Has anyone told him that tariffs require willing trade partners?
I don’t mean to be one of those guys impeached president trump but source?
Talk about projecting “I don’t know what I’m doing!”
The MAGA brand, at it’s heart, is just saying your policies loudly over and over again and calling anyone who disagrees with you stupid.
This has been wildly effective again a liberal establishment that only knows how to triangulate between whatever two ideas a pair of TV talking heads are yelling at one another.
Dumbass.
With these reciprocal tariffs, Donald Trump is about to plunge the world into the greatest economic global depression since the 1930’s, just as Europe starts to think about maybe possibly upping their defense budgets
Twist ending: Trump comes out as the ultimate leftist neoglobalist. His entire life has been dedicated to cultivating the most unabashed narcissistic piss baby entitled con man personality, as a front, just so he can convince America to share its wealth and power, collapse American hegemony, and permanently destroy conservatism. He’s the only one that has the special Yank whisperer powers to convince an entire nation of dumbfucks to act against their own self interest.
At this point nothing would surprise me.
Unless, now I know this is a giant stretch, trump is just a character created by a group of writers and workshopped on reality TV. It’s always been a joke that politics is just Hollywood for ugly people. Trump is the best of both worlds. Once in place he could, you know, enact some sort of larger project that has been in the works for years and years. Some sort of project that kicks off in 2025. How, though, how could they guarantee both parties would step aside and let trump do whatever he like? You’d have make bribery legal, in some way shape or form. Like if you could use money like you do speech you could influence people to do anything. The people would never accept it though. Some would see right through it. Unless you has some sort of new media that goes completely unregulated where anyone can lie and you can target people using the most sophisticated technology ever created.
Or you know it was probably the illuminati.
4d chess jokes aren’t funny anymore.
Tongue-in-cheek general or 4D specifically? I’m beyond capable of laughing at any of this any more. It’s just actually sad and scary.
I get your sentiment, but I rather think the comedy above arises from the rhetorical flourishes.
It’s ok, I don’t actually believe this.
Sounds like Trump can’t tell the difference between a Value Added Tax, and tariffs. It sounds like what he really wants is a federal VAT.
He’s referring to how the US was incredibly tarrif heavy between 1789 and the early 1900s. During this time, there was little to no industry in the US and they imported most of their stuff from Britan, which obviously wasn’t something they were too happy about. The new country went hard with the tarrifs and it helped the country grow its own domestic industries.
Of course, it’s not the 1800s anymore and expecting that implementing the same government policies from that time will make the country better is idiotic. This is a way to fund tax breaks to billionaires and corporations by heavily taxing the average American and having them think it’s patriotic.
If he didn’t suffer from such fantastic narcissism, he’d stop tweeting his inside voice for all to read.
A lot of Ostrich Politics about to happen over the next year(s) in the MAGAsphere.
The silver lining is that this isn’t going to work and the clown car is going to crash so hard that there won’t be able to redress the failure before the working class people who naively believed them.
Who’s “we”, motherfucker?
He’s a moron and loves to show it.
Hey Canada can you send some, y’know, special ops type people to uh . . y’know.
WINK WINK
The wealthiest country on Earth???
No, the wealthiest country in the U.S.A
The United States was at its absolute economic best when charging fucks like musk and Trump 95% tax rate … forcing them to invest instead of hoarding. Stop lying you stupid orange fuck
The real way to “Make America Great Again”
The truth the rich don’t want you to know
He can’t stop lying, it’s all he knows how to do.
As if he would pay income tax
How the Democrats have failed to skewer him with “tariffs are taxes: he’s raising taxes” is beyond me.
Because the Democrats exist as a controlled opposition party. They aren’t there to make your life better, they are there to funnel progressive energy into a harmless movement.
Because unfortunately the only thing the Democrats are good at is failing miserably at being good politicians. Those of us in the US are stuck between choosing a party of feckless, stupid, corpo shills and a party of straight up fascists :(
Here in Germany, one of the left wing parties (literally “The Left”) has been putting up election posters with lines like “If your town is getting flooded, the rich are boarding their yachts”, “If your heating is too expensive, someone’s making coal” (making bank), “If your grocery trip is too expensive, a corporation is cashing in” and such. I found that a refreshing sight.
(Mind, some of their positions are contentious too and this isn’t an uncritical endorsement. I just felt the posters were fitting.)
He literally raised the taxes on basically everyone that makes less than $300k and gave billionaires another tax cut because he did that in his first term too.
Democrats still can’t figure out their messaging.
It’s like trumps directly referencing the events leading up to the great depression. It’s funny how conservatives have no clue.
He has also unintentionally referenced what Jackson did to ensure the creation of the deepest, by percentage not raw dollars, and longest depression in US history. Last time we paid off all the federal debt, it took us almost 4 decades to fix that mistake. Without other countries holding US debt, they don’t have any money we accept in trade. US debt is dollars. We don’t accept Loonies, Francs, Pounds, Euros, Rubles, or Yuan.
I maintain that they do. They just don’t care. I goal is to crash the economy and cause a collapse like the USSR had. Then these rich fucks will restructure the government and Rob us blind while they do it. Not the Republicans or democrats. The people with money that are lining their pockets.
I’m talking about people like my dad. He would mask the truth from himself then go wait by the radio for them to make it make sense.
