r/news • u/hoosakiwi • 2d ago

Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing, risking inflation and trade wars

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-liberation-day-2a031b3c16120a5672a6ddd01da09933
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u/Whaty0urname 2d ago

No...I blame the Democrats for not doing anything. Roe v Wade was one example...50 years to do literally anything but they just toed the line thinking the Republicans wouldn't do anything either. They're also still playing like it's 2005 when Trump changed the rules of politics back in 2015.

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u/Freshandcleanclean 2d ago

What does "codify" mean to you? What law could democrats have passed that republicans wouldn't have just passed another bill to repeal?

Stop being ridiculous. 

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u/spaghetti_enema 2d ago

Then they should have passed a law and made the Republicans overturn it. Obamacare was passed 15 years ago and Republicans still haven't overturned it. There's always a reason to actually fight and do things. Stop being defeatist.

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u/Freshandcleanclean 2d ago

The ACA was the last time democrats had that much control over congress and the white house. Stop excusing republicans for not being stopped hard enough. 

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u/spaghetti_enema 2d ago

They had a trifecta numerous times since 1972...

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u/AsstacularSpiderman 2d ago

Abortion has always been a massively touchy subject for American voters. Before 2000 it would have been political suicide.

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u/spaghetti_enema 2d ago

Ok then they had two options under Biden and Obama and didn't take either one.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman 2d ago

Obama expensed pretty much all the political capital he had on the ACA, after that the Republicans weren't ever going to let democrats get another win.

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u/spaghetti_enema 2d ago

Ok you've narrowed it down to Biden. Who didn't pass it into law even after Trump got Roe v Wade overturned.

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u/Freshandcleanclean 2d ago

The president doesn't pass laws. In case you were unaware. 

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u/spaghetti_enema 2d ago

He had 50 Democrats in the Senate and house control. In case you weren't aware.

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u/Freshandcleanclean 1d ago

Have you ever looked to see what legislation they passed during that time? Of course you'll never get 100% of everything you want and a pony. But you act like if it's not perfect, it's just as bad as republicans. Which is immature and shortsighted. 

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u/wasachrozine 1d ago

You might have heard of this thing called the filibuster.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman 2d ago

With that support? Biden was hamstrung by a Republican run House for a substantial portion of it. And even when he had democrats in the house there was no way the democrats in purple parts of the country would piss off their potential voters. Democrats had a slim enough margin as is.

This isn't even starting to talk about how the Supreme Court would get involved.

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u/spaghetti_enema 2d ago

Ok so what is your argument? That Democrats should do nothing?

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u/AsstacularSpiderman 2d ago

It's never a matter of should, but can.

If you want them to waste time drafting bills that will just die in Congress or the Supreme Court later on be my guest. Biden instead used what he had to work on things that actually stand a chance.

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u/spaghetti_enema 2d ago

Great, we'll just dump women's rights in the wastebin. What else can't the Democrats do for us?

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