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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.

  • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
    3·
    3 days ago

    Except his tariffs weren’t doing anything to change that dynamic.

    So, in fact, you do not agree with him in tariffs.

    If you want to bring back manufacturing to the US, you didn’t start off your tariff war by increasing the price of every single raw material we need to build those factories and their products. Which is what he did. He had imposed tariffs on steel, wood, aluminum, etc even before his “liberation day” tariff the planet stunt.

    • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      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.

      • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
        1·
        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.

        • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          12·
          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.