Donald Trump told rally attendees on Wednesday that he keeps invoking the fictional Dr. Hannibal Lecter because "these are real stories."
From Aging, incoherent felon refuses to drop out of presidential race
With Biden's exit, we hope the purple parts of the country that couldn't trust the president's mental competency will now see the obvious truth about
(www.sfchronicle.com):
Even putting aside Trump's deadly history of policy failure, sexual abuse or his 34 felony convictions " which, to be clear, we shouldn't " the former president, 78, has been borderline incomprehensible for years.
Consider his ambitious plans for missile defense: "Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. ... They've only got 17 seconds to figure this whole thing out. Boom. OK. Missile launch. Woosh. Boom."
Or his suggestion that injecting disinfectant could fight COVID from within.
Or his mathematically dubious analysis of the job market during his Republican convention coronation speech: "107 percent of jobs are taken by illegal aliens."
We could go on.
One of the most effective presidents in modern history just dropped his reelection campaign over fears of cognitive decline. Polls suggest this was the correct choice " that Americans in crucial swing states no longer saw Biden as capable of realizing his promise of normalcy.
With Biden's exit, we hope those same parts of the country will remove the wool from their eyes to see the obvious truth about Trump.
@#14 ... Just like he is clueless that consumers, not the originating country pay for tariffs ...
Who Really Pays the Tariffs? U.S. Firms and Consumers, Through Higher Prices (2021)
taxfoundation.org
... When the Trump administration imposed tariffs on various imports in 2018, the stated purpose was to boost U.S. industries and punish foreign exporters. But rather than hurting foreign exporters, the economic evidence shows it is American firms and consumers hardest hit by the Trump tariffs.[emphasis mine]
The tariffs resulted in higher prices for a wide variety of goods that U.S. consumers and businesses purchase. The Biden administration has continued and even increased many of the Trump tariffs"drawing some attention as inflation rises. And while tariffs do raise prices for American consumers, their impact on economy-wide inflation is relatively small.
When the U.S. imposes tariffs on imports, U.S. businesses directly pay import taxes to the U.S. government on their purchases from abroad.
The economic burden of the tariffs, however, could fall on others besides the U.S. business directly paying the tax, including foreign businesses selling goods to U.S. businesses (if foreigners lower their prices to absorb some of the tariffs), or U.S. consumers ultimately purchasing the goods (if U.S. businesses raise their prices to pass on the tariffs).
Historically, economists have generally found that foreign firms have absorbed some of the burden of tariffs by lowering their prices, meaning domestic firms and consumers haven't borne the entirety of higher tariffs in the past.
In contrast to past studies, however, new studies have found the Trump-Biden tariffs have been passed almost entirely through to U.S. firms or final consumers. ...
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