Over and over dems tried to explain what tariffs are. Harris's campaign said it, electeds said it, economists said it. John Micklethwait explained it to Trump's face in front of the economic club of chicago and trump just said "you've been wrong about everything forever" & the c-suite execs hooted
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Deflection is too common these days.
We don't
Anyone who thinks we just need to explain harder is going to fall for the same trap.
https://bsky.app/profile/dorolfe.bsky.social/post/3kzieyltdjh2m
An importer might pay it, a
I suppose the importers can ask for the exporter to cover the cost of the tariff but?
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/09/12/trump-doesnt-understand-tariffs-but-he-knows-enough-to-be-menacing/
So people voted for the alternative.
https://news.mit.edu/2021/misinformation-correcting-worse-0520
I love that the blame for a group's refusal to learn, somehow, always remains with somebody else.
"They DO learn about tariffs in school. Usually when we cover the Great Depression."
"oh well nevertheless"
Americans are just allergic to learning anything, apparently
Fuck 'em. Let them go broke buying shit at Wal Mart.
The media just ignored these explainers, and Trump lied about what they actually meant.
We fix that or nothing will change.
Then again, I also remember the plandemic crowd loudly declaring vaccines the enemy just before they were put on a ventilator so...maybe not.
I don’t need the possibility of this idiot popping up on my timeline
A tariff is money foreign governments give to the US government, who then puts that money is a federal government account with numbers so much bigger than we’re talking about here from which US American citizens can use their govt ATM cards to withdraw funds to pay for child care.
right?
A lot of people can't follow a thread, connect the dots, think.