The U.S. cannot win a trade war with China. Why he’s picked a fight with them is baffling. Well, not so much considering his complete lack of understanding of economics. But it’s like you saying “I don’t really follow boxing, or know anything about it, but I’m challenging this Mike Tyson fellow…”
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I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me why a rich country having a trade surplus with a poor country is something that absolutely must be corrected.
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Grow your own fucking bananas.
Well, I used to.
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You would probably enjoy reading “The Fish that Ate the Whale”.
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Trump v Harvard-I would pay hard-earned money to watch that.
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Folding money even
Large denominations
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I have no confidence that this Supreme Court (where this would undoubtedly end up) will decide a case solely on its merits.
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If there’s anything I ever learned from Pearson Spector Litt, LLP it’s that you can’t go wrong hiring Harvard lawyers.
Joking aside, I was surprised to see Columbia fold as quickly as they did. I guess they don’t have the $50B endowment that Harvard does.
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I am not that cynical yet.
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SCOTUS could decide on the merits, but we’ve already seen they have no way to enforce their orders.
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No we have not seen that yet. The SC has to write an unambiguous order with no wiggle room. Then the Court can use contempt of Court and has the US Marshall Service to enforce the order. If Trump’s DOJ and AG block that course of action and/or refuse to comply, the constitutional crisis is full-blown.
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Judge Xinis is now doing the DOJ’s job for them. In last night’s order she called them out for how it’s “inexplicable” that Garcia is still in CECOT when the contract explicitly states that the US retains control of the prisoners until a final determination is made.
Basically she just called the DOJ a bunch o’ fucking liars.
Abrego García is (rightly) getting a lot of press, but it’s not just him.
The whole El Salvador thing is bullshit anyway. People aren’t being deported - sent back to their home country - they’re being trafficked to a prison in a country where they have never been and never committed a crime, so have no prospect of a trial and release.
They all need to be brought back.
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No shit. Also, why should we pay to imprison someone we could just deport?
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For the cruelty element of it. This is the first step towards widespread domestic terrorism aimed at immigrants and citizens alike. If we were just sending these dudes back to Venezuela or wherever it wouldn’t be nearly so threatening to those of us who don’t care for genocide.
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Apparently there’s a huge NPR story about how “DOGE” has been trawling all the government databases for information they can use against people they don’t like. The latest being NLRB, which has confidential and sensitive data about, for example, witnesses who testified against their employers.
RFK Jr is now sounding off that autistic individuals will “never play baseball, or write a poem”
Someone introduce him to Zack fucking Greinke. And the business end of a baseball bat.
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