Magic Crate of Meadowlark
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Magic Crate of Meadowlark
@MagiCrateConten
I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize! https://t.co/TOvKBuuOpR




Trump on his presidential library: "I don't believe in building libraries or museums... It's going to be most likely a hotel, this concept. Could be office, but it's most likely going to be a hotel with a beautiful building underneath and a 747 Air Force One in the lobby"

what unpopular opinion can put you in this position???




Spent some time breaking clays in Edgefield County today. Doesn’t get much better than that.

Democrats have now caused the LONGEST shutdown in history — REFUSING to fund Homeland Security and BLOCKING paychecks for TSA agents, FEMA, border patrol support staff, and other brave law enforcement. …All because they would rather reopen our border and protect criminal illegal aliens than keep Americans safe! The House has voted to fully fund @DHSgov **FOUR times**— but Chuck Schumer wants to pick and choose which law enforcement officers can get their paycheck. It's OUTRAGEOUS and unfair. Their RECKLESS obsession with criminal illegal aliens hurts every American and puts our national security at risk. @HouseGOP will continue to stand for law and order.


Before the war: 1) Iran didn't control the Strait Of Hormuz, now it does 2) Iran oil was sanctioned, now it's not 3) Iran was not building a nuke, now it will 4) US bases in the Gulf were assets, now liabilities 5) Inflation was declining, now increasing Definitely winning!


One Year On: The Greatest Economic Own Goal in Living Memory A year ago, Donald Trump stood in the Rose Garden, surrounded by charts nobody understood, and declared war on mathematics. He called it Liberation Day. The Financial Times, along with every economist who has read more than a bus ticket, is marking the anniversary with a verdict that should be carved into marble: it failed. On every single front. Spectacularly. Completely. Embarrassingly. Let us be precise about this. Measured against Trump’s own three stated goals, making foreigners pay for doing business with America, narrowing the trade deficit, and punishing China, the tariffs have clearly failed.  Not partially failed. Not failed with asterisks. Failed the way a man fails when he drives a Reliant Robin onto a motorway and acts surprised when it rolls. And everyone said so. Economists said so. Trading partners said so. His own party said so. The entire field of international trade theory, developed over roughly two centuries by people who actually read things, screamed it from the rooftops. But Donald Trump, a man whose relationship with economics appears to consist entirely of gut feeling and cable television and 6 casino bankruptcies knew better. The average American household paid an extra $1,700 due to tariffs. Over 65 percent of Americans reported that everyday goods became significantly less affordable.  This is what happens when you run the world’s largest economy on instinct and vibes. One year after the Rose Garden ceremony, factory jobs are down and inflation is up.  The precise opposite of what was promised. With extraordinary confidence. Then the lawyers arrived. The Supreme Court found that Trump had exceeded his authority, ruling that the declared emergency bore no rational connection to the trade measures imposed.  In other words, the legal foundation was nonsense. The government had collected $166 billion in tariffs from over 330,000 businesses on grounds the Supreme Court found unconstitutional. The refund process is now underway.  One hundred and sixty-six billion dollars. Collected illegally. From American businesses. The financial markets, bless them, responded with the only appropriate tool available: mockery. The meme “Trump Always Chickens Out” refuses to go away, and the TACO index is now actively used by analysts to price in the president’s chronic habit of retreating.  Every serious voice warned this would happen. Trade economists. Former Treasury secretaries. The IMF. The WTO. The EU. Canada. Japan. Basically anyone who had spent more than forty minutes studying how global trade actually works. The man who ignored all of them had previously run a casino into bankruptcy and considered that a learning experience. He was not, it turns out, a fast learner. One year. Zero of three goals achieved. One Supreme Court ruling. One $170 billion refund. One economy paying more for everything and making less of it. Liberation Day. What a name for it. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1



















