A little spring for your step.
Tubby got defied by the usually compliant U.S. Supreme Court on tariffs, which just goes to show that in this country a Republican president can do all kinds of evil shit but he better not fuck with the shareholders’ money, because that’s more serious than death.
Being who and what he is, Trump says he’s gonna find a loophole, probably based on some stray comments by Justice Gorsuch in his concurrence with Roberts’ opinion. (It makes sense that Gorsuch, trying very hard to play the reasonable non-joiner in his filing, winds up giving Trump something he can at least pretend supports his actions.)
It’s worth remembering that Trump’s not in there to help anyone but himself. Just because he lets billionaires continue to get off tax- and consequence-free doesn’t mean he’s actively trying to help them. He has a nostalgic feeling for Reagan-era oligarchy, and considers the rich endlessly fucking the poor to be the natural order of things, but that just means keeping the status quo -- he still needles the oligarchs for tributes and donations, and as he gets more senile and belligerent I expect we’ll see him make them carry him around in a chair like Idi Amin.
But the tariffs only matter to him as an idée fixe -- something he’s convinced will be a big success because he’s a genius and everything he does is brilliant. He doesn’t care if the SCOTUS ruling makes his pursuit of alternate justifications even more painful for his subjects, who already chafe at the high prices the now-outlawed tariffs caused. If they squawk, that just means more people to tell “fuck you” as he steers the ship of state into an iceberg.
The ROY EDROSO BREAKS IT DOWN free issues for this week predate the tariff ruling but touch upon the logic I discuss: There’s this one about the vandal mentality of Trump and his crew -- how positive results for his supporters are not anywhere near as important as punishment of his, and the conservative movement’s, longtime enemies -- and here’s another, a little more optimistic, on how that nihilism is affecting a lot of voters who were heretofore happy to go along with the gag.
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