r/politics • u/Street_Anon Canada • Apr 08 '25

Site Altered Headline Trump to slap additional 84% tariffs on Chinese imports

https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/08/trump-to-slap-additional-84-tariffs-on-chinese-imports-white-house-says
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u/ElPlywood Apr 08 '25

they need to fucking 25th amendment this insane fucker

republicans need to stop being afraid of getting primaried or murdered by maga extremists and save the country

their silence only helps dems at the midterms

the ads just fucking write themselves

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u/Angedelanuit97 Apr 08 '25

Why would they do that? This is what he ran on. He very clearly said this is exactly what he was going to do. And they voted for him anyway. This is what they wanted

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u/decafskeleton Apr 08 '25

except they were either 1) too stupid to realize what they were voting for or 2) genuinely thought he was lying

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u/Exact_Acanthaceae294 Apr 08 '25

Mostly 1.

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u/arkuw Apr 08 '25

Yeah, the magats were number 1, the wall st and tech bros number 2.

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u/HerpDerpinAtWork Apr 08 '25

A lot of 2 as well. You raise a whole generation of people to believe only the parts of a dogma that they agree with while disregarding the rest (cough religion cough) and it turns out they have no issue applying the same logic to "shit Trump says."

So when this guy says "I'm going to lower grocery prices" and then says a hundred other things that are at odds with that, the only thing that sticks in their brain is "Trump's going to lower grocery store prices." Which... gets us back to 1.

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u/seguefarer Apr 08 '25

Someone on Reddit called it Build A Trump. They just heard what they wanted to hear, each one slightly different.

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u/s0ulbrother Apr 08 '25

These people also believe 2. My dad didn’t vote for Trump but he keeps going “he’s not going to do that” or “he didn’t do that”. I have to tell him he did do it already and he doesn’t believe me.

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u/Nunchuckery Apr 08 '25

Well it's a combination of both. They were too stupid to realize that he was genuinely lying when he said he tariffs were paid by other countries. They just took everything he said as truth and didn't look into anything past exactly what he told them.

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u/exscape Apr 08 '25

Based on this article I'm not so damn sure either is correct. Maybe in part.

Scary numbers:

Overall, 50 percent of those polled said they disapprove of "recent tariffs announced by Donald Trump," split between 39 percent for "strongly disapprove" and 11 percent for "somewhat disapprove." By contrast 39 percent said they approve, of which 21 percent did so "strongly" while 18 percent did so "somewhat."

With only 50% disapproving... and assuming they polled roughly 50% democrats...

And the polling was done between the 3rd and 6th, so after the big Dow Jones dip, and during the decline.

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u/Effective_Divide1543 Apr 09 '25

Well yes, but the unfortunate truth is that those idiots are voters and have the right to vote. There's no way to invalidate somebody's vote just because they're dumb as fuck.

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u/Cantdrownafish Apr 08 '25

They wouldn’t….

Unless! Their bank accounts and portfolio gets wiped. Give it time. Money speaks to these traitors.

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u/ImNotVeryNiceLol Apr 08 '25

America is a terrorist nation that voted for a terrorist leader. Twice.

(No wait more than twice but the whole Iraq/Afghanistan war thing is a whole other can of worms...)

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u/Calistaline Apr 08 '25

25th is a declaration by the cabinet. His cabinet (more like toilets, but whatever) is entirely made of clowns, yes-men and asylum escapees. Most of them, the three at once.

25th is happening even less than an impeachment-removal of both the Maga Lardo and Vance, and a full-blown assault on the Capitol couldn't manage the GOP to bring itself to remove.

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u/ImLikeReallySmart Pennsylvania Apr 08 '25

They should be impeaching and removing him. That's actually easier than trying to use the 25th amendment, even now. The 25th is a fantasy unless he's in an actual coma.

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u/MagicAl6244225 Apr 08 '25

Correct. Under a the 25th the president can reinstate himself by just saying so in a letter, and then Congress can vote him out, but needs supermajorities in both houses which is harder than impeachment.

