Trump Puts 90-Day Pause on Some Tariffs, Not China
[guest post by Dana]
Every day there is something new. One can’t keep up. I sure hope no one is planning on an actual full 90 day pause because we know that Trump is mentally unstable, flip-flops constantly, and doesn’t understand or care about the negative impacts his impulsive decisions have on the American people. It would be foolish to count on this happening (until it actually happens!):
Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately. At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable. Conversely, and based on the fact that more than 75 Countries have called Representatives of the United States, including the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and the USTR, to negotiate a solution to the subjects being discussed relative to Trade, Trade Barriers, Tariffs, Currency Manipulation, and Non Monetary Tariffs, and that these Countries have not, at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way, shape, or form against the United States, I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
But for the moment:
Dow surges 1,800 points after Trump signals a 90-day pause on tariffs https://t.co/eUeVIYf4hM
— CNBC (@CNBC) April 9, 2025
—Dana
Hello.
Dana (8e2fd8) — 4/9/2025 @ 11:06 amAlmost like… there’s a plan.
Interesting.
DOJ up over 2.5k.
sheesh…
whembly (b7cc46) — 4/9/2025 @ 11:24 amThe target was always China.
The end-result was always finding out who wants continued access to the US markets, and to coalesce a group of nations against China.
We can argue all day long about tactics…
At least we’re seeing some semblance of a plan.
whembly (b7cc46) — 4/9/2025 @ 11:32 amThe end result was always for the Trump crime syndicate to buy up several trillion dollars’ worth of stock at bargain basement prices, I would say.
nk (c2a137) — 4/9/2025 @ 11:36 amI’m thinking about taking my life savings and putting it in the futures markets, betting both ways. I only lose with stability.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/9/2025 @ 11:38 amYou need a title. I suggest “Today’s Five-Year Plan”
Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/9/2025 @ 11:39 am#2
The plan is to make Trump the center of attention for the day.
Appalled (26cb99) — 4/9/2025 @ 11:41 amTitle Suggestion: There He Goes Again
Appalled (26cb99) — 4/9/2025 @ 11:52 amwhembly #3 —
So we breach our Trust with Australia and Japan and South Korea and Vietnam and get them to not really trust us just to put together some head fake on China?
Um…no.
Appalled (26cb99) — 4/9/2025 @ 11:55 amSince conservatives have been saying from the beginning that Trump’s plan has been to use tariffs as the stick and free trade as the carrot it looks like conservatives understand what has been going on and been vindicated.
Everyone else will continue to run around screaming that the sky is falling.
Carry on
NJRob (e3e89f) — 4/9/2025 @ 11:58 amNJ Rob —
Or we can see what tomorrow brings.
Appalled (26cb99) — 4/9/2025 @ 12:01 pmYesterday conservatives were saying that Tariffs were great and manly and that we all just needed to tighten our belts.
Davethulhu (14e9e4) — 4/9/2025 @ 12:03 pmThe White Album is back! By popular demand!
In short, Trump’s trade policy is based on which countries genuflect to him, which don’t, and which stand up to the bully.
It’s deranged. Mentally deranged.
Paul Montagu (ab2176) — 4/9/2025 @ 12:05 pmI’d like to see the list of those 75 countries.
Paul Montagu (ab2176) — 4/9/2025 @ 12:05 pmNo, right-wingers are saying that, not conservatives, because tariffs aren’t conservative, they’re right-wing Pat Buchanan paleo retro.
Basing a trade policy on who calls the White House is insane.
Paul Montagu (ab2176) — 4/9/2025 @ 12:08 pmThis means there are 100 countries with unchanged tariff structure, penalized because they didn’t stroke this president’s tender overinflated ego.
Paul Montagu (ab2176) — 4/9/2025 @ 12:11 pmThis isn’t conservative, it’s right-wing, bordering on a cult.
because tariffs aren’t conservative
Tariffs were conservative to the UK’s Conservative Party of the 1800’s. It’s more a measure of how meaningless the term “conservative” now is.
“Conservative” generally means “resistant to change.” That would make New Deal Democrats in the 1980s “conservative” and Reagan Republicans the same in 2010. But now we see those advocating radical change calling themselves “conservative” because they want to return to some former Golden Age.
But by this time everyone has a Golden Age, left or right, so that just makes the term more meaningless. I bet you that Klink has his own Golden Age that differs greatly from Trump’s.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/9/2025 @ 12:32 pmThis isn’t conservative, it’s right-wing, bordering on a cult.
