Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, ushered in under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unlawfully imposed
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, ushered in under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unlawfully imposed. Trump had used the act to charge huge levies on countries, including 50% on India, which was later reduced, and 34% on China.
By Friday night, the president posted on Truth Social that he signed an executive order enabling him to bypass Congress and impose a 10% tax on imports from around the world. “It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global 10% Tariff on all Countries, which will be effective almost immediately,” Trump wrote.
Less than 24 hours later, Trump said he was bumping up the tariffs to 15% “based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday.”
Imagine if he was this enthusiastic about raising taxes on the people robbing the working class.
WHAT? An extra 15% tariff on all this stuff that I don’t export to america!!! Oh no, oh dear!
Anyways a real man would’ve put a 1111% tariff on everything. Once again the orange child rapist takes the easy way out!!!
So, basically, starving the peeps of the US, while, every other country, moves out of the US trade.
It’ll boost domestic production!! /s
So did he just blow up all of those trade deals he made to spite the SC, or are all those countries exempt from the 15%? Based on the UK response quoted in the article, it seems they have similar questions…
Ya’ll Americans are cooked. A national sales tax that a crazy bastard will steal for himself and you don’t have guns to do anything about it.
Why do you think we don’t have guns?
Because Americans claim they need the second amendment and all its school-shootey downsides in order to protect themselves against a tyrannical government.
Then a tyrannical government appears, and said government also starts executing your citizens in the streets.
Maybe it’s just my leftist bubble of woke protecting me from the truth, but I have heard exactly 0 cases of armed resistance from the people referenced in the first paragraph of this post.
Supreme Court: your tariffs are illegal
Orange Jackass: fine, I’ll impose different tariffs and I’ll make them worse just to spite you
“All new tariffs with blackjack and
hookerslittle kiddies!”
Hey Google, define: racket
I learned what the racket was yesterday:
For real lol, this is garden variety extortion of the “nice place ya got here…” flavor. Even the dumbest criminals alive know this one.
Diaper Don taxing Americans to funnel the money to his board of peace to give to his children in order to build a riviera resort in Gaza.
Prices are going to increase again!
Who is going to actually enforce these?
What if people just refuse to collect anything, whether it’s his 10 or 15 percent?
And tell anyone asking questions to take it up with the Supremes.
Customs?
Just hurry the fuck up and die already. Jesus Christ.
Trying to imagine if things would be better under Vance…
The couch fucker fucks couches, I think we can all agree on that…but he absolutely must be less of an imbecile than the orange child fucker, surely?
Nah Vance 100% is going to be doing shady shit and making a lot of unethical deals to push through executive orders and influence legislation to benefit his benefactors.
If the GOP honestly thought Vance would be better they’d be trying to force trump out by now so Vance can do damage control for the midterms. They know the vice pedophile is just as bad as the pedophile in chief so they won’t do anything. Or worse, the GOP is so weak and divided now they don’t have the votes to do anything without the magats and they’ve burned every bipartisan bridge down to the waterline.
Clots and prayers.
Those cheeseburdlers have been very disappointing to all, in their ongoing failure to do their job.
Seriously. I eat so much as a quarter pounder and I feel like my heart is about to explode. How does this fucker get away with it, eating this garbage every day??
Money
Your can help him along by doing more of whatever stresses him out the most.
He is, for some stupid fucking reason, allowed to impose tarrifs for 150 days.
Then it goes to congress to vote on whether to keep them, and they likely won’t.
What a fucking asshole
and they likely won’t.
You mean the same Republican-dominated congress that has basically given him handjobs every time he breaks a fucking law and does something that is actually under the direction of congress? The same Republican-dominated congress that has essentially abdicated any responsibility to govern at all? I’m skeptical, but I hope you’re right.
What a fucking asshole
For real, this is another mask-off moment. He had played up the tariffs as a game to push other countries around, but clearly and literally the only reason he is doing this is because he’s pissed off at the Supreme Court. It has fuck-all to do with other countries because it’s the same rate, worldwide, with no room for negotiations. He’s supposed to be this great negotiator of trade deals with other countries, yet he’s blowing up every single potential trade deal with a flat 15% worldwide because he’s pissed off at people in his own government.
If people can’t tell that he doesn’t give a flying fuck about anything except pushing people around, doesn’t matter who or about what, they’re fucking idiots. He’s just a cruel fucking asshole, like you said.
If people can’t tell that he doesn’t give a flying fuck about anything except pushing people around, doesn’t matter who or about what, they’re fucking idiots.
I’ve been spending more time on Facebook, to get sort of a bead on the general consensus. Even accounting for bots, there are a lot of fucking idiots in this country.
Where does the 150 days come from? FFS, we had nearly a full year before SCOTUS struck down the shit he started last year.
The 150 day limit is part of the law he is citing to justify this set of tariffs.
The Trade Act of 1974.
WTF, that allows Krasnov to raise consumer prices no matter what.
Only up to 15% and only for 150 days. After that Congress has to approve an extension.
That being said… I don’t know if there is any actual codified safeguard in it to prevent him from just stopping it and starting a new set again. I haven’t looked at the exact wording.
Sic semper taco
Don the John is IN CHARGE!!!
Yes. Please keep it up Trump. We need more time to be in forced diversification from the US.
This is Trump’s “power move”.
We know it’s illegal. He knows it’s illegal. He wants everyone to know that he knows it’s illegal, and he’ll do it anyway. What are you gonna do? Yell at him?
He will continue to escalate, he takes great delight in “sticking it” to anyone who disagrees with him. There is no line that he won’t cross.
He takes even more delight in “sticking it” to people who AGREE with him. As a rapist, he rapes anybody he can any way he can.
I think it’s kind of Legal? Smoot -Hawley from 1934-ish was never taken off the books. I cant remember if that’s the one he’s using for this, but it’s like that. There’s a never-used vestigial law that lets him do up to 15% for 150 days.
As much of a known-destroyer of America he is, this is Congress failing to do it’s bare minimum job of holding the purse strings. They could stop him tomorrow and we would be better off if everyone realized thst
Edit: this one isn’t smoot-hawley (1930), sorry. Trade act of 1974. 15%, 150 days and a lot of exemptions under section 122. Congress should still do it job
I think it’s kind of Legal?
Here’s the thing. The constitution says CONGRESS levies taxes, not the president. Any law CONGRESS passes must be IN PURSUANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION. Making a law that abrogates any part the constitution is not IN PURSUANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION. The only way to do that is TO AMEND the constitution.
So, no. It’s not kind of legal.
and any judge worth the air it would take make such a statement should FUCKING KNOW THAT!
Congress has ceded more and more authority to the executive and Trump is taking advantage of that. This law (1974) grants the president the ability to levy tariffs up to 15% for 150 days. That Congress sucks is against the spirit of the constitution but not the letter of it
But that’s the point. Congress CANNOT cede authority without amending the constitution. Any ‘law’ they make doing so is invalid because it violates the constitution. A LAW CANNOT OVERRIDE THE CONSTITUTION.
This time is technically legal because of Hawley, but it should go back to when he started this dumb shit in the first place. We’ll see if we can get a Federal Judge to smack this down in the next week.
All these companies collecting this money just need to fucking stop, and say “Fine then sue me” to the WH, but then of course we know they’ll be flooded with ICE. Trump has a private army now that needs to be dealt with in order to stop all this shit.
Honestly, I wish they’d all ban together and say we aren’t collecting any of this. The problem is that they individually bend the knee, comply in advance, etc.
