Month Thirteen: Oil Barons | Dad, How Did You Meet Mom? | Barack Hussein Obama

**Karbuncle** · 2026-02-20 19:50

Originally Posted by Mrbeansman

Hey guys I thought the supreme court would never cross their big daddy?

To which he called them traitors and is going to sign an EO to keep doing them. Until its enforced its just words, and even when enforced it doesn't remove the damage.

In just one year he's completely fucked the US's trade relations with every major supplier in the world, on such a scale that Prime Minister Mark Carney got on stage at the G20 and basically told all the smaller trade countries they need to Unionize because Trump has shattered the illusion of stability in our modern global trade networks with him throwing his weight around on a whim with the trading power of the US at his back, forcing them to a bargaining table to appease him. But I'm sure that will all go away now.

Not to mention the increased prices we've been suffering because of Tariffs, will those come back down immediately?

So yeah, the Supreme court has finally wagged its finger in disapproval, huge win, its all fixed now.

**kisada** · 2026-02-20 20:24

uh oh, court gang gonna gang up on you lol

**Meresgi** · 2026-02-20 20:33

Trump's sexist remarks will fuck Trump up!
Don't worry Russia Gate will get Trump!
The courts will help us with Trump and fix this!
Covid will get Trump!
Don't worry Jan 6th will undo Trump!
Biden won, Trump is done and Biden will get things fixed up
Thank god Elon left DOGE, no harm happened I bet!
Trump is 150% in the Epstein files, at last he's done
Trump deporting citizens will be ruled on by the courts and he'll stop it!
ICE killing citizens will surely make congress stop Trump's plans
Tariffs are bad and courts will rule on it and Trump will be sad and stop them!

**Kaslo** · 2026-02-20 20:44

Doomers always gonna move the goalposts to doom.

**Meresgi** · 2026-02-20 20:50

Originally Posted by Kaslo

Doomers always gonna move the goalposts to doom.

Dude literally just slapped a 10% tariff across the board to help enrich his friends more, i'm sure in another couple months when that fades out they'll have found something else to use as rationale as to why he can slap another 5% or something. Or he'll just ignore this ruling based on something else and start doing it again. No one is policing this shit lol, everyone that would be is making bank off of it.

**Karbuncle** · 2026-02-20 20:56

Originally Posted by Kaslo

Doomers always gonna move the goalposts to doom.

When the Goalpost is whatever you imagined in your head, its always, surprisingly, going to be different than where I put it to begin with.

My goalpost has always been situated in the area of "He doesn't care about rulings and the damage is still done", which is still where it sits now.

GRANTED everyone has different opinions here but I feel like I've been... relatively consistent in my view that the problem I have has been the long lasting consequences.

**Sirious** · 2026-02-20 21:49

Relatively confident my goalposts have and will likely always stand at enforcement.

Nothing is done until it's enforced. and there is literally no mechanism for enforcement. Impeachment, right, that'll totally work.

**Salodin** · 2026-02-20 22:02

The goalposts are the courts will stop this. While they claim they have, Trump says otherwise. I'm def curious how it plays out

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**Meresgi** · 2026-02-20 22:06

The murkiness is the point. We all suffer while the rich just get stonk go up

**Obsidian** · 2026-02-20 22:22

Originally Posted by Meresgi

Trump's sexist remarks will fuck Trump up!
Don't worry Russia Gate will get Trump!
The courts will help us with Trump and fix this!
Covid will get Trump!
Don't worry Jan 6th will undo Trump!
Biden won, Trump is done and Biden will get things fixed up
Thank god Elon left DOGE, no harm happened I bet!
Trump is 150% in the Epstein files, at last he's done
Trump deporting citizens will be ruled on by the courts and he'll stop it!
ICE killing citizens will surely make congress stop Trump's plans
Tariffs are bad and courts will rule on it and Trump will be sad and stop them!