No, No, and of course.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/9/2025 @ 12:33 pmYou see, the chaos of the planned plan is the absence of plan so the plan is to not to plan so that the plan is always the plan because the plan is the plan is the not plan.
Carry on.
Colonel Klink (ret) (96f56a) — 4/9/2025 @ 12:44 pmThat was always the plan.
Colonel Klink (ret) (96f56a) — 4/9/2025 @ 12:45 pm“Conservative” means different things on different continents in different eras, Kevin. The context of my comment is 21st and late 20th century America, where conservative is anti-tariff and pro free trade. Pat Buchanan is anti-tariff, right-wing, his right-wing soul snatching Trump’s body.
Paul Montagu (ab2176) — 4/9/2025 @ 12:47 pmIf true, it will be an expensive and possibly empty Christmas.
More
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 4/9/2025 @ 1:21 pmwhembly (b7cc46) — 4/9/2025 @ 11:24 am Almost like… there’s a plan.
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 4/9/2025 @ 1:24 pmnk (c2a137) — 4/9/2025 @ 11:36 am
That’s risking too much. It’s selling short before bad news hits, and making the bad news much worse than anyone anticipated, and then the next day or two, covering the bets by either leaking the possibility of good news for the market, or getting Trump to do something positive for the market.
These are all short term bets. repeated more than once.
This person or persons is not sure he can control or lie about what Trump thinks he is doing indefinitely.
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 4/9/2025 @ 1:31 pmBy penalizing every country on earth with bullshyte non-reciprocal tariffs? Absurd.
Paul Montagu (ab2176) — 4/9/2025 @ 1:35 pmMystery: Why did Trump pardon two people close to Hunter Biden?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-grants-clemency-2-hunter-bidens-associates/story?id=120349469
Trump would be susceptible to an argument they were whistleblowers but he wouldn’t come up with this himself.
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 4/9/2025 @ 1:36 pm@9
It’s a reset Appalled.
Hate the guy all you want… but, it’s always been about China.
whembly (b7cc46) — 4/9/2025 @ 1:37 pm@25
Yes.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
We’re not going to know full well the implications for months.
whembly (b7cc46) — 4/9/2025 @ 1:40 pmFox News Sr. correspondent Charles Gasparino:
It tracks.
Dana (dc1578) — 4/9/2025 @ 1:44 pmYou’re presuming Trump actually has a trade master plan, whembly, one that he has never articulated. I don’t buy it.
Paul Montagu (ab2176) — 4/9/2025 @ 1:45 pmHis decision process is glandular, not strategic.
Not on postponements he personally announces. So far he hasn’t.
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 4/9/2025 @ 1:45 pmTrump hates the government of China but not for human rights reasons, and probably not because they killed a few persons he knows with Covid and they almost got him killed with it himself because this predates that. Most likely because they are dishonest in business.
He seems embarrassed to openly hate the CCP.
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 4/9/2025 @ 1:49 pmI feel so de-liberated.
Dave (816e6a) — 4/9/2025 @ 1:51 pmHeh… I finally caught up on the news.
The Trumpian pause wasn’t because of the DOW or NASDAQ or anything of the likes.
It was the bond market, which was/is in shambles now.
whembly (b7cc46) — 4/9/2025 @ 2:01 pmMan, if only there was a trade plan platform, or a trans-pacific partnership. That could be an idea that definitely no one has thought of before.
Existentialism in action, making choices in the present moment without relying on pre-determined structures or plans.
Colonel Klink (ret) (96f56a) — 4/9/2025 @ 2:17 pmIs the Canadian tariff off or on or on but low?
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 4/9/2025 @ 2:28 pmI really don’t think Trump has a plan when it comes to tariffs. It feels a lot more like when a little kids playing pool, they hit the cube ball as hard as they can. Everything moves around they love watching the action and if one of their balls happens to go into a pocket, they celebrate.
I listened to a podcast about economics that talked about an economist. Stephen Moran I think was his name who said that tariffs are an appropriate approach to have the rest of the world contribute to the burden we bear and having the dollar is the world reserve currency. It’s a debatable point, but the people who were presenting it were presenting it as the philosophical underpinnings of Trump’s actions. Then he pulls tariffs in the same people will say in their next installment that this is just Trump’s effort to use tariffs to create more free trade.
