Trump's Card

[Amor de Cosmos]

We've moved into a political era where if steel tarriffs bought one job back to Pennsylvania and cost 1,000 jobs in California, the response would be "HA! Owned the libtards!"

So when will the coasts decide to secede from the Union?

[anton pulisov]

Our politicians are pretty shit, but if the government threatened steel tariffs because there was a by-election coming up in Aberavon, I think the government would get called on it. They'd be told to raise demand instead.

Or not leave the European Union... Oh wait.

[anton pulisov]

If it isn't spicy it's still food? Who knew?!

I know, try living in France. Everything here is drowned in entrails and butter. Haute cuisine my arse. Maybe if you arrived in Paris from Eastern Germany in the 1950s, you might have been impressed by the sight of a steaming pig bum served with lentils.

[Tubby Isaacs]

That's because you have a completely different concept of party discipline than we do.

I'm not sure it's the terrifying power of the whips that stop the MP for Neath from supporting steel tariffs. It's more that it's a really bad idea.

[ursus arctos]

We're you one of those Guardianistas who so helpfully wrote to people in Ohio telling them how stupid they were being?

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/971383976651886592?s=09

[anton pulisov]

I see a future for the British economy as a transit point for moving elephant parts to the US. Oh, and jam, of course.

[Tubby Isaacs]

We're you one of those Guardianistas who so helpfully wrote to people in Ohio telling them how stupid they were being?

What's that supposed to mean?

[Eggchaser]

I'd put up that list of environmental regulations the fucking scum administration has repealed, but it makes me both violently angry and hopelessly despairing at the same time.

It's easy to repeal regulations, and much harder to bring them back in, largely due to the legal, political and financial clout each side brings.

And on a day when Artic scientists are basically saying, "Game over up here."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...climate-change

[San Bernardhinault]

So, today I read about a Belarus prostitute in a Thai prison who’s linked to Deripaska; and a Lebanese businessman meeting with UAE connections meeting with Russians in the Seychelles. Donald’s going to have to buy an atlas.

[tee rex]

And in more trade war news, today I learned that the USA imports steel from New Zealand. Somebody in Wellington should be handing out a gong for services to exports.

[Tubby Isaacs]

They import steel from Wales too.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Got a new CNN talking head. Greg Autry.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Three falls, three submissions or a ko to decide?

[hobbes]

[Tubby Isaacs]

Nixon to Korea?

Does Jeff Flake have any chance of nullifying these tariffs in Congress?

[Snake Plissken]

Bet you he puts on a pair of fake hands.

[Aitch]

What's the likelihood of Trump now getting the Nobel peace prize?

[WOM]

Yeah, we had the Trump Alt Universe conversation the other day at the office. Watch his disarm North Korea, establish peace in the Middle East and topple Bashir Assad all in four years, while golfing and banging porn stars. Your grandkids will think you're making it all up.

[Guy Profumo]

What's the likelihood of Trump now getting the Nobel peace prize?

A "leading bookmaker" has him at 2/1 favourite, apparently.

[ursus arctos]

Does Jeff Flake have any chance of nullifying these tariffs in Congress?

Given the near complete absence of details on what will actually be enacted, it is impossible to evaluate the chances of them being overturned (with the more likely forum being the courts, rather than Congress, given the degree of latitude given the executive in such matters.)

[ad hoc]

What's the likelihood of Trump now getting the Nobel peace prize?

Has he been nominated? I'd be surprised if he had. (Nominations can only come from certain people, I think). BDS are nominated this year. I'd love it love it if they won

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cheers.

Do we have any clue what the courts are likely to think?

[ursus arctos]

Please read my post, Tubbs.

[anton pulisov]

Community organisers in the south side of Chicago are rallying against... the Obama Centre.