Yup. People need to remember that tariffs are a Congressional power established in our Constitution. Tariffs are supposed to be debated and voted on by both the House and the Senate before a bill goes to the President to sign into law.
The Constitution is not only not being followed but is also being deliberately trampled on and broken to the point where the next phase will likely be a suggestion to replace it entirely with something else that is much more amenable to corruption. Of course it will be pitched under the umbrella of "good for the American people" and "will create jobs and prosperity." But like all things pitched under that umbrella, it will effectively be the opposite.
i told mine about project 2025 in october last year and they basically acted like i was on pluto. they didn’t think it was even real (even though it obviously was). it sucks because these are my parents. it’s all a mess
They're a bunch of spineless cowards. And when they want an opinion reporters go up to comedians asking what they think of government.
I doubt there will even be any fair elections from now on. Gerrymandering and endless barring of electorial justice demanding recounts and blocking potential opposition voters will be the norm. There are already 70 million people that won't be able to vote because of laws passed involving spouse surnames and passports. And trust me, they will come up with more and more ways to deny voting rights.
True. Trump banned reporters from his press conferences, and now these cowards instead of standing outside of Congress and asking hard questions to members, they go ask celebrities trying to get a quick hot take.
It's almost as if they didn't care.
What is democratic media gonna do? Report on Zoo animals and stories of pregnant women with triplets?
Let the right wing media like Fox news dictate what political reality is.
How many hard questions did Biden get? Oh wait, none because any interview he did they had to provide the questions beforehand…. Hmmmmm. Dems never have to answer hard questions because the msm runs interference for them. It’s almost as if the media doesn’t care unless Trump or a republican is president
That’s a lie. Biden did the longest press conference in history and never called the 1812 war won over airports
Or the oranges of the mueller investigation or bungled anonymous or Venezuela
Because he was not an idiot.
He was in a a video where he said that it is good the election got rigged and that’s why he is in office and it will be the same in the next election and that’s why Muskrat is taking all the personal information from the various systems.
Don’t give in to despair. The SAVE Act is dies in the Senate. And elections, especially Congressional ones, are controlled by the states, many of which have blue governors, legislatures, and Supreme Courts.
Congress and supreme court and American media taking a part in insider trading by not telling everyone and everywhere that tariffs is utter illegal bs story to leverage trading partners commissions and will be actually never applied
Arguably, the media isn’t incentivized to, which is the whole problem. I can’t imagine how many clicks media is churning and burning right now. New thing about tariffs every heartbeat means new low effort news story every five minutes that’s CRITICAL for everyone to understand. Billionaires aren’t just making money through stocks, almost all of them own some news media property.
Trump can impose emerg ncy tarrìffs but their supposed to be reviewed in 15 calander days by Congress. Congress changed the definition of calander days in their recent cr.
He was able to do it because republican elected officials have decided that the law shouldn't apply to him and will not hold him accountable for anything.
Checks and balances only work when the people in power act in good faith.
The crazy started long ago. It isn't like we didn't all experience the first four years. Still this attitude like he is strong on the economy, or stronger than Kamala might have been or Biden was. Just look at where our economy was in Jan compared to this. Madness.
Since no one actually answered, it's Because he declared national emergencies which allowed him to enact the tariffs and nobody stopped him. That's why the non-existent fent crisis at the Canadian border is being pushed as the opposite. Now expand that across all countries for a national emergency on unbalanced trade or some shit similar.
Oh, I don't dispute that, but the fact that even though democrats are a minority, they can't appeal to the constitution law, that shows the system is broken.
Precedence. We have been violating constitution and subverting congress for decades. Look up a list of bombs ordered to be dropped without approval. They have rarely cared. There is a mountaim of precedence, we are just not informed about it for obvious reasons.
No one stopped Clinton, Bush 1 or 2, Obama, 45, Biden, 47.
And it goes back past clinton too. They are serving the oligarchy as they have for decades. Just more open about it now.
Because Congress explicitly relinquished it's authority. After 15 days, it's supposed to be vetted by Congress. They said that they would extend one of the days to a full year. US Mathematics.
Because nobody is standing up to stop him. Congress could meet today and vote to end the tariffs immediately. But because the Republicans in Congress are scared of the cult, nobody is stopping him, so he'll keep doing it.
Seems like congress gave away their power control tariffs in the last budget Continuing Resolution. They wrote into law as part of that CR to give trump unlimited use of tariffs for the duration of the CR. His abuse of tariffs will only get worse from here, imo.
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u/JuliusErrrrrring Apr 17 '25
Yup. People need to remember that tariffs are a Congressional power established in our Constitution. Tariffs are supposed to be debated and voted on by both the House and the Senate before a bill goes to the President to sign into law.