Kids smacking the cube ball as hard as you can, and if something goes in all the rest of his friends jump up and down and insist, that’s what he meant to do
Time (0db76f) — 4/9/2025 @ 2:28 pmhttps://www.kiplinger.com/investing/stocks/stock-market-today-tariff-pause-triggers-3-000-point-dow-rally
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 4/9/2025 @ 2:34 pmTrump’s understanding of tariffs.
It’s like this: I buy a lot of stuff from the grocery store but the grocery store buys nothing from me! So unfair! So, I should impose a tariff on groceries I buy until they start buying my eBay stuff.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/9/2025 @ 2:37 pmPretty smart of them…
Especially for idiots.
Which is it?
BuDuh (bf96af) — 4/9/2025 @ 2:39 pmI guess we now know if stupid Hitler is a member of the “Panicans” party.
Colonel Klink (ret) (96f56a) — 4/9/2025 @ 2:39 pmHah, so you’d rather believe that this was a plan to rip off the globe by a few oligarchs, as opposed to just a monkey flinging poo.
Colonel Klink (ret) (96f56a) — 4/9/2025 @ 2:41 pmIf only we could have kept the adults in charge.
BuDuh (bf96af) — 4/9/2025 @ 2:42 pmI am quoting nk, Klunk.
BuDuh (bf96af) — 4/9/2025 @ 2:43 pm“My name is Legion for we are many.” — Mark 5:1-20
A demoniac can be possessed by more than one unclean spirit. One that is chaotic and another which is mercenary and more besides. Is there any Commandment that Trump has not broken?
nk (a99c5e) — 4/9/2025 @ 3:21 pmHonor you father and mother?
Time (d98ce4) — 4/9/2025 @ 3:56 pmThis 90-day “pause” should take the wind out of the sails of those who back reclaiming Congress’s tariff authority, as if they ever had any chance of passing The Trade Review Act anyway.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 4/9/2025 @ 3:58 pmIt’s only been a few hours since Trump announced his “pause.” He has 89 days to change his mind.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 4/9/2025 @ 3:59 pmHonor you father and mother?
Time (d98ce4) — 4/9/2025 @ 3:56 pm
Okay. That has been my impression, too, although others have disagreed with me.
nk (a99c5e) — 4/9/2025 @ 4:09 pmHe’s even broken the 11th.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/9/2025 @ 4:36 pmBut he HAS restored the freedom to shower!
Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/9/2025 @ 4:50 pmWhich one?
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 4/9/2025 @ 5:05 pmDO NOT RETALIATE AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED
Davethulhu (14e9e4) — 4/9/2025 @ 5:22 pm“When you get slapped, you’ll take it, and like it.”
I have never been in the green room at 60 Minutes with Xi Jing Pin, but even I know that China’s days of taking it and liking it from foreigners were ended in 1949.
The Chinese government may be a military dictatorship masquerading as a Communist party dressed-up as a democracy but its success, and survival, are due to the fact that China’s face is finally lifted out of the mud.
nk (a99c5e) — 4/9/2025 @ 5:37 pm@49 where’s Rob? He likes to note things and I want it noted I stood up for Donald Yrump.
Time (b861bf) — 4/9/2025 @ 5:51 pmOne, Trump taking credit for the stock market recovery today is akin to getting praised for extinguishing the kitchen fire that he started.
Two, regarding Trump’s “master plan” on tariffs, recall that he selected the Navarro Plan only three hours before his Big Announcement.
Trump has no tariff master plan, no actual strategy, he has no way to tax ourselves to prosperity, he has no actual idea how to add domestic manufacturing jobs in this chaotic economic environment.
He’s winging it, and he’s taking this country and the world along with, which is dangerous because he still doesn’t comprehend how trade deficits work.
Three, Trump’s 90-pause is only scarcely better because of the massive increase on China and the $550 billion of imports they send to us. We’re still f–ked, and so are all the countries still under this new tariff regime. More…
Paul Montagu (ab2176) — 4/9/2025 @ 6:15 pmTrump is channeling Roseanne Roseannadanna. “Never mind!”
norcal (cdf133) — 4/9/2025 @ 6:24 pmDay 79 of a scheduled 1461
Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/9/2025 @ 6:45 pmSince then we’ve gone from 54% to 125% on China, our 3rd largest trading partner. That outweighs delaying the increases on 70+ others.
5000% a week from now.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/9/2025 @ 6:46 pmWhich one?
“Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican”
https://politicaldictionary.com/words/eleventh-commandment/
Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/9/2025 @ 6:48 pmCan we stop calling it a pause, since there is now a 10% tariffs across the board that just a week ago did not exist?
