The Democratic Point of View Vol. 1005, Nov. 2025

This brief newsletter seeks to set the record straight on important issues facing Democratic voters. Readers are welcome to express their points of view by using the contact link. It will be published in subsequent issues.

1.0 Shorts (In the video links below, some of them will show an adverstisement but if you wait until it says “Skip” in the lower right corner, click on it and you can bypass the ad)

1.1 An Epstein survivor talks of being “prepped” for Epstein.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/S9wH6uSHd2o

1.2 Latest Poll Numbers for NJ Governor’s Race (See → Click)

1.3 Under Cover Agents Gave Tom Homan (DHS) $50K Bribe, But DOJ Simply Closed Case

According to exclusive reporting from MSNBC, last year, in an undercover operation, the FBI recorded Tom Homan (DHS) accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a 2nd Trump administration.

1.4 If You Like Coffee, We Have Bad News For You

Prices Going Up and Mr. Trump owns that one 100%.

2.0 Short Stories

2.1 Republican Town Halls Getting More Rowdy See → Town Halls

It might have something to do with the soybean crop main customer. The Soybean crop in US is very close to $56 billion. (Wikipedia.com). Nebraskans are more rowdy than New Jersey town halls .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-13gm7lRswU I think underlying their distrust of government is the fact that China has not placed any orders for soybeans so far this year in retaliation to tariffs. After all, it’s $56 Billion dollars worth of business for farmers. Trump ids meeting with China this week on trade talks.

3.0 Opinion

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3.1 Pelestinians do not exhibit anti-semitism. Prior to 1948, there were no problems between Jews and anybody else living in that area. The kids played soccer together, they were in each other's houses, their mother's would send festival foods to each other and life was good.

In 1948, Jews were petitioning the United Nations for a land of their own. England was chosen to do it and England simply took a sharpie and drew the lines of the new country of Israel and gave all that land to the Israeli government. Israel immediately began selling it off to Jerwish settlers. One day, a Jewish man accompanied by two Israeli soldiers would come to the door and inform the Arabic speaking people that they had to move because this man bought the house and surrounding land from the Israeli government. So, these people ended in a refugee camp (where many still are today) and were not compensated for their loss. They had been living on that land for a 1000 years prior. Palestinians still say that Israel was formed illegally as their main gripe.

To say that they exhibit anti-semitism is not correct. In order to be anti-semitic people need to be against the religion, music, dance, poetry, art, language, etc, which is not the case. However, the Israeli government is non-secular so, for them, anti-Israeli automatically means anti-semetic in an attempt to stretch the definition.

The point is, Palestinians can be anti-Israeli without being called anti-semitic since the Israeli government chooses to be non-secular. In any case, Arabic speaking people are also semitic further confusing the issue.

3.3 Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda -- Article

3.4 Article On Inflation

Current inflation - Trump falsely claimed, “We’ve already solved inflation, we solved prices.” This is vaguer than his frequent false claim that there is “no inflation,” but there’s no basis even for the vaguer version. Inflation has been worsening since May after hitting a four-year low in April. It was 2.9% in August, up from 2.7% in July (annualized); the August figure was the highest figure since it was 3% in January, the last partial month of the Biden administration.

 

Tariffs, Who Pays?

Trump, who habitually makes the false assertion that foreign countries pay the tariffs he has imposed on US imports of those countries’ products, said this time, “China is paying a very large tariff right now to the United States.” It is US importers, not China, who make the tariff payments to the US government, and those importers often pass on some of the costs to consumers.

 

US aid to Ukraine: Trump delivered a vaguer version of his oft-repeated claim that the US has given $350 billion in wartime aid to Ukraine, this time saying, “The United States is into that war for $350 billion.” He didn’t define “into that war,” but if it was his usual assertion about US aid, it is false. A German think tank that has closely tracked wartime aid to Ukraine says the US allocated about $135 billion to Ukraine (and had committed about $5 billion more) through June, at current exchange rates. The US government inspector general overseeing the federal Ukraine response says the US had disbursed about $94 billion for the response as of the end of June 2025 (and had appropriated about $93 billion more), including money that was spent in the US and in broader Europe rather than Ukraine itself.

