Hodad

The intent is to replace low paying service and gig jobs with higher paying manufacturing work. It's not an unreasonable desire, but there are much smarter ways build up manufacturing. Perhaps without strangling the economy and crushing consumers with this thoughtless, regressive trade war.

Lol. You live in an echo chamber fantasy land. Trump inherited a strong Obama economy, enacted tax cuts (mostly for the wealthy), enacted tariffs and STILL performed worse on jobs than the economy he inherited. This bullshit about tariffs bringing jobs back to the US during Trump 1 is pure wishful thinking. Obama created 1.6 million more jobs than Trump over a three-year period "Trump’s boasts about how many jobs he has added don’t include that he has generated 6.5 million jobs under his Presidency vs. the 8.1 million, or 1.6 million fewer than Obama did under the same timeframe. On average Obama created 43,000 more jobs per month than Trump." ^^and that's before we even get to the COVID mismanagement. You don't have a clue.

Everything you say here is correct. However talking in isolation about tariffs (rather than inclusively about tax cuts for the wealthy) as Gatomontes was doing simply means making working class people pay more for goods so that (hypothetically) other working class people can have jobs. Jobs are great, but the approach is wildly ignorant and haphazard.

If you'd like to see an actual conservative intellectual (like hunting for an endangered species) you might give this a watch. The partisan defense is still there, but there is thinking behind it. Oren Cass - Understanding Trump Tariffs Through the Lens of “The New Conservatives”

Lol. So, some sort of wealth transfer through taxation is now good? 🤪 Did someone hit you on the head with a mallet recently? The problem in this case is that it's taking from the working class to give to the working class rather than the CEOs making 500x as much as their employees.

Rand Paul is right that conservatives did used to understand that tariffs are taxes on the people, and that, yes, they gave up all the things they used to believe in. But still an ldiot, because these taxes came specifically through representation. The fools voted for this. They brought it upon us. You can't support an agent of chaos and then complains when it bites you.

The irony of importing twitter videos while claiming to "ignore the noise" is hard to miss. Meanwhile, that guy is a partisan hack and shameless liar, BTW. Is that why you're a fan? The US government does NOT control oil production. Oil companies produce as much oil as they think will be strategic and profitable. The Biden administration did not cut oil production--nor could they. Oil companies cut production because it was farking COVID times and people weren't driving nearly as much. Supply and demand. Nor did Biden solicit criminal immigrants with malicious intent. Nor is Musk discovering vast fraud. Rather he crows about "discovering" some crazy thing and it bounces around the conservative echo chamber for a day before someone who actually knows what they are doing explains how these systems actually work. If, if, if. If Trump can ride a unicorn into space it will be the most substantial presidency! He's living in a fantasy land as Trump strangles the life out of the economy and the liberty out of the citizenry.

Exactly. Trump's erratic nature means this isn't a change in direction, but a passing storm. Like a hurricane, it comes, it wreaks destruction, and then it goes. Businesses may do a few easy things, but are not going to significantly reorganize their strategies or make massive investments to align to his passing fancy. They will hunker down and wait out the chaos. Common people will get hurt. A few cronies will make some fast cash, and the economy will stagnate. It's Florida hurricane season come to the national economy. For Trump voters, this is a self inflicted wound.

Yes, I'm sure they will make a lot of noise and you chimps will jump around hooting for a while. But if they plan to do anything meaningful they better have something serious. What's actually posted up there is just standard operating procedure: no comment on investigations.

FBI for forever: No comment on ongoing investigations. Conservatives: Okay. FBI on Hunter laptop: No comment on ongoing investigations. Conservatives: Conspiracy and cover up! Acknowledging that they, the FBI, have a laptop, is an entirely different matter than fact checking every claim that Giuliani and his media pals make about an unvetted, alleged copy of the data. Of course they shouldn't be doing that. Sorry that long-standing, common sense policy wasn't politically convenient for people who wanted to smear Joe Biden with unsubstantiated accusations weeks before an election. But you people have to understand that the FBI isn't a political agency. It's an investigative agency.

Again? Sigh. We are both. They are not exclusive. As long as we the people are electing our leaders, it's democracy in action.

These are the same people for whom George Soros was the boogeyman for decades because he supported liberal organizations financially. Too much influence! And now we have Musk nakedly offering cash for signatures, support and realistically for votes. Everyone knows that this is not how democracy is supposed to work, but his ideological allies are willing to overlook it because they believe in the MAGA dogma far more than they believe in democratic values. We're just a quick jump away from auctioning off political positions to the highest bidder. Extreme income inequality bleeding into electoral inequality.

Believe it or not this is one area where someone smarter actually got through to Trump. They pulled the Stefanik nomination for UN Ambassador because they knew that with the mess he's made, Republicans were unlikely hold that seat in NY if she left. They can barely hold non-competitive Florida districts, so they are currently in trouble anywhere competitive.

This will be a confusing time for the Republican base, who don't seem to know anything of politics aside from the price of eggs and gas. They don't know or care about the unprecedented attacks on civil liberties, private business, the environment, education, human rights etc., but they are all consumers. We are 3.5 months into this unmitigated disaster, but most of them aren't aware. They will notice this though.

And academics and intellectuals have started fleeing the country for Canada as Trump continues to abuse political power and the legal system to crack down on free thought and free speech.