225
'Hidden From the American People,' GOP Moves to Give Trump Unchecked Trade War Powers
(www.commondreams.org)
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
225 points (99.1% liked)
politics
21775 readers
3803 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I just don’t get it. They are literally giving away the power they have to someone who has demonstrated he is planning to destroy the county in which they live.
There is ZERO upside to them doing this…
Christian Dominionism: Look it up.
They share his desire to destroy the country.
Professional politicians are looking forward to the day when they can come out from under the shadow of dark money and influence peddling and financial reports and openly live as lords of the corporate/kleptocratic new world order.
In a nation absolutely awash in high-powered weaponry? They are absolutely delusional if they think this will go the way they think it will.
There are a ridiculous number of functional militaries in America and most of them bow to corporate interests.
Seems like most of the people who hoard such weapons want to join them and be part of the largest group of thugs.
You do know that the elite Republicans can't stand their poorer base, don't you? They just used them to gain power, however they may employ some of the worst of the worst as personal thugs - hint, they already do this.
So, what you're saying is... You agree with me? Great!
The minority of vocal moronic ones, yes.
The quiet ones who have hidden from public view what they have and how much? Not so much.
Since we're not ammosexuals, we're better trained. No point in having a hundred guns you're barely familiar with and can't maintain.
so far, said weaponry's main achievements are higher murder rates than anywhere in the west (interestingly, if you remove guns homicides, it evens out), and killing kids at a higher rate than cancer.
Now imagine the county collapsed and the US dollar no longer the reserve currency. All these tech bros with billions of nothing sitting in their bunkers will be ripe for the taking. Candy ass nerds and stock brokers are not hard asses no matter what MMA classes they walk through.
and most people who think they are hard asses aren't hard asses either. the country isn't collapsing either. it's just relinquishing its role of being the leading superpower and establishing techfeudalism.
So far it looks like armed Muricans are docile as lambs
Lambs are a hell of a lot smarter though.
They have the same goals. Doing it this way, they get their objectives met without getting their own hands dirty.