The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Trump Admits His Tariffs Cause Inflation, Offers A Stunningly Bad Solution



That 300 000 metric tonnes figure represents about eight days of US beef consumption. This isn't even a band aid. This is pointing at the wound and laughing.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Supreme Court’s chief justice allows work on Trump’s $400M White House ballroom to continue for now

Roberts and SCOTUS once again put their thumb on the scales of justice by creating a delay instead of issuing a preliminary stay.

Actually, it was Roberts without SCOTUS. But you’re not wrong - a preliminary stay would have made more sense. If the ballroom is found to be unlawful, the Chief Justice, by allowing construction to proceed, becomes an accessory before the fact (de facto, not de jure).

Boru

[Angrboda]

[Angrboda]

Trump also has a general disregard for the $3.4 trillion worth of merchandise that the U.S. imports annually. Speaking in June about his North American neighbors, the president told reporters in the Oval Office: “We don’t need anything that Canada has, we don’t need anything that Mexico has, but they need everything that we have. … We don’t need their cars, we don’t need their lumber, we don’t need their energy, we don’t need anything that they have.”

In fact, U.S. farmers rely on Canadian sources for nearly 80 percent of the potash fertilizer they use each year, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Northern border states, including New York, Michigan, Vermont, Minnesota and Maine, run on electricity produced by Canadian hydropower. And Midwestern refineries are optimized to process heavy sour crude oil from Canada, helping keep gas prices lower than they otherwise would be, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/...-strategy/

[The Grand Nudger]

It makes more sense when you realize the people telling him that shit are fantasizing about the government building out for profit infrastructure to make it true under their control.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Trump also has a general disregard for the $3.4 trillion worth of merchandise that the U.S. imports annually. Speaking in June about his North American neighbors, the president told reporters in the Oval Office: “We don’t need anything that Canada has, we don’t need anything that Mexico has, but they need everything that we have. … We don’t need their cars, we don’t need their lumber, we don’t need their energy, we don’t need anything that they have.”

In fact, U.S. farmers rely on Canadian sources for nearly 80 percent of the potash fertilizer they use each year, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Northern border states, including New York, Michigan, Vermont, Minnesota and Maine, run on electricity produced by Canadian hydropower. And Midwestern refineries are optimized to process heavy sour crude oil from Canada, helping keep gas prices lower than they otherwise would be, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/...-strategy/

One day, Trump’s coterie of advisers is going to wake up to the fact that Mark Carney is smarter than their boss.

Boru