On top of all the other bullshit that they are, the tarrifs are a massive grift.
Commerce Secretary Lutnick has an investment bank that is betting against the Tarrifs and expects to make big money when they are struck down in court.
His investment bank pays companies who paid the tarrifs pennies on the dollar to get future rights to any repayment from the government in the event the tarrifs are overturned.
Say a company paid $10 million in tarrifs. Lutnick's investment bank pays the company $3 million for the rights to the tarrifs. In the future, a court overturns the tarrifs, rulling them illegal. US government has to pay back the tarrifs to the companies that paid them. But Lutnick's investment bank now owns the right to that $10 million. Thus, Lutnick's investment bank gets $10 million. $7 million profit.
Lutnick is advocating for tarrifs while having an investment bank that is betting against the tarrifs. A scam is afoot, folks.
That's the thing with fascism. They believe it's never going to come after them until it is coming after them. Tucker must see some writing on the wall.
Exactly. I think most of America had no idea who he was. My wife had no clue who Kirk was. We even watched that South Park episode where Cartman mimics him. I assumed she knew who he was for some reason.
I've known about him since the 2016 election. I was appalled by his early 20s, raving mad MAGA character. I thought we were stuck with him for decades and decades because he was so young. Nope.
They didn't care about extra security when the Minnesota murders happened. Evil fucks.
That Kirk was killed in front of a crowd was for the best, unfortunately. His artery was severed, and he bled out on stage. His death cannot be discarded as an abstraction. He was shot dead in front of a crowd, and it was recorded.
It's fucked up that I can't trust a federal government cancer website with this administration.