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639 points CTOSian | 2 comments | 26 Aug 25 17:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jrochkind1 ◴[26 Aug 25 20:30 UTC] No.45031946[source]▶
Even aside from the advisability of the tariffs -- it turns out there might be a reason that tarrifs haven't usually been imposed with like weeks notice, after months of back and forth, with no real advance implementation planning on the government's part and not enough time or reliable info for anyone else to do so either?

It is very strange to me that the government seems to be going for maximum shock and uncertainty on the US economy. Again, apart from the advisability of the actual tarrifs, they could have been implemented in the usual way to allow people to plan for them (and possibly give feedback on them), but they were not.

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duxup ◴[26 Aug 25 21:04 UTC] No.45032316[source]▶
The government is really just one guy right now, Trump.

According to his own people he doesn't take no for an answer and isn't interested in input from anyone else. He has surrounded himself with opportunists and yes men. His own department heads often will do press conferences and inadvertently contradict Trump, seemingly without realizing it. At one point Trump and his staff couldn't get on the same page about IF they were or were not talking to China about tariffs, they waffled for several days on it.

A few Trump staffers whenever asked about strategy with tariffs or other things just ignore the question an start praising Trump out of the blue. It's a creepy scene.

I've yet to see anyone with an education or domain knowledge explain the existing tariffs strategy / where this should lead with these whipsaw type decisions. There simply is nobody with a clue willing to do that.

At least in Idocracy President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho chose to listen to someone smarter than him. This is very much not the choice of the current President.

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pjc50 ◴[26 Aug 25 21:16 UTC] No.45032437[source]▶
> government is really just one guy right now, Trump.

Americans call this "separation of powers" for some quaint reason. In practice all three branches of government do what he says in executive orders.

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duxup ◴[26 Aug 25 21:18 UTC] No.45032456[source]▶
Congress is his people and just sycophants, but the real tragedy as far as separation of powers goes is that the SCOTUS majority has chosen to ignore their job and put their hands in their pockets.

Anytime a judge does something that might result in a confrontation SCOTUS sets it aside while the legal process continues ... this a farce as in the meantime people are fired, tax payer data is handled poorly, budgets are cut and everything falls apart. Effectively the law is ignored and the damage is allowed to happen regardless of the court outcome. It won't matter by the end of it all. It's the same as SCOTUS rubber stamp approving all of it...

IMO they've disqualified themselves for that job by simply refusing to do it.

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kagakuninja ◴[26 Aug 25 21:29 UTC] No.45032558[source]▶
Republicans could, and should have removed Trump from office after the Jan 6 attack. They are the real cowards.
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1. duxup ◴[26 Aug 25 21:32 UTC] No.45032579[source]▶
Yeah that party really has had no real leadership for ages. Just one "strong man" showed up and they were happy to push out any remnant of critical thinking and they're just empty suits.

Every traditional Republican ideology is now upside down / been violated with gusto.

They're a whole new party in many ways.

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2. slipperydippery ◴[27 Aug 25 15:45 UTC] No.45041243[source]▶
If you've talked to many "real American" Republican voters, Trump is exactly what they've wanted since at least the 90s. "Traditional" Republicans were just all they had as an alternative to Democrats, who are obviously going to make your kids gay and take all your guns and impose sharia law and implement communism, so you can't conceivably vote for one of them.

What's new is someone had the money and platform and good idea to leverage that huge gap between what Republican voters wanted, and the Republican platform, to judo-flip and pin the whole official party apparatus in the span of a couple years. Republicans, the voters, didn't change, or if they did, it was years and years before Trump.