SamG (4e6c22) — 4/9/2025 @ 8:08 pmGood point, Sam. I think that got lost in all the confusion.
norcal (cdf133) — 4/9/2025 @ 8:14 pmAnd 25% on steel and autos, Mexico and Canada, and 125% on China.
Even if these tariffs double the price of an iPhone, it’s still cheaper than $3500 for the American made one, assuming that the supply chain for all the pieces parts is even possible.
We’re all going to pay more for everything, and the payoff is…unknown, the only thing the world knows is that America shouldn’t have a global veto any longer.
The dollar as the global currency is going to go the way of the dodo, it won’t happen overnight, but it’s a stone guarantee, and that’s all to the detriment of America. I’m kind of partial to America, but I suppose if mankind stumbles through, this old world can still turn without America on top. Tougher for all our children though.
Colonel Klink (ret) (96f56a) — 4/9/2025 @ 8:24 pmNo confusion, this was always the 100% plan.
Colonel Klink (ret) (96f56a) — 4/9/2025 @ 8:45 pmRepublican elected officials see 2016 knocking on their door. Trump’s base ignorant southern white trash democrats and working class. Republican base business community upper middle class and half of the wealthy.
asset (630a1a) — 4/9/2025 @ 9:59 pm2026 not 2016 my bad.
asset (630a1a) — 4/9/2025 @ 10:00 pmBTW, I read Catoggio’s “Trump has no plan” piece after I said here that Trump has no plan.
Put Trump’s bluster aside, he doesn’t know WTF he’s doing, he’s winging it, gambling our economy and the fate of the American people.
Paul Montagu (ab2176) — 4/10/2025 @ 12:09 amMore winging it.
BuDuh (bf96af) — 4/10/2025 @ 6:18 amBuDuh, I am actually interested in your thoughts here. Do you ascribe the decrease in inflation in March to something Trump did? If so, what? Do you expect the policies he has put in place (tariffs notably) to have the effect of continued lower inflation, or do you expect them to be inflationary?
Nate (5fc2a9) — 4/10/2025 @ 6:53 amDay 80 of a scheduled 1461. Already it’s old.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/10/2025 @ 8:02 amWe’re at the “try-it” phase. With the stability of the global economy.
FDR did that in ’33 and ’34. “Hey, let’s have government-run trusts and get merchants to demonstrate their political loyalty with this Blue Eagle thing.” With the same kind of results.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/10/2025 @ 8:05 amThe date of Trump’s “liberation” announcement: 4/2/2025, which isn’t March.
Paul Montagu (ab2176) — 4/10/2025 @ 8:10 amI’m glad it went down, but it won’t last.
Paul Montagu (ab2176) — 4/10/2025 @ 8:11 amNate, thank you for the question. I am ascribing to the “TrUMPFff!! DiDn’t lowER EGG PrICes ON DaY 1!!!!!!” Blame/Credit theory.
BuDuh (bf96af) — 4/10/2025 @ 8:18 amNate, Buduh doesn’t really go in for thoughtful analysis on most topics. But he’s not stupid, and he doesn’t want to have to criticize Trump in the future. So he’s not going to commit to answering a question like that.
Basically he’s trolling
Time (50cbce) — 4/10/2025 @ 8:28 am@73 the 6 ball went in the pocket! Trump totally 💯 planned that when he hit the cue ball as hard as he could.
Time (50cbce) — 4/10/2025 @ 8:29 amThe Dow has given up nearly half of yesterday’s gains:
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 4/10/2025 @ 8:47 amTime purposely pretends he never read any of the criticism I leveled at Trump just so he can keep up with Klunk on the “Troll Watch” narrative in order to win friendship here.
BuDuh (bf96af) — 4/10/2025 @ 8:49 amBuDuh,
Sure, I think it’s ridiculous to think that “Day 1 Blame/Credit theory” is real, but people who say something stupid like “Trump didn’t lower egg prices on day 1” are just referencing that during the campaign, he said he would, in fact, lower egg prices on day one.
It was ridiculous when he said it. It would be ridiculous to think he would do it. I am not quite so sure it’s as ridiculous to point out that he didn’t do the ridiculous thing he said he would.
But I also think it’s important to look at the things he’s doing that DO have an effect. Like, whembly is of the belief that his trade war stuff is going to end up with us having lower tariffs and the rest of the world becoming more free trade. If in 2 years, the whole world has fewer trade barriers, I’d count that as a huge win for Trump. If inflation skyrockets because of his policies, and nothing good comes of it, then that’s a pretty big L. Especially when he promised to lower inflation (which was world-wide and not really the fault of Biden at all, but many pretended it was).
