Originally published at: Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion
This article was originally published at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. After President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs earlier this month, the White House released a list of more than a thousand products that would be exempted. One item that made the list is polyethylene terephthalate, more commonly known as PET resin, the…
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Happy Saturday, y’all. (And Bill Frist.)
Whether the company’s lobbying played any role in the exemption is unclear.
Of course it didn’t. And neither did the millions donated to Rethugliklan causes.
The more likely truth is that, like golf, polyethylene terephthalate has a special place in Putin’s Cock-holster’s heart.
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Nobody knew that was his plan?
Tariff the world, and then soak those countries willingly supplicated.
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I wonder how many of these special carve outs are in the “200 deals” Trump claims to have made on trade?
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“Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.” ― Aristophanes, “Plutus”
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PFFT… Of course all it takes is a small stipend paid directly to the Trump organization to get your exemption. Trump is a total CROOK, and I am SOOO Proud that he is my president… Thanks to all the MAGAts who voted for the asshole.
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No matter how you cut it Trump is trying to get the very wealthy, who hate him, to like him.
Trump is trying to buy those who can buy and sell him like he has done his entire life. No matter because they will take what he has to offer and still know he is a pig.
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It is not just the MAGAs it the millions from all walks of life that made a total loser appear to be a winner.
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File this story under “No shit, really?”
The entire Dunning-Kruger administration exists to do 1 thing - enrich Diaper Don. Period. If his friends get rich too, he expects his taste. That’s all this is, a perfectly legal smash and grab looting of Wall Street and the US Treasury conducted in broad fucking daylight. And no one is ever going to do a fucking thing about it.
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I have, or I should say had, very liberal friends who voted for Jill Stein. Because they were certain Harris wouldn’t stand up to Israel in re Gaza. None of us knew what she’d do with that problem, and she likely didn’t know herself. It wasn’t racism, which I suspect for many who didn’t vote for her, because they are a mixed race family.
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“It could be corruption, but it could just as easily be incompetence,”
How about incompetent corruption? Maybe corrupt incompetence?
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If you don’t aggressively tax the rich, you will end up having to eat them.
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While Putin’s Cock-holster is pushing people out of the way at the Pope’s funeral and telling everyone within earshot how much Francis admired him, there is some good news to report: George Anthony Devolder Santos was sentenced to seven years yesterday.
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And already begging for a pardon.
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Its the new gilded age and the kind of old-timey Tammany Hall writ large for the whole country under strictly Republican malfeasance.
Bribery, extortion, fraud and outright theft of the public coffers. Its corruption wherever they go, whatever they do with whoever they know.
Republicans own this shit and hopefully someday soon they will rue the day they chose to do nothing about it.
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You never know. I once worked for a guy who had been in the Peace Corps in Africa, and adopted African children. It was an unpleasant surprise when his very strong racist streak surfaced.
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More proof that insiders benefitted from stock short sales and made mountains of $$$ on the downticks and upticks. We now have discovered how a POTUS manipulates the markets. What a crook!
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And special thanks to the Supreme Court for re-writing the Constitution to hold that Trump is above the law.
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Only because the Repubs on the Supreme Court are completely corrupt.
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