said it was the reciprocal tariffs. Still some on steel and other various things, I think. surely prices will go down on basic goods and necessities!
It was the ones based on IEEPA I believe. So basically any time he claimed it was an "emergency." Tariffs that Congress has actually authorized will stay in place.
I imagine there will be a flurry of law suits similar to what Costco is already doing to recover the money.
Hey, remember when some of us said that this administration was trying to do a full Nazi speed-run INCLUDING concentration camps and a lot of people (who conveniently no longer post here) said that was ludicrous and would never happen? https://www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/1522/639070371368585296 Good times...
Don't worry everyone. Howard Nutlick is going to make a killing off the tariffs being overturned. https://www.wired.com/story/cantor-fitzgerald-trump-tariff-refunds/ https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/democrats-warn-cantor-fitzgerald-tariff-143852726.html
I still can't believe someone on this board told me that the Supreme Court that was specifically chosen to overturn Roe v Wade would never overturn Roe v Wade.
And now Tampa airport is being renamed the Donald Trump International Airport. After Trump trademarked that name. So now they have to license the name of the airport from Trump. IT'S ONE BIG FUCKING GRIFT.
No it means we're all fucked either way. If the tariffs stay, corporations will force consumers to pay for it, and they have, in perpetuity. If the tariffs stay gone, the fed is responsible for refunding them. At which point, the cost will again be put on the back of consumers, but prices will stay raised because consumers have demonstrated a lack of elastic demand when they should have. Roberts' opinion was good, just 10 months too late.
Still insane to me that the courts didn't implement a TRO within hours of the tariffs being put into place, based on the premise that "the President thinking the Swiss President is an uppity bitch is not a national emergency and unlikely to win on the merits."
Think of all those retarded and impulsive shopping sprees being planned by the dipshits who elected him, and now having their dreams smashed to shit. Dreams that any fucking idiot knew were never going to come true.
I’m interested to see how the company I work for will react to this. so I work at the HQ for a national clothing retailer, and since this tariff bullshit started, we’ve been having to adjust costs up and down and up and down, dependent on whatever Trump thinks at any given time. My wife works in that department. To try and mitigate that nightmare, clothing is being sourced from new warehouses to try and lower the costs, which has caused a lot of bullshit in the quality control area (which is my spot). Jeans that used to come in and immediately go out are now having to be checked 100% for piss-poor stitching - and it’s a judgement call for each person doing it, since overall they all look like ass.
The law he used for this one has a 150 day limit on any tariffs instituted. We'll see how that plays out.
Everybody’s freaking out about him saying “I can destroy a country,” but really all his rambling was “I have all these powers, but not those powers. Who decided to separate all these powers?!?”
It was an interesting reveal of his mindset though. It's such a purely legalistic/transactional/black-and-white way of thinking. It's all what he can or cannot do, but never what he should do, or is expected to do. The idea that these powers exist to facilitate a job, with defined goals like "the general welfare," doesn't occur to him. Nor does the idea that he occupies a public trust, and that he's not supposed to betray that trust by using the position's powers for ill.
I’ve been searching for the last few weeks for an article about Trump and Pence and their final conversations before he left office in 2021. I can’t remember the actual quote, but it was that Trump just couldn’t comprehend Pence so openly saying he couldn’t single-handedly keep Trump in office. Like, Trump knew he lost, knew he couldn’t win any of the lawsuits, and also knew Pence couldn’t do a damn thing about it - but it was the fact that Pence admitted it that bothered him. but what can you expect from a guy who couldn’t even delete a tweet where he fat-fingered the send button before auto-correct could kick in, and instead turned “covfefe” into some secret presidential power?