Since it’s now 6/14, #NoKingsDay, I would like to honor the greatest president of my lifetime.
@BarackObama .
Thank you for 8 straight years of exemplary leadership, eloquence and badassery.
Trump’s pick to head FEMA didn’t know we had a hurricane season, his head of Homeland Security doesn’t know what habeas corpus is, his head of the Department of Education (who thinks “AI” is a steak sauce) doesn’t know what the Tulsa Race Massacre was and his Social Security Commissioner didn’t even know we had a Social Security Commissioner, all while his head of the Department of Defense is drunk texting war plans, his head of Health & Human Services is citing studies that don’t exist, his head of Transportation won’t fly in or out of at least one of our airports due to safety concerns, and the guy he tapped to lead an $18 million terror prevention team is a 22-year-old former grocery clerk with zero government experience of any kind.
But sure, keep talking about Biden.
Trump isn't the only Republican to fall for the tariff temptation:
In 1982 Japanese motorcycle manufactures were producing highquality bikes at low prices. Honda, Kawasaki, Yamaha, and Suzuki were routinely undercutting Harley-Davidson by $1500 to $2000 a bike in comparable models. Good for consumers, right?!
On January 19, 1983, the International Trade Commission ruled that foreign motorcycle imports were a threat to domestic motorcycle manufacturers, and a 2-to-1 finding of injury was ruled on petition by Harley-Davidson, which complained that it could not compete with foreign motorcycle producers.
On April 1, Ronald Reagan raised the tariff from 4.4% to 49.4% for a year, a 10-fold tax increase on foreign motorcycles that was absorbed by American consumers.
The protective tariff worked to help Harley-Davidson recover financially, but it was American motorcycle consumers who paid the price, not Japanese producers.
As the ITC Chairman Alfred E. Eckes explained about his decision: “In the short run, price increases may have some adverse impact on consumers, but the domestic industry’s adjustment will have a positive long-term effect. The proposed relief will save domestic jobs and lead to increased domestic production of competitive motorcycles.”
Read my full analysis of tariffs:
https://t.co/0RsGdhkPfA
So it turns out this was a private security firm and its license has now been suspended because of this incident. This is crazy that corrupt politicians are using private security firms to quiet their constituents but we are overreacting by saying this is fascism. Oh okay!
🚨 WATCH, SHARE: “I did vote for Trump. We are possibly going to lose our farm.”
Farmers all across 🇺🇸 face bankruptcy because of what Trump and Musk are doing to the federal government, defunding Biden programs they count on to survive.
Secret Service: $7M to $10M.
Air Travel and Motorcade: $4M-5M.
Stadium Security Upgrades: Additional metal detectors, bomb sweeps, security checkpoints: $2M.
Local Law Enforcement: Overtime & personnel: $1M.
Trump's Super Bowl attendance: $15 to $20M. Where’s DOGE?
🚨BREAKING: A small plane fell out of the sky in Northeast Philadelphia.
Wow, less than 2 weeks in trump's America, egg prices through the roof, tariffs making other prices skyrocket, and planes falling out of the sky.
MAGA: Making America Gross Again
@elonmusk Remember when you had to be sued by your employees so they could get their bonuses?
Remember when you fired most of the Twitter staff?
Remember when you packed up Twitter headquarters and went to Texas, leaving employees that didn’t want to relocate unemployed.
…I do!
@MizTBerri @SuptLarson I was going to ask the same thing. I have a parent who is in memory care (Texas though) and she would be so difficult to move. Prayers for all the patients and employees!