Don't forget state charges will stop them. The state of Georgia found that Elon's PAC did actually commit voter fraud and they sent him a very sternly worded letter which will surely convince him of the errors of his ways.

https://newrepublic.com/post/206857/...raud-elon-musk

**Meresgi** · 2026-02-20 22:51

Originally Posted by Obsidian

Don't forget state charges will stop them. The state of Georgia found that Elon's PAC did actually commit voter fraud and they sent him a very sternly worded letter which will surely convince him of the errors of his ways.

https://newrepublic.com/post/206857/...raud-elon-musk

Oh that's right, I know I missed a ton of wriggling that was done in the past 10yrs or so.

Trying to say the goalposts are moving when I think everyone has had their goalpost set at "enforcement" for quite some time is great stuff

**kuronosan** · 2026-02-21 09:03

It's projection dude. It always was.

That's why the whole "courts will save us" was such a dumb fucking thing to use as an argument when everyone was saying "okay but he's ignoring the courts".

I think I had said months ago that the damage already gets done, and so hoping the courts intervene at all is folly - all because his administration just ignores them.

Whether that's legal, illegal, will bite them in the ass in the future, won't, is all irrelevant. It's hurting people now.

Like, y'all really think prices will come back down?

A week's worth of groceries costs like $350 for my family. And I can afford it.

How much do you think that means to people who can't?

Jesus Christ.

**Meresgi** · 2026-02-21 10:16

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/besse...l?guccounter=1

Tariffs will be “virtually unchanged” in 2026, despite the ruling due to the use of Section 122 authority, combined with potentially enhanced Section 232 and Section 301, which will result in virtually unchanged tariff revenue as per Bessent. A new baseline duty of 10% global tariff on foreign goods was imposed yesterday under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. It is set to take effect Feb. 24 at 12:01 a.m. Washington time and currently has a 150-day limit, at which point Congress must step in.

The administration also called on its trading partners to abide by the IEEPA tariffs and expected that they would honor their previous deals. He noted that the Supreme Court had reaffirmed the President's right to a complete embargo, which could pose a "draconian alternative" for other nations.

Companies could be the ones to benefit as Bessent cited a that the Chinese supplier cut its price for an American importer, with the importer then paying the tariff but keeping the product’s final price tag mostly unchanged. Any refunds from tariffs would amount to “ultimate corporate welfare” and would see no benefit flowing to the consumers.

Yeah seems that court decision sure did something!

Whether that's legal, illegal, will bite them in the ass in the future, won't, is all irrelevant. It's hurting people now.

Yup exactly, acting like the courts coming in a 1yr+ after the fact to make a ruling they can't enforce doesn't mean jack fucking shit.

**Roranora** · 2026-02-21 10:56

i for one would like the courts to separate his head from his body

whether they kick it around afterwards or not it's fine either way

**Salodin** · 2026-02-21 11:15

So what excuse will it be in 5 months when he's still circumventing the scotus decision? Cause our apologists were all Mission Accomplished yesterday, but literally nothing has changed

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**Tymon** · 2026-02-21 11:29

They will ignore the posts about it and lurk until they have a headline they can come back in and be smug about like they already do right now?

**Tyche** · 2026-02-21 11:30

Bessent calling for Congress to extend the 150 day tarrifs and countries to voluntarily abide by old trade deals at risk of trump bloviating about embargos is decidedly not the same thing.

Congress isn't going to extend those tarrifs. Countries that he's spent a year pissing off aren't going to suddenly cut their own hand off.

Amazing that you think the admin is always full of shit until Bessent spouts some nonsense and then you slam the repost button and say "LOOK, DOOM"

**Bombur** · 2026-02-21 11:42

Trump is increasing the Global Tariffs from 10% to 15% effective immediately, because he feels like it.

**Rhyis.** · 2026-02-21 12:02

economic extortion is the new norm, best get used to it.

**Salodin** · 2026-02-21 12:03

Originally Posted by Tyche

Bessent calling for Congress to extend the 150 day tarrifs and countries to voluntarily abide by old trade deals at risk of trump bloviating about embargos is decidedly not the same thing.

Congress isn't going to extend those tarrifs. Countries that he's spent a year pissing off aren't going to suddenly cut their own hand off.

Amazing that you think the admin is always full of shit until Bessent spouts some nonsense and then you slam the repost button and say "LOOK, DOOM"

I'm content to wait and see what actually happens. Who knows, maybe this time he actually won't wiggle his way out of it

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