President Trump will impose a 10% tariff on all countries
It’s just whatever at this point. Clearly he’s gunning for recession, fuck it. Nobody in Congress stopping him.
At this point all those emergency powers Congress has given the President since the 1920s needs to be pulled back because clearly we can no long assure that the President won’t declare everything an emergency.
Schedule F classification. Trump tried it once towards the end of his first term, promised that he would do it again when he came back into office but Trump lost that election.
That he’s now doing again is literally no surprise. He absolutely promised that this would happen and spoke about how he was going to do it if he won 2024 after losing 2020.
Long story short, this creates what basically amounts to at-will employment at the Federal level. Again, this should come as a shock to no one, like he started detailing the implementation back in 2022, before he even got the nomination, it’s literally one of the most consistent things about Trump’s policy.
Now if you’re wondering, yes, at-will employment styled employment in Federal Office will mean that if Trump doesn’t like someone for any reason, they can be let go, zero employment protections.
Elon Musk is neither President or Vice President, yet yields a massive amount of power for someone who is just “an independent contractor”.
This is what I’m getting at. That a JD Vance President and Mike Johnson VP (let’s just say for sake of illustration) could indicate they’re bringing Trump on as a “consultant” and then leave their jobs largely up to him.
Technically speaking Vance would still hold the title President but Trump would be executing most of the functions.
Yeah. Then Putin took back the role of President using the argument that Medvedev being President allowed Putin to run again despite term limits.
Medvedev became Prime Minister, then everyone in Parliament resigned all at the exact same time, leaving the President as the only one running the place.
Putin rewrote the Constitution and that was the end of that.
NBC News asked about a possible scenario in which Vice President JD Vance would run for office and then pass the role to Trump. Trump responded that “that’s one” method.
That isn’t a method. At in the sense that Trump obtains the title President. But we’ve seen during this administration that the President can delegate broad authority to others with zero questions.
So we could have a President who is still the President in name but has passed 99.9% of their duties to Trump who is an “independent contractor”.
This is quite literally the foundation they’re building with Musk.
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If at any point she actually believed Trump was going to do that, then mission accomplished. Her energy to empower Trump was wasted and she is only a fraud to herself.
I have very little in any expectation that she will learn from this. She will absolutely believe the next con man and lose again. That whole
I’m not sure that I would have [voted for Trump], and the way that it’s been done… I’m for balancing the budget, that type of thing, but not, not in this context, it’s just not right
Is just so devoid of any rational thought that I find it difficult to believe this person is real. And if what she says is indeed the fact, she’s too blind, lacking a better appreciation of how government works, or some mixture of both that one could likely bank on her falling for this exact same con several more times in her life.
There’s just no way anyone could have listened to Trump in the run up and bought so blindly what he was pitching. Just a simple basic understanding of the notion that humans lie is enough to have seen past Trump. Truly if this whole story is true, there’s not a stopping this lady from more self flagellation. She is in a position that being a rational thinking person would not get themselves into, so there is no rational means to help her escape her level of desire to cause self harm.
The President doesn’t have authority over Courts like that.
Congress regulate the scope of the Courts per Article III Section 1 of the Constitution. However, the Courts have the ability to rule any law unconstitutional that changes their authority too much.
Congress cannot get rid of the supreme court. It must always exist. But they can reduce the size to a single judge.
Hypothetically speaking, Congress can change the Justice system to be a single court with a single judge. Now they can reduce the size, but they can only impeach judges out of their job. So if they reduced the size to a single judge, they would have to wait until all the other justices died off or impeach the eight they want to get rid of.
The President only has the power to appoint Judges. And also Executive Orders only apply to the Executive. So EOs don’t apply to Congress or the Judicial.
All that said, nothing stops the President from arresting Judges and throwing them in jail until the President gets his way. No President does that because that would likely lead to a very bad place for the US.
