Trump's Second Term

Apparently, this guy didn't get the memo.

Republican Senator Admits Trump’s Tariffs Are ‘A Tax and It Will Be Passed on To Consumers’

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) made a frank admission on Wednesday, telling CNN that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are effectively a tax that consumers will be stuck paying. Nevertheless, the senator said he supports the tariffs as part of a longer-term effort to encourage the domestic production of goods.

Trump has announced, paused, imposed, and scaled back various tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, the two largest U.S. trading partners. The whirlwind, on/off nature of the tariffs has roiled markets and cast a cloud of uncertainty over the business world.

“[T]he businesses seem confused,” Kaitlan Collins told Mullin on The Source. “What’s a business leader left to think? Or an investor?”

Mullin acknowledged, “It’s tough right now” and that businesses “need certainty.”

“Tariffs is a tax and it will be passed on to consumers,” he conceded. “But it also allows us to have open markets. So, if you want to have open markets and access to other markets, so let’s go past Canada, and let’s go past Mexico and start talking about the rest of the countries we allow to come in here that the president says we want to have reciprocal tariffs on you. If you’re going to charge us 36%, we’re going to charge you 36%. If you want to charge us zero, we’ll charge you zero.”

Collins responded by noting Mullin’s admission that tariffs are essentially a tax. On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt bizarrely claimed that tariffs amount to a tax cut for Americans.

“What you just said is important – that a tariff is a tax and it is passed on to consumers,” the host said.

“Of course it is,” Mullin replied. “Everybody knows that.”

“That is something the white house does not acknowledge,” Collins said.

“No, that is something that the president, who as a business person, understands that completely,” Mullin insisted. “No one understands the economy better than this president. There hasn’t been a president that understands the economy better than this president.”
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Idiot Shill Tells Her Viewers to Just ‘Ignore’ Reports About Trump’s Market Mayhem

Fox News host Laura Ingraham urged her viewers to “ignore” the potential recession and general market mayhem, saying President Donald Trump “is good for business.”

Ever the optimist, or committed Trump loyalist, the host played a clip Wednesday on her show, The Ingraham Angle, showing the president talking about better days to come.

“Financially, we’ll be stronger than ever before,” he promises. “I think the markets are gonna soar when they see what’s happening, and I want to tell you this, tremendous optimism out there about our country in terms of regulations being cut, in terms of taxes being cut.”

“President Trump is fighting 24/7 for America,” Ingraham said, with a graphic in the background stating “TIME TO TRANSITION (AND IT’S GOOD NEWS).”

“Isn’t it great to have an optimistic president who has a real plan to make life better for Wall Street and Main Street?” she added.

She then urged viewers to “ignore the regime press” and some of their reports.

“Just ignore the ‘sky is falling’ reports in the regime press. Tune out the breathless reporting about market gyrations because even the most dedicated globalists, they know Trump is good for business,” Ingraham said.
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The sky isn't falling! The emperor has clothes! The Titanic is not sinking!
 
yeah those guys she's talking to are the types of guys checking their 401ks every 15 minutes, they won't ignore that
 
To poke at a couple things -

Shocker! Former Trump crony has been indicted for child sex crimes

That's a minor thing, of course, albeit somewhat par for the course. On the other hand...

Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say
Potential plans range from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the canal by force, U.S. officials told NBC News.

*sigh* Not a surprise, honestly, but still terrible news. Of note, "less likely" would better apply to a less capricious and wiser decision maker who actually cared about the national interest.
 
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Andy_Ross said:
“We dont need anything they have” says Donald of Canada after declaring an emergency because 3 states were about to have their power cut off.
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If that's the case he certainly won't mind if we also add export taxes to our oil and potash.

And to clarify, Ontario wasn't about to cut off the power...they had added a 25% export tax so the price was going to rise a bit. The cutoff was a nuclear option that was not being seriously discussed.
 
Portugal has ruled out and order for F-35s from the US and will replace their F-16s with European fighters.

