Saint Pierre and Miquelon :
Tariffs charged to the USA : 99%
New US Tariffs: 50%
I was a bit confused by this, since Saint Pierre and Miquelon charges no tariffs to the US.
But I figured it out: Prohibition! Someone told 
about the staggering trade deficit the US ran at that time, and he wants it all back.
As much as that tweet likely captures some trump mentality at the time, if one believes snopes (and one doesn’t believe snopes i think it’s turtles all the way down) then that image is an internet concoction. yet no mistake, i still think he ought to be impeached a whole lot of times.
Fake
Two searches of X — filtered by a date range and looking for either “1000 points” or “1,000 points” — confirmed the oldest tweet mentioning the text from the fake Trump tweet is dated Oct. 11, 2018. If Trump had tweeted the message in 2012, someone would likely have mentioned the tweet long before 2018.
Moreover, there’s a way to do that without crashing the economy. Offer corporations a tax rate that scales by how much of their workforce or payroll is in the US. If your workers are primarily OUS, you pay higher taxes. If your workers are mostly in the US, you pay lower taxes. I’d also scale it based on how many of your workers receive federal or state assistance to survive, with companies like McDonands and Walmart paying higher taxes to make up for the fact that so many of their workers are still below the poverty line, but that’s me.
But even then, iPhones aren’t going to be made in the US. Neither of those incentives are big enough to make up the difference in payroll, and even if Apple tried to make them in the US, the supporting ecosystem for electronics manufacturing just doesn’t exist. It’s not just about building and staffing a factory; it’s about having a supply chain that functions. And even Apple isn’t big enough to grow the supply chain they would need from the ground up.
See the failed Wisconsin plant for direct evidence.
Trump/Walker/Foxconn promise: 13,000 jobs and $10 billion investment from Foxconn to the state
Wisconsin gave them $3 billion in tax breaks, which also included $1.37 billion in cash to build the place.
Since then, it’s performed so badly (only 1K jobs, with expected 1400 max) that even Wisconsin’s congress reduced the incentives to $80 million. Oh, and Foxconn has said their investment moved from $10 billion to $700 million. Taxpayers are still out the billion + they paid to build it, of course.
You oddly never hear of just how bad this Trump-trumpeted deal went. Or see how many of his first-term walls have literally fallen over. He couldn’t manage a lemonade stand.
Not only is JDV “dishonest” (as Mehdi Hasan states), but I keep coming back to the word disingenuous (Mehdi eventually uses this word too)…because he knowingly makes false statements for no other reason than to justify their actions.
@chgoliz already talked about Evanston, but they’re not willing to give away Indianapolis because that’s where the big car race is held and you just can’t give that up!
That’s not disingenuous. It’s evil.
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/drew-magary-feel-dumb-being-american-20255797.php
It only looks like Republicans don’t know why they’re dismantling useful, heretofore apolitical public services. But they know why. They know that this will make millions of people sick and kill millions more. They know this will make America both poorer and dumber. Those are the end goals here, because a destitute country is one that’s easier for them to rule. Ask Vladimir Putin. Ask Kim Jong Un. Ask Pol Pot. The more a dictator can expand the wealth gap inside the walls of their kingdom, the more comfortable they feel.
On my tv. Trump left work early today for a long weekend in Florida for a golf tournament.
In the middle of a worldwide financial crisis that he caused.
Ah, but think of all the jobs they created cleaning up the resulting industrial pollution just from building the plant! (Or of decommissioning it once they pack up and leave.)
Thinking back, reading some of the articles interviewing farmers in the Kenosha and Racine area complaining about the resulting damage to their farms from the building of the Foxconn site was like seeing a glimpse of the current time, especially “you voted for this,” because in every single interview it turned out to be the case.
I believe the term is greedflation
Trump already made some preemptive statements about putting even higher tariffs on any country that dared to respond to the US with counter-tariffs… it’s going to be an escalation into insanity. Well, more insane than it already is.
I remember when they gave up trying to make their computers in the US - they were relying on what must have been a small US company for the screws they used, but it couldn’t start up production and produce enough in the needed timeframe to meet their demands. The supply chain was in China, so they moved there. They never even tried to make the iPhones here, because the number of engineers they needed to bring to bear on the various issues at the same time didn’t even exist in the US.
And from my understanding, it’s even worse than that, because the expertise needed to build those factories and machines for the supply chain doesn’t exist in the US anymore either. (Then there’s the issue of staffing those factories…)
Was this an IG that somehow wasn’t fired? Or is this one that has now been replaced by a lacky?
Mr. Stebbins, who took over as acting inspector general after Mr. Trump’s firing of Robert Storch, notably called the review an evaluation and not an investigation.
Narrator: “He’s a lackey.”
New job title is “Acting Evaluator General”
There’s a “bipartisan” bill in the Senate (the Democrat is one of ‘my’ Senators) to "Claw back tariff power from trump" So, this is a good thing, (although it’ll die in the House, i suspect), but i must declare that producing a bill which indirectly establishes that Congress has the power of the purse, seems somehow like passing a bill which says “The law of the land ought to be the law …of the land”. That is, the “normal” (ah there’s the rub!) source of tariffs is congress …unless specifically delegated.
Sen. Grassley Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Claw Back Tariff Power From Trump
The Trump ally says he wants to “ensure Congress has a voice in trade policy.”
President Donald Trump announced shockingly high tariffs on just about everything entering the U.S. on Wednesday, sending a panic through global markets and leaving experts puzzled. But at least some elected politicians in the U.S. think they can rein in Trump’s ability to impose tariffs by returning the power back to Congress. The question is whether it’s too late to do much good.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington, introduced the Trade Review Act of 2025. The bill would require the president to notify Congress of any new tariff within 48 hours of its imposition. And it would mean that any new tariffs would need to be approved by Congress within 60 days or they would expire.
“For too long, Congress has delegated its clear authority to regulate interstate and foreign commerce to the executive branch,” Grassley said in a statement to NBC News. “Building on my previous efforts as Finance Committee Chairman, I’m joining Senator Cantwell to introduce the bipartisan Trade Review Act of 2025 to reassert Congress’s constitutional role and ensure Congress has a voice in trade policy.”
well here’s hope’n.
Mike Johnson melts down after House proxy vote failure exposes MAGA’s “pro-family” lie
The House speaker’s latest tantrum shows how the “pro-family” MAGA GOP just wants women back in the kitchen
By Amanda Marcotte
Senior Writer
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., once famously said that, to understand his "worldview," all one needs to do is “pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it.” A few months into Donald Trump’s second term, however, Johnson has displayed a lot of tolerance for injustices that would outrage the Jesus of the Bible: redentioning innocent men to a torture prison in El Salvador, falsely accusing grandparents of being “frauds” as a pretext to take away their Social Security checks, and condemning children to die of preventable diseases like HIV and measles. None of this has perturbed Johnson, who backed Trump throughout the spiraling sadism of the administration.
This week, however, Johnson found one policy he cannot abide by: allowing representatives to serve their constituents while simultaneously caring for their newborn infants. On Tuesday, Johnson attempted to block a bipartisan bill to permit House members to vote by proxy, aided by technology, when on parental leave. Even though the speaker has extensive control over what bills come up for a vote, he couldn’t stop this one. Nine Republicans crossed the aisle to help Democrats meet the threshold to force the bill onto the floor. After it passed, Johnson was so irate he canceled all congressional activity for the week and sent members home. …
That golf game won’t play itself, Kathy!
