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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 day ago (13 children)

This is the end of democracy in the US.

 

But U.K. imports will continue to carry a 10% tariff, up from a pre-Trump average of 1.3%. The president referred to that as the "lowest end" import tax.

With 10% import taxes looking like the new minimum — and other countries with more contentious trade relationships likely to continue seeing significantly higher tariffs — there will be serious sand in the gears of global commerce for the foreseeable future.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Shortly afterward, Trump abruptly ended the meeting, refusing to allow Carney another opportunity to respond to the American press.

Pussy! He was getting out-witted before the press and couldn't stand it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

lol none that I know of.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 week ago (8 children)

When your own conservative judges are striking down your official acts as unlawful, you should have the self-awareness to know you've gone too far.

 

The president’s temper tantrum comes less than two days after U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., whom Trump appointed during his first term, struck down his use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to expel hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador. The administration had argued that the law—which was last used during World War II to justify carting Japanese-Americans off to internment camps—allowed it to deport migrants without due process because the country is at war with gangs and drug cartels.

https://archive.ph/qOHmJ#selection-529.0-529.522

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29067406

A federal judge on Friday permanently blocked a White House executive order targeting an elite law firm, dealing a setback to President Donald Trump’s campaign of retribution against the legal profession.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

This is fucked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not even going to this - publishers are pulling games, tv series and movies for various reasons.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

American court system has become a monkey court.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

This is essentially adding another layer of tax or tariffs on imports, and more impediments to global trade. Basically, Trump is determined to stall trade with the world and fuck the economy.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

“We are all afraid,” Murkowski told the crowd on Monday.

Pausing, she added: “It’s quite a statement. But we are in a time and a place where I certainly have not been here before. And I’ll tell ya, I’m oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice, because retaliation is real. And that’s not right.”

  • This, right here, is the most open and honest admission of what the US is today, by the ruling party elite: A dictatorship. An authoritarian state.
[–] [email protected] 378 points 3 weeks ago (31 children)

FINALLY. One university with the balls to stand up to Trump.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a metaphor, not "literal" army. And it is in the millions. Many are unseen as they come out when the streets are empty doing the garbage picking and cleaning, etc.

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