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Happy Anniversary, Liberation Day
Read more . . . →One year ago this week, Trump stood in the Rose Garden and announced the highest tariffs in nearly a century. Called it “Liberation Day.” Promised it would bring back factory jobs, rebuild American manufacturing, and make other countries pay. Well, here’s your scorecard: factory jobs are down, inflation is up, and the Supreme Court ruled the whole thing was illegal. Liberated from what, exactly? Your own paycheck? The best part is the $2,000 rebate checks he dangled in front of everyone like a carnival prize. Not a single one has hit anyone’s bank account. Meanwhile, over 2,000 companies — including...
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The $175 Billion Self-Own
Read more . . . →He hired them. They ruled his tariffs illegal. Now he owes $175 billion in refunds. The system works, I guess.
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The Tariffs Aren't Working So Naturally We're Getting More Tariffs
Read more . . . →A year into the tariff experiment and the results are in: automakers have eaten $35 billion in costs, American families are paying an extra $1,500 a year, and thousands of autoworkers — the exact people these tariffs were supposed to protect — are sitting at home on indefinite layoff. GM just cut 900 workers at Fairfax. Stellantis workers at Sterling Heights got told not to come in because engines from Mexico aren’t showing up. The tariffs broke the supply chain and the workers got the bill. So what’s the administration’s response to all this winning? More tariffs. USTR Jamieson Greer...
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Your Car Just Got $4,000 More Expensive So Trump Could Pretend He Saved Manufacturing
Read more . . . →Thirty-five billion dollars. That’s how much Trump’s auto tariffs have cost carmakers so far, and guess who’s eating it? Not the CEOs — their margins slid from 8% to 4% and they passed the rest straight to you. Sticker prices on imports from Canada, Japan, Germany, and Mexico are up thousands of dollars. The average American household is paying $1,500 more per year in tariff costs across the board. This was supposed to bring manufacturing home. A year in, automakers still don’t even know which tariffs are staying. Real stable policy environment you’ve built there, guys. The Supreme Court already...
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Man Picks Supreme Court Justices, Gets Mad When They Do Their Job
Read more . . . →Trump is publicly raging at Barrett and Gorsuch — two justices he personally appointed — because they had the audacity to rule that the president can’t just make up taxes whenever he feels like it. The man hand-picked judges to rubber-stamp his agenda and is genuinely shocked that two of them decided to read the Constitution instead. Meanwhile Kavanaugh, Alito, and Thomas voted to let him keep the money. Three out of five ain’t bad when you’re trying to build an authoritarian judiciary, I guess. The fallout is spectacular. Over 2,000 companies including Costco and FedEx are now suing for...
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The Party of the Working Class
Read more . . . →The Trump administration just gutted joint-employer rules and independent contractor protections in the same month. Corporations can now wash their hands of the workers who make them rich while those same workers lose every legal avenue to fight back. The “party of the working class,” everyone.
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The Only Thing He Reshored Was the Recession
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariffs illegal and now US businesses are owed $130 billion in refunds while 98,000 manufacturing jobs vanished on his watch. The only thing he reshored was the recession.
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"Winding Down" Is a Weird Way to Say Deploying More Marines
Read more . . . →Trump posted that he’s “winding down” the Iran war while the USS Boxer and thousands of Marines are literally sailing toward the Persian Gulf right now. He also had to lift sanctions on Iranian oil because his own war spiked gas prices so bad his Treasury Secretary is panic-buying barrels like it’s a Costco run. Starting a war you can’t afford and then buying your enemy’s oil to clean up the mess is peak American foreign policy.
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Read more . . . →The guy who sells deodorant sweated through his suit at a Trump rally. Sometimes the meme makes itself.
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Accused Rapist Gets His Travel Ban Lifted by Trump's Friends, Posts Selfies
Read more . . . →Andrew Tate is posting nightclub selfies in Hong Kong right now because US right-wing figures close to Trump pressured Romania into lifting his travel ban — the same guy facing rape and trafficking charges in two countries. Meanwhile his associate is bragging about dinner with Barron at Mar-a-Lago on a Netflix documentary, because apparently the first family’s guest list and a sex trafficking indictment aren’t mutually exclusive anymore.
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