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https://static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2025/04/filing_simplified-v.-trump_complaint-for-injunctive-and-declaratory-relief_04032025.pdf BTW 'Simplified' is the name of the plaintiff company

Thanks. It's just part of a coping mechanism for me. But the most prescient thing I have read is this from the 23 Nobel economics Prize winners even though, yeah, I know they lost: Among the most important determinants of economic success are the rule of law and economic and political certainty, and Trump threatens all of these.

Current POTUS only has the power to enact tariffs because he declared a bogus wartime Emergency. And even the bogus emergency doesn't give him the power to enact tariffs -- it only specifies embargoes. Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares National Emergency to Increase our Competitive Edge, Protect our Sovereignty, and Strengthen our National and Economic Security The White House April 2, 2025 Using his IEEPA authority, President Trump will impose a 10% tariff on all countries. This will take effect April 5, 2025 at 12:01 a.m. EDT.

Song from 1963 courtesy Frank Sinatra: Call me irresponsible Call me unreliable Throw in undependable too Do my foolish alibis Bother you? Call me unpredictable Tell me I'm impractical Rainbows I'm inclined to pursue

WASHINGTON/WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, April 12 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration granted exclusions from steep reciprocal tariffs to smartphones, computers and some other electronics imported largely from China, providing a big break to tech companies like Apple that rely on imported products. The U.S. CBP listed 20 product categories, including the broad 8471 code for all computers, laptops, disc drives and automatic data processing. It also included semiconductor devices, equipment, memory chips and flat panel displays. Trump's action also excludes the specified electronics from his 10% "baseline" tariffs on goods from most countries other than China, easing import costs for semiconductors from Taiwan and Apple iPhones produced in India. https://www.reuters.com/markets/us-excludes-smartphones-computers-reciprocal-tariffs-2025-04-12/ OR You put your right foot in You put your right foot out You put your right foot in And you shake it all about You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around That's what it's all about!

This is from the 2017 Court ruling against the NCA for providing info from the late Mr. Miller's phone. Note b. and c.:

From Senator Johnson's website: PSI Chairman Johnson Requests COVID-19 Vaccine Records and Communications from Moderna, Pfizer, BioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson From the letter to Pfizer: I expect you to fully comply with this request, but I am mindful that your company may choose to mimic the Department of Health and Human Services’ (“HHS”) past efforts to conceal records about the development, safety, and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines. Any attempt to obstruct or delay responses to this request will result in compulsory process. <SKIP> Please provide the information and records requested by April 16, 2025.

You poisoned them??? These folks were not the usual locals at a late nite/early morning drinking. Let's just say that being a high-end group, when I came back at them bloody and wet with a bucket, when they ran away they left behind some high-end stuff that shouldn't get wet but that got very wet.

Actually, I did retaliate -- let's just put it that I was able to start the motor bike and ride away before they realized what I had done.

Sparing the details I was out early one SongKran morning when the coast was usually clear, and a guy stood out from behind a car and walloped me point blank with a bucket of water and knocked me off the motorbike. ... very bloody and the motorbike damaged. And the Thai party was laughing 'cause they thought it was funny.

From a post above: We do know the majority of Supreme Cou(r)t were appointed by trump Ixnay. 3 of 9 appointed by Mr. Trump 1st term.

I posted Mr. Cook's original comment in 2017.

I just wanted to identify the propaganda outlet that was the source of that quote.

https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/apple-ceo-tim-cook-this-is-number-1-reason-we-make-iphones-in-china-its-not-what-you-think.html DEC 21, 2017 The products we do require really advanced tooling, and the precision that you have to have, the tooling and working with the materials that we do are state of the art. And the tooling skill is very deep here. In the U.S., you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I’m not sure we could fill the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields.

Note that Mr. Cook's reference to filling 2 football fields with Chinese tooling engineers was first made in 2017.

And if you were to ask Mr. Trump whether, when playing 4-d chess, he will use the The Ruy Lopez or the Spanish Opening, he might say: I don't know when we are opening the hotel on the beach at Ruy Lopez in Spain. You have to talk to my son Eric about that. He handles all the Trump hotel openings.

