United States Politics: ∆τ_i*ε*φ*m_i<0 where ε=4 and φ=0.25

[PhoenixDark]

Trump is going to angry call Putin on monday and tells Walmart to "Eat the Tariffs" and not raise prices.

Remember when Kamala was called a communist for allegedly floating price controls...

It's not working and it's not going to work in the future. The tariffs will be passed to consumers, small businesses are still fucked with 30% tariff rates on China, and supply chain/port issues will become noticeable this summer. Good luck fellas. Your boy is shitting the bed.

[benji]

Remember when Kamala was called a communist for allegedly floating price controls...

I posted a bunch of them the other day in Kulturkampf after the same accounts were cheering Trump's prescription executive order. Charlie Kirk, DC Draino, etc. type of losers.

On an unrelated set of tweets there was this guy posting with a profile all about how he's a "classical liberal" trying to tell OP about how great tariffs are for economies. I posted "classical liberal except for one of their core tenets I guess" and he demanded to know what liberals I was talking about. I listed like half a dozen standard names like Mill, Constant, Cobden, Smith, etc. and he said I was stupid because they weren't talking about trade with anti-liberal nations like China that don't provide fair trade. Oh yeah, all those fair trade countries of the 18th Century.

[who is ted danson?]

[PhoenixDark]

Remember when Kamala was called a communist for allegedly floating price controls...

I posted a bunch of them the other day in Kulturkampf after the same accounts were cheering Trump's prescription executive order. Charlie Kirk, DC Draino, etc. type of losers.

On an unrelated set of tweets there was this guy posting with a profile all about how he's a "classical liberal" trying to tell OP about how great tariffs are for economies. I posted "classical liberal except for one of their core tenets I guess" and he demanded to know what liberals I was talking about. I listed like half a dozen standard names like Mill, Constant, Cobden, Smith, etc. and he said I was stupid because they weren't talking about trade with anti-liberal nations like China that don't provide fair trade. Oh yeah, all those fair trade countries of the 18th Century.

Not to mention the US being the king of unfair trade, piracy and counterfeit goods in order to undercut British dominance across that century.

[Uncle]

The number was 8647 

86 is suddenly declared a very well known mafia code number that means killing someone 

getting eighty-sixed is pretty well known I thought

I feel like I learned it from random cartoons in the 90s?

oh yeah the lamp says it in brave little toaster 

[killamajig]

[Alpacx]

Another angle 

[benji]

edit: I'm really not looking for these to post but Joey's special:

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

so is the supreme court based or not?!

[simiansmarts]

why is maga like this 
 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

The number was 8647 

86 is suddenly declared a very well known mafia code number that means killing someone 

getting eighty-sixed is pretty well known I thought

I feel like I learned it from random cartoons in the 90s?

oh yeah the lamp says it in brave little toaster 

I learnt it from Leaving Las Vegas

https://youtu.be/JaWM3DmiCVA?t=134

Bonus based Nick Cage.

[HaughtyFrank]

Its fun finding people who still don't understand Tariffs

[Ribosome]

I haven't heard much from Navarro or Lutnick lately (thankfully), are they tied up in Scott Bessent's basement?

[benji]

[benji]

Some of MAGA does not recognize this proud American company and has been sharing this:

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

CEO of Walmart:  

[HaughtyFrank]

[killamajig]

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-venezuelans-deportation-trump-5589f17e0ecd5d33bfb220e15720f88d

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation.

The court’s order, with only one noted dissent, puts on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month. The justices provided no rationale, which is common in emergency appeals.

The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife.

A federal appeals court had earlier rejected the administration’s request to put the order on hold while the lawsuit continues.

The case is the latest in a string of emergency appeals President Donald Trump’s administration has made to the Supreme Court, many of them related to immigration. Last week, the government asked the court to allow it to end humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, setting them up for potential deportation as well.

[Polident]

[benji]

[who is ted danson?]

[Nintex]

[Potato]

Imagine owning and living at a golf course and THAT'S your swing...

[TylenolJones]

 

Benji can you give Trump a toy plane on behalf of the bore?

[Nintex]

"Sorry I don’t have a plane"

"Then wtf are you doing here"

[Nintex]

[chronovore]

The playbook for every one of Trump's cabinet is identical: 
Q. Will you follow law X?
A. I will always follow the law. so you don't need to ask that question.
Q. Since you will always follow the law, and the constitution says X, will you commit to X?
A. I'll have to consult with the lawyers. 

It's fucking bald-faced in this piece, interviewing SpongeLong Squareface here.

[Uncle]

I have some sympathy to the overarching idea there

"if what you're saying is accurate, and it is the law, then yes I will follow it, but you're putting me on the spot here and I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not just going to say I'm going to do whatever you're saying, it's contingent on those two conditions being true"

in practice it shouldn't even be a question, even if it WASN'T the law you shouldn't aid the president in persecuting taxpayers, but I agree with the idea of not just saying you're going to do something based on someone else's word and then having that be on the record

if someone tells me it's illegal to eat pizza on thursdays I'm not just going to say "ok I won't eat pizza then," I'm going to say "if you're right about that, then I suppose I'll comply, but I kind of want to verify the accuracy of your statement before I commit"

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I have some sympathy to the overarching idea there

"if what you're saying is accurate, and it is the law, then yes I will follow it, but you're putting me on the spot here and I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not just going to say I'm going to do whatever you're saying, it's contingent on those two conditions being true"

in practice it shouldn't even be a question, even if it WASN'T the law you shouldn't aid the president in persecuting taxpayers, but I agree with the idea of not just saying you're going to do something based on someone else's word and then having that be on the record

if someone tells me it's illegal to eat pizza on thursdays I'm not just going to say "ok I won't eat pizza then," I'm going to say "if you're right about that, then I suppose I'll comply, but I kind of want to verify the accuracy of your statement before I commit"

Dude had three weeks to prep with lawyers, and he's the head of the pizza committee.

[Uncle]

the lawyers: "don't admit or commit to anything, as that could be used against you later on down the line, if pressed say you'll have to consult with us again"

[killamajig]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-bars-harvard-from-enrolling-international-students/ar-AA1FiMTj

The Trump administration has barred Harvard from allowing international students to enroll at the university, after the school lost its ability to use the Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

The SEVP program allows for noncitizens to study at the university under a specific visa.

"As a result of your refusal to comply with multiple requests to provide the Department of Homeland Security pertinent information while perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies, and employs racist 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' policies, you have lost this privilege," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote in a letter to the university.

According to the letter, she asked Harvard to give information over on student visa holder's "known" illegally activity; violent activity; threats to students or faculty; disciplinary actions taken as a result of being involved in a protest; information on whether the student obstructed the school's learning environment; and the coursework that the student is taking to maintain the visa status.

Noem said the school did not provide adequate information in response, and that it is a "privilege, not a right" for students to study at American universities.

"The revocation of your Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification means that Harvard is prohibited from having any aliens on F- or J- nonimmigrant status for the 2025-2026 academic school year.," she writes. "This decertification also means that existing aliens on F- or J- nonimmigrant status must transfer to another university in order to maintain their nonimmigrant status."

Noem said that "consequences must follow to send a clear signal to Harvard and all universities that want to enjoy the privilege of enrolling foreign students, that the Trump Administration will enforce the law and root out the evils of anti-Americanism and antisemitism in society and campuses."