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Tactically, this seems like a fantastic time for institutions (law firms, universities) and individuals (Repubs in Congress) who want to stand up to Trump. He's openly cratering the economy, the weakness of Elon's ability to buy elections was just revealed in Wisconsin. The emperor has no clothes.

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Depends on how afraid they are of their own voters, who (if they are even aware) have a completely distorted view of what's happening and why. They had a similar tactical moment after J6, and almost universally caved in fear rather than try to educate their constituents about reality...so...

Someone needs to explain to the Christian nationalists that their movement has been hijacked by a con-man. Economy go BOOM! and their White Homeland will be an impoverished ghetto.

Amazing video here where CNBC laid out how Trump just made this all up without any kind of formula bsky.app/profile/just...

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CNBC's Steve Liesman doesn't mince words about the way the White House calculated its tariff rates: "Nobody ever heard of this formula. Nobody has ever used this formula. So I’m sorry, but the conclusion seems to be the president kind of made this up as he went along... these are off the charts."

It’s amazing that Congress cannot delegate almost anything to Democratic presidents without SCOTUS turning it back but can delegate total power to destroy the economy to Republican presidents without a murmur from CJ Roberts. 🤔

I agree. There could be an opportunity here. Some only care about money. Time for a national strike? Mike O’Rourke, chief marketing strategist at Jones Trading, to investors: “It is hard to imagine how these tariffs would not wreak havoc upon the profit margins of major multinational corporations.”