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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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'FART' Bill Indicates Trump's Intention to Dump WTO
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:27PM (1 child)
Observe the D team establishment in horror that candidates like Ocasia-Cortez can win.
Then once you've done that, you will begin having nightmares, because you will wonder why the press would be hailing Ocasia-Cortez as a hero instead of burying her victory and giving her the Bernie Sanders treatment (the silent treatment)?
And how is Bernie Sanders still in the news? Isn't he an outsider? Some crazy I-VT guy? Some old white dude to whom we must never listen because identity politics? Or did they replace him with a pod person?
Can the D team establishment really change? A comparison was drawn in an article I saw on NYT while attempting to find the sauce for some hyperbolic statement wswswswswsws had made this morning between the Tea Party and the Democratic Socialists of America.
We saw how the Tea Party turned out. Instead of a libertarian movement (which was supported by small l libertarians before it was infested with religious crazies), we got an authoritarian nightmare fueled by cheez pizza conspiracy theories.
Why do I get the sense that instead of a socialist movement (which may be supported by small s socialists before, perhaps, being infested with religious crazies [wikipedia.org]... well perhaps I place my pet fear here because I haven't worked out the real answer...), we will get an authoritarian nightmare fueled by misogynerd conspiracy theories?
Shirley the lizard people don't intentionally foreshadow the plot in the 2020 season of the hit reality TV show, The Candidate!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 03 2018, @09:01PM
The modern Democratic party, or at least its machinery and all parts of it over the age of 45 or so, are dead. A lost cause. Worse, a festering gangrenous wound that's taken up so much of the body it can't be amputated. They did this to themselves in the late 60s and early 70s, and like all huge creatures, it takes the head a while to say ouch when someone steps on the tail.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...