Or tariffs on countries with terrible labour policies. It's always annoyed me that labour is never involved in free trade negotiations and the stuff that makes it in are requirements for standardisation or intellectual property, but never anything about labour standards.
Of course, that's by design, because all of those things are neoliberal constructs and the whole point of those is to break labour power, but it's disappointing you never even see anyone pay lip service to anything like that.
Eh, the newer members that were elected in his wake are even more sycophantic. It's not like there's any never Trump Republicans that got elected since.
Again, not against the proposal, it would be great to have senators that have used a computer before writing laws in this digital age, but I don't think it would help against this sort of a scenario.
And it's such a weird hill to die on. It's actually one of the things where I don't believe there's any ambiguity about whether he has the right to do it. Unless Congress has named it, he can do that and you just have to deal with the fact that this government will call that body of water the Gulf of America.
It's obviously a stupid thing to do, but out of all the things to take a stand on, it's just weird, especially after almost a decade of sanewashing his bullshit.
Then again, there hasn't been any point to having a press pool follow the President in decades, they're just stenographers, you might as well just read the press releases and type them up instead. Or do real journalism by getting information from sources you've cultivated relationships with.
Sure, in general that would be great, but I don't see how that would solve the current issue. Trump was a complete outsider before running for President.
Right, so while it does have its intended protectionist and national security benefits, it's at the cost of higher prices for everyone and thus a drag on the economy and subsidising the rail transport oligopoly.
Not sure how the Panama canal features into this tho, unless Trump follows through on annexing Panama, wouldn't it still be a foreign port for the purposes of the Jones act? And isn't that immaterial anyway when it's used as a transit point?
Isn't the Jones act so onerous that it basically had the opposite effect of killing the US shipping industry entirely? I think I read that somewhere a long time ago.
Yep, they'll get the government sued and lose so much more money through litigation and actually losing the law suits.
But of course, they don't care, for all their talk about deficits and taxes they know it's not their money in the end.
Unless some genius lawyer manages to somehow make Musk personally liable, of course, because none of this Doge stuff looks set up properly, so if the US ever does get back to some sort of rule of law, people will get in trouble for breaking all sorts of laws.
Sabotage, or the fact that the best rocket scientists probably don't want to work for a Nazi on ketamine?