The Schloss-Blog is just loving that the Supreme Court struck down Trump's authority to impose tariffs (he didn't like it). But at least the Olympics are going our way, right?
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Been watching the Olympics? They've been fab.
American speed skaters are coming home with a lot of medals, including three for Jordan Stolz of Wisconsin, two of them gold, although most of the fun watching speed skating, especially short track, is seeing all those wipeouts that those skaters cause, undercutting each other, costing each other medals. It's almost like, "If I can't win, you can't either." Almost.
Hockey? Congrats to the U.S. Women and their thrilling, come-from-behind win over Canada for the gold. Take that Canandians.
No, we love Canadians. We miss them in Arizona, where their visits and tourism overall is down thanks to the tariff man. Last year, there was a group of Canadians we encountered, every Sunday morning in the spring, unwinding right along with us after playing at our fav Encanto 9 golf course, and we got chatty with them every week.
They didn't like Trump and were not understated about it. We saw them every week. This year, we are not seeing them every week and can only surmise they didn't come back. As they had threatened. Either have their countrymen.
Getting the message, Donald? A lot of businesses - hotels, restaurants, hospitality in general, and retailers - are feeling it.
Anyway, more on that soon enough - now back to the Olympics. To me, the best part of the Olympics isn't any one gold medal-winning performance, any one triple salchow in skating or any one record-setting triple twist with four flips in freestyle skiing or boarding.
It's hearing the National Anthem - The Star-Spangled Banner, playing with an American or American teammates on the podium, after receiving their gold medals, the pride showing on their beaming faces, the tears being restrained, or perhaps not (Breezy Johnson).
Tell me a chill doesn't run up and down your spine when you see this, live. Tell me your don't feel pride. Tell me you don't experience the chill, right along with the athlete or athletes.
You know you do. It's the best part of the Olympics and I can never see it enough times.
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Tariffs.
They drive up prices at retail. You know why.
Not because foreign countries pay them (as Donald claims), but because American shoppers pay them, at the retail counter, where the American importers who pay them at the docks pass them along to American consumers, at the store.
Somebody please explain this to Donald. Looks he suffers from his own Trump Derangement Syndrome.
There's a reason Americans say the economy sucks. Because prices suck. And prices suck because of Donald's Dumb Tariffs.
Now, with Trump's authority to impose tariffs at his will having been struck down by the Supreme Court, consumers as well as importers are in limbo. Trump says he can find a way to reimpose tariffs, which he says punishes foreign countries and foreign competitors.
Not to worry Trump says a provision of the 1974 Trade Act gives him the authority to impose tariffs again, now that the Supreme Court has said he can't. Apparently, he already has imposed them again.
So, are we right back where we started from, with Trump throwing firebombs at foreign countries, or will the Supremes get another crack at this (Trump is throwing firebombs at the justices who voted down his authority, including two he appointed, plus Chief Justice Roberts).
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It's a week or so after her testimony before Congress. Pam Bondi remains a bitch.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you Kate Kuffner.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
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