Trump's Second Term

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts agreed Monday to pause a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The temporary order comes hours after a Justice Department emergency appeal to the Supreme Court arguing U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis overstepped her authority when she ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the United States.

The administration has conceded that Abrego Garcia should not have been sent to El Salvador because an immigration judge found he likely would face persecution by local gangs.
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carlosy said:
The thing is, who is going to blink first:

- The countries that will sell less of their products because of the tariffs
or
- The US because people are going to be angry because they either can't consume these expensive products or because of the high prices.

With the US being 50% a cult, I wouldn't be surprised if the US can hold their breath longer. Cult members are all-in for their leader.
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Problem is, the cult believed 'Trump will cut prices', and a few might recognize they have been scammed. Granted, most of them will stay in the cult, but enough will defect to cost the GOP the mid-terms. They want to worship Trump, but they don't want to personally suffer.

On the other hand, other countries (such as Canada) are using opposition to Trump as a rallying cry. We know things are going to hurt regardless of what is done, and are willing to put up with it because we want to protect Canada.
 
Trump's tariffs are fidning very little support among mainstream economist both liberal anc conservative.
The man is an economic idiot. Now his ego is caught up in Tariffs and he seems unwilling to back down.
 
The Guardian reported, "“They have these ‘concepts of plans’ that they’re hoping are sticking but in reality, are really hurting American people,” said a longtime SSA employee and military veteran who requested to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. “No one knows what’s going on. They’re just coming up with ideas at the top of their head.” The SSA website has crashed several times this month. Wired reported Doge staff want to migrate all social security data and rewrite code in months, which could cause system collapse and further outages." The Guardian continued, "He [Rich Couture] said he was concerned the situation was creating a “negative feedback loop” where, as more employees leave, more work is put on those remaining, depressing morale and inducing more to leave “until the agency ends up in a death spiral with staffing, inducing office closures”." One does not rebuild the engine of an aircraft in the middle of a flight.
 
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You can't make stuff like this up:
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration is planning to boost U.S. manufacturing employment with policies meant to steer laid-off federal workers into factories.

In an interview with Tucker Carlson published Friday on the social platform X, the Treasury secretary said he believed the U.S. had enough workers to fill thousands of manufacturing jobs Trump hopes to create through steep import taxes.
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“On one side, the president is reordering trade,” Bessent said. “On the other side, we are shedding excess labor in the federal government, and bringing down federal borrowings.”

“That will give us the labor that we need for the new manufacturing,”
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People who get a Ph.D. in microbiology want to spend their career screwing tiny screws into iphones??? Bessent and Lutnick must have made a bet on who can say the most idiotic thing.
 
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Sure they will, just like people will flock to farms to work now that all those pesky brown communist groomer trans liberal communist rapist cat-eating farm workers are gone. In fact, I'd be completely unsurprised if Donald Dump & Co. start playing around with the idea of poor houses or whatever they called them back in the day. Free room and board and a steady job, what's not to like!
 
It's working, the economy is booming, oil prices are down, interest rates are down (when the Fed lowers them) and there is no inflation!
Plus the USA is bringing billions of dollars in to the USA from the tariffs. Cherry on the cake is China is crashing.

This is what leadership looks like. bold, unapologetic, and rich in results.
Left wing extremists cry. America wins. Trump doesn’t play by their rules. he rewrites them.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Oil prices are down, interest rates are down (the slow moving Fed should cut rates!), food prices are down, there is NO INFLATION, and the long time abused USA is bringing in Billions of Dollars a week from the abusing countries on Tariffs that are already in place. This is despite the fact that the biggest abuser of them all, China, whose markets are crashing, just raised its Tariffs by 34%, on top of its long term ridiculously high Tariffs (Plus!), not acknowledging my warning for abusing countries not to retaliate. They’ve made enough, for decades, taking advantage of the Good OL’ USA! Our past “leaders” are to blame for allowing this, and so much else, to happen to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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From the economist's daily briefing newsletter...

There are clear signs that a significant American military build-up is under way, not only on Diego Garcia—which now hosts perhaps a third of all American B-2s as well as six refuelling tankers—but also in the Middle East itself. The Pentagon has ordered one aircraft-carrier strike group to stay in the region and has dispatched another to join it. It has also sent Patriot and THAAD missile-defence batteries from Asia. Avi Scharf, the national-security editor at Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, who regularly reports on aircraft movements using open sources, writes that flights by American military transport planes were 50% higher in March than the previous monthly peak.

On April 2nd General Michael Erik Kurilla, the commander of America’s Central Command (CENTCOM), which has responsibility for the Middle East, visited Israel for talks, which presumably covered how all these forces might be used. As we explained in a recent briefing, Israel’s foreign and security policy is going through a period of extraordinary ambition. Israel has reinvaded Gaza, threatening to permanently annex territory there, has broken a ceasefire in Lebanon and has attacked targets in Syria, in part to deter Turkey from establishing a presence in that country. Last week Israeli ground forces moved deeper into Syria, beyond a previously defined buffer zone.
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This is quite concerning. All of this buildup is not just for attacking the Houthis but is sending a clear signal to Iran. We know that Israel has been itching to bomb Iran's nuclear sites but lacks the weaponry to do so. Trump himself has threatened Iran recently.

The world does not need another war in the middle east.
 
Chris_Halkides said:
That sounds expensive. What does DOGE think of this idea?
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Its also an awful waste of time for the personnel. Having done some battalion, brigade, division formations and parades the amount of time to get everyone ready - especially the vehicles, is just tremendous, weeks wasted from actual training. Countries that do this regularly have special units that just do that, and only that, and they leave the actual combat units alone.
 
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Jagster said:
Please forgive my ignorance on the subject of tariffs and possible results from them. I admit I don’t know as much as I should because as a young man I just didn’t care what happened politically and it has come back to bite me.
I am in no way a Don supporter and these are real questions that have occurred to me in the last month: Is it possible that these tariffs
(however remotely) will actually do what the administration says they will do? Can the US economy survive this brutal slaughter and actually come out better as a result? Will the US ever return to its prominence on the world stage? From what my limited knowledge tells me, unfortunately, the answer is no.
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Well, here is one data point:

Trump has slapped tariffs on some countries that the US has no trade deficit but a trade surplus with and also a free trade agreement. Example: Singapore.

How does the theory of tariffs even work here?

Just raising revenue? If so, they cannot possibly be for negotiations as there is nothing to negotiate.

Does it mean that the tariffs are therefore permanent and cannot be undone?

But doesn’t that make a mockery of Trump’s argument for a national emergency that enabled him to take power for himself to raise tariffs?
 
Some of Trump's business supporters are urging him to do a deal on Tariffs, but he seems to be ignoring them.
I am really afraid Trump now has his ego caught up in the tariffs, and has come to beleive his own BS about them replacing the Income tax.
 
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