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'FART' Bill Indicates Trump's Intention to Dump WTO

posted by martyb on Tuesday July 03 2018, @06:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the He-Who-Smelt-It dept.

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The Trump administration has crafted a draft bill — ordered by the president — that would declare America's abandonment of World Trade Organization rules, according to Axios. The bill essentially provides President Donald Trump — who has argued for a better position for the U.S. in big trade pacts — a license to raise U.S. tariffs at will, without congressional consent and largely outside of the international rules governed by the WTO. The bill, titled the "United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act," would give Trump unilateral power to ignore the two most basic principles of the WTO and negotiate one-on-one with any country.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:08PM (5 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:08PM (#702027) Homepage Journal

    You ever heard the phrase "talking shit"? Trump does that. A lot. Include that fact in your assessment of his actions in the future and you'll have a much more accurate understanding of who he really is.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:20PM (#702039)

    There's talking shit, and there's believing the shit you talk.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:46PM (3 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:46PM (#702065) Journal

    You ever heard the phrase "talking shit"? Trump does that.

    So on the one hand we're not supposed to be surprised that he's going this route because he said he would.

    But on the other hand, we shouldn't believe anything he says because he's always talking shit.

    There's that award-winning cognitive dissonance we've come to know and love!

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @06:41PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @06:41PM (#702097)

      All you need to do is wrap your head around this:

      “He judges people by what kind of deal he can make with them,” Mr. Wallach said. “That’s his god.”

      https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/us/politics/trump-blacks-african-americans-girlfriend-charlottesville.html [nytimes.com]

      "You never know, you know again, the word -- I don't know what the word permanent means, OK? I never know what the word permanent means.

      https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/11/politics/trump-bannon-wsj/ [cnn.com]

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @01:41AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @01:41AM (#702293)

        Permanent is not what death is in a science fiction movie franchise.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 04 2018, @02:50AM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday July 04 2018, @02:50AM (#702326) Homepage Journal

      Man, if you can't understand people well enough to tell when someone's talking out their ass, that's on you. I mean it's something that most folks have figured out by the time they're a teenager but I won't shit on you for having a learning disability.

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