Itâs particularly funny given that, if Trumpâs characterization of the order is at all accurate, it does absolutely nothing, making it one of the least consequential executive orders in US history (along with a whole bunch of Trumpâs other performative bullshit).
Today I was thinking about people that make fun of how Trump talks about âlosing moneyâ via international trade, comparing it to the idea that youâre âlosing moneyâ by buying groceries (or whatever), and realizing that it actually isnât a comparison that works for Trump, because heâs famous for buying things and then not paying for them (and, in fact, it became a business strategy to do business with small companies that he could then not pay and theyâd go bankrupt and not have the money to sue him for what he owed). The basic idea that you spend money to buy something might actually be beyond him, the most basic ideas of how commerce functions that everyone else understands, he doesnât get, much less everything else about how markets work.
Trump being an idiot who has also started a trade war with the entire world, leaving him in the weakest possible position for any trade negotiations, is whatâs so absurd about his declaration that the US will have favored nation status without anyone actually⌠agreeing to it. Like, how does he think thatâs going to work? Heâll just declare it so, and every drug producing entity in the world will just go along with it (as if itâs even possible, given the range of entities selling drugs in different markets and the various factors that determine prices in different countries), rather than just saying, âLOL, fuck off.â
That Trumpâs framing this statement (which is the goal, rather than the plan, yet again) as this great achievement, that somehow heâs this genius for thinking of doing this thing that no one else could have/would have thought of⌠it makes it all the funnier (and aggravating, simultaneously).
Does he not understand it will take hundreds of millions of dollars to outfit the gift to make it safe for him to use and probably take years to do.
So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!! MAGA
Whatever happened to the new Air Force One he spent so much time ordering during his first administration?
I second @KathyPartdeux 's comment above.
Any half-awake security professional knows theyâre only allowed to assume âfull of that techâ.
âIâm sure itâll be fineâ is not a thought theyâre allowed to have.
Will their flights be landing at Newark with a connection to Greater Idaho? Asking for a friendâŚ
And at the end of Dumpâs term, should that occur, this very expensive âgiftâ will go to the Dump Library Foundation and a new Air Force One will have to be built at taxpayer expense for the next president?
Cue pharma companies cutting production. Theyâre not going to make stuff without knowing how much theyâre going to make on it.
Just like non-pharma companies reacting to tariffs.
Here comes empty shelves and empty pharmacies.
This is where our tax dollars are going thanks to Trump:
I am so pissed off by this shit. Fuck these racist assholes and the racist assholes in the executive branch.
No doubt weâll be hearing from MAGA types who are outraged their tax dollars are once again helping refugeesâŚ
[crickets]
Thatâs what Iâve read, which raises the exciting possibility it wonât even be ready by the time Trump leaves office, which means, if sanity is restored, heâll never see the inside of it. Fingers crossed.
I really fucking hate how anodyne and banal MSM makes these actions seem in the name of editorial neutrality.
Itâs ok. Speaking as a native English speaker I can confidently say most of what he writes is basically incomprehensible nonsense.
The rest of the world needs to pay their fair share! Or something. Itâs laughable that he blames democrats for this when they are the ones who for decades have been pushing for reforms that lower drug prices. This is also another case of him saying something with little substance and no real plan behind it that will only cause more chaos and confusion.
Assuming the FDA doesnât ban them because they want people to lose weight ânaturallyâ which is exactly the kind of shit I can see RFK Jr and his band of âwellness influencersâ promoting.
OMG Trump fucking negotiated this. He insisted Boeing retrofit existing planes rather than build new ones to save a paltry $1bn and this caused the massive delays as a result. Yes, it would have cost more, but itâs easier to build to spec than rip something âdown to the studsâ so to speak and rebuild it.
Here we goâŚ
A preliminary estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the proposals would reduce the number of people with health care by 8.6 million over the decade.
So the billionaire tax cut can be funded.
Just make everyone else gain 30 pounds.
