'Tariffying'......

[global1]

Trump is just 'tariffying' the American People and our allies with his tariffs.

Ryan tells the Repugs - don't bully Trump on the tariffs because he might make the situation worse.

It's ok for Trump to bully though.

The way to beat the bully is to stand up to him. No one has the guts to do that.

[secondwind]

1. Where is Melania when we need her? Paging Melania....

[GWC58]

3. Melania?

“Tariffs? What are tariffs?” Yeah, she is really a calming influence on her husband. Oh gawd, when will this MADNESS and ineptness end?

[Frustratedlady]

5. When he finds another Hope Hicks.

She and Ivanka seem to have the only control over him. He's been a bully fool ever since Hope quit.

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2. Ryan is a useless, souless MF who lives only to destroy the safety net...

by shifting those funds upwards.

He was positively giddy when the tax scam passed.

Maybe he doesn't get that Congress is a co-equal body to the president and the House is where bills can start to stop the bully.

He's a feckless nothing as Speaker.

[GWC58]

7. Yeah and I thought

Boehner-Boner was awful. Ryan makes him look like a shining example of a go getter. The last four Republican House Speakers have been awful. Ryan has taken ineptness to a whole new level! 😡

[brush]

8. Yes, a whole new level of.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Back down a bully by standing up to him. tRump would fold like a cheap suit.

Why is everyone afraid to do that? Letting him get away with his bullshit only further inflates his yuuge ego.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. Many other nations will stand up to him.

It won't be pretty and they do have the guts.

I suspect one of their primary goals with these tariffs is to force Canada and Mexico to back down on their self-protecting stances in the NAFTA negotiations. If one or both cries uncle and bows down to the US, then tRump's bunch will back off on tariffs. I hope both nations hold steadfast to their principles.

We already have existing trade sanctions on steel from China, from past administrations. What Trump fails to tell the American public is that we can never again have the capacity to meet most of our needs for steel and aluminum raw mill products.

Should the tariffs be applied for any significant time, one of the main areas where we could lose our arse is big job losses in the fabricated metals industries - say, where sheet steel is formed into panels for cars and appliances.

Check out the numbers in the jobs table in this article:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/here-are-the-states-most-threatened-by-steel-tariffs-2018-03-06