I’m not sure if this is true. It was delegated to the executive branch starting around 1930.

https://www.usconstitution.net/executive-tariff-authority/

Yeah 2/3 of congress can end the whole trade war. This is just showmanship.

China has the edge, here. Its communist single-party system and centralized planning allow them to quickly adapt. The US, as a democracy, moves slower making it harder to change. I think China knows this, and they’re betting the U.S. will cave first.

To be fair it’s not just Trump. 2/3 of congress could step in at any time to take tariff powers away from the president, but they choose not to.

I would say that he said the quiet part out loud, but he has been saying the quiet part this whole time.

Okay, but like this is kind of a smart way to squash the paid protester conspiracy theories.

“Soros is paying people to dance against Trump.” just sounds rediculous.

I think he had a green card so he was a legal permanent resident. The other people had visas.

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Is it the boycott or just Trumpflation?

No surprise there. We just went through how blockchain is going to drastically help our lives in some unspecified future.

Assuming the US can recover…

I didn’t mean to imply they weren’t already more productive than in-office workers.

I’m saying that the effort taking away support from remote workers should instead be going toward supporting them.

We should be learning how to make remote workers more productive. Not forcing them back to the office.

Reddit has it’s problems, sure, but I just feel like the fediverse is a fresh of breath air.

Party of crime and disorder

It means Elon gets free speech, not any of us. Elon is free to threaten a Judges daughter with no ramifications.

No shame in liking what you like. Roblox is a metaverse and lots of people play on that.

Let’s just send the gold to North Korea and skip the middleman. /s

Thank goodness we are deporting people close to retirement so they can spend their money in Colombia and not here in the US. Great for the economy. \s

This kind of thing can backfire. They will just respond with another Bible quote and now the conversation is in their area of expertise.