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I don't know what this means - but good night and good luck.

Disclaimer: - this post contains political material - as it directly relates in an unavoidable way to the topic. No advocacy will be involved. So here is how I read what is going to happen with tariffs. Trump is going to prefer to keep the threat of unimplemented tariffs constantly on the front burner as his 'negotiating leverage'. Until that strategy runs its course to either success or futility, or wherever it ends, I don't expect to see much but symbolic tariffs actually put in place.

I support the right of someone to make an argument for the communist party - absolutely. Otherwise how are we better than Putin or Xi? Not to mention that the communist party in the US is about as toothless as a 90yr Babushka.

Seriously - It's a terrible thing, but how does that change the understanding of the purpose of the sacrifice? It's not the flag, it what the flag stands for isn't it? When we start to take symbols as more important than what the symbols represent, we are losing something in the translation somewhere. And isn't that the question when we fight in questionable causes? For the guys on the line it become more about 'the. mission' than what the mission is about, because who the hell knows what that was. And that make everything turn internal - so the guy burning the flag become the enemy, when he's just following the logic that created the flag in the first place.

I think the proper term for that in a free society is suppression of peaceful free speech. That's what you were supposed to be serving to protect. At least that's what the civics books used to say, when we still had them.

Just call it the "Joy of Cruelty." Seems to be the favorite emotion for Trump and his ilk.

so what would even come close to a 21st century equivalent of overturning the tables of the money-changers? It's all bits in the ether now. They've found a way to make their avarice outrage resistant in physical space. And if they ever taught their flocks the truth, they would understand that this kind of praise in the service of profit is exactly what the 3rd commandment is really talking about.

Life imitates art. Peter Sellers would be proud.

Santander to the Jays - in case someone else like me was wondering.....🤨

yeah - they've gotten themselves into a place where they can't serve an order fast enough to make any money. Death by a thousand menu choices.

I always felt that way too, and then when I realized I didn't any more the decision was easy.

You guys need to get your resumes into Ron Wood ASAP 🏈🏈🏈 🤣

speak for yourself. I'm not hoping he crashes the economy. I believe left to his own devices he would, but that's not the same thing!

The backsliding begins - Trump won't institute tariffs 'immediately" Gives himself a loophole big enough to drive a 4 yr administration through. Reality always sucks when you are a narcissist. -nyt

What the court says here is immaterial as to any actual truth of the matter. Only an individual himself can speak to his own admission of guilt or claim of innocence. It's strictly legalistic fictions that anything else could be true. Which of course is not to say that the SCOTUS isn't well steeped in legalistic fictions. And in terms of precedent, there likely is none because cases are specific, and one can only hope the American public will have learned by 2028 that it's a mistake to elect a person who carries on about an enemies list of otherwise innocent people. Well, that may be a little optimistic - we learned it once in 1974 and seem to have forgotten, but I suppose each generation has to learn it once for itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j95kNwZw8YY&ab_channel=MarcEder

Yup. The dirty little secret that modern welfare state governments (and yes, the US is a 1st world welfare state - we just aren't very good at it.....) need property and income taxes because they are stable. Sales taxes, excise taxes, tariffs, can all swing wildly with the business cycle leaving government budgets to swing likewise.

I'm only disappointed that since Trumps coin was $TRUMP, Melania's wasn't $TRUMPETTE.

Tariffs will act just like sales taxes in the sense that they will hit the bottom half of the income distribution hardest (as President Cleveland understood perfectly well a century ago). Just what the US income distribution needs is a Trillion in new taxes paid mostly by the underclass. We are doomed.

Qouth the Dodgers: "All your players are belong to us"

Melania knows how to sell herself.

Pretty simple really. I want him to support vaccine research and use since that's how you eventually solve it for the birds as well as any people once it makes the jump we are all waiting for. (not!)

Here in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor, we just voted to allow the City to start up it's own electric utility. Talk about daylight madness. Granted DTE has done a ****ty job of line maintenance here for about 20 yrs - they basically stopped tree trimming hoping people would start paying them for it. Well they didn't particularly care to, and the power outages in town are probably the #2 civil complaint after the potholes. So in the last couple of years, after the "public power" political drumbeat started, DTE has upped line replacement and maintenance in a big way, but the it was too late to salvage their reputation in town and the public utility initiative sailed through in the election. Now of course it's the City that is already responsible for the roads, (that #1 complaint) which they can't figure out how to maintain, so doesn't it make perfect sense to give them charge of something infinitely more complex to do than paving roads and filling holes? Sure it does.....

No, but his buddy RFKj may be the worst pick in the world to try and end it.

Yup. You can have all the stuff in the world, but you have to have command. His walk rates last year were too high. Certainly something everyone assumes will fall into line, but he hasn't proven it yet.