r/politics • u/throwaway16830261 • 1d ago

Terminate the Trump tariffs before it's too late

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-rand-paul-terminate-trump-tariffs-before-its-too-late
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u/tauntsauce 1d ago

“permanent damage IS done to our position”. These actually being implemented and not yanked back at the 11th hour for the 4th time has cemented the idea that Trump can no longer be expect to eventually be reasonable (after flattery and bribery). That the reliability of the rest of the global market even old rivals (ie the new Asian powers pact) is preferable to whatever unhinged end game the puppeteers behind Trump are after. Repealing the tariffs in 4 years, 1 year, tomorrow is irrelevant. Every other power in the world is going to move on without us. We have essentially trade embargo’d ourselves. 

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u/Chrisd1974 1d ago

Correct - US can’t be trusted right now, so can never be trusted again, because this 100 days has proven that there are no checks and balances in the US system. Even if the next president brings things back to normal, the whole world knows that another lurch to this bullshit is always just an election away.

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u/Ivy0789 1d ago

Only one way past that. Impeachment and conviction before end of term. Lol

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u/MentokGL 1d ago

Can't forget about his henchmen and enablers in the executive. They're the ones actually carrying out all of this.

Or the enablers in Congress who abdicated their roles and betrayed their oaths.

Or the 3 supreme court justice all the other lower courts.

They fucked all 3 branches. We cannot afford half measures. They need to be unfucked and fortified.

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u/FirmResearcher4617 1d ago

Exactly right. The damage is good as done.