A U.S. federal court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs from going into effect, ruling that the president overstepped his authority by imposing across-the-board duties on imports from nations that sell more to the United States than they buy.

  • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    It would have been a byproduct of them that I believe he doesn’t give a fuck about, but he has allude to in a few occasions.

    I agree on the second point. The tariffs needed to be wide ranging but somewhat phased. But he can’t do that because he knows he doesn’t have the time, so like everything else he’s doing it with the startup mentality of move fast and break shit. Which I favor in this particular case because I don’t see a neoliberal corpo puppet democrat pushing for tariffs ever.

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      3 days ago

      It would NOT have been a byproduct, and I explained why already.

      “Nuh uh” is not a rebuttal.

      He certainly moved fast and broke our economy. That’s not a good thing. Pretending it is shows your nativity.

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        3 days ago

        It would have been a byproduct I agree, but it’s one that he’s aware about it even if it’s not the goal. I don’t care about his goal, those are always misaligned . I care about what the actual effect is. Again, the breaking of the economy is more of a feature than a bug. I said this already.

        Now I would need to write an essay here to explain why that is a somewhat necessary thing but I won’t. I’ll just say that no paradigm change has happened without pain, so we either accept the pain or we let things hum along and hope that they get better (they wont, the existing structures will only calcify more until change is impossible and collapse ensues)

        I hope the next president gets the vision, but they will inevitably be a neoliberal corporat so, fat chance of that happening.