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Let’s always remember that the Smoot–Hawley tariff act is what turned the stock market crash of 1929 into the Great Depression, and reduced the once-dominant Republican Party to a minority party for generations.
Threatening to raise tariffs may be a good negotiating tactic, Mr. Trump, but actually doing it is bad news for most Americans.
On global warming: I’m old enough to remember the “population bomb“ of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Population growth was and is real, but the population disaster that would destroy civilization in 1975 or 1990 or 2000 was bogus.
In the same way, we are on a warming trend, but the disaster scenarios are far-fetched and implausible.
And if you don’t believe me, read what the great paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, a dyed-in-the-wool leftist, had to say about it!
Smart and funny as usual.
But consistently erratic about Trump. As erratic as Trump.
Which is it Michael: (a) Trump is Trump and he is going to do what he wants to do or (b) Trump aches to be popular and always aims to please the room?
I’d say it’s an indecipherable mix.
Except when it isn’t.
Good podcast Michael
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“No, it’s not a toupée. Why do people say that?”
Trump’s easy to understand. We worked this out yesterday. (Right @lois-lane ?) I think that if he has strong feelings about something and thinks he’s right (eg, trade, the media, immigration) then he’s going to do what he’s going to do.
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“You better stop dumping steel China!”
On most issues, he lacks strong feelings and I think he’s just looking for ‘wins’ and popularity. I think that with guns he’s been led astray by the MSM’s full court press with sympathetic victims and dubious polls, and probably some lobbying by Ivanka as well. (“You can be the hero we need, Daddy. Think of the children.”)
“Sorry Wayne LaPierre, but I have to keep
the children safe. I buried your AR-15s.”
There’s a small chance that his challenging the NRA can win back support he had from suburban white women, and at the same time he could avoid a revolt from gun rights advocates. If so, that would really help his approval numbers. What’s more likely is that the left will get all the credit if there’s movement on guns and NRA members will rebel – at which point he’ll feel he’s been duped and completely reverse himself in an attempt to win back his base.
“Alec Baldwin said what? He’s a LOSER!”
I too remember the population bomb warnings. And this is a big reason I instinctively doubt global warming.