 

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from ChatGPT

I am more interested in which tariffs have been stopped, can you list them?

ChatGPT said:

Here is what I found on which tariffs imposed under the emergency authority (i.e. under IEEPA) have been struck down, invalidated, or enjoined (or at least held unlawful) so far:

Tariffs struck down / invalidated (or held unlawful) under IEEPA

These are the categories or specific Executive Orders whose associated tariffs have been ruled beyond the President’s authority under IEEPA:

Tariff / Order

Nature of the tariff

Court action / ruling

Notes

Reciprocal Tariffs (via EO 14257, EO 14266, etc.)

Broad “trade reciprocity” tariffs (10% base + additional charges) on imports from many countries

The Court of International Trade (CIT) declared them unlawful and permanently enjoined them on May 28, 2025. Dentons+3Court of International Trade+3Thomson Reuters Tax+3

These are the major “Liberation Day / reciprocal” tariffs.

Trafficking / Fentanyl-related tariffs (via EOs 14193, 14194, 14195)

Tariffs targeting imports from China, Canada, Mexico said to be linked to drug trafficking / migration

The CIT struck them down as exceeding IEEPA authority. Holland & Hart+7Court of International Trade+7Foley Hoag+7

Examples: 20 % on Chinese goods, 25 % on Mexican goods, 35 % on Canadian goods (with some exclusions) Dentons+2Holland & Hart+2

Executive Orders challenged

EO 14193, 14194, 14195, 14257, 14266

The Federal Circuit (on August 29, 2025) affirmed the CIT’s conclusion on the merits: that these EOs, and the tariffs they imposed, are unlawful under IEEPA. BCLP+4Federal Circuit Court+4Kelley Drye & Warren LLP+4

The Court said IEEPA does not clearly authorize the imposition of tariffs of this breadth. Kelley Drye & Warren LLP+2BCLP+2

Important caveats & current status

  • Although courts have ruled these emergency (IEEPA-based) tariffs unlawful, they have not yet been fully “halted in effect permanently due to appeals, stays, and injunction issues.

  • The court rulings only applied to the tariffs specifically challenged under IEEPA (reciprocal + fentanyl / trafficking tariffs). Other tariffs, such as those under Section 232 (e.g. steel, aluminum, autos) or under other trade laws, were not affected by these rulings. Thomson Reuters Tax+3Foley Hoag+3Dentons+3

  • Because of the appeals process, those struck-down tariffs may remain being collected (or at least enforced) until higher courts (Supreme Court) issue final judgment. Foley Hoag+3Thomson Reuters Tax+3Holland & Knight+3

If you like, I can also prepare a chronological timeline of when each IEEPA tariff was ruled invalid and what stage the litigation is in (CIT → Federal Circuit → Supreme Court). Would you prefer I send you that?

 

Renewable Energy

Mr. Trump should not lie about things that can easily be fact checked.

 

Trump said: "I give China a lot of credit, they build (windmills), but they (have) very few wind farms."

We previously rated this Pants on Fire.

China has about 44% of the world’s wind farm capacity, ranking No. 1 globally and almost tripling what the U.S. has. China is also planning or building more wind farm capacity than any other country.

"Our (electricity) bills are coming way down. You probably see that our gasoline prices are way down."

This is inaccurate.

Energy prices — a category that includes fuel oil, propane, kerosene, firewood, electricity and energy services — are down overall on Trump’s watch. But the two categories he specified, electricity and gasoline, are not.

Electricity costs have spiked on Trump’s watch. They are up 4.9% since Trump took office in January, and were up by 6.2% in August compared with a year earlier.

Gasoline prices are slightly higher than when Trump was inaugurated in January, and about a penny per gallon lower than a year ago.

 

 

For V1006 Whose better at controlling the Economy?

 

See: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/regulating-economy.asp