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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • News agencies are reporting the wrong thing here.

    They’re presenting as if the point of contention is whether or not this is a bad idea, but in this case that’s a meaningless question to ask.

    This idea isn’t bad, it’s nonsense.

    There’s literally no such thing as a tariff on movies; it’s not something that is even possible even if it were legal.

    Tariffs are taxes on the import of goods; no goods are being imported when a movie is filmed in another country, so there’s nothing you can charge a tariff on.

    So, this is a case of Trump demonstrating that he has no idea what tariffs even are.

    Reporters aren’t reporting on that at all, though… they’re just taking it as a given that Trump’s threats are coherent and then looking for counter arguments using that as a given.

    The result is that they completely miss the biggest part of this story; Trump has no idea what tariffs actually are.














  • I feel like this is one of those “a broken clock is right twice a day” scenarios.

    “Department of War” is a far more accurate description of what they do. Calling it the “Department of Defense” is just propaganda/political spin.

    That being said, Trump’s motivation for this is idiotic and the way he’s going about it is dumb as hell, but that actually is a better name.