• Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    23 hours ago

    What he didn’t mention is that ‘FAILURE AND DISGRACE’ is also the likely outcome if courts DON’T strike down his tariffs. He’s screwed the economy either way at this point.

    Tariffs are just the government taking money from the people after all. Kind of like the UK tea tax.

    • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
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      22 hours ago

      If the US doesnt drop the tariffs quickly, the world is actively working on new deals that remove the US entirely from the world stage.

      Like how Japan is dropping US lumber and LNG for Canada’s offerings.

      Or how Japan and South Korea are offering their military hardware to Australia and Canada.

      Or how Toyota is opening a new plant in Canada

      All of the “deals” he has are just meaningless letters of agreement that placate him while the real work happens.

    • HubertManne@piefed.social
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      22 hours ago

      Well if they don’t its more failure but if they do he can say its all because of this one thing and not the mounds of idiocy in his policy and administration.