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Re: Today in Trump's new term as President

Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 2:47 pm
by bbhack
philip964 wrote: Sun Jul 22, 2018 11:04 pm https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/23/trump-t ... again.html

President of Iran threatened the US with the mother of all wars.

Trump responded like only Trump can. Iran probably won’t say things like that again.

Trump is not Carter or Obama.
The mullahs are almost done. The security forces are turning in massive numbers. Bringing in brutal mercenaries did not work this time. It is hard to follow, but twitter is the best place for real info.

The US will support the Iranians de-revolution, not get deeply involved.

Re: Today in Trump's new term as President

Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 6:54 am
by Bitter Clinger
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Re: Today in Trump's new term as President

Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 11:22 am
by 2farnorth
Bitter Clinger wrote: Tue Jul 24, 2018 6:54 am Image
:iagree: "rlol"

Re: Today in Trump's new term as President

Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 2:45 pm
by philbo
Trump to provide $12 billion in aid to farmers to ease trade pain
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... op+News%29

“This trade war is cutting the legs out from under farmers and the White House’s ‘plan’ is to spend $12 billion on gold crutches,” said Senator Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican.

Senator Rand Paul wrote on Twitter. “If tariffs punish farmers, the answer is not welfare for farmers — the answer is remove the tariffs.”

Re: Today in Trump's new term as President

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 8:46 am
by philip964
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/24/politics ... index.html

Michael Cohen gives a Trump tape to CNN. Apparently Michael Cohen has decided to not go the Trump will pardon me route.

I guess lawyers have different rules than a priest in the confessional. Here I thought they were the same.

Re: Today in Trump's new term as President

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:34 pm
by philbo
philip964 wrote: Wed Jul 25, 2018 8:46 am https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/24/politics ... index.html

Michael Cohen gives a Trump tape to CNN. Apparently Michael Cohen has decided to not go the Trump will pardon me route.

I guess lawyers have different rules than a priest in the confessional. Here I thought they were the same.
I would guess that you are referring to attorney-client privilege by your statement. Such privilege for attorneys and their client is much more restrictive than for a priest, but when the parties waive that privilege, then none exists. In this case Trump waived whatever privilege may have existed otherwise.

Federal prosecutors have 12 Cohen tapes after Trump waives privilege
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/ ... _privilege

Re: Today in Trump's new term as President

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:55 pm
by philip964
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-p ... story.html

You probably didn’t know Trump got an enthusiastic standing ovation at the VFW convention in Kansas City recently. Many stories still tried to make it negative as he spoke about trade.

If you sell an American car in Europe you pay a 25% Tarriff. If you sell a European car in America you pay a 10% Tarriff. Does that seem fair? Trump is proposing no tarriffs for cars worldwide. To get Europe’s attention he has proposed a 25% Tarriff on European cars.

In addition a German car costs a lot more in Germany than it does in the US. That maybe called dumping.

Re: Today in Trump's new term as President

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:38 pm
by philbo
philip964 wrote: Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:55 pm If you sell an American car in Europe you pay a 25% Tarriff. If you sell a European car in America you pay a 10% Tarriff. Does that seem fair? Trump is proposing no tarriffs for cars worldwide. To get Europe’s attention he has proposed a 25% Tarriff on European cars.

In addition a German car costs a lot more in Germany than it does in the US. That maybe called dumping.
Where are you getting these numbers? I'm seeing numbers that are different :tiphat:

Re: Today in Trump's new term as President

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 2:34 pm
by BBYC
Maybe Congress should pass a law stating import tariffs will be calculated every quarter based on the prior four quarters. The US tariff on imports from a country will be the same on all goods from that country, and equal to the highest rate that country charged on any US imports in the previous four quarters. Goes into effect 1/1/2019.

Re: Today in Trump's new term as President

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 2:58 pm
by philbo
BBYC wrote: Wed Jul 25, 2018 2:34 pm Maybe Congress should pass a law stating import tariffs will be calculated every quarter based on the prior four quarters. The US tariff on imports from a country will be the same on all goods from that country, and equal to the highest rate that country charged on any US imports in the previous four quarters. Goes into effect 1/1/2019.
I'm sure that foreign powers would support that, especially in light of the fact that the US charges a 2.5% duty on imported cars, but charges a 25% levy on trucks imported into the US (and has since the 60's). They could use our own laws to rationalize higher tariffs in their own country. Tariffs are not a viable solution, and their unintended consequences are well known "If you are an actual business leader, and not a real estate speculator pretending to be one"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brycehoffm ... d2425a5455

Re: Today in Trump's new term as President

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 3:16 pm
by philip964
https://ntknetwork.com/government-emplo ... -to-trump/

US Federal Government workers chant “lock him up”

Re: Today in Trump's new term as President

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 3:18 pm
by philip964
Everyone’s favorite Omaraosa lands a 7 figure book deal.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... House.html

Interviewed by Feds.

Re: Today in Trump's new term as President

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 3:22 pm
by philip964
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ahead-of-e ... 1532524795

Trump gets concessions from Europe on trade. Will buy more LNG.

More winning.

I’m sure this will be spun as bad for global warming.

Re: Today in Trump's new term as President

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:09 pm
by philbo
North Korea making bomb fuel despite denuclearization pledge
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nort ... ld+News%29

Yep, totally resolved. Feel safer already. No one saw that North Korea can't be trusted... :roll:

Re: Today in Trump's new term as President

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 10:11 pm
by philip964
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/25/opinions ... index.html

CNN: Trump is Andrew Johnson not Andrew Jackson.