MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@raymondpert" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>raymondpert</span></a></span> <br>JD Pritzker was on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FnS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FnS</span></a> this morning, and did a reasonably good job of distinguishing between "targeted" <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> on SPECIFIC items, vs "blanket tariffs on entire nations."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a>… and hosts of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservative</span></a> news programs… ALWAYS start out with "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> did tariffs too!" trying to brand <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> as hypocrites.</p><p>Pritzker was prepared for that trap. He did fail to point out that a blanket tariff against an entire country is a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeWar</span></a>, NOT a negotiation. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DisasterPresidency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisasterPresidency</span></a></p>