The majority of the sweeping tariffs Donald Trump imposed during his second term face one final litmus test that will determine whether he can continue to levy them – and also whether businesses are eligible for massive refunds.
That potentially dramatic turn in the tariff saga comes after a federal appeals court ruled on Friday that Trump unlawfully leaned on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose across-the-board duties on countries.
Trump had used those powers to push import tax rates as high as 50% on India and Brazil – and as high as 145% on China earlier this year.
Right. Everything today is about softening you up. They say, we will kill you—and you panic—then they roll it back to just losing an arm, and you’re happy about it.
Like a frog in boiling water.
No, that’s the ratchet effect.
A frog boil is when you slowly raise the temperature so the frogs don’t even realize they’re being boiled.
An example of frog boiling is having national guard just roam around not doing anything. People are pissed out of principle, but they’re not really doing anything for people to riot over. By the time they are, some people will be used to it already and not as pissed as if it was all at once.
It’s also kind of funny because while the frog boiling effect certainly exists, the phenomenon it’s named after does not. A frog will absolutely jump out of gradually heated water when it reaches an uncomfortable temperature.
Well, yeah…
That’s like “dollars to doughnuts” became a thing when a dollar bought a dozen doughnuts. Now you can’t buy a single doughnut for a dollar.
But idioms still remain in the original meaning despite them not making sense.
Is that how frogs are cooked? Like a lobsters?
It’s a common myth that frogs will stay in boiling water if the water is heated slowly enough. They can sense heat and will most definitely attempt to escape.
The original test had frogs brains removed. A brainless frog will not jump out of water when the temperature is slowly increased. If you increase the temperature quickly though, even a brainless frog will react to temperature change out of raw reflex.
Not if you put a lid on!
No, they’ll still attempt to escape.
The heavy lid of tariffs 😬
Trying to get a frog to stay where you want it is difficult regardless of water temperature.
I haven’t even heard that as a common myth. Lobsters, yes. We are lobsters. Frogs? Perhaps very obese frogs
It’s a misunderstanding of an old experiment where frogs were lobotomized before being exposed to the slowly rising temperature of the water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
Fascinating. People are sick though.
It’s far more of a metaphor than it is an actual cooking technique
If you’re going to eat me, please kill me first. Then, Bon appétit!
Frogs don’t actually work like that but humans might.
This is called “price anchoring” when used in business. They throw out an outrageously high number to start and then follow it up with something less to make it seem like a good deal when that was really the price they wanted all along.
Alas, a lot people have already lost an arm and a leg and there’s still no end in sight.
If they’ve lost an arm and a leg that means they have another arm and a leg to lose! Capitalism! ;)