Consumers do. In his first campaign, Trump claimed China would pay his tariffs. That’s false. The U.S. can’t make China pay taxes. All it can do is make Americans pay taxes on Chinese goods. Tariffs are imposed at the U.S. border when goods come into the country. They become part of the [...]
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President Bernie?
Not Bernie Sanders, President “Weekend At Bernie’s” Trump. “Former President Donald Trump failed … a room full of top CEOs … at the Business Roundtable’s quarterly meeting, multiple attendees told CNBC. ‘Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about,R[...]
Heritage chief claims Democrats are illegitimate
The Heritage Foundation used to be a heavyweight conservative think tank. That’s changing. In 2021, Kevin Roberts (photo, left) took it over, and he’s wrecking its reputation as a conservative ideas factory. Roberts, an election denier, views Heritage’s role as “institutional[...]
June 11th, 2024 - 1:32 am § in Donald Trump
Should a crazy person be president?
Think I’m being rhetorical, eh? Listen, don’t take my word for anything. This is from the horse’s mouth: “If you’re an adviser to him, your job is to help him at the margins,” said one Trump confidante. “To talk him out of doing crazy things.” (For context, go here, a P[...]
Biden’s real speeches, Trump’s fake crowds (video)
Who’s really ahead. In the last real poll, Biden was by 7 million votes. The next poll that actually counts is November 5, 2024. In the runup, Biden is going around acting presidential (e.g., paying tribute to veterans in D-Day speeches), while Trump fakes crowd sizes and talks about sharks an[...]
June 9th, 2024 - 8:31 pm § in Donald Trump
Campaign Issues 2024: Trump tells rally he’d rather be electrocuted than eaten by sharks
Trump told a Las Vegas rally crowd on Sunday, June 9, 2024, that if he’s on a sinking electric boat he’d rather be electrocuted than eaten by sharks. This video isn’t doctored; he really said this. I checked, and you can, too: Newsmax has the entire speech here; this segment begins[...]
Making Trump supporters look bad is too easy
Stupid people don’t know they’re stupid, and ignorant people don’t know they’re ignorant. Typically, they have righteous confidence in their beliefs, and don’t know how to say “I don’t know.” A pearl of wisdom often attributed to Mark Twain (but it pro[...]
June 7th, 2024 - 1:48 am § in Donald Trump
Trump’s revenge prosecution list
Here’s who’s on it, and why, according to Mother Jones: Joe Biden, because he’s “corrupt, and destroyed our borders and elections.” Alvin Bragg, because “of course he should be jailed.” (Don’t see a specific charge there? Dictators don’t need one[...]
GOPer shows off his literary prowess
Derrick Van Orden is a first-term GOP congressman representing a district in southeast Wisconsin. He lost his first election in 2020, but won in 2022. I think the voters were right the first time. Van Orden impresses me as someone who goes around with his mouth open and ears closed (see photo at le[...]
June 6th, 2024 - 5:17 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
White House or Big House?
I recall there were predictions that if Trump lost the 2020 election, he would “spend the rest of his life in court.” This could explain his desperation to overturn that election, and also why he’s running again in 2024. After all, Trump isn’t known for being motivated by ide[...]