“Not Much of a Trade War”

“Did you want to stop people fighting, Miss Mack?”

“Yes I did, but I learned that people only do what they want to do. In the end that’s how it is. I think we are stronger if we sort of accept that. It lets us get on with our own lives.”

From “Chestnut Street,” by Maeve Binchy

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The Supreme Court upholds Trump’s deportations of criminals. It’s amazing we even needed a court decision at all.

Note that the one conservative justice who voted against Trump was Amy Coney Barrett. As I wrote in this column several weeks ago, she was Trump’s second biggest mistake in his first term, after trusting Fauci.

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Countries are lining up to negotiate with Trump on reduced or zero tariffs. Ironic: Trump’s policy may eliminate tariffs completely.

As one reader commented: It’s not much of a “trade war.”

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Yesterday, my lift driver had a Tesla. He only drove me for 8 minutes and we had insane abuse hurdled at us. No one attacked the car, but two different women screamed at us and one came in front of the window to give us the finger.

These people are sick and evil. They are the same exact people who used to round up women in public squares to humiliate and abuse them in ancient times. If they were born in the Middle East, they would have been members of thuggish groups that engage in things like the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

— Cynthia Farahat, writing on Facebook