President Trump

gordondaviesmoustache said:
It’s actually unbelievable that in a putative functioning democracy the judicial system can be overridden in this way.
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It really is.

She is convicted pedophile who should rot in jail for the 20 years she was sentenced to. Trump will pardon her as if she's somehow been hard done by, when in reality, the pardon system is for correcting potential miscarriages pf justice or unfairly harsh sentences.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
It really is.

She is convicted pedophile who should rot in jail for the 20 years she was sentenced to. Trump will pardon her as if she's somehow been hard done by, when in reality, the pardon system is for correcting potential miscarriages pf justice or unfairly harsh sentences.
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Looks to me like a system that forgives the rich and their enablers an out to what they’ve done.

Protectionism of the rich and powerful, they are above the law in a supposedly democratic society.

Then again, it is a republic. Banana type.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
Those famous 'guardrails' they're always banging on about.

'We could never have a dictator...'.

Yet here we are.
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Guardrails don’t work if they’re simply ripped off the side of the road by the public because they want to combat when they drive drunk. And those who are supposed to police such actions don’t.

“See? This was inevitable” is a pretty rearview mirror take when during Watergate — the greatest constitutional crisis prior to this one — the guardrails worked correctly. But they don’t if effectively ALL of the representatives of the people — every last one in the GOP IMO — don’t act in the greater interests of the nation. And by the way — Joe Biden didn’t either when he decided to run for re-election.

Blaming the system is effectively absolution for the bad actors.
 
halfcenturyup said:
How so?
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Some articles I've read describe the tariff war as "American unilateral bullying based on power politics." Clearly, Japan, South Korea, and Europe lack the resolve to resist. This is due to both American influence over them and their own domestic electoral considerations. After all, any economic costs incurred in resisting the U.S. could become the reason a ruling party loses the next election.

What makes Trump unique is that his actions often break norms and are highly audacious. However, the effects of this norm-breaking may not necessarily be rejected by the U.S. political establishment after he leaves office. The next U.S. president might retain some of Trump's tactics. Trump has expanded the boundaries of certain U.S. government actions—a bad omen for America's allies.

When it comes to confronting the U.S., its allies have no ideological preparation whatsoever—not even the narrative for it. People cannot imagine how to oppose the U.S., nor can they envision who would lead such opposition.
 
Alvin-blue-qhd said:
Some articles I've read describe the tariff war as "American unilateral bullying based on power politics." Clearly, Japan, South Korea, and Europe lack the resolve to resist. This is due to both American influence over them and their own domestic electoral considerations. After all, any economic costs incurred in resisting the U.S. could become the reason a ruling party loses the next election.

What makes Trump unique is that his actions often break norms and are highly audacious. However, the effects of this norm-breaking may not necessarily be rejected by the U.S. political establishment after he leaves office. The next U.S. president might retain some of Trump's tactics. Trump has expanded the boundaries of certain U.S. government actions—a bad omen for America's allies.

When it comes to confronting the U.S., its allies have no ideological preparation whatsoever—not even the narrative for it. People cannot imagine how to oppose the U.S., nor can they envision who would lead such opposition.
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Japan, EU et al aren’t rushing to resist the US. A 15% rate is below the threshold of retaliatory tariffs and no one is keen on increasing their own domestic pricing. Why would they? It’s dumb.

There are no trade deals in place. Nothing to adhere to, No obligations. It’s basically in return for a 15% tariff will you take part in my TV show. The price for the show is an increase in costs for US domestic consumers. Meanwhile, everyone else starts the process of boosting trade around the US and absent the US.

China is the outlier. Their exports rose 5.8% in June on a year on year basis while exports to the US fell by 16% - a lot of that is due to US companies having rushed in and stockpiled while they can. I have no idea how China will ultimately play this, nor Canada and Mexico and they are the three biggest US trade partners.

The US has always had a strong protectionist streak so who knows how it plays out after Trump, but the factors will be domestic. Food prices, gas prices etc they will be the determining factors and if the US consumer is happy to pay more at the till then a tariff rate will stay. Likely, the US consumer will pay more no matter what happens. Once a pricing is baked in and the US consumer gets accustomed to the higher prices then dropping the tariffs down to the previous average of around 5% will not see a reduction in consumer pricing. Any saving will go onto a company’s bottom line.

The legacy of all this will be that you can’t trust the Yanks, which I guess for China is good news.
 
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