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Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries by prisenco on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @02:26PM (#43635579)
Those aren't guaranteed. I do believe Trump is in danger of being removed if the economic damage of the tariffs becomes too great since the one thing truly sacrosanct in America is the economy.

But the timeline would hardly be immediate. We'd have to go through considerable pain before the government would act.

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Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries by Terr_ on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @02:37PM (#43635759)
> Those aren't guaranteed.

Yeah, if we lived in that world, Trump would have been removed from office during his first term for all the crimes.

It's worth noting that impeaching and removing Trump from office now would actually take fewer votes than the business of overriding the import taxes he's trying to impose with "Canadian fentanyl is scary" emergency powers.

As a big bonus, voting to remove him entirely leaves everyone far safer. He's gonna have a guaranteed tantrum of scorched-earth revenge no matter what you do, but this way he won't have official power to do it with.

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