I've seen that around four times on facebook. It isn't accurate though. "He can delay or cancel elections legally". You can write whatever you want into a law but that doesn't make it legal in any conventional sense of the word. He could write that all blue eyed people will be shot at midnight but that doesn't make it "legal" at least in normal times.
Indeed. Anything is "legal" as long as nobody is willing to enforce our laws.
Anything is legal if you're a rich asshole.
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And yet there will still be long-term damage to the U.S. because the instability of our country is entirely too obvious. Instead of returning to business as usual -- which we may do in the short-term -- on a longer time frame other countries will look for other markets and other suppliers that are less mercurial.
At least one of those other countries has already found those other markets. I read Canada's exports to "other than US" are up 26%. Overall, they're now only down 0.6%. (We do loom rather large in this picture.)
The tariffs on aluminum and steel are not covered in this ruling. American mills don't make enough of the right types to meet domestic need so it has to be imported, although Canada is a net importer of steel from the US. From a manufacturing perspective, companies that rely on imported metals to sell to markets outside of the US are better off avoiding both import tariffs and retaliatory tariffs set by other countries. That's why Harley decided in the first Trump administration to build bikes for the Asian market in Vietnam instead of increasing US production.
I was curious about the background of this post, and even Snopes was investigating to find out if it was fact-based. This seems to be the latest:
(Emphasis mine)
Did you notice Pepe in the background?