“We have to be able to count on the predictability of our allies, which is no longer the case with the United States."
 
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Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war

The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general’s corps

www.theguardian.com

Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war

The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general’s corps
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I'm suddenly reminded of the afterward of one of John Ringo's novels (right-wing science fiction author who has developed a serious case of braineater during his career).
He advocated for the US military using siege warfare. Surrounding a city with troops, not letting anyone or anything in, and killing anyone trying to leave.
 
I think their aim is to let US forced do to cities what the Russians have done in Syria and Ukraine.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Portugal has ruled out and order for F-35s from the US and will replace their F-16s with European fighters.

“We have to be able to count on the predictability of our allies, which is no longer the case with the United States."
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Good on you Portugal!
 
Resume said:
Yeah, this is gonna be great.

EPA, protecting business from responsibility.

Thanks maga-nuts.
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PLEASE DO NOT LINK TO MSN! They are to the World Wide Web what Trump is to the United States: unethical, hostile, and uncooperative. They pretty much steal all their content from other sources and republish it as their own.

MSN does not "speak" HTML, the natural language of the web. Instead, they format everything using JavaScript, which locks out older web browsers and non-graphical web clients such as wget, curl, and elinks. This is anti-web behaviour and should not be promoted.

Instead, please take the extra time to locate the actual source of the article on MSN and link to that.

Here's the actual article, not the one plagiarized by MSN:

www.nbcnews.com

EPA administrator announces huge rollback of environmental regulations

Lee Zeldin said he will reconsider a list of core EPA policies, including emissions standards for vehicles and the finding that serves as the basis for addressing climate change.
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As of the close of the day on March 14, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -276.

12 March 2025
-1: Headline: Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups (New Republic)
-1: Trump writes a polemic about the Wall Street Journal; repeats lie the EU was formed to harm the USA [77]
-1: Trump call the EU "one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World" [78]
-1: Trump brushes off small business concerns over tariffs by saying they'll be richer in the end [79]
-1: Trump reiterates his rhetoric that the US doesn't need anything from Canada []
-1: Headline: EPA administrator announces huge rollback of environmental regulations (NBC News) [80]
-1: Trump lies again about water coming from the Pacific Northwest and Canada to California [81]
-1: JD Vance lies by saying "Joe Biden left this economy in a disaster." [82]
-1: Elon Musk calls for removal of "activist judges." [83]
-1: Headline: Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war (The Guardian)

77. Trump: "The Globalist Wall Street Journal has no idea what they are doing or saying. They are owned by the polluted thinking of the European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of "screwing" the United States of America. Their (WSJ!) thinking is antiquated and weak, and very bad for the USA. But have no fear, we will WIN on everything!!! Egg prices are down, oil is down, interest rates are down, and TARIFF RELATED MONEY IS POURING INTO THE UNITED STATES. "The only thing you have to fear, is fear itself!"

78. Trump: "The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50% Tariff on Whisky. If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF FRANCE AND OTHER E.U. REPRESENTED COUNTRIES. This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S."

79. REPORTER: Many American small business owners say they are concerned that these tariffs are going to hurt them. What's your message to them?
TRUMP: They are gonna be so much richer than they are right now.

80. Trump. "To be honest with you, Canada only works as a state. We don't need anything they have. As a state it would be one of the great states. This would be the most incredible country visually. If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it."

81. Trump and a press conference with UN Secretary-General António Guterres: ""I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water and the water is now flowing down. They have so much water they don't know what to do ... we broke in to do it. ... They have a lot of water going down throughout California all coming out from the Pacific Northwest. Even some from Canada. Thank you Canada very much. Next thing you know they'll want to turn the water off."

82. JD Vance: "There is as the president has said a recognition that we have to accept, which is that Joe Biden left this economy in a disaster."

83. Musk: "We must impeach judges who are grossly undermining the will of the people and destroying America. It is the only way."
 
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