{"id":31531,"date":"2025-02-03T12:22:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T17:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31531"},"modified":"2025-02-03T12:22:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T17:22:03","slug":"even-the-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31531","title":{"rendered":"Even the WSJ&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;even the right wing rag &#8220;The Wall Street Journal&#8221; is calling the trade war the idiot boy started &#8220;stupid&#8221; and they can&#8217;t figure out what the purpose of it is&#8230;it&#8217;s not like Mexico or Canada is dumping imports to the US to hurt business here&#8230;which is the normal use of tariffs&#8230;they&#8217;re not&#8230;and as always, the people the idiot has surrounded himself with people who think economics will work the way they say it will, not as it does&#8230;a bunch of wishful thinking that started back with reagan and his voodoo economics and carried tight through the Laffer curve&#8230;you remember that one, right&#8230;the doozy that said tax cuts pay for themselves with economic growth? Not a thing they are doing has any factual basis&#8230;and they really don&#8217;t know how much attacking our greatest trading partner, Canada, is going to hurt the US&#8230;how are farmers going to deal with the 80% of fertilizer production that Canada sends us being 25% more expensive tomorrow? Or the auto manufacturers who get 50% of their parts from Mexico and Canada? Yeah but the price of eggs the idiots shout about&#8230;and then vote for an imbecile who is going to cost the average family thousands due to the tariffs&#8230;I guess that will show the rational people who didn&#8217;t vote for the asshole&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;even the right wing rag &#8220;The Wall Street Journal&#8221; is calling the trade war the idiot boy started &#8220;stupid&#8221; and they can&#8217;t figure out what the purpose of it is&#8230;it&#8217;s not like Mexico or Canada is dumping imports to the US to hurt business here&#8230;which is the normal use of tariffs&#8230;they&#8217;re not&#8230;and as always, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Even the WSJ&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4147],"class_list":["post-31531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-trumps-tariff-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31532,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31531\/revisions\/31532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}