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The seal population of Heard Island is not happy with a 10% tariff slapped on their uninhabited island. I mean, just what has that volcano been exporting to the US? Seals have vowed to only eat locally caught fish now.
🇨🇦 here! He spoke of tariffs all summer, into the fall. And then reporters went to the street and spoke to everyday people,🍊supporters, and they discussed tariffs. We saw that many people had no idea what they were and how they worked. This is on you!
Yep. Every one of his supporters believed the country that had the tarrifs placed on them paid the tarrifs. They were repeatedly told Americans pay the tarrifs and they rejected that as a lie. I mean, Google is right there.
Sad part is, they still love him. Even this won't turn them. They are addicted to hate and it's so much more important to have permission to be ugly, biggoted and nasty than to have money in their pockets.
They will have plenty of opportunities to change their minds about that -- remember the young woman in WVa who was shocked to find that HER Federal job was being eliminated?
Yes, there was the "I never expected the leopards to eat MY face" stuff, but having been personally hurt changed her opinion.
I hope you're right. I've lost 3 siblings to maga and they literally twist into knots making excuses for that A-hole. It doesn't matter, I'll never forgive them anyway. They are all 3 terrible people even before Trump came along.
Maybe Patrick should use his fingers to dial his representatives and tell them that instead of posting online. Or would he like to perpetuate his stupidity?
As they all sit on folding chairs in a circle Patrick stands up. “Hi, my name is Patrick, I voted for him only because I saw the headlines on Fox News at the bar.”
All - “Hi Patrick”
The people who were stupid enough to vote for this need to shut the fuck up.
You have proven that you are idiots and don’t know what you are talking about.
Not enough goggled "tariff" and boy does it show! The repugnant walls are people filled with giddy, actually thinking there are going to be millions and millions of jobs for them.
Yam tits is using tariffs to destroy our country and get companies to beg him to give them exemptions. It's about power. He needs to be removed. LET'S ROLL!!
Doing this in the “name of working class populism“ is the same as Glenn Close’s character in “fatal attraction”, boiling a bunny “in the name of love“.
I actually want them to keep vomiting their odorous spew. That way we all know exactly who they are. Too many will hide their maga trash and publicly claim no responsibility. At least the losers who whine publicly out themselves. As things get worse, it makes it much easier for karma to find them.
At this point, I think the conservatives who are still acting like this is all a brilliant move that will save us are trying to convince themselves more than the rest of us. They'll be the last ones to accept reality.
Or, the variation I got, was that "the checks and balances would prevent anything from happening, and any change would take a long time to accomplish and be watered down".
I wonder if that guy has found enough crow to eat in the last few weeks
I guess lex leon didn’t hear that chestnut of wisdom before he backed ( bought) him‼️
Or his companies will of course have exemptions to that rule‼️😡🙄😡
Every speech Kamala gave was that electing Trump would cost us at least $5k because of tariffs. She told us bc Trump was saying he was going to do tariffs.
The only people who will benefit from a recession or depression are the billionaires who can wait it out and then buy stocks and foreclosures at low prices. When tRump says short term pain for long term gain, he is only talking about himself and billionaires. They do not care about humanity at all.
Republicans sell tariffs as short-term pain for long-term prosperity—just like communist propaganda once promised glorious "singing mornings." That future never came, and neither will MAGA’s; only misery awaits.
Yep, it's not OUR fault none of the people complaining here about what they voted for, weren't paying attention to exactly what he said. Every last one of them told us that he didn't mean it.
GMAFB...working class populism? How about massive spending on misinformation? FFS, IT WAS NEVER ABOUT THE ECONOMY!! But, I'll take the December 2024 economy from birth to death. Stupid is that stupid does. Thanks Forrest!
You know, that is a good idea. Why don’t the dems do some national ads? They can highlight the gutting of our government , the incompetence (ie: signal gate), and the corruption. They can end the ads with : “Are we great yet??” MAGA folks don’t get accurate info from Fox News. Educate them!
They thought he wouldn’t do it because the people around him in his first term protected us from his worst impulses. They failed to understand that dynamic and that those people would be replaced by sycophantic yes-people in a second term.
The irony is that “master deal maker” Trump has always pulled dumb shit like this and the government has always bailed him out. Doesn’t quite work when he IS the government.
If only they had written it down. Like in a book or something. Tell the world what the plans were, you know, the project for the new admin. Maybe spelled it out on the cover, Project 2025. If only someone had told them what the plan was.
I was referring to the right wing folks locally; I had another comment in relation to it, and I thought it was under this one, clarifying that further; my bad, there.
A lot of people who hated Kamala didn't even know what she was saying; they couldn't've taken the warnings seriously, thus.
I'm transforming into my joker-self over seeing [death penalty sought in a certain high profile case] decried online, while knowing Harris' 2002 (right after 9/11 + same election Arnold won gov!!) AG campaign pledge, which she kept, was that she wouldn't seek death penalties in pursuit of justice.
Well I think they can prove they didn’t want this by calling their representatives and telling them to change and voting against anyone defending or side stepping this issue
They thought he would be reasonable fair and a great deal maker. He never had anything but a concept of a plan. Everything he touches crumbles because he is incompetent riding on his success at lying fear mongering and stoking hate
For reference, he IS right that the normal, working class didn't vote for this. Which is why so many who had a duty to report things accurately, truthfully and with integrity did everything in their power to bury the fact that this would literally kill people and destroy everything.
[A lot of adults are illiterate in the US, and even more live entirely in right wing echochambers of communities, so mix that with a bad education and they'd cheer like seals at literally ANYTHING a Republican says. See Desantis talking smack about the person who WON IN HIS STATE.]
the "working classes" Trump was referring to when he made those remarks was himself and his various businesses. that's who these tariffs work for -- when he talks about the country becoming wealthy -- he's talking about himself -- his own portfolio -- and his lemmings cheer their own demise
They voted exactly for this. Trump even convinced these idiots it would be good for them. They're all stuck in an abusive relationship with MAGA. Every time he hits them and tells them it's someone else's fault, they believe him, take him back, and defend him from anyone trying to help them out.
The Old White Oligarchs USA Country Club is off to a great start welcoming y’all to the Billionaires Gilded Age! Please enjoy the show as they burn the place down!
Ford, GM,and Chrysler will go bankrupt as sales plummet, especially overseas. They are forced to pay tariffs or move manufacturing back. Either way car prices go way up.
There will be a world wide boycott of American products.
Tariffs and deportations were the two things that he talked about constantly during the campaign, and he repeatedly mused about wide-ranging blanket tariffs