OlDawg

Need to remember: Good policy takes a while to show benefits. Bad policy shows up almost immediately. That’s why I’ve given time on the tariff situation. But, it’s to the point where businesses need more final clarity. Most of the clients I worked for had at least a 5 year plan for engineering projects. This is too much turmoil for them to make major investment decisions. It affects not only engineers, construction, equipment suppliers & other vendors, but also the support businesses like restaurants, safety equipment suppliers, even lodging, etc. Pretty sizable chunk of the economy. I’d expect a builder who also wants to expand our infrastructure, and wants to ‘drill baby drill’, would know this and enact policy accordingly. People sure aren’t going to invest in Venezuela when they don’t even know what’s going on here.

Out of area for basketball, so I’ll just drop here for anyone interested. Lady Dawgs 63 A&M Consol 28 La Porte Area Champs

My approach is based on policy. Nothing more. Nothing less. As @UT alum has noted, I am a fiscally conservative libertarian…the most dispassionate of the political affiliations.

Now, it will be August—at the earliest—before businesses can make longer term plans. If POTUS wants an economic boom, keeping businesses from planning isn’t the way to do it. These will be the most bogus USTR investigations in history. I’m taking bets they’ll be completed within 149 days.

He acted like a petulant child. The same way he enacted some of the tariffs in the first place. This needs to stop. You can't continue to have a global trade policy change at the whims of a single person. That would mean trade policy could change every 2-3 years at election time. That's no way to run a business, and the U.S. is basically a very big business. SCOTUS stuck with their majority textualist's interpretation. I appreciate their consistency.

This X infinity. POTUS will either have to work with Congress (doubtful—especially with early primaries going already), or find another way. Bad thing is, people will expect prices to come down and they won’t.

They didn't mention anything about having to return collected funds. Curious about that issue. FYI... The link is a live update link. So, you can continue to check it for reactions if desired.

The Supreme Court justices, in a 6-3 ruling, upheld a lower court's decision that the Republican president's use of this 1977 law exceeded his authority. [Hidden Content]

There are very serious accusations in the file dumps. But, the U.N. Human Rights Council is a joke. The U.N. Secretary General was going to congratulate Iran at the upcoming meeting of the U.N. until severe backlash. I have a hard time giving any credibility to an organization that was going to recognize and congratulate a known terrorist State. [Hidden Content]

Katie Johnson Give it up already. [Hidden Content]

The source is fine. You referenced the pseudonym Katie Johnson. I gave you the information on that.

This was a message to Iran. “We can’t help right now.” Putin isn’t stupid. He also knows that for every carrier group, there’s usually two subs you can’t find. U.S. subs are still almost impossible to find. No one else comes close.

Trump has his pros & cons. Just like any POTUS. But, some of y’all are hoping to find something negative so bad, you’re not even taking a couple minutes to check the veracity of claims. It’s making you look really foolish.

This Katie Johnson? [Hidden Content]

Yeah...not good.