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Holy shit -- Kevin Hassett completely bombs on ABC when pressed by Jon Karl to explain how Trump can possibly justify 50% tariffs on Brazil even though the country has a trade *deficit* with the US

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Talk about a mumbo-jumbo word salad to cover up the real reason for the 50% tariff. Trump said he would not lower the rate unless Brazil stops the trial of Bolsonaro. This is extreme interfering in the workings of another country. Both Bolsonaro and Trump should be in prison.

He sent Jason Miller, Jr and others to Brazil under the guise of CPAC, they were detained for hours on the tarmac trying to leave, questioned about their anti-democratic activities in Brazil 2024 Trump sent Ric Grennell to interfere in Guatemala elections www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

theguardian.com‘Building an authoritarian axis’: the Trump ‘envoy’ courting the global far rightRichard Grenell’s shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests

He wants another country to give their former criminal President the same get out of jail free card that he got when these stupid MAGAs re elected him.

Brazil has enough resorts. The global north already r4p3s South America in a number of ways. What the Bolsonaro family promises if they manage to stay in power probably goes much further. It would be a free for all in terms of corporate US exploiting Brazilian natural resources for next to nothing.

We need to see more pushback like this. The “Explain to me because I’m confused” is a perfect bait for these losers because they LOVE to feel like they’re teaching the kindergartners something, but the more they talk, the more they end up twisted like a pretzel trying to explain their bullshit.

I'm not sure that every viewer recognizes it's bullshit though; people have a tendency to try to construct coherent narratives from what people say. If they didn't, they'd recognize Trump was an idiot after 2 or 3 minutes of his mouth moving.

1. Everyone that is sane and accurately informed sees it as the BS that it is. 2. Everyone like that recognized Trump as an idiot in the same way. 3. What we have is not people that can't recognize it as much as they want the stupid BS, not always for the same reason though.

Nope. Political scientists understand that "motivated reasoning" is the governing paradigm in politics. People make decisions with their emotions and use their intellect to justify it. Smarter people are even better at this than dumb ones. Politics only makes sense when this is understood.

Bottom line is it’s bullshit and illegal what Trump is doing with tariffs but this guy says if Trump says it’s a national emergency then it is. The actual problem is we have an incompetent nonfunctional and corrupt Congress and Judiciary that is letting him get away with this.

Too bad we can’t track how many millions of dollars Jair Bolsonaro has dumped into President Trump’s meme coin account in exchange for this extra special tariff treatment, which of course is supposedly needed as an “emergency” to save our country.

Tariffs which of course the American people will pay, as it pays all other tariffs our govt. imposes. That essential detail keeps getting conveniently lost in the blizzard of BS from Trump and his hypnotized lackeys Hassett and Lutnick.

Absolutely. Plus the fact that tariffs are only to be imposed by Congress. The president only has those powers in case of a national emergency. No one is even questioning that this is not an emergency. All of the tariffs have been on and off so much, PROVING clearly it’s NOT an emergency.

What Trump is also getting a pass on, is that all of his tariffs are in violation of WTO rules. As per “most favoured nation” rules, tariffs are applied to particular types of goods and applied equally to all countries, with the exception of those where you have a trade agreement.

Trump called Bolsonaro a "difficult person to do business with," which is simply not true. During Bolsonaro's four-year term, he repeatedly stated that the Amazon rainforest no longer belonged to Brazil, but to the United States. That's what Trump wants: a puppet.

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Kevin Hassett on this week w/out George Stephanopoulos WOW Always appears to have ingested Happy mood altering med before Public appearances/campaigns for Fed Chair job Broadly smiles/lies Believes he is convincing As NO answers to questions Escape his always orange lips Very bot like/eerie

Yes. The U.S. has a trade surplus with Brazil. SURPLUS! It’s the traitor felon’s tariff attack on a foreign leader who’s NOT a traitor! It’s Drumpf’s rush to defend his fellow traitor, Bolsonaro! 😡

"The president can do whatever he wants and it's my job to make sure he can." "Once most Americans can no longer afford anything, we'll enter our new Golden Age of poor and vulnerable people dying off and the rest serving the billionaire class for subsistence wages. I can't wait!" Did I get it?

The Brazilian example puts the lie to TACO's-tariffs given the surplus. When you levy a tax of 50% on American Consumers on all goods imported from Brazil, it's about one thing....narcissistic supply. Hasset proves a moron could get a PhD in economics from Penn. Taxing people is "America First"?

This guy is a class A clown! Isolationism is coming, so let them wall themselves off from the rest of the world and whither in their own warped view American exceptionalism.

Why do so many men who are bullshitting you, and know they are bullshitting you in a most egregious way, end up sounding like they've got grass allergy on hayride meets rampaging rhinovirus level nasal congestion?

plan IS destroy economy, make poor and middle class more desperate - then the voters will be okay when the owners privatize all social services, schools..everything for-profit.

They all know better and are just placating a toddler who is play acting as commander in chief. Every decision the current President makes is either based on personal grievance or personal grift, and his minions reverse engineer “reasoning” behind it. What an embarrassment.

Hassett is a person I can't trust, he plays a role of a mild mannered nice guy with a big smile while he's stabbing you in the back.? He repeats what they tell him, and when things go bad he's easy to blame.

Karl "How's that (Brazil's prosecution of Bolsinaro) a national security threat?" Hassett "Well, that's not the only thing." It's so incredible to watch everyone in Trump's orbit knowingly lie on record about what's going on in order to prove their loyalty to dear leader.

I can't ever get past Hassett's shit-eating grin. 🤮 But apparently “The Golden Age” is the new talking point and all of the trumpheads will be saying it in interviews and pressers.

Sooo……. in all that mumbo jumbo, Kevbo is saying we might have a national emergency and have to produce enough coffee beans to supply the US? The stupid that oozes out of every one of their pie holes is mind numbing!

They are also compromised… If Trump does collapse under the weight of this Epstein thing erasing support… meaning those who have bent the knee have done so in vein… We need to remember every fucken name specifically that kissed his ass. In a post Trump US… they need to be held accountable

Another clear example of F47 deliberately placing UNQUALIFIED people in charge of important government agencies. He can't justify the tariff on Brazil, it's illegal! There is no emergency, we won't be growing coffee here EVER, and we have a trade SURPLUS with Brazil. It's a kakistocracy.