Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130...
by syllogism on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:20AM
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The corruptions of this administration are legion, but this isn't one of them. Unless you can point to something Lutnick did to create this outcome, I don't see how he had a better view of the whole thing than anyone else.
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Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130...
by caconym_ on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:20PM
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Isn't Lutnick literally the chief architect of Trump's tariff policy? I can hardly imagine anybody more responsible for creating this outcome besides Trump himself, who would presumably have appointed somebody else if Lutnick hadn't been available.
> I don't see how he had a better view of the whole thing than anyone else.
Given the above, you really don't think Lutnick had a "better view" of the likely outcomes and timelines, including the Trump admin's planned and gamed out responses to certain outcomes, than the average Joe on the street? I think that's extremely, uh, naive.
Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130...
by pauldelany on Thursday March 05, 2026 @06:17PM
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Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130...
by mrguyorama on Thursday March 05, 2026 @03:53PM
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Who cares who came up with the illegal tariff implementation, the point is that a member of the government profited off of their own administration's incompetence.
It's obscene. I don't care whether a law was broken or not.
You want to profit from government incompetence? Stop being part of the government then.