Ivo Vegter
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Columnist at The Daily Friend. Advocate for classical liberalism, non-racialism, science and reason. No time for bigotry. Look up Brandolini's Law.
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1 week ago |
dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter
Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, famously gave Elon Musk a chainsaw. As similar as he appears to Donald Trump, he differs in key respects. Milei is often compared to Trump and to other right-wing populist leaders, like Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. As a crude comparison this might be adequate, if you’re a left-winger and anyone who isn’t socialist looks the same to you. However, it obscures critical philosophical differences.
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1 week ago |
dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter
Although Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs and tariff threats seem confusing and contradictory, let’s examine the underlying motives. Earlier this week, I touched on a few of the contradictions and misconceptions in Trump’s global tariff war. The stated justifications depend on which Trump minion you ask (and the day of the week), and their broad scope – even against countries to which the US exports more than it imports – is inconsistent with the trade deficit argument we’ve often heard.
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2 weeks ago |
dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter
Without straight answers from the White House, nothing about America’s trade policy makes any sense. Why did US president Donald Trump levy a 10% import tariff on goods from the Heard and McDonald Islands? The penguins wanted to know, so they contacted a journalist in the US to ask Trump’s Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick. He assured the journalist that the White House did not use AI to generate a list of top-level domain names to levy tariffs against.
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2 weeks ago |
dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter
Tomorrow, Trump’s promised global tariffs on everyone take effect. Even penguins on uninhabited islands are in his cross-hairs. On 2 April 2025, a day he called “Liberation Day” with Orwellian flair, US President, Donald Trump, announced the imposition of a minimum of 10% “reciprocal tariffs” on imports from all countries, except for a very short list that includes Russia.
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3 weeks ago |
dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter
We all like to hear fighting words from the targets of Trump’s tariffs, but counter-tariffs only make a bad situation worse. Lately, we’ve had a lot of opportunity to discuss tariffs and whether they’re a good idea. US president Donald Trump promises that tariffs will return America to an age of prosperity and greatness, will enrich US citizens because they’re paid by foreign countries, and will revitalise American industry, reduce prices, and bring quality manufacturing jobs back from overseas.
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Genius! Why not ban taxis altogether? And then ban buses, just in case. Maybe we can just have another hard lockdown. That sorted out taxi violence right quick.
[ICYMI] Gauteng Transport MEC Kedibone Diale-Tlabela has announced her department's "intentions" to close taxi ranks for six months in order to combat high incidents of taxi violence in the province. Watch: https://t.co/tVTAhoeOYK #Newzroom405 https://t.co/J4vm1ewHii
Aiming to limit damages, Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn’t the same as a ‘person’ https://t.co/jJbRcI6QYD (So it's murder when a woman chooses to abort a fetus, but it's not a human life when hospital negligence causes the death of a viable fetus. Got it.)
RT @ImApparently: @ME_Beaumont @IvoVegter ASA destroyed all chance of forcing ANC to do economic reform. Thanks twats
