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POTUS just signed the Lindsey Graham Sanction Russia and Iran Act into law. Don’t fall for the label. It gives the President unprecedentedly broad authority to impose secondary sanctions and massive tariffs on foreign nations (100-500%).

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The GOP excels at naming bills the opposite of its intent. Like "No Child Left Behind" crashed public education and the "USA Patriot Act" turned the US into a surveillance state and gutted civil rights. Makes me sick. Some Dems voted for this.

I said in his first term, that he would drive us into another Great Depression. I didn’t expect any of the conservative guardrails to hold. This term he may well succeed.

unprecedentedly broad authority to raise prices on American consumers only to then later use tax dollars paid by those same Americans to refund the difference back to the corporations who will pocket it all as profit

I hope every other country is taking note of what Trump is doing, and what scotus and the good congress are allowing him to do. I hope they are safeguarding their systems to avoid this dumpster fire to democracy.