When asked how he would determine which companies might receive such an exemption, Trump responded, "Instinctively." "You almost can't take a pencil to paper. It's really more of an instinct than anything else," Trump added. "Some companies, through no fault of their own, they happen to be in an industry that is more affected by these things than others. You have to be able to show a little flexibility, and I'm able to do that. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-hell-take-look-exempting-some-larger-us-companies-hit-especially-hard-tariffs

via AI and as noted above: Nvidia chips are manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a contract chipmaker based in Taiwan, according to multiple sources. Nvidia designs the chips, but outsources the actual production to TSMC. Nvidia also has explored the possibility of manufacturing some chips at TSMC's facilities in the US, particularly in Arizona, reports suggest.

Golf with Lindsey Graham summer 2020

‘You can’t pin him down’: Trump’s contradictions are his ultimate cover Straits Times from NY Times Mar 09, 2025 WASHINGTON – What does President Donald Trump really believe? Does he want to run for a third term, or is that just a joke? Does he intend to seize control of the Gaza Strip and expel millions of Palestinians, or is that just a suggestion? Is Black History Month a waste of time and money, or worth a lavish celebration at the White House? Anyone looking for definitive answers will have a hard time finding them. Since storming back into office, Mr. Trump has used a dizzying rhetorical tactic of shifting positions like quicksand, muddying his messages and contradicting himself, sometimes in the same day. The inconsistencies have presented the American public with dueling narratives at every turn, allowing people to pick and choose what they want to believe about the president’s intentions. https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/you-cant-pin-him-down-trumps-contradictions-are-his-ultimate-cover

From the Bloomberg link in OP: “Whipsaw movements in country tariff rates will do nothing to reduce already record levels of trade-policy uncertainty,” Bloomberg Economics economists Rana Sajedi, Maeva Cousin and Tom Orlik wrote after the pause was announced. “Trump appears to consider uncertainty a positive for negotiations. For businesses and markets, it’s a drag.”

Headline this morning NY Times: Trump’s Last-Minute U-Turn on Tariffs Left Advisers in the Dark Economic turmoil, particularly a rapid rise in government bond yields, caused President Trump to suddenly reverse course on his steep tariffs. _______________ Maybe Trump did not give those otherwise-in-the-know enough time for the insiders to buy on the bottom

Inside the Justice Department’s civil division, lawyers are squeezed between judges demanding answers and bosses’ instructions to protect the Trump agenda at all costs. Career lawyers say they increasingly feel trapped between President Trump’s political appointees, like Attorney General Pam Bondi, and judges who demand comprehensible answers to basic questions. April 7, 2025, 12:59 p.m. ET NYTimes via https://archive.ph/hJokJ#selection-4533.0-4565.401 The Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to enact major elements of its agenda have led to a series of courtroom clashes between increasingly skeptical judges and the beleaguered lawyers responsible for defending the government’s positions, which some have come to see as indefensible. The Justice Department’s thinned-out civil division has borne the brunt of the growing conflict. Inside the division, the strains of pushing the legal limits on topics as varied as mass deportations, spending power and punishing law firms are taking a major toll. Government litigators, their ranks increasingly depleted, often find themselves in court with few facts to defend policies they cannot explain, according to current and former officials. Career lawyers representing the government have a long tradition of arguing for the goals of Republican or Democratic administrations, regardless of their personal views. What is different now, they say, is that they increasingly feel trapped between President Trump’s partisan political appointees, who insist on a maximalist approach, and judges who demand comprehensible answers to basic questions.

I prefer this from Peter Sellers as "Chance the Gardener" in Being There: (a beat) Yes...of course. Well, I assume, since the President quoted you, that you agree with his view of the economy. CHANCE (on TV) Which view? Applause and laughter from the TV audience.

It's the same as on this left-wing propaganda machine: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-explains-dramatic-reversal-tariffs-people-bit-afraid/story?id=120651386