The administration argues that relying on imported metals could reduce demand for American-made materials, leaving the US with less domestic production and fewer critical supplies in the event of a national emergency.
And because brass instruments are made mostly from copper and zinc, they have been swept into the same net as fire extinguishers, floor safes, electrical cables, welding-machine parts, and tanker trailers.
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Here comes the brass tax.
We finally got down to it.
A national security threat created by Republicans decades ago by
allowingencouraging the export of American jobs to foreign countries in order for corporations to take the lazy path towards improving profits via slave labor freely available in other countries.The entire GOP establishment and their corporate benefactors sold out our futures for a quick and easy profit. They should be held criminally responsible for destroying this country for their own gain.
I doubt they will ever be held criminally responsible, but perhaps you could hold them gravitationally responsible? Maybe by dropping them off a building?
Who would hold them responsible? They won’t even publish documents thats even steps before actually getting accused and prosecuted and punished?
The kid rapist elite has nothing to be afraid of. The DOJ has no power over them, while genuine US citizens are getting executed in daylight on the streets and human beings are held in worst condition than cattle.Sorry there’s just not enough time in our 24-hour news cycle to cover the pedophile ring holding the richest country in the world hostage. We have to run these stories about Fauci. Then we have to cover every stupid fucking thing Donald Trump says but NOT the fact that he rapes kids
There’s a particular trumpet sound that describes this situation perfectly
Ska bands are now under constant watch.
On the plus side, RFK Jr said eating aluminium foil is perfectly healthy. He even offered to teach some abdominal exercises that can help roll the foil around the roadkill in your gut, to help keep it unfresh between digestion cycles, which are totally a thing, too.
Wtf am I reading??
The move is part of the Trump administration’s broader tariff strategy, which it says will encourage people to buy American-made goods and attract investment from foreign companies.
So…isn’t this just an admission that it really has nothing to do with national security?
Well Trump wouldn’t need to do that if those crazy terrorist libtards would stop chasing him with them.
He Used Italian marble in the bathroom renovations at the White House.
This is all nonsense.
And by the looks of it we have pretty good marble here.
I don’t consider myself particularly patriotic but I do feel like national state buildings should be made with materials from this country.
It’s big enough. We have the basics here. Marble. Wood.
Why not showcase this countries materials ?
Also did you see the bathroom?. It’s so ugly.
Tbh if I didn’t hate the man I’d like the bathroom.
But yeah I feel that public buildings should use American materials. Really they should prioritize materials within their jurisdiction, and where it’s not possible as close to the level of jurisdiction as possible, including continent level. That means if we don’t have it then we should check if canada or Mexico do. And I’m not saying to use the gray granite that my link included, we can bypass for concerns of beauty and practicality, but there’s beautiful stone in America. And in general I feel it adds to the local identity to use materials from there. New Mexico, Vermont, and Minnesota shouldn’t have state houses that look the same.
Exceptions of course for gifts, like, actual gifts, not grift gifts. The statue of liberty being french bronze is great, it remains a symbol of the fact that they used to like us back in the day.
All of the rules and laws he wants apparently have no jurisdiction on him. Just like hiring undocumented immigrants in his businesses
Anything to make you forget he’s a sex offender pedophile drug addict with a hole in the top of his mouth
He’s paranoid someone will hide a gun in one. He’s lived most of his adult life afraid and the older he gets, the more afraid he is. It’s the same reason he eats fast food. He thinks it would be harder to poison him that way.
Brass Against the Machine
Brass Against is a rock+brass band that started doing covers of Rage Against The Machine, they also cover other rock and metal acts. Pretty cool.
Yeah, I thought of them, wasn’t sure about the name. Shortened like this it could also be a reference to Rise Against.
The revolution will have the most epic marches.
I couldn’t help but think about Severance’s season 2 finale
Article on this from Reason Magazine, the only major-ish outlet that’s reported on this so far. In fact, it looks like they originated this story: https://reason.com/2026/08/05/trumps-newest-tariffs-could-protect-america-from-the-national-security-risk-of-brass-instruments/
Old man yells at cloud.
Or at this point, old man yells at anything to distract you from the epstein files.
trump does something stupid film at 11.
leaving the US with less domestic production
You’re about 40 years late on that one. I know MAGA is just rich people living out their “what the Gipper should’ve done!” fantasy, but you can’t just try and pick up where he left off.
thank mr skeletal 🎺
can you blame him?
it is his dooty
