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Duncanpup

(15,587 posts) Fri Apr 11, 2025, 03:09 AM Apr 2025

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Just read this on twitter the secret word of today.

Is Tarriffying.

Yet don’t worry this will not be like 1828 or 1929 they’re saying. Because we’re all gonna be rich under trumps economic policies.

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Just read this on twitter the secret word of today. (Original Post) Duncanpup Apr 2025 OP

A chicken in every pot! Mopar151 Apr 2025 #1

Pretty soon... Hugin Apr 2025 #2

Chicken pox in every house! Hekate Apr 2025 #4

Brilliant! Hugin Apr 2025 #6

I am ready for any pandemic. Duncanpup Apr 2025 #7

"trumps economic policies": Reaganomics + chainsaw William Seger Apr 2025 #3

"trumps economic policies": Reaganomics + chainsaw + lobotomy. Hugin Apr 2025 #5

McKinley, who got the "Gilded Age" tariffs in place, said it was his greatest error, the thing he regretted most. . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2025 #8

1828... A Badger Apr 2025 #9

Mopar151

(10,345 posts)

1. A chicken in every pot!

Reply to Duncanpup (Original post)

Fri Apr 11, 2025, 03:33 AM

Apr 2025

Right this minute, Hoover would be a savior🤔

Hugin

(37,443 posts)

2. Pretty soon...

Reply to Mopar151 (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 11, 2025, 03:40 AM

Apr 2025

People will be picking a chicken in a cage on their way into a KFC like lobsters from a tank in an upscale restaurant.

Hekate

(100,132 posts)

4. Chicken pox in every house!

Reply to Mopar151 (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 11, 2025, 03:49 AM

Apr 2025

Hugin

(37,443 posts)

6. Brilliant!

Reply to Hekate (Reply #4)

Fri Apr 11, 2025, 03:51 AM

Apr 2025

Print up the tee shirts now!

The very definition of MAGA populism.

Duncanpup

(15,587 posts)

7. I am ready for any pandemic.

Reply to Hekate (Reply #4)

Fri Apr 11, 2025, 04:00 AM

Apr 2025

As I’ll place a sock full of cheese over our front door and wear crystal bracelets.

William Seger

(12,209 posts)

3. "trumps economic policies": Reaganomics + chainsaw

Reply to Duncanpup (Original post)

Fri Apr 11, 2025, 03:45 AM

Apr 2025

Hugin

(37,443 posts)

5. "trumps economic policies": Reaganomics + chainsaw + lobotomy.

Reply to William Seger (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 11, 2025, 03:49 AM

Apr 2025

So short sighted, it’s backwards.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)

8. McKinley, who got the "Gilded Age" tariffs in place, said it was his greatest error, the thing he regretted most. . .nt

Reply to Duncanpup (Original post)

Fri Apr 11, 2025, 04:49 AM

Apr 2025

A Badger

(44 posts)

9. 1828...

Reply to Duncanpup (Original post)

Fri Apr 11, 2025, 05:39 AM

Apr 2025

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-nullification-crisis

"The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 began with the passage of the Tariff of 1828 (better known as the Tariff of Abominations) which sought to protect industrial products from competition with foreign imports. ...
"[...]
"Although protective tariffs were not new, the high tariff rates were. The rate under the Tariff of 1828 was nearly 49 percent. ...
"[...]
"Calhoun asserted states had the right to decide on the constitutionality of protective tariffs and to reject federal laws within their borders. He viewed the United States as a partnership of sovereign states, in which the federal government acted as an agent to achieve ends narrowly defined in the Constitution. For Calhoun, therefore, sovereignty originated in the states, and because of this, the states retained the right to act in their own best interests, even if that meant superseding federal law.
"[...]
"The Nullification Crisis had serious long-term repercussions and ultimately laid the ideological and political groundwork for the secession of southern states thirty years later. [...]"

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