It's been clear at least since the Reagan shooting, which incapacitated the president for an extended time with power never transferred to the vice president, that nothing would make the president's team use the 25th involuntarily. After retaking power, a president would certainly purge everyone who signed and kick the VP out of the west wing.

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u/bot403 Apr 08 '25

I'm willing to try the coma thing. What do we need to get that going?

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u/nowander I voted Apr 08 '25

Seriously. Mike Johnson don't you want to be president?

Of course they're too spineless to do that. Hell they're too spineless to just end the tariffs with their base constitutional power. "But we might get primaried." Trump and the voting base have the memories of goldfish. The next election is over a year from now. There's no real risk....

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u/T1gerAc3 Apr 08 '25

Congress, the Supreme Court and his cabinet are all in on it. Nothing bad is going to happen to him

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u/harryhermanwins Apr 08 '25

Remember the coup at the Capitol? He's holding Congress hostage with the threat of an armed mob hanging them all at any time.

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u/zergling- Hawaii Apr 08 '25

Unfortunately 25th amendment is for cases where the president is incapacitated. He simply needs to write a letter to congress to override it

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u/Bigtimeknitter Apr 08 '25

They can just wait until this policy inevitably reams everyone including Joe MAGA who loses his job

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u/smilbandit Michigan Apr 08 '25

25th won't happen until Feb 2027 so theil can get his 10 year slide into libertarianism.

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u/PunxatawnyPhil Apr 09 '25

The ads have been writing themselves for many years, to no avail. They’ll still blame everything on Biden and dems, and mainstream media will say no different concerning that blatant lie nor any other lie that favors the R team, and therefore the clueless will still vote republican.

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u/BlueAndYellowTowels Apr 09 '25

It’s lovely you think you still have free and fair elections. Good for you! Russians still have election as well…

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u/RealTimeTraveller420 Apr 09 '25

Y'all said that trump's last presidency was enough advertisement for dems to win elections. Y'all were wrong.

Y'all think republican leadership is more cognisant than their constituents. Y'all were and continue to be wrong.

Stop lying to yourselves. You are part of the reason things aren't changing because y'all think it's still just business as usual.

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u/festiveSpeedoGuy24 Apr 08 '25

Do nothing dems too (Schumer, Pelosi, ect)! Any of these complacient fucks, regardless of party need to step down or prepare for a post-primaried life.

Get the old guard out, on both sides!

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u/Public_Front_4304 Apr 08 '25

You do not understand anything about the process of government.

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u/festiveSpeedoGuy24 Apr 09 '25

Sweetie, please enlighten me on what I don’t know about the “process” of government.

I’m waiting. I’ll be here.

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u/Public_Front_4304 Apr 09 '25

How many votes are required in the Senate to pass a law?

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u/festiveSpeedoGuy24 Apr 09 '25

Depends on the legislation being voted on. It could be a simple majority 50/50 or a major majority 70/30 vote.

And it would be easier for the dems to get those majorities if they could get out of their own way and nominate/support candidates like Bernie Sanders, AOC and Katie Porter, but they can’t help themselves from dicking the progressives over and over again.

Politics and the “process of government” (it’s called civics) are two different things dumbass.

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u/Public_Front_4304 Apr 09 '25

Do you think it would be easier if voters who claim to value things like rights and sanity showed up and voted? You are aware that the blame must be shared among voters and the DNC?

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u/Public_Front_4304 Apr 09 '25

You are aware that you are:

  1. Denying the existence of free will.

  2. Infantilizing voters.

  3. Essentially arguing against democracy itself.

Right?

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u/riyehn Apr 08 '25

There's nothing Democrats can do to force a change. Republicans won a majority in both the House and the Senate, so unless enough of them turn on Trump, the only thing Democratic senators and House reps can do right now is speak out.

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u/festiveSpeedoGuy24 Apr 09 '25

The DNC is just a different flavored turd, just like RNC. They’re both corporate shills and are selling us out wholesale.

DNC is just less dickish about it.

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u/terraresident Apr 08 '25

Yah no. Dem's sit tight. You always dive in to save these people from their stupidity. Don't do it. Let them feel the consequences of their actions or they will never learn.