Yup. It’s absurd to think lots of foreign firms are going to sink millions into building manufacturing plants in the U.S., which will take years, just to avoid tariffs that will be gone as soon as someone sane is in the White House.
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Josh Chafetz
1/ I'm sure someone has already pointed this out, but one additional thing about the tariffs being done unilaterally by the president: They can be (and almost certainly will be) reversed by the next Democratic president.
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They won't. They'll wait to see how like this is to continue. And they will find that their home governments will be unhappy if they move too swiftly or to massively. Macron is not the only objector. He's just the most public one.
There's a good chance the leaders will toe the line and show the correct amount of toadiness to satisfy Trump
But any trust in America is now over. Countries will continue to strengthen their ties to avoid dealing with the US
2025 corollary: Global businesses see tariffs as damage and route around it.
https://bsky.app/profile/donjorizzy.bsky.social/post/3lloxuv4m322o
He’s the griftiest grifter that ever grifted.
There will be no revolution until people's bellies are empty.
It’s an artificial Trade War, to cripple exporting countries & blackmail them into never ending concessions to American products entering their markets, while they invest in ours
The flaw? It only works if you give in to the blackmail, mostly, they won’t
They're going to drag it out and "invest" in other things, such as the inauguration and other ways to buy themselves out of the tariffs.
https://bsky.app/profile/fsteiner.bsky.social/post/3lm3pahagnc23
We need a new Speaker of the House already. Then another.
- But they seem to be blatantly attempting a coup & entirely intending to not hold fair elections anymore, or perhaps any elections at all.
Where as with USIP, your security guards will be bribed to let some goons in so they can ransack your building then give it to a crony?
Realistically, they shouldn't/likely can't expand.
The recession will be here very soon, and people will force him to remove them.
And if anything he should worry about not being unalived