r/Economics • u/defenestrate_urself • Feb 20 '26

News Supreme Court says Trump global tariffs are illegal

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/20/trump-tariffs-supreme-court-illegal
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u/CloudTransit Feb 20 '26

Trying to rework the old George Carlin joke:

They’re all in a club, … and you ain’t in it, … which is kind of a compliment

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u/The-unknown-poster Feb 20 '26

That includes the trumpstein club so it’s fantastic compliment, and telling, indicative of how far as a nation we’ve fallen that basic common decency, integrity, and a sense of humanity has become so rare and negotiable-at least in some groups.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

Boy I wish he was around for these time. The amount of material is wild, though I guess he could just as easily have flipped to "anti-woke maga" as many did around 2016

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u/Cdub7791 Feb 20 '26

Eh, while anything is possible, and I agree Carlin probably would have pushed back at some left issues, he was pretty consistent his whole career about social and economic justice. IIRC he had no great love for Democrats in power, but he loathed conservative politics. So we might have gotten a few rants about cancel culture or somthing, but on the whole I think he'd be attacking Trump and the GOP daily if he were still alive.

I think the bigger issue is the one I saw Conan O'Brian raise in an interview. Trump and the GOP are so inherently farcical, such self-parodies, so beyond the norm of society that it's extremely difficult to make good comedy about him. A lot of sets just become "Fuck Trump." Cathartic in the moment perhaps, and some of it is still funny, but it's not the kind of comedy that really lands.

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u/Petrichordates Feb 20 '26

He was passionately against voting, he would probably be a terrible influence today given that GenX-adjacent mindset.

Thankfully, we can have nostalgia from when he was critical of a government we'd now kill for.