Subj : Re: Is AI ruining social
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mike Powell
Date : Tue Apr 15 2025 09:51 am

> MP>Not sure it really is legal, though, in this case.  If he helped people
>   >like Schwab, who isn't in Congress, make a bunch of money, that means that
>   >folks outside of the White House knew what was going to happen.  Chances
>   >are Trump told them.  Pretty sure that isn't legal.  ;)

> I suppose in that case his plans on world tariffs are not like knowing
> what a single company is going to do, but people should know by now
> how much the markets move every time he makes a change. It's the same
> affect but the scope makes it a lot harder for normal people to make
> any use of it, but very wealthy people certainly could..

This is part of the reason that the ability to tariff was not supposed to
be in the hands of one person and their changing whims.  That ability belongs
to Congress but they decided to give "emergency powers" to Trump to allow him
to determine tariffs on his own.  That is a move they should be held
accountable for.

> I wonder at times if he is a twit or he thinks everyone else is
> and that he can trick/manipulate them saying by ridiculous things.

Six of one and half dozen of the other, I think.

> He said yesterday that his tariff policies are working wonderfully
> and used as proof that last week the US Markets had their biggest
> one day gain in many years.. Somehow he forgot to take into account
> that that huge gain was only because the market was partially
> recovering from the biggest losses in ages, and are still lower
> than before he took office.

As long as he and his pals are making money, that is all they are concerned
with.

> MP>We have actually been getting some intermentent news about US
anufacturers
>   >closing plants up there.  They are closing, or delaying, them here also.

> There's going to be a lot of pain before you see much gain I think.

Indeed.

I honestly believe that this is a "revenge tour" on US citizens for not
voting him into office in 2020.  At some point, if he ever believed the
election was stolen, I suspect he realized it was not.


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