Rationale to Trump's Tariffs

[Doctor Steuss]

Tarrifs are gone. Ruled illegal. Once again, DJT fails. He's a serial failure.

Lawrence: 'Worldwide humiliation' for Trump as court rules his tariff 'madness' is unconstitutional
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLL9WulB6G4

Just found the above while pulling night owl shift. Late to the party as per usual.

The three-judge panel (from the initial ruling, not the separate opinion just issued today in "Learning Resources v. Trump") included a Trump appointee, a Reagan appointee, and an Obama appointee. In other words, all liberal activist judges, in MAGA world. Because the deep state is so deep that Trump himself is part of it. And everyone knows that Reagan was the most liberal leftist liberal that ever Marxist socialisted.

[Jersey Girl]

Has everyone heard the new acronym TACO? It stands for Trump Always Chickens Out, a reference to the way he backs down from his tariffs threats.

He lost what little mind he has when a reporter asked him about it. Simple pleasures.

Oh yeah. I got a little movie about that.

Lawrence: Trump, the stupidest and most cowardly president in American history, backed down again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwvBFljn_vk

If that's too long, here's a short from Meidas Touch about the new TACO memes

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/No4tahmdFFg

I suppose one could say...Trump always folds like a Taco? Does that work? I dunno...

[Some Schmo]

I suppose one could say...Trump always folds like a Taco? Does that work? I dunno...

Heh. That's good.

He's like a taco, but without anything inside. An empty shell. It resists any meat and will only accept cheese.

[Jersey Girl]

Uh oh.

Lawrence: 'Irreversibly stupid' Trump's biggest tariff 'humiliation day' has yet to come
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vyjddkGHMc

[canpakes]

Trump announced his 15% tariff ‘deal’ with Japan yesterday and Toyota stock subsequently rose 8% today.

Note that Toyota isn’t even going to pay that 15%; American buyers will.

I don’t think that the Administration is using their ‘best and brightest’ to figure these things out. Or, maybe they are, and this is what comes of it.

[canpakes]

Kentucky’s Jim Beam is taking it on the chin from Trump’s tariff war …

Bourbon production is down 55 million proof gallons nationwide this year

By Janet Patton
December 11, 2025 5:00 AM

As the spirits industry continues to reel from declining drinking, whiskey production has dropped to its lowest levels in years. New monthly data released by the Treasury Department shows that through August, whiskey distillers had produced just under 142 million proof gallons, 55 million proof gallons less than the same period last year.

That level remains 28% lower than in 2024, just as it was in April. It’s the lowest eight-month total since 2018, when the industry produced just under 136.5 million proof gallons.

The monthly production fell under 14.5 million proof gallons in July 2025, the lowest monthly production since mid-pandemic July 2020 levels.

The dramatic drop in whiskey production reflects steady decline in sales seen for many major brands. Last week, top American whiskey maker Brown-Forman reported sales were down 5% in the latest quarter, down 4% for the year.

Meanwhile, Kentucky’s bourbon distillers are sitting on record 16.1 million barrels of inventory in warehouses, an all-time high, as of Jan. 1, 2025.

According to Hasan Bakir, senior director of economic studies for the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S., an alcohol industry trade group, the slowdown has been coming for more than a year: Year-over-year monthly percentage changes have been negative since October 2024, with the biggest monthly change coming in April 2025, which was down 35% from the same month in 2024.

In September, Bakir said that President Trump’s ongoing trade war also has had an impact on the industry’s appetite for growth: “The production decline is not too surprising given the current level of whiskey inventories, the slowdown in the domestic market and tariff-related issues that are negatively impacting exports,” Bakir said in a statement.

The ongoing boycott by Canada continues to hurt the industry. Brown-Forman reported that exports to Canada are down more than 60% so far this year.

https://www.kentucky.com/lexgoeat/bourb ... rylink=cpy

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Kentucky’s Jim Beam is taking it on the chin fromTrump’s tariff war …

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Update:

[Everybody Wang Chung]

Update:

Who knew that making everything more expensive to build would lead to building fewer things? It’s almost as if the laws of economics don't care about Trump's 16th century trade logic, or something. Strange. Maybe Loran can make sense of this? Loran, maybe the system isn't being dismantled by Marxist immigrants after all. It turns out the most effective way to disrupt the system of white men from the 1700s is just to tax/tariff the crap out of American corporations?

[I Have Questions]

The Republican Party members and voters must be proud of what they are doing to the USA. Making it great. Again.