I’ve frequently heard rants from street people that have made more sense than Trump’s Oval lunacy today.
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Aaron Rupar
for the second time today, Trump goes on a bizarre (and false) rant about how tariffs made the country the richest it ever has been between 1870 and 1913
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It has to do with the US being on the gold standard which controlled inflation and the printing of money. Some believe that that economic policy spurred entrepreneurship.
Also home ownership was high.
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Of course the world was a different place in 1913. Most economists agree that those policies have seen their day.
None of this however had to do with tariffs.
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Xi isn’t picking up the phone either.
He over played his hand AB’s he had a 3 and a 6.
Don't want to teach that in school, do you MAGAs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLRKhdQnd-k
But they traditionally thought they'd be better handled by "responsible adults" and they now realize he isn't.
It's borderline elder abuse at this point.
Hopefully eminent.
Because that's where most of that stuff was manufactured to start with including his signature red hats.
I mean the Robber Barons..
Practices included unfettered consumption & destruction of natural resources, influencing high levels of government, wage slavery, squashing competition by acquiring their competitors, and to create monopolies & trusts that control the market…