Nate (5fc2a9) — 4/10/2025 @ 8:58 amThe markets know that Trump has no strategy on tariffs, that he’s making it up as he goes, that he’s winging it.
The Dow is down over 1,700 as of now. China is a top two importer to the US, so Trump’s 125% tax on goods is nothing but inflationary, and his 10% (or higher) tariffs on every nation but Canada-Mexico (under temporary exemption) isn’t reciprocal but is a punitive worldwide attack.
The Dispatch editors rarely issue an editorial but this does seem like a good moment, because Trump’s actions in just 11½ weeks have fundamentally altered our relationships with every country on earth for the worse except for Russia, and his stupid tariffs and disregard for the rule of law and his acts of retribution have only compounded that.
Paul Montagu (ab2176) — 4/10/2025 @ 9:12 amFrom the article:
US Services Exports by Category:
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 4/10/2025 @ 9:42 amnorcal (cdf133) — 4/9/2025 @ 6:24 pm
That was Emily Litella.
The standard joke with her was her replying to an editorial (which PBS stations offered) bas on mistaking one word for another. She would get told by a voiceover that a different thing was said, and then she would say “Never mind.”
https://www.facebook.com/LoveGildathefilm/posts/gilda-radner-as-emily-litella-whats-all-this-fuss-i-hear-about-an-eagle-rights-a/1022081636432109
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZLeaSWY37I
https://www.google.com/search?q=youte+Emily+Litella&sca_esv=a2d1b3f2df31e648&source=hp&ei=LUT4Z7yDMYj-ptQPmNSrmQo&iflsig=ACkRmUkAAAAAZ_hSPakLSGxOR19Rr8DzVn5m_pyJQUpZ&ved=0ahUKEwj8zc_yv86MAxUIv4kEHRjqKqMQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=youte+Emily+Litella&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhN5b3V0ZSBFbWlseSBMaXRlbGxhMgcQABiABBgNMgYQABgWGB4yCBAAGAgYDRgeSPEwUABY7iNwAHgAkAEAmAGMAaABqwSqAQM1LjK4AQPIAQD4AQH4AQKYAgegAswEwgILEC4YgAQYkQIYigXCAgsQABiABBiRAhiKBcICCxAuGIAEGLEDGIMBwgIREC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYgwEYxwHCAgsQABiABBixAxiDAcICDhAAGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIIEAAYgAQYsQPCAhAQLhiABBixAxhDGIMBGIoFwgIKEAAYgAQYQxiKBcICChAuGIAEGEMYigXCAg0QLhiABBixAxhDGIoFwgINEAAYgAQYsQMYQxiKBcICDRAuGIAEGEMY1AIYigXCAhAQABiABBixAxhDGIMBGIoFwgIKEAAYgAQYsQMYCsICBRAAGIAEwgIHEC4YgAQYCpgDAOIDBRIBMSBAkgcDNS4yoAfPS7IHAzUuMrgHzAQ&sclient=gws-wiz#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:206d6c14,vid:fZLeaSWY37I,st:0/
This year, Trump was supposed to have mixed up transgender with transgenetic mice (without anyone making the cnnection to Emily Litella because it was too long ago) but he doesn’t seem to have done that.
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 4/10/2025 @ 3:24 pmThis is Roseanne Roseannadanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hYGtXIqDa0
Her name was a play on Channel 7 (WABC) Rose Ann Scamardella.
Also played by Gilda Radner.
Nothing was similar except the name.
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 4/10/2025 @ 3:28 pmBiden was saying that about a moonshot to cue cancer for years and years.
He never seemed to notice that it wasn’t happening. He had to know he knew of no way to do it.
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 4/10/2025 @ 3:30 pmHe may have known, but the ability of the electorate to follow these debates is waning. Illiteracy and immuneracy are on the rise. How many adults do you suppose there are who have read a couple hundred books or know the compound interest formula, or who can find France on a map?
Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/10/2025 @ 3:42 pmA guy in Costco pizza line that was asking everyone he could if they believed in the bible, and if they said they did he started going on the moronic flat earth and firmament requiring a believer to also believe the earth is flat.
Northern Kentucky has the Australian reject Answers in Genesis and their “museum(s)” are here.