Of course that only applies to Presidents who give two shits about the country. So to answer your question, normally no. With Trump? I mean it wouldn’t surprise me if he started disappearing judges he didn’t like.
Congress has the power to nullify any and all tariffs with a two-thirds vote in each chamber.
Congress can then start rescinding those emergency powers acts that let Trump do this if he declares an emergency. Likely that’ll need two-thirds vote as well.
Congress used to have Legislative Veto until it was ruled unconstitutional back in the 80s. Those emergency powers should have been reformed then.
Idiot. You literally voted to give the President the ability to call sequestration. It’s right there in section 1113 of the fucking continuing resolution YOU voted for.
Schumer literally voted for this to happen and is now shocked that it is indeed happening. Goddamn, dude. Everyone told you to not give into the orange shit, you gave in anyway.
Literally this is peak FAFO. What a fucking idiot. THIS is why Democrats are losing.
Now my heart is doubtful. The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure. How shall any tower withstand such numbers and such reckless hate?
Infrastructure week deux, the Tariff bugaloo.
“Wasn’t me”
— Pete Hegseth
Ah yes, the classic Shaggy defense. What’s that shit conservatives say? We’re still in the first year.
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He has pent up emotional trauma that he has refused to work through with a therapist like a normal human being.
Thus he sees inflicting human suffering as a viable alternative to working through those issues. Because that was he can feel better knowing others are worse off.
That’s the dog. Should it be in the race? Nah. But some cucklefucks just refuse to act like normal human beings. Maybe a therapist isn’t alpha male enough or some shit? But for one reason or another they just refuse to address their mental trauma like normal people.
Supposedly the White House Historical Association.
We’ve given an order for a lot. We can’t tell you the price,
Goddamn, that’s all we needed to do. Biden orders a shit ton of solar panels and batteries and then just say “nah, I’m not going to tell you the price.”
Any Democrat not on this “I’m not saying” budget plan just needs to GTFO of Congress yesterday. Who needs power of the purse when you can just say “make me” when Congress asks you to follow the law?
I’ll say it again. These Mennonites are never going to change their stance on vaccines. Most are stuck with beliefs dating back to the early 1700s. Hell the couple in question with the six year old who died speak a broken English + Early 18th Century Low Germanic language.
These people are beyond back woods. Asking them to change is about as likely as having the sun set in the East. Their daughter dying from a preventable disease isn’t some lack of prevention, to them it was the will of God.
You might as well walk up to a seven year old and ask them to perform triple bypass surgery. These people are unable to understand a vaccine. They lack the quantifiable knowledge to even begin to comprehend a vaccine.
People might ask how many of their children must die before they vaccinate. The answer is 100% of them. Likely fully explaining vaccines and microbiology to them would likely be seen as human arrogation in God’s will. They would rather be wiped from the face of the Earth than to believe they have some sort of say over God’s will.
That is the kind of people we are talking about here. They will unquestionably follow the “laws” of their religion even if it means the painful death of everyone they love. You CAN NOT CHANGE these people. It is impossible.
It’s because these people are poorly educated. This group of Mennonites is very back woods thinking. There are zero ways they will ever trust vaccines.
You ask what percentage of kids it will take? 0% All of their children could die and they would chalk it up to God’s will and get busy on making more.
Most people cannot comprehend just how backwards some of these groups are but think of life early 1700s. That’s what you are dealing with. No one can convince these people anymore than someone can make the sun set in the East.
There is nothing that can be done about these people. Hell some don’t even speak English, they still speak the old low German language. Like this couple they speak a broken mix between 1700s German and English that’s developed in that area.
I cannot stress this enough, these people are never going to vaccinate. The cost of life is completely irrelevant in this aspect.
If it passes the House, it doesn’t matter, Trump can veto it.
Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha in 1983 declared Legislative Veto unconstitutional. It should have been then when all the emergency powers were rewritten.
So as it stands. All those emergency powers that were written with the understanding that a simple majority was all that was needed to end an emergency, now need a veto proof majority.