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If You’re Hysterical About Trump’s Tariffs, Go Touch Grass
The Federalist ^ | April 04, 2025 | Rich Cromwell

Posted on 04/04/2025 1:53:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

If toting a fainting couch around with you is your thing, fine. But there’s really no need to live this way.

X is not real life, but its tentacles slither into the increasingly online landscape that defines real life. It’s not X’s fault; it has merely become an incubator of a trend launched years ago by the 24-hour news cycle. Really, then, much of our modern malaise is the fault of Ted Turner, a man so wise he saw fit to marry Jane Fonda in 1991, well after she had publicly aired her crazy in myriad ways. 

And while information is good, there’s only so much of it that comes out in a day, which leaves lots of hours left to fill. Hence, the terrain quickly shifted from constant news to constant hysteria. Which is fine, if toting a fainting couch around with you is your thing, but there’s really no need to live this way. Take, for example, the latest outrage to animate us all: President Trump’s tariffs. 

Whether the tariffs are good, bad, or somewhere in between is immaterial. At the very least, they provide comedic relief in the form of a 10 percent tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands, an Australian territory occupied primarily by penguins. It also has active volcanoes, which is not something we should want imported, though, so perhaps the tariffs are good. On the other hand, maybe we do need more penguins and the tariff will hinder the supply. In either case, I’m withholding umbrage. 

In this scenario, more people should be like me. It is unhealthy to spend so much time worrying about the daily stories that percolate on X before dripping out into the mainstream, making people panic about...

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1 posted on 04/04/2025 1:53:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They’re either smoking it or putting it on hamburger buns.


2 posted on 04/04/2025 1:56:31 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (First covid case confirmed in America. 01/19/2021. Biden inaugurated 01/20/2021. Coinkydink?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bring back Bobbie Battista.


3 posted on 04/04/2025 2:09:11 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

Bring back Bobbie Battista…..or her cold dead body


4 posted on 04/04/2025 2:15:36 PM PDT by BubbaJunebug ( Song Trump Trump Baby)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

bookmark


5 posted on 04/04/2025 2:34:02 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON TRUMP’S TARIFFS

6 MINUTES OF COMMON SENSE & LOGIC VS. THE LIES OF THE LEFT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrTBU7Nsdus

PLEASE...PLEASE SHARE THIS ONE!


6 posted on 04/04/2025 3:54:05 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (=)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I read the whole article. Now I want a Bison Burger.


7 posted on 04/04/2025 3:54:50 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Cannot win by being the one to cave. Trump knows what he is doing.. don’t get nervous..


8 posted on 04/04/2025 4:48:46 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: frnewsjunkie

They need to sell us stuff more than we need to sell them.


9 posted on 04/04/2025 4:50:51 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Fledermaus
They need to sell us stuff more than we need to sell them.

Bingo!

10 posted on 04/05/2025 6:43:25 AM PDT by Ditto
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