Read somewhere that it boosted Russian owned us steel mills somehow.

Given the degree of US sanctioning on Russia, I’m not clear what a “Russian owned US Steel Mill” is even supposed to look like.

I remember Japanese Manufacturer Nippon Steel is moving towards full acquisition of US Steel, the largest steel maker in the country. That has, at least in part, been driven by the threat of US tariffs. But this only further illustrates the problem. Foreign mega-corps gobbling up domestic industry do nothing to improve the US economy.

I think any tariff that passes will have a swiss cheese of exemptions, because that’s just how the game is played in Congress.

Lobby hard enough and you’ll get your country excused one way or another.

Canada being the biggest trade partner would be prime for these.

It would be prime for Canadian ports, and for a host of middle men who get to launder trade goods through a legal loophole.

But that’s the real end game. Not domesticating manufacturing, but monopolizing channels for import/export.

Huge uptick in folks drinking 4 Loco.

Black Rifle Koffee

But (assuming a tarrif is something that can even pass) I imagine you’re going to see a swiss cheese of exemptions for favored countries. And these countries will become a back door for imports.

Expect all of your coffee to be mysteriously harvested from Canada.

Reminds me of those AI centers that drain the grid and suck up all the municipal water, only to run a fortune in PR about being Green.

As though using a Three Mile Island’s worth of electricity is doing the rest of the world a favor.

Good news for Korea and Japan, I guess

No need to invade when their economy collapses internally and Beijing can step up to buy the whole island out from the bargain basement bin.

Unironically what we’re going to hear Trump say. But also, there’s so much money in imports, I can see this plan getting bottled up and strangled in Congress very easily.

Seeing a stark void of “Fuck China” posts all of a sudden. Crazy what happens when the treat train gets held up at the border.

It’s not a pipe

The lesson that Democrats will take away from 2024 is that they should never run a woman for President.

Only the mouthpieces of the Microsoft Corporation can save us now.

America is dead

You’re thirty years to late to write The End of History. Fukuyama wasn’t right about it then, either.

Maybe those of you that stayed home

Speak for yourself. She only lost because you didn’t vote hard enough.

If American democracy survived Jackson, Buchanan, Hoover, and Nixon…

Most well paid clueless man, maybe

He expected to be his own brand, like Musk or Trump or Limbaugh. When he realized he was still just another faceless interchangeable mouthpiece, that definitely fucked his ego.

Given Tucker’s views on women, I don’t see a discrepancy

Really knows how to give a pounding

Me, at the opener for Bright Eyes

What is with people and self-snitching?

It’s AI generated and getting passed around Twitter/Right-Wing Facebook ad part of MAGA hysterics.