{"id":178964,"date":"2018-07-03T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T03:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/03\/they-are-just-trolling-us\/"},"modified":"2018-07-03T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T03:29:00","slug":"they-are-just-trolling-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/03\/they-are-just-trolling-us\/","title":{"rendered":"They are Just Trolling Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Donald Trump has a plan to ditch the WTO and return to tariffs.<\/div>\n<p>Not a surprise, it was something that he has campaigned on, but it is called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jul\/02\/trump-fart-act-report-blows-through-washington\">Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act<\/a>, or FART act.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, they aren&#8217;t even trying any more:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A report that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> is looking to walk away from the World Trade Organisation and instead adopt a United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act, or Fart Act, has been greeted with loud amusement on Twitter. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/trump-trade-war-leaked-bill-world-trade-organization-united-states-d51278d2-0516-4def-a4d3-ed676f4e0f83.html\">Axios reported<\/a> that it had received a leaked early draft of a bill ordered by the president, that would see America take the unlikely step of abandoning WTO rules, allowing Trump to raise tariffs without the consent of Congress. <\/p>\n<p>The bill \u2013 the existence of which has not been independently confirmed \u2013 would be a dramatic shift in trade policy with wide-reaching impacts, but it was the name of the proposed bill that caught people\u2019s attention.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/rwHPsDg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/rwHPsDg.jpg\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>In 2021, I fear that our President will be Pauley Shore.<\/p>\n<p>I am not joking.<\/p>\n<p>The Weasel will be the next President of the United States of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has a plan to ditch the WTO and return to tariffs. Not a surprise, it was something that he has campaigned on, but it is called the Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act, or FART act. Seriously, they aren&#8217;t even trying any more: A report that Donald Trump is looking to walk away from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[394,417,449,421],"class_list":["post-178964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-foreign-relations","tag-international-commerce","tag-legislation","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}