It’s worse, they still want the consumer to believe it is “chayna” who is raising the prices beyond the reasonable. This all so they can keep pointing their finger at “the enemy” for ripping off the consumer.

But when US based companies start listing the tariff rates separately, the imagined enemy vanishes like smoke…

They did more than influence the past election, and have plans to do the same in the upcoming ones… so ofcourse any regulation against these plans must be taken away.

Why not both? Add in a bit of malice as well…

It’s still his style of thinking “a deal needs a winner and a loser”.
Only the US will definitely be the loser as it goes bankrupt.

Problem is he disregards the rest of the world owning a piece of the US, from real estate to dollar value or gold reserves (which might get robbed by Trump as well if he raises the gold reserve’s value, he will claim “our” gold is worth 3x now but we will only count the original value of your stored gold).

So as an option Trump can confiscate foreign held real estate in the US (communism, anyone?) and perhaps deny anyone the debt owed them, or tank the dollar value to introduce a new Trumpcurrency … but that does not rebuild any of the lost trust and respect, the world will see the US forever as a derelict and creditless country which does not pay its debts. The now decimated amount of trade will be on the premise of pay first then we deliver.

Combine this with seriously reduced tax income, because the rich and companies still won’t need to pay taxes, and the US will not have any income to actually warrant a positive growth on the economic balance. Which in effect pushes it in the same deep debt situation it is now in and most likely far beyond.

After he tanks the system, internationally things will NEVER be the same, no matter how much Trump thinks it will be.

Granted, as it is now the US is and has been living far beyond its means, and a good restructuring is needed to reduce the enormous debt.
But the way Trump and the whole political system want to do it is not helping at all. To get out of such a debt one needs to take a hard look at the biggest expenditures (defense and the wages of the top everywhere) and imbalances of income (taxes).

“It’s just a few months of pain, then America will be great again!”

He still seems to be stuck in the past, ranting about things and feigned enemies that are no longer direct issues.

They’re most likely waiting out their time 'till Trump comes with a decree where he allows it, untill then they pay the fines and shrug it off.

I am a bit curious to where this will go, I agree it looks to be what you say, an opportunity to throw the case and get a ruling that will fortify things against a breakup.

On the other hand Musk despises the Zuck and is petty enough to work towards breaking up Zuckerberg’s empire behind the scenes. He would love to buy up chunks of it.

Yeah … the DEA will be useful and needs expansion for the coming suppression of unwanted drugs:

• The world devastating fentanyl crisis
• The poisonous measles, covid, shingles vaccines distributed amongst naive americans.
• The demonic influence of cannabis.
• Abortion medication distributed to pregnant women in abortion clinics.

It’ll probably save Medicare a few dollars as well so all is good in maga’s world.

What really needs to stop is the obscene bonus culture. It is quite disgusting to keep reading a company needs to lay off 500 people only to then give some CEO a bonus of 15million. Or banks running a deep 9 digit number loss in a year but still the higher ups get a bonus for some reason or a vague years old contractual promise. The top should feel loss first before it “trickles down”, and honest pay for honest work should include the top as well.

And while I am at it, senseless management jobs should be allowed to be contested, no more “manager toiletpaper” who only shows up once a week to make an order, yet makes 5x the wages of people under him.

Hahaha

This whole presidency is raised for maximizing CEO income and no taxes for everyone at the top.

It will be interesting if Trump actually manages to pull it off, because he’ll make the US swap places with China:
No one trusts the country anymore, but if it has low enough wages and proper production capability it will produce everything cheaply just to export it all overseas where the luxury goods will be sold. Of course all profits will be made overseas, not in the US because hardly anyone can afford the luxury items no more.

Meanwhile the production states will get deep smog clouds and intense small coal particle pollution in return. And the need for face masks will be back…

It requires people who eventually jump off the roof of the building…

He’ll start a war, internally or externally and use that as an excuse to block elections. Probably takes Zelenski as an example, no elections during wartime…

Or he’ll do a Putin, all election preparations go into a blender, real opponents are disqualified for arbitrary reasons, force his own name on the ballot then declare himself a winner.

Or… as he keeps throwing around, make sure there is voter fraud, hide it 'till it leaks then just proclaim the win/fraudulent elections and stay in power.

He’ll just start claiming “We helped those people, send them the best help and goods they need”.

And that’s it, in his mind the aid somehow has materialized and he can go back to his golf course again.

If it fails spectaculairly who will take the blame? Will there be any repercussions at all?

Or will Musk and Trump shrug their shoulders? Halfheartedly blame Biden for badly programming the original database then go play some golf/videogaminges?

The lawbook is the same, as is any judge’s role to oversee/uphold such law… But that’s inconvenient information.

So, as usual they use nice and plausible sounding words, but the end of the matter is that someone needs his decrees to be above (judgement against) the law…

Slowly taking away local judges’ (and states) rights to review nationwide law and only rule on local matters while the king decides is a callback to the middle ages.