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[-] msfroh@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ooh! There was an episode of the Past, Present, Future podcast a couple of months ago that touched on this very subject. Tariff policy was set by congress up until the Smoot-Hawley act, which was considered such garbage that they decided that it should be left to the executive.

Back when it was a congressional power, it was also the source of some of the worst horse-trading, as representatives from rural areas would seek protection on agricultural imports (with low tariffs on imported machinery), while representatives from manufacturing areas would seek to lower food prices and increase the cost of imported manufactured goods.

Edit: Not saying that handing it to the executive is the best plan, as we can see by what's going on now, but letting congress do it was also problematic. It's funny how a lot of us grew up with the idea that no/low tariffs are the natural order, when it's actually been a fairly short-lived anomaly in historical terms.

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[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Both conservatives and liberals don’t want people discussing how easily the Dems could put a stop to this, and that they’ve been covertly participating in all of it.

[-] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

there are no easy methods to stop it. if it was easy they would have done it. the only options are to do very difficult things that end up getting you arrested (which, you know, a few democrats are doing and getting arrested for)

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Voting ‘no’ on bills and nominees is very easy for them. They don’t do it.

How’d the GOP force the Democrats to send a ‘thank you’ to ICE for their current crackdown?

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[-] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

I'm sorry, but there was a court case about top secret documents in a bathroom that never went to trial in 4 fucking years. That would have stopped it.

If Bidens AG pushed that case with the urgency it deserved, we would not be in this shit show.

Every single one of Trumps immediate executive actions could have been tested by the Biden admin during his time to get the SC opinion on executive overreach before it was Trump doing the same.

Specifically, Biden, at any time, could have pushed the DOJ to make the toilet trial happen immediately. But instead, we have Trumps DOJ building concentration camps in 8 days and filling it with people who have no due process.

All it takes for evil to prevail is good men to stand by and do nothing.

This trail was 4 years of that.

It easily could have prevented all this. Instead it sat on a back burner and we were told it wasn't worth watching as there was no way it would boil over.

You want to tell me that there's no way the Dems could have looked at that pot in 4 years to prevent it from boiling over?

How about not taking years to look at it?

The Dems are either gullible or stupid for taking so long, neither of which is an excuse for letting that trial never happen considering the consequences would be the supercharged orange Shitler we now have as a leader.

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They could have filibustered the Big Shitty Bill. -They refused to get rid of the filibuster the last time they had a chance, but the moment it could have really come in handy they act like it doesn't exist. -That's not incompetence. That's Liberal voters getting played.[edit] Or that's Liberal's tacit approval of the Big Shitty Bill.

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