#Simon Roseberg

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Simon Rosenberg at Hopium Chronicles:

Next, the not so good news. If President Trump goes through with his announced tariffs, and doesn’t find some fig leaf to back down as he did with the country of Colombia last weekend, it will be one of the single most reckless acts by an American President in our history. Perhaps the most reckless, and irresponsible, and idiotic. [...] Tariffs are a tax on goods imported from aboard that we and our companies pay to the US government. As Trump has announced tariffs on our three largest trading partners - Canada, China and Mexico - prices will rise on just about everything immediately, but particularly on food and gas/oil. Rather than getting prices and inflation down, Trump is taking actions that will raise prices and re-ignite inflation. Trump needs the revenues from tariffs to help pay for his tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. As Rob argues in our interview, in this case tariffs are a direct transfer of wealth from working people to the oligarchs. Tariffs are an enormous new tax paid for by working Americans. Again Trump promised lower prices, lower inflation, lower taxes. He is actually giving the American people higher prices, higher inflation, higher taxes. Trump’s tariffs will slow the economy and cause unemployment to rise. So yes, Trump is giving us higher prices, higher inflation, higher taxes, higher interest rates, slower growth and higher unemployment. It is hard to imagine a more fundamental betrayal of the core promises he made to the American people during the campaign. And this is particularly the case when new data this week showed the economy slowing and inflation rising. These are not the only ways Trump is working to raise prices and taxes on working people. The emerging Republican budget deal will also raise taxes on working people and cut critical benefit programs that will cause health care and other vital services to become more expensive while providing tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. Rounding up millions of workers during a time of low unemployment will create labor shortages, harm our businesses, devastate families and communities and cause prices to rise on food, health care, day care, restaurants/hotels and many other items. [...] Donald Trump betrayed our country when he openly worked with the Russian government to seize power in 2016; when he attacked the Capitol and the Congress in 2021; betrayed it when he stole top secret documents and shared them others; and is now betraying all of us again in his lawless attacks against our government, our democracy and the rules based global system that has keep America prosperous, safe and free for generations. Donald Trump hates the America of the Four Freedoms, and I am profoundly worried he’s attempting to bring it down, with the help of his South African and other Russian stooges.

Simon Rosenberg wrote in Hopium Chronicles explaining accurately that Donald Trump’s tariffs towards Canada, Mexico, and China (and possibly the EU) will wreck the economy and make America less safe.

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Colorado lawsuit accuses Louis DeJoy & USPS of fraud

Colorado lawsuit accuses Louis DeJoy & USPS of fraud

https://twitter.com/kevincollier/status/1304875534111903750?s=20

Jena Griswold is my spirit animal.

If I gathered non-MAGA Secretaries of State in a room I’d ask “why can’t you all be as badass as Secretary Griswold?” (To be fair, some of them are.)

https://twitter.com/JenaGriswold/status/1304828890364276736?s=20

Sec. Griswold *opened a can* on Twitter and served notice to would-be lawbreakers…