"I’ve said before that Trump does not think of policy the way most of us do, operating instead like a low-level mob boss running a protection racket. Unfortunately, a bunch of rubes decided to give him another bite at the apple, and now the entire global economy has to pay up."
~ Marlon Weems
#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying #stupidity #incompetence
/6
"The only legible purpose of the tariffs is for Trump to arrogate more power to himself: so that nations and corporate leaders and labor unions come begging him for relief, and so that he can shake them down."
~ Brian Beutler
#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying #stupidity #incompetence #Putin #PutinsPoodle
/5
(cont.): "from the freelancing billionaire dilettante who is gutting American soft power to the vaccine-denying health secretary who is firing as much talent as he can. From the senior economics advisor who thinks comic books are good investments, to the senators who voted to confirm this cabinet of hacks, to the representatives who stumble over themselves justifying each new inane MAGA pronouncement.
But also, we have the government we deserve."
“Vladimir Putin bet his life that American voters would be weak and decadent enough to return Donald Trump to the presidency. He was right. …
We have a deeply stupid government—from our economically illiterate president to our craven and foolish secretary of state," (continued in /4)
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying #stupidity #incompetence #Putin #PutinsPoodle
/3
"Trump’s son Eric appeared to confirm that the tariffs are a shakedown when he posted: 'I wouldn’t want to be the last country that tries to negotiate a trade deal with [Trump]. The first to negotiate will win—the last will absolutely lose. I have seen this movie my entire life.…'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying
/2
"It is not at all surprising that Trump sees the appeal in sanctions. It is no different from a mob boss moving into town and sending his thugs to every business on Main Street, roughing up the proprietors and asking for protection money so they don’t get pushed out of business. … It’s a mentality fit for someone repeatedly linked to organized crime."
~ David Dayen
#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying
/1
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-03-theyre-not-tariffs-theyre-sanctions/
The law, in all vicissitudes of government, fluctuations of the passions, or flights of enthusiasm, will preserve a steady undeviating course; it will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations, and wanton tempers of men. […] On the one hand it is inexorable to the cries and lamentations of the prisoners; on the other it is deaf, deaf as an adder to the clamours of the populace.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Speech (1770-12-04), “Argument in Defence of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials”
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/35602/
#Fasnachtsdienstag 4.3.25 14:46:
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#JohnGotti would have OK’d #Trump #Vance #mob hit on #Zelensky. President Trump, who once famously bragged that he’d be “one of the greatest” #mafiosi, put everything he learned in growing up around the #NewYorkCity mob in the 1980s to use during his already infamous #OvalOffice attempted shakedown of #Ukraine’s #Zelensky on Friday. America may never recover from the plurality of voters who wanted a Gotti-style strongman as president. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-zelensky-ukraine-mob-boss-20250302.html #corruption #politics #government
Stay in your lane, you #MAGA #scumbag. You and your #despicables have turned #government into the #mob running #extortion #rackets. #TraitorGOP is a bunch of #sick #homicidal #reprobates.
#murderers
#bloodOnTheirHands
#RussianAgent
#traitor
https://www.yahoo.com/news/johnson-says-zelenskyy-may-resign-154233643.html
Like the Athenian miser, who was wont
To meet men’s curses with a hero’s front:
“Folks hiss me,” said he, “but myself I clap
When I tell o’er my treasures on my lap.”
[Ut quidam memoratur Athenis
sordidus ac dives, populi contemnere voces
sic solitus: ‘populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.’]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Maecenas,” l. 64ff (1.1.64-67) (35 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/75284/
With Trump the mob and its ways are now ruling geopolitics and world order. He has an offer you cannot refuse...
Trump needs to pay for this in the end.
No solitary miscreant, scarcely any solitary maniac, would venture on such actions and imaginations, as large communities of sane men have, in such circumstances, entertained as sound wisdom.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1829-06), “Signs of the Times,” Edinburgh Review No. 98, Art. 7
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/67051…
A few impressions from today’s ride on board the gauge-changing #Interlaken to #Montreux #GoldenPassExpress
#GPX. At #Zweisimmen, a metre-gauge #MOB electric takes over from the standard-gauge #BLS one, whereas the through carriages pass over a gauge changing mechanism.
A picture or it didn’t happen: enjoying a delicious snack from the @diningcar on board the #Interlaken to #Montreux #GoldenPassExpress#MOB #BLS
Angry Cop Means Business
Baywatch Nights 2x20 - Hot Winds
