The 18th Thread about *rump


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by Shaun King:
Fulton County (Atlanta) DA Fani Willis is the chickens coming home to roost for Republicans after her office just indicted Donald Trump and 18 other conservatives for 161 different crimes committed in an attempt to steal the election. ⁣
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Let me explain what I mean.⁣
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In half of America Fani Willis would be a Republican. ⁣
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She’s not a liberal. ⁣
Or a progressive. ⁣
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She’s far to the right of the 27 prosecutors I’ve helped to elect across the country. She has admitted that herself.⁣
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I campaigned against her - and she was my last choice for DA in Atlanta. Atlanta’s jails are now bursting at the seams. ⁣
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But conservatives railed against “progressive prosecutors” and said what a this country really needs is “tough on crime prosecutors.”⁣
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And so that’s what they’ve got. ⁣
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Except “tough on crime” now means TOUGH ON THEIR CRIMES too - which they clearly didn’t plan on.⁣
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Fani Willis is tough as nails. ⁣
Serious as a heart attack. ⁣
She’s not cutting any slack for anyone.⁣
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And she is throwing the book at anybody and everybody that she finds broke the law - including school teachers, rappers, and ex-Presidents. That is EXACTLY what Republicans and conservatives said America needs. ⁣
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And so now they have it. ⁣
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And any attempt to paint her as a crazy liberal is just a lie. In California or New York she’d be a Republican. She’s as moderate as it gets. ⁣
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Trump and others will count on their followers not knowing the truth here, but she’s the EXACT kind of person they all said should run a DA’s office. ⁣
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I wouldn’t even call it Karma. ⁣
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It’s literally what they asked for. They just thought that meant more Black people in jail and prison.

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House Freedom Caucus: Let Trump Walk or We’ll Shut Down the Government​


The House Freedom Caucus issued a series of ultimatums Monday, outlining the demands it wants met before the right-wing group’s members will support a measure to raise the U.S. debt ceiling and continue to fund the federal government. Among them: an end to the myriad criminal cases pending against former President Donald Trump (and the so-called “weaponization” of the Justice Department against conservatives), as well as ensured passage of a draconian immigration law and an amorphous demand to end “woke” policies in the U.S. military. “Furthermore, we will oppose any attempt by Washington to revert to its old playbook of using a series of short-term funding extensions designed to push Congress up against a December deadline to force the passage of yet another monstrous, budget busting, pork filled, lobbyist handout omnibus spending bill at year’s end.”
 

Trump vows massive new tariffs if elected, risking global economic war​


Even in the face of growing personal legal peril, Donald Trump summoned his top economic advisers to his private golf club in New Jersey for a two-hour dinner last Wednesday night to map out a trade-focused economic plan for his presidential bid.

Trump and top aides, including former senior White House officials Larry Kudlow and Brooke Rollins, as well as outside advisers Stephen Moore and former House speaker Newt Gingrich, spent the dinner discussing how Trump could attack President Biden in the 2024 election on the economy, amid a recent spate of positive economic news that has buoyed Biden’s fortunes, according to three people familiar with the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private event.

Among the ideas they discussed was Trump’s plan to enact a “universal baseline tariff” on virtually all imports to the United States, the people said. This idea, which Trump has taken to describing as the creation of a “ring around the U.S. economy,” could represent a massive escalation of global economic chaos, surpassing the international trade discord that marked much of his first administration. Trump advisers have for months discussed various potential levels to set the tariff rate, and they said the plan remains a work in progress with major questions left unresolved, the people said.

On Fox Business on Thursday, the former president called for setting this tariff at 10 percent “automatically” for all countries, a move that experts warn could lead to higher prices for consumers throughout the economy and could likely lead to a global trade war.

“I think we should have a ring around the collar” of the U.S. economy, Trump said in an interview with Kudlow on Fox Business on Thursday. “When companies come in and they dump their products in the United States, they should pay, automatically, let’s say a 10 percent tax … I do like the 10 percent for everybody.”
 
Olde Hornet said:

Trump vows massive new tariffs if elected, risking global economic war​


Even in the face of growing personal legal peril, Donald Trump summoned his top economic advisers to his private golf club in New Jersey for a two-hour dinner last Wednesday night to map out a trade-focused economic plan for his presidential bid.

Trump and top aides, including former senior White House officials Larry Kudlow and Brooke Rollins, as well as outside advisers Stephen Moore and former House speaker Newt Gingrich, spent the dinner discussing how Trump could attack President Biden in the 2024 election on the economy, amid a recent spate of positive economic news that has buoyed Biden’s fortunes, according to three people familiar with the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private event.

Among the ideas they discussed was Trump’s plan to enact a “universal baseline tariff” on virtually all imports to the United States, the people said. This idea, which Trump has taken to describing as the creation of a “ring around the U.S. economy,” could represent a massive escalation of global economic chaos, surpassing the international trade discord that marked much of his first administration. Trump advisers have for months discussed various potential levels to set the tariff rate, and they said the plan remains a work in progress with major questions left unresolved, the people said.

On Fox Business on Thursday, the former president called for setting this tariff at 10 percent “automatically” for all countries, a move that experts warn could lead to higher prices for consumers throughout the economy and could likely lead to a global trade war.

“I think we should have a ring around the collar” of the U.S. economy, Trump said in an interview with Kudlow on Fox Business on Thursday. “When companies come in and they dump their products in the United States, they should pay, automatically, let’s say a 10 percent tax … I do like the 10 percent for everybody.”
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That would be 10% even before hitting our stores, now imagine that 10% and then you have the store mark up so they can recoup their cost and then paying federal, state, local, and other taxes after that.
I'm guessing they think companies importing their goods would lower their prices if or when U.S. consumers stopped buying, but I see that backfiring. They would just take their business elsewhere.
 
Tpop33 said:
That would be 10% even before hitting our stores, now imagine that 10% and then you have the store mark up so they can recoup their cost and then paying federal, state, local, and other taxes after that.
I'm guessing they think companies importing their goods would lower their prices if or when U.S. consumers stopped buying, but I see that backfiring. They would just take their business elsewhere.
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Don't have to Ollie's Outlet and Cash Saver stores do that already.

Funny I can find Cash Saver in mainly black areas.
 
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