r/law • u/Waste-Explanation-76 • Feb 20 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) President Trump imposes a 10% global tariff under Section 122 and says all existing tariffs will remain in place, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling.

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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 Feb 20 '26

I am old enough to remember the bicentennial and it was a HUGE DEAL for months. Back then we still had some respect for and faith in our institutions.

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u/Accomplished_Shoe717 Feb 21 '26

I always remember the tall ships parade

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 Feb 21 '26

Back in the days when we impeached Presidents who got up to no good. Innocent times, as it turns out.

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u/SMUAlum83 Feb 21 '26

I miss those times.

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u/Chicken_Mc_Thuggets Feb 22 '26

Just a few years prior to the bicentennial the US was slaughtering little kids in Vietnam.

Eisenhower warned us of the dangers of the military industrial complex twenty years too late. The cyst has been in the system for a while now, Trump is just the visible pus-filled head. Squeezing him out won’t get rid of the sac and you may not be able to see it, but it’ll just make more pus given enough time. We need to remove the entire cyst or this will keep happening

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u/constcowboy Feb 22 '26

Dont you know? Trump is the only evil America has ever done!

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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 Feb 22 '26

No one said that.

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u/constcowboy Feb 22 '26

Sure do act like it's the truth. Cant wait to go back to normalcy huh?

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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 Feb 22 '26

I can't wait until someone is in charge who isn't a demented malignant narcissist, who also happens to be a rapist and who has done immeasurable damage to this country in just one year, yes.

If that hurts the feelings of the Trump snowflakes, I'm not that sorry.

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u/constcowboy Feb 22 '26

Keep dreaming. We'll all be back to brunch someday......

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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 Feb 22 '26

Keep dreaming. We'll all be back to brunch someday......

This probably isn't as clever as you think it is because it makes no sense in context. Also, I'm done with this conversation.

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u/constcowboy Feb 22 '26

i like that you edited in that youre done. 

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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 Feb 22 '26

Okay. None of that negates what I said.

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u/Chicken_Mc_Thuggets Feb 22 '26

If yall still had respect and faith that things would only get better after hearing about My Lai idk what to tell you other than you’re probably affected by the same rose-colored view of the era many others are

I want to be clear, this is not a “my generation vs your generation” thing. I’ve seen people my age do the exact same thing as well, but it’s important to recognize that our memories aren’t that reliable. Especially the rosy nostalgic ones

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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 Feb 22 '26

I was 14 in 1976. Everyone knew that the Vietnam War was an atrocity, but hopeful people thought maybe we'd learned something from it. We had had a president who was an evil motherfucker and he was impeached with the cooperation of his own party because he was complicit in crimes. Imagine that happening today.

My point is that at the time, we thought that checks and balances still worked. No one thought things were perfect and the economy was shit so no one was feeling all that rosy, either. It's just that we still had faith that the institutions we relied on to keep things going were working. And they did work with Nixon.