But if you are required to discount the object reality of the universe, and you are OK with that, why would a tariff be a step too far?
Colonel Klink (ret) (96f56a) — 4/10/2025 @ 4:44 pmBreaking–
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 4/10/2025 @ 4:57 pmGiven their insistence that they are unable to force the El Salvadorean government to release Garcia, we’ll see if this is the court order that the Administration chooses to defy.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 4/10/2025 @ 5:01 pmWhat I want to see is the Supreme Court realizing that the Presidential immunity decision was wrong then and is wrong now and say so first chance it gets.
The malevolence of this Administration plumbs the depths of the Abyss.
nk (bb1548) — 4/10/2025 @ 5:05 pmUnlikely to happen.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 4/10/2025 @ 5:18 pmLink to the per curiam opinion.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 4/10/2025 @ 5:49 pmThis decision is the first piece of reassuring news i’ve heard in five and a half months.
Let’s see if the administration complies.
aphrael (140dd3) — 4/10/2025 @ 6:29 pmCareer suicide :
If Col. Susan Meyers hasn’t been fired yet she soon will be.
Rip Murdock (75b245) — 4/10/2025 @ 7:11 pmApparently she was relieved of command today.
Rip Murdock (75b245) — 4/10/2025 @ 7:18 pm@88 “The government contends that the Beltsville, Md., man”
LOL
He lives in America, so I guess he’s an American man.
lloyd (84c606) — 4/10/2025 @ 7:44 pmApparently she was relieved of command today.
Competence will lose to loyalty every time and when we go to war it will be with kiss-asses in charge.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/10/2025 @ 8:29 pm@97 As a member of the military on duty, she’s incompetent for involving herself in a political matter.
lloyd (84c606) — 4/10/2025 @ 8:42 pmRelieving Col. Myers of command was the correct decision. As commander she had no right to publicly criticize the Administration. See also the forced resignation in 2010 of Gen. Stanley McChrystal over his (and his staff) comments about Obama, then VP Biden, other White House officials in Rolling Stone.
She wasn’t a policymaker; she was a subordinate whose opinions don’t matter. If she objected to the Administration’s Greenland policy or VP Vance’s comments, she should have kept her mouth shut or resigned.
Rip Murdock (75b245) — 4/10/2025 @ 8:53 pmAs shocking as it is for me to agree with lloyd on anything, I agree in this case. Unless we’re at the point where the President is issuing illegal orders to the military, for a military commander to publically disagree with the administration in the way that she did here is *not ok*, and she was rightly asked to resign.
aphrael (dbf41f) — 4/11/2025 @ 2:14 amIt’s kind of a shame because it’s actually good leadership for the person running our military operation in Greenland to try to smooth over the hurt feelings of our hosts, and to try and remediate their understandable fear of us (and our military operation) caused by our government. But it’s not the kind of thing that can be done by a military official. This is why we have diplomats.
aphrael (dbf41f) — 4/11/2025 @ 2:16 amShe wasn’t “asked to resign”; she was fired.
Rip Murdock (75b245) — 4/11/2025 @ 3:30 amPituffik Space Base Is another one of those bases renamed by Democrats. It used to be called Thule. Had to give it an Inuit name, because… who knows. Because we need Inuit names in a country its inhabitants still call Greenland.
lloyd (84c606) — 4/11/2025 @ 6:23 amThe judge is fairly confident that informant lied, or was talking about another person,because he said that the man was associated with MS-13 in New York, and he never lived in New York.
Sammy Finkelman (8620ee) — 4/11/2025 @ 6:50 amRelieved of command is neither fired nor resigned. Patton was relieved of command for a while for slapping the soldier with shell shock.
nk (4df54d) — 4/11/2025 @ 6:53 am@99
Same goes for any subordinate positions in the Executive branch.
whembly (b7cc46) — 4/11/2025 @ 6:59 am@104 Whether he is or isn’t MS-13 is irrelevant as to his legal status.
Once he’s returned at taxpayer expense to the country he entered illegally, my advice to Mr. Garcia is that he self deport to a country of his own choosing rather than wait for the administration to choose another country for him.
lloyd (84c606) — 4/11/2025 @ 7:01 amnk (4df54d) — 4/11/2025 @ 6:53 am
Then Operation Fortitude took advantage of tht to make him the commander of n imaginary army
Sammy Finkelman (44ac94) — 4/11/2025 @ 4:07 pm‘
hat’s why his speech to his real soldiers i France after D-Day WAS SECRET.