The dimwit dems NEED these tariffs.  Trump has been a businessman for more than 50+ years and I think he knows what he's doing.  I trust him to make the right decisions for our country, Elon or no Elon.  Trump is a damned good negotiator and I trust him to do what's best for the USA.  I sure as hell trust HIM more than I trusted stupidass biden and his robotic assministration who made all of his decisions for him.  That's why we got fucked so bad and didn't even get to smile about it.

This article is from Eugyppius and is a good overall compliation.  Find it online.

"The entire world is melting down over Donald Trump’s tariffs, and as I don’t have powerfully insightful thoughts on this topic, I offer you an open thread instead. My planned piece for today – on the schoolmarm menace – can wait until tomorrow.Investors spent the weekend cultivating a panic over the impending trade war, such that stock markets opened sharply down this morning and continued mostly to crash as the day wore on. They did recover briefly in the United States, on the strength of fake news that Trump was on the verge of delaying his tariffs for 90 days – but the pessimism returned after the White House denied all such rumours. For the moment anyway, Trump is holding firm. As everybody knows, China responded to Trump’s Liberation Day campaign by retaliating with their own 34% tariffs on American imports. Trump has now responded with a threat to impose additional tariffs of 50% on Chinese imports, unless the Chinese withdraw their 34% tariffs, which they