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Yesterday, @cstross mentioned the old "Whoops, Apocalypse!" telly series, and I said "Excel, Apocalypse!".
The #ExcelApocalypse hashtag is now here, for the U.S. government that conducts military operations from unsecured personal 'phones in Moscow, that puts a MAX() function on a spreadsheet that erroneously impacts a load of countries, and that forgets to send out the formal order backing off from its tariff war to the blanket 10%.
mastodon.scotJdeBP (@JdeBP@mastodon.scot)Major legal question for today:
Can this officially published and recorded executive order be countermanded by an unofficial mere Truth Social post?
https://whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regulating-imports-with-a-reciprocal-tariff-to-rectify-trade-practices-that-contribute-to-large-and-persistent-annual-united-states-goods-trade-deficits/
Because if it cannot, the higher #tariffs over the 10% rate are in fact still in effect. There has been no countermanding formal executive order and it is now just past 17:00 EDT.
#DonaldJTrump #USLaw