Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember, he’s ending mail-in ballots…
That's not within his power to do.
Neither was tariffs
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#22India has done the same as well https://www.business-standard.com/immigration/india-post-sus...
And several European countries: https://apnews.com/article/us-tariffs-goods-services-suspens...
DHL's announcement
"Temporary restrictions on postal goods shipping to the U.S. for private and business customers"
https://group.dhl.com/en/media-relations/press-releases/2025...
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#23India has done the same as well https://www.business-standard.com/immigration/india-post-sus...
Switzerland as well:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/trade-policy/swiss-post-tempora...
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#25This situation feels dumb. I feel like I am watching idiots cheer on someone doing parkor and that person getting his teeth smashed on a wall. Like, what is the point?
De minimis allows people to evade tariffs by simply drop shipping each individual product all the way from China or wherever, so long as the retail price is below the threshold. I’m skeptical of tariffs in general but if you’re going to have them, it makes sense to close the loopholes.
But at least ensure you can then get paid... Which seems to be hang here. Failure to tell how to pay those tariffs...
Re: Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States
#26This situation feels dumb. I feel like I am watching idiots cheer on someone doing parkor and that person getting his teeth smashed on a wall. Like, what is the point?
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H. L. Mencken
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
- Winston Churchill [disputed]
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#27It's the price of uncertainty.
Business can plan for low tax or high tax regimes. Not so much when it's just "unknown".
Similar across Europe https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/25/postal-serv...
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#30We should have something like the federal reserve, but for trade policy. A board of governors nominated and confirmed by the senate in 8 year rotations. Politicians cannot be trusted to craft economic policy. I am dubious that they should be crafting fiscal policy either since theyve shown they cant be trusted with that either
This is power explicitly reserved for Congress, which is being extra-constitutionally seized by the President (on the pretext of "national security") with no public support. The problem here is electing a lawless president and putting the Congress in charge of a GOP which is full of unprincipled cowards from top to bottom, not the institutional framework.