valued at almost $210 billion in 2024—would be subject to “national security” tariffs on steel and...

I found it pretty emblematic of the commie’s life/worldview.