Federal Appeals Court says many of Trump's tariffs are illegal. Seems to me trade policy is of no concern to the Judiciary. I don't personally agree with most of Trump's tariffs but seems to me he has the right to do it. That power is rightfully and solely invested in the Executive Branch. The President should have the right to do some things. Seems to me. What does it seem to you?
It seems to me not quite rational. Consider that the Constitution reserves that right to Congress, a co-equal Guv branch. But which can be over-ridden in case of National Emergency. Whether fiscal or punitive, it can and does punish allies and favor enemies, and was a major factor in causes of the Great Depression of the 1960s. As a common consumer, I will have to pay the bill. Probably you too.
ReplyDeleteFew months back Vance said something controversial. Liberals got bees in their drawers but to me it wasn't all that remarkable. He basically said judges don't have the power or shouldn't have the power to do certain things. He wasn't 100% right but he also wasn't 100% wrong. Trump may be a total bonehead on tariffs but he has the executive authority. Judges don't have the right or power to set trade policy. If Congress wants to act let Congress act. It's not the judge's role to protect your 401(k).
ReplyDeleteHave to say maybe because of her radical left-wing views and Hare Krishna I always pictured Saty as this hippy-dippy holistic alternative medicine homeopathic kind of nurse but she's surprisingly mainstream. Get your shots and spread your ass cheeks for the exam;)
ReplyDeleteThe hippiest thing about me is how i dress: wrap skirts and dresses made from sari silk (reclaimed before heading to the landfill) made by native women-run co ops in India with fair trade practices. I joined the Young People's Socialist League (youth group of the Socialist Party) in 1984. I was agitating for socialized medicine way back then. As I got older I got more pragmatic and less driven by ideology and moved into the Democratic Socialists of America and that is where I am currently. My basic views are the same, just a little more focused on what can we actually accomplish. My nursing education is all allopathic, 100% Western. I dont discount for myself alternative treatments (acupuncture is real and chiropractic is quackery) but if other people want to spend their time with that stuff it's okay by me. I had a near death experience in 2019 that essentially changed my life but not my medical orientation. I dont get seasick no matter how rough the sea but VR goggles make me nauseous in under 15 seconds. Trying to acclimate to that. I do cook everything we eat from scratch except he likes store bread for his sandwiches. I have a huge cookbook collection. I like antique ones. My oldest one is from 1902 but I have a culinary school textbook from 1920. I also have a lot of wartime cookbooks and Depression era cookbooks. I have a lot of modern ones too but I read them all like what they are: social history. Apart from that I'm trying hard to learn good knife skills and master all the sauces.
DeleteTrade talk being kind of boring so feel free. A more leisurely blog than GeeeZ.
ReplyDeletePolitics has always been a little rough and dicey. But it was confined to newspapers, TV, etc. Now it is all podcasts. With a record breaking string of executive orders and outlandish things like taking over the Smithsonian, he is bound to get sued. At this rate more people will be suing him than he them. I see the Pope weighing in on shooting little kids. What can he do - swing a scepter at them?
ReplyDeleteNow podcasters comment on what other podcasters just said. It's like Megyn Kelly starts a chain reaction.
DeleteKind of an odd phenomenon - many wildfire crews have had their alien
ReplyDeleteworkers disappearing since ICE showed up in the smoke. Gone into hiding, wherever that is. Incredibly hard and dangerous work and hard to find replacements.
For ICE saving people's homes from these raging fires comes second I guess. Would probably do the same thing during a hurricane.
DeleteLast week Geeez was toying with quitting. Running a blog is hard work compared to we who comment and complain.
ReplyDeleteI don't really see it as hard work just need the time to do it. Only takes me a few minutes to put my thoughts down. Put it in Draft and work on it if you like. Her thing is she feels she has to post everyday. Cleaning out my attic or trying to eradicate poison ivy now that's work. Blogging is more like a hobby.
DeleteWho is Geeez?
DeleteOn my sidebar.
DeleteIm on my phone. I can't see a sidebar. Whatever happened to Beth?
DeleteDunno.
DeleteAnyway you can try googling "GeeeZ Blog."
George Washington never mentioned a 51st state.
ReplyDeleteOne thing about 50 is it's a nice round number most people can live with. If we only had 49 states I could see wanting to round it off to 50.
DeleteOne thing about Trump is he always has something bothering him and it's stupid stuff.
How does one become an influencer and does it pay well?
ReplyDeleteJust a guess, but to be an influencer, ya gotta own a network - or issue a record number of executive orders.
ReplyDeleteReading Trump wants to reopen insane asylums. But will he admit himself?
ReplyDeleteI heard they are shutting down Alligator Alley. Also going to make Gaza a holiday destination. Blame Biden and proceed.
ReplyDeleteAlso, following the near death experience in 2019 that I mentioned I was given a rude awakening about the whole Hare Krishna thing and in 2023 I returned to the Catholics. Im happy there. My peer group is 20 years my senior and I am one of the Church Ladies at Saturday mass. Ave Maria Gratia Plena
ReplyDeleteMaybe a hipster phase earlier, but a stable career and eclectic choices?
ReplyDeleteOnly near death for me was a high school canoe trip. Chippewa River on a late moonless night, left a car with carriers down stream at Twin
ReplyDeleteWaters landing. The 'Big Chip" was at flood stage and only sound the ripping bushes on both sides of the river, around 10-15 mph and we figured maybe an hour or so. As we came around a bend, we heard a roar that got louder and louder (OMG- Niagara Falls?) and THEN remembered they were building an underground pipe across. A cliff on each side and an array of barges, vertical angle iron and cables stretched from band to bank. No choice, but to head into it and maybe find a chute. Headed into the black chaos of death and shot straight down about 5 feet into a roiling suck pool. We where shot back up, spit out by the Big Chip, hanging on to the side of the old
17ft Hayward canoe. Still among the living but missing both shoes, a sock, billfold and a pretty good old pipe.. It took another mile to get to the edge. Another hour to climb the cliff, an hour hike to a farmhouse -where we were attacked by the farm dogs. We borrowed their phone and Dad came to rescue about 3 AM. I ran into fellow paddler at my Dad's funeral. He was still going on about that trip, his wife saying she heard him tell it at least once a week for 20 years.
Too busy surviving to be a religious experience. Mrs. says it was the dumbest thing her hubby had ever done.
And you didn't eat each other. Needs a script.
ReplyDeleteRe Saty I always felt nurses work harder than doctors. They make the house calls while the doctors sit behind a desk writing prescriptions for Tremfya and go golfing on the weekends.
ReplyDeleteYou're not going to see a doctor wiping up someone's butt is for sure.
ReplyDeletePrecisely my point......except for maybe the intrepid colonoscopist.
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