Flangdoodle

And wear the Sign of the Cross - preferably right over the heart.

It you like that, The Elder Scrolls series has an entire race of lizard men (and women)

The same things have been happening in LA county for *months* now - and Nathan Hochman just threatens to lock up "violent" *protesters*. How's this guy that working out for you LA?

Carlin: "we swam in the Hudson River and it was filled with raw sewage okay? We swam in raw sewage! In my neighborhood, no one ever got polio! No one! Ever! You know why? Cause we swam in raw sewage! It strengthened our immune systems! The polio never had a prayer; we were tempered in raw shit!"

Toxic bullshit, Vlad. F-off.

This is gaslighting and Rubio knows it. The courts can *definitely * tell the executive branch that they have to comply with the law, and that the law is constitutional. "How" is red herring language because they don't like the outcome.

Yeah! You know, the warfighters! Those malemen and femalewomen who get up every day, put on their bootshoes and their shieldarmor and take their bulletguns into battlefights to defend this nationcountry!

Very accurate...

Brace yourselves- this is a preview of things to come.

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

I don't have a lot in the stock market, but what little I have has lost over 10% in the last 2 days. Scale that to the rest of the market and it's catyclysmic

You can't put tariffs on countries from which you take no imports. Russia is sanctioned. No imports= no tariffs.

That’s not only crazy it’s just f**king STUPID, and the result is what you see today with the markets WORLDWIDE crashing into the ground like a f**king meteor. G*d help us. 18/18
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but what Cheetolini has done is slap massive tariffs on countries (25%?? 50%?? AYFKM???) some of whom are allies and even MFN countries as mentioned above. 17/18

through more jobs (construction, manufacturing, infrastructure) and competitive prices which puts more money into the economy, etc.
So, as I said at the start, making a modest adjustment in tariffs can spur the economy, 16/18

They are simply a tool to manipulate markets and spur economic transition and growth. Imposing them does nothing for the revenue of the country, it simply wrangles foreign and domestic companies in that country to benefit the country 15/18

Two examples of MFN countries right now are India and Vietnam - and don't forget our neighbors to the north and south.
So back to the point: tariffs are not in any way, shape or form a revenue generating mechanism like other taxes are. 14/18

This is because, contrary to the China example above, we want to encourage those nations to develop their manufacturing base because it will be beneficial to them, and consequently to us as an ally. 13/18

Some countries also have deals with others to regulate tariffs from getting too high and sparking a trade war. For example, the US has designated some nations as having “Most Favored Nation (MFN)” status. 12/18

And of course, companies won’t just “take the hit” because they still need to make a profit, so they’ll pass any raise in tariffs straight on to the consumer through higher prices. 11/18

However, if a country wants to balance the scales, encourage manufacturing at home, & send a message to China that they disapprove of their treatment of workers, they might impose a tariff on those widgets from China so that making them there costs roughly the same as making them domestically. 10/18

This drastically reduces the cost of overhead, so it’s cheaper to manufacture the widgets over there and import them. Lower overhead = higher profit, right? 9/18

So say the ___ company manufactures widgets, and they know that it is cheaper to manufacture them in China because there they can avoid regulation, and because China doesn’t care about workers rights, so they can pay workers a pittance and keep horrible working conditions. 8/18

In the US, we have what is called the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) – a GIGANTIC document which classifies each type of goods or materials, and lists the specific tariff percentage for each of those goods or materials. hts.usitc.gov 7/18

They are imposed for any number of reasons – economic, political, cultural, social, or even for safety. They can also differ depending on the types of items or other factors like trade agreements between nations. 6/18

What follows is a really dumbed-down explanation of tariffs: For the uninitiated, tariffs are a percentage tax that countries put on imports to balance the economic scales and keep the cost of manufacturing competitive. 5/18

without questioning because they’re too terrified to contradict him or correct any of his statements.
[skip ahead if you already know what tariffs are and how they work] 4/18

The problem is that Der Cheetofuhrer is too stupid to know what tariffs are or how they work. “Tariffs” is just some hifalutin’ bid’ness’ word he heard once, but has no understanding of, and his lickspittle toadies just put them into practice 3/18

That being said, the irony in all of this is that there could be an argument made, that modest increases in tariffs, timed appropriately, could bring manufacturing home, create jobs, and spur the economy. 2/18

🧵 I’m no expert, and certainly not an economist. I’m just a guy who once found himself put into a position in a former job where I had to deal with customs and imports, and so I had to self-educate on the whole field quickly. 1/18