Trump

[Kenny]

Im sure then congress and the senate will impeach him, find him guilty and remove him from office, right?

good one

 

[leedswolf]

if he wants tariffs setting, he’s now got to go to congress and sell the advantages of them and why they’re a good idea.
In reality he’ll say the court is full of Obama and Biden judges, who are anti USA and want America to be communist run from china or Canada and they arent great business brains like he is, and tariffs are bringing in trillions of dollars

His administration will probably look to use some other legislation to enact the tariffs...

 

[Alan]

Not all of the tariffs he’s instituted were part of this ruling, just the ones justified by IEEPA. I believe that they represent just over half of the $30 billion that the tariffs have accrued every month.

I expect that Trump will have been furious with this, full stop. He really believes in his idea of what tariffs are, detached from reality though it may be. The idea that the government is going to have to refund the IEEPA tariffs might actually strain him so badly that he just keels over.

Addendum: IEEPA => International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Dear manbaby

Those judges. The ones you called "political" and "catering to a group of people in DC" Yes, those ones.

YOU appointed half of them.

 

[Alan]

"They’re against anything that makes America strong, healthy, and great again. They also are, frankly, a disgrace to our nation, those justices."

Chief Justice Roberts is going to go nuclear.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

The necessary constitutional split between executive and judiciary seems to be something that has passed that imbecile by.

 

[leedswolf]

We had similar in the UK regarding Brexit. The media went full on.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

The Heil and Trump being on the same page is not a shock. I remember that front page and being bloody angry about it at the time.

 

[Alan]

The necessary constitutional split between executive and judiciary seems to be something that has passed that imbecile by.

Theoretically, Congress is supposed to keep that divide in place by approving or rejecting cabinet nominees. Instead, they allowed the likes of Bondi, Noem, Hegseth, and Worm F Kennedy to have their current roles.

I am hoping that this presidency will codify a DoJ which is, at least by statute, independent, not unlike the Federal Reserve. Bondi is a load-bearing pillar of the entire regime simply because she is the one who decides what is and isn’t a crime that should be prosecuted. She has shown up the DoJ as too powerful and critical to ever allow to be so directly subordinate to the executive.

 

[Keef]

Being as he got slapped down by the Supreme Court yesterday over his 10% tariffs, today he’s raised them to 15%, apparently because he was angry and hurt by the decision

 

[leedswolf]

Being as he got slapped down by the Supreme Court yesterday over his 10% tariffs, today he’s raised them to 15%, apparently because he was angry and hurt by the decision

Trump announces further increase of global tariffs from 10% to 15%

After most of his tariffs were outlawed on Friday, Trump announced new global tariffs of 10% - which he says he has now increased to 15%.

www.bbc.co.uk

For tariffs under section 122 of the Trade Act, the president must determine that:

The U.S. has a large and serious balance-of-payments deficit and that deficit threatens the U.S. economy

This means:
The U.S. is importing far more than it exports
The situation is serious enough to justify emergency trade action

This authority was originally meant to address currency or trade crises, and not general trade policy goals.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I thought Greenland's leader dealt rather neatly with Trump's post about sending a hospital boat as "many people are biggly sick in Greenland"

"We have free healthcare for all in Greenland, unlike in your country where people have to pay to get treated."

 

[Lupo]

Armed Man Is Fatally Shot at Mar-a-Lago, Secret Service Says

The local sheriff identified the man as a 21-year-old resident of Cameron, N.C. The president was not at his resort in Florida and has not commented on the shooting.

www.nytimes.com

 

[leedswolf]

Trump warns Netflix of ‘consequences’ unless it pulls top Democrat from board

US president calls for removal of Susan Rice as streaming platform pursues takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

www.theguardian.com

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Well that isn't abuse of position at all.

 

[Kenny]

I thought Greenland's leader dealt rather neatly with Trump's post about sending a hospital boat as "many people are biggly sick in Greenland"

"We have free healthcare for all in Greenland, unlike in your country where people have to pay to get treated."

It seems Trump may have got confused here...no really.

A US submarine crew member fell ill and a helicopter crew from Denmark collected him and took him for urgent medical attention in Greenland.
Thats who they are going to get but lil old Don decided the hospital ship was to rescue locals who were ill and desperately needed US help

 

[EdgeOfTheAlps]

It seems Trump may have got confused here...no really.

A US submarine crew member fell ill and a helicopter crew from Denmark collected him and took him for urgent medical attention in Greenland.
Thats who they are going to get but lil old Don decided the hospital ship was to rescue locals who were ill and desperately needed US help

Also, they aren't going to send a hospital ship that is currently in dry dock for repairs (as are both US navy hospital ships), when they can pop him on a plane at a very tiny fraction of the cost. Seems like his brain is end-stage so here's hoping

 

[Alan]

All really fascinating. It's incredibly rare to have a submariner get evac'd mid-deployment, and this might be the first time I've ever heard of it being assisted by a foreign military, even an ally (doesn't mean it hasn't happened, of course). I'm surprised the Danish military put information out about it.

Bizarre in many ways. Thoughts for the sailor and his/her family, though.

 

[Alan]

Also, they aren't going to send a hospital ship that is currently in dry dock for repairs (as are both US navy hospital ships), when they can pop him on a plane at a very tiny fraction of the cost. Seems like his brain is end-stage so here's hoping

Heli's are typical for submarine medevacs due to size and speed. Any mid-mission medevac from a submarine must go completely undetected or the entire deployment is squandered, and ships are too large, slow, and easily tracked to be useful in those scenarios.

Surfacing is the most dangerous thing a submarine ever does and even the slightest hint of detection can scupper months or years of spending, planning, training, etc etc.

 

[Kenny]

I'm surprised the Danish military put information out about it.

Bizarre in many ways. Thoughts for the sailor and his/her family, though.

The shite from Trump kind of forces their hand doesnt it.

Saying you are sending a "hospital" ship could be seen as the USA are actually sending in troops ready for his land grab...so they have to release the truth.