I just had a conversation with Wotan and he has agreed to hand over the Rhine-gold. At first I demanded Freia and her golden apples of eternal youth, but he said "please Mr. President don't take Freia for without her apples we will wither away." So I asked him for his ring so that I may be granted the power to rule the world, and he gave it to me.

[–] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

The genius plan of hiding all the Fort Knox gold in plain sight

[+] miz@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

In 1776, the Lord revealed unto us His sacred commandment "Thou shalt do Slavery and Genocide and form the great Country of Slavery-McGenocide" and from there all law sprung forth

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You say that as though violating the Constitution while claiming to 'revere it' is new here lol

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is not true. Trump uses tariffs precisely because he can do that without going through Congress.

There are many more tools available for the US government to play this game but tariffs are the quick and dirty way to do so (reducing trade deficits) that the president can enact directly.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

yeah I guess they delegated all that shit away, what a bunch of clowns

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stricly speaking, legally he isn't actually allowed to do it. The actual legislation presupposes that the president has an actual emergency, but Trump decided to use the loophole of "If congress stops me my fans will kill them", which isn't exactly how the government is meant to work, but it does a decent enough job that nobody is interested in rocking the boat too much.

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

The actual legislation presupposes that the president has an actual emergency

That's the neat part about the state of exception...

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Wait but I though the country the tariff applied to pays it??? And now he's saying they don't really?

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He loves gold

[–] RION@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

The schmell of it