The Daily Populous Thursday April 10th, 2025 day edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by SquidFistHK

Senator Ted Cruz urged the president to make and take deals to lower tariffs, something the Trump administration has said it absolutely will not do.

“Take the deal, make deals, and actually work to lower tariffs,” Cruz said. “President Trump has the opportunity for the most extraordinary economic win for the American people right now by making a deal.… And I do wanna give a word of warning: There are voices in the administration that, rather than take a deal, are saying, ‘We want to have tariffs as a permanent feature of the economy.’ I think that’d be a mistake.”

Legendary right-wing shill Ben Shapiro also voiced his disagreement with Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs, noting that the move was “probably” unconstitutional. “Trump’s reciprocal tariffs imposed hundreds of billions of dollars of new taxes on Americans. It’ll be the largest tax increase since the Revenue Act of 1968, one of the biggest tax increases on American consumers in the history of America. It’s gonna cost American consumers; it’s gonna cost American producers who use inputs from other countries,” Shapiro said on his podcast. “There are real world implications for this sort of stuff. Trade wars are in fact not good, and not easy to win, particularly if you don’t actually have a plan. It is predicated on a bad idea of how international trade works.”

False-Bee-4373 on April 10th, 2025 at 00:40 UTC »

I can’t stop thinking about how real story of Trumpism isn’t just the true believers he turned into cult members. It’s the wealthy, educated elite people who STILL somehow didn’t “get it” a full *%¥!ing DECADE into this. Financial people, podcasters, even NY Times columnists who just couldn’t figure out that this was a delusional, sociopathic con artist whose only goals are domination and money and NOTHING else. SO many of us knew this IN 2016 let alone 2025. Random people on REDDIT have been saying this for years and years. Openly on comment boards. FFS.

oroechimaru on April 10th, 2025 at 00:11 UTC »

Wait till they find out china, mexico and canada were not paused, pharmacy tariffs incoming (most likely uk and india) and the 10% tariff remains.

team-penguins !

WarWizard910 on April 10th, 2025 at 00:10 UTC »

Might be?