The Real timschochet

80% was not quite what I was hoping for. What a schmuck.

Me? I’m frigging Alfred E. Newman here. You guys want to look stupid doesn’t bother me any. Pass the popcorn.

Because she’s a clown.

This post makes me sad. Not because your points aren’t absolutely correct, but because we’re supposed to be having a serious discussion about Jeannine focking Pirro. She’s a total joke, a total embarrassment. There’s not one Biden appointment that even comes close to this absurd nomination. (There ARE a few Trumps ones that do.)

Your “arguments” (they aren’t really but I’m trying to be kind by using that word) lack credibility, as do you.

Doesn’t matter. Whatever her qualifications she has ruined it over the years with her shameless shilling of Trump’s idiocy and her acceptance of ridiculous conspiracy theories. She’s a total embarrassment.

It’s amusing because it makes his Republican allies uncomfortable But other than that it’s so small as to be meaningless. As for @supermike80 yes last time around he cut your taxes. He also raised your overall costs , so you gained nothing. This time around will be much worse for you.

It’s really a stupid argument to make that “somebody else hired someone unworthy.” And the picture of Buttigieg who was an excellent Secretary of Transportation, ruins it anyhow. I will say it again: Babylon Bee is designed for people will no sense of humor.

Whatever we got is not worth raising tariffs. I don’t understand why we are punishing our consumers. Do you?

I argued yesterday that any deal that lowers tariffs was good for the USA and i stand by that statement. But I assumed, based on the initial reporting, that this new deal with the UK did just that. It doesn’t. Prior to “Liberation Day” we had tariffs of 3.4% on British goods. This new deal raised them to 10%. This “deal” is awful. What a frickin idiot. Thank heaven this is actually no deal at all, will never be ratified by Congress, and the next President can just toss it out. This guy is such a disaster.

Probably because, unlike Pirro, he hasn’t slept with Trump. I kid I kid. Steve Doocy may very well HAVE slept with Trump…

So embarrassing.

That would be anyone rooting for Trump’s tariffs.

Honestly do you?

No because Hitler escaped on April 30; by May 8 he was safely ensconced in Buenos Aires.

President Trump has declared today, May 8, a national holiday, celebrating the end of World War II. May 8 is, of course, V-E day: the war ended in Europe. For our soldiers and sailors in Asia (including my great uncle who, having survived the Bataan Death March, was a POW in Japan) the war went on for 4 more months with some of the bloodiest fighting still ahead. I don’t mind a holiday for this but Trump needs to change the date to August or he’s dishonoring their sacrifice, IMO.

Tom Homan is America’s version of Ernst Roehm.

It hadn’t been yet. Hopefully it would have been but who knows?

That’s a good point if you’re right. Hoping it’s more than that but it wouldn’t surprise me if you’re correct about this.

I’m certainly no expert like he is but I don’t see how he can make this assumption. Again it all comes down to a quick resolution of our embargo on China. Unless Trump backs down we’re staring at stagflation in the face and that has to being down the stock market with it. And the clock is ticking…

It’s just amazing to consider how much more prosperous we would be right now if Trump hadn’t killed the Trans Pacific Partnership during his first term. I doubt whatever deals we get trying to extricate ourselves from this current disaster will be anywhere close to the benefits we would have received from that one. The TPP literally took decades to negotiate, it would have forced China to make all the concessions we desire simply in order to compete. Trump destroyed it with the stroke of a pen. So stupid.

Any trade agreement with a major partner that lowers tariffs will benefit the USA. I don’t think this will be especially significant compared to China and the Pacific Rim nations, but it should still be a benefit.

That won’t help with the goods we normally import from China. UK doesn’t import them. India might have helped…

I used to argue with liberals all the time that when the government interferes with the marketplace, it’s never big business that is hurt; they can always absorb the extra costs and restrictions. It’s small businesses that can afford it and what inevitably happens is that the small businesses are ruined and the corporations get more powerful, exactly the opposite of the goal the liberals were trying to achieve. I still very much believe this. I never thought I would have to make this argument to conservatives. But here we are.

Trump is promising a major trade deal announced tomorrow morning. India? We’ll know soon…