He’s not looking for a deal is correct. This is about market manipulation.
I hope the official response will be harsh. Like China did. China called Donny’s bluff until he folded. We EU should do the same. We don’t need the US. Many of their products are of poor quality, like their cars(or a major safety hazard). Most of their food is considered toxic according to our food standards. Their booze is disgusting. Their online services are criminally evil.
EU. Doesn’t. Need. America.
Don’t be afraid. Claim your freedom
I Hope that european Institutions and companies begin to use EU-tech. Like I don’t unterstand why my uni uses Outlook, Office and Teams instead of FOSS
americans have become scum
Not looking for a deal, looking for a grift. The stock markets will drop-- again-- and the rich parasites will gobble up more money. Then yam tits will claim victory while backing off like a little bitch.
I’m not religious but I sure hope that hell exists just so these people go there…
Thanks for the daily reminder why I’m switching to EU/FOSS Services, Donald
They banded together to take advantage of us.
Big brain moment
As Donald once said “that makes me smart”
Yeah, almost terrorism. They refuse to be my lackeys and lick my boots. They want to have a saying in world economy and enrich themselves and they aren’t even American!
Every single Republican, from voter to Congressman is responsible for this.
All I know is that it’s good to have cash for when the orange traitor decides to advance his boss’ interests.
*Euros
Cash? Try gold or something like that. Maybe even just plain water, food and medicine
Nah, it’s a dump and pump. You need cash to buy the dip
My presumption is he’s throwing a fit because Greenland signed a mineral rights deal with the EU.
Also the eu is sanctioning his bff, so he is retaliating on Putins behalf
Of course he doesn’t want a deal, he wants bribes. It’s literally a racket.
Fam, anybody got an old airplane in storage that we can gift him?
A bad one if possible
What about the Concorde? Fastest airliner and triple safe 🤞 it’s perfect for tramp.
Concorde, with a special modification just for him that gives it a tendancy to fly directly into the atlantic/indian/pacific oceans, or into RFK JR’s house.
JD could stick his dick in the aircraft’s seams while it’s supersonic
Ok EU, time to bring out the big guns. Someone call Airbus for an obsolete A380 and tell him we will send it to him as a “gift”. Big hands need the biggest possible aircraft.
That’s not big guns this is the big gun. Cutting the US off from our goods, capital and service markets, banning them from state contracts, suspending their intellectual property rights, such stuff. Annex 1 has the juicy bits.
Application would of course be targeted, e.g. hitting all of Peter Thiel’s businesses at the same time.
Good news. Whoever still thought it was still possible to get some slack by kissing Trump’s ass are now fully caught up with the reality that he is an unreasonable prick.
Now the real decoupling of economies from the US can begin.
Whoever still thought it was still possible to get some slack by kissing Trump’s ass
I dunno, Trump’s ass is probably really slack.
He’s not unreasonable he’s just a dickhead.
Give him money and he will do what you want, fuck anyone else or his country.
He is being completely reasonable if all he cares about is himself. He’s just a dickhead.
He will do what you want, for about 5 minutes and then he’ll hold out his hand for more and fuck you over anyway.
He’s not unreasonable he’s just a dickhead
He is definitely both of those things.
He’s not insane though (he’s not eating poop or giving away money), that’s the point. He’s just a c*nt who will burn in Hell because of his willful, aware, carefully planned amoral actions.
That would work only for a short timespan, then somebody else will give him something or he’ll have a shortcircuit in his two brain cells and we’re back to square one.
i defy anyone to say it better than you just did.
Every headline like this should make clear that him imposing tariffs by fiat is illegal and unconstitutional.
I hate the fact that the media just reports that he’s doing it without ever citing Article 1, Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Every one of these tariff manipulations has been 100% illegal, because the supposed emergencies he’s using to excuse them are nonexistent.
Congress has surrendered its powers to Trump. Democrats in congress are sleeping on the job.
REPUBLICANS in Congress have abdicated their constitutional duties. A few Democrats are collaborating.
While shitting on democrats is fun, even if they 100% were all against it, it would make no difference. The American people made sure to give republicans a majority in all chambers, so what dems do is a small piece of trivia. Have the day you voted for!
Democrats really can’t do much and you might not realise how close US is to the situation where Trump starts calling people foreign agents or criminals and locking them up. You ever wonder why he’s defying courts and clinging on to the ability to send people outside US judicial system.
it didn’t surrender anything, americans elected turnip in a majority of all houses
the Republican Party now has a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
that’s damn near as much as saying go ahead do whatever you want as possible
it didn’t surrender anything
It absolutely has. The he executive has literally no authority to impose tariffs - that’s Congress’ job. The executive has no authority to not spend money that Congress has appropriated - yet he is
These are easily blockable by Congress and should be in articles of impeachment.
Additionally Congress gave the president the ability to gain “temporary powers” during an “emergency” - and guess who gets to declare what constitutes an emergency? The president. And SCOTUS has blocked Congress from even being able to take it away without the president having a veto.
you elected turnip
Canadians don’t even vote for the Prime Minister of Canada. How would they have voted for the president of the US?
Says Americans did it for me, regardless democrats can’t do anything meaningful without the majority in a situation where Republicans are completely against any cooperation
8 Ds in the house has died this year alone. and no R has died as of yet. Ds dont have contigency replacements like the Rs do, they often do get rid of thier own most of the time before it gets worst.
Not a lawyer. Not an American.
But there must be more context, because by my read of this specific text it doesn’t appear to be defined as a power EXCLUSIVE to Congress?
Generally speaking if the Constitution doesn’t say you have a power and explicitly does say somebody else does it means that you don’t.
Though there are centuries of interpretations, laws, and norms that fill in the gaps that can make it more nuanced. It’s difficult to take a straight reading of the text and apply it to an event.
Not really. The US Constitution is a rather short document. This was by design, to only provide a bare framework for a government, to be amended over time. But that didn’t really happen, and most work has been done in Congress and by SCOTUS after Marbury v. Madison.
You can read a whole bunch of info in articles like https://constitution.findlaw.com/article1/annotation03.html, but the tl;dr is that the Constitution says only Congress can make laws, but it can delegate some other authority. The section we’re talking about here doesn’t say it’s a power exclusive to congress, no, but it says Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, and Congress acts through law (literally, “acts of Congress”), so logically, taxes can only be set through Congressional law. And usually they are. But all the rules have gone out the window.
