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Breaking News: President Trump has secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to begin using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels. It authorizes the use of the armed forces to carry out what in the past was considered a law enforcement responsibility.
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Trump couldn’t resist praising himself at a Purple Heart Day ceremony, reminding the crowd that the injuries he suffered during last year’s assassination attempt weren’t “easy” for him either.
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Trump couldn’t resist praising himself at a Purple Heart Day ceremony, reminding the crowd that the injuries he suffered during last year’s assassination attempt weren’t “easy” for him either.
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Looks like JT is going to have to write a 1000 word essay on how gerrymandering and a mid decade census helped upend the midterms.
Circling back to this. Why don’t more critics call this a tax? Everyone uses the term “tariff” and the GOP has successfully convinced their base that the foreign nations pay for tariffs. But a tariff is a form of tax. It’s a tax we are paying. This is moving us from income tax to a consumption tax. Lower and middle class households spend proportionately larger % of income on expenses vs savings/investments. We also find it harder to buy alternatives that avoid tariffs. So, this is a regressive tax.Rand Paul tries to speak sense to Larry Kudlow on tariffs: "We're getting $2 trillion in taxes on top of all the other taxes that we have. So ultimately conservatives have to decide -- do they like taxes because they're Donald Trump's taxes?"
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Rand Paul tries to speak sense to Larry Kudlow on tariffs: "We're getting $2 trillion in taxes on top of all the other taxes that we have. So ultimately conservatives have to decide -- do they like taxes because they're Donald Trump's taxes?"
If anybody still believes that the foreign countries pay these taxes, they are idiots. Like blindingly stupid.
I was talking to somebody about how prices for everything in my restaurant have gone up. Their answer was "well, just buy 'Merican then!". I do, dummy. Tariffs upset the ENTIRE supply chain. A case of 3 bottles of bleach has doubled in cost. If 1 single thing in the supply chain used to make that bleach, like packaging or ink used to print on the bottle, is affected...cost goes up.
It's literally one of the most simple economic concepts.
I think some people are just willfully ignorant. They are so blinded by partisanship that they just cannot comprehend that what they are being told by their leaders is a lie. For all the talk you hear about indoctrination at schools people spend a lot of time being indoctrinated elsewhere
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If a party's policies are good and popular, it shouldn't have to worry about the need for gerrymandering or foolishly fantasize about making conservative Canadian provinces as new states. After all, remember how Reagan won 49 out of 50 states for reelection? It's too bad how Trump never said he learned a lot from Reagan.
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Remember when Tucker Carlson was the biggest nut on Fox?
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Good point about indoctrination complainers likely being indoctrinated themselves elsewhere. The Christian Nationalists are sure indoctrinated and in turn want to indoctrinate those looking to be indoctrinated.
Trump's talk of his enthusiasm to impose huge tariffs on imports should have been enough to make enough people vote against him. You'd have to hope, though, they would find the good sense to vote NO should a vote ever come up to place a 50% national or state sales tax or tariff on the price of coffee. Any tariff would be dumb since there are hardly any domestic coffee growers to protect from imports. Maybe Starbucks and Dutch Bros. need better lobbyists.
Tariffs are mainly just a backhanded, sneaky way to raise your taxes all done by Trump with no need for Congress to first take a vote on it. Talk about taxation without representation.
Putting tariffs on food and drugs is just cruel and insane and all the more so in this age of inflation. Is the government still paying farmers not to grow crops?
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I think a lot of Oklahoma Republican women, probably even the majority of them, would vote for Republican political candidates who feel the same way toward women and all the more so if it's Nov. and the only other candidate is a Democrat. After all, Sen. Mullin won with 62% of the vote even though he said he is pro-life with no exception and wants a national ban on abortion.
The other thing that irritates me about "just buy American" is that they act like foreign sourced prices don't affect domestic pricing. If I'm being undercut on my widget by foreign suppliers then all of a sudden their prices increases by say 50%. Well, I may be inclined to raise my price to make up for the depressed pricing I was forced into just to compete with them in the first place. In other words, if I can sell just as many, or more, widgets while increasing my prices by say 25%, then I'm taking that cash.
I know there is a thread for Christian Nationalism but since this is here this is the guy people need to research. Doug Wilson is the growing focal point and is an evil man.
The Joel Osteens, Paula Whites and Kenneth Copelands are dangerous but they seek $. This guy seeks power to suppress and oppress. Truly an evil person in the officiates over known predators weddings and puts predators in homes w young children vein.
I had this conversation w a magastani adjacent last week. He ended the conversation bc he had no comeback for this question I posed.
If tariffs are paid by foreign governments or companies then why are republicans in congress supported by the trump White House looking to pass legislation that will pay you $600 in tariff relief?
Geez, $600 when the estimated cost to us is $2400. Goody goody gumdrops. tRump
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Geez, $600 when the estimated cost to us is $2400. Goody goody gumdrops. tRump
Well take that times a couple hundred million people. What's that about national debt we were talking about earlier?
Our national debt will be paid down by the patriotic multi millionaires and billionaires if they remain anonymous in the Epstein files no doubt.
100% true.
Those of us a little older remember democrats occasionally bringing up tariffs because of offshoring of jobs, and it was the republicans that always explained that it was just another tax paid by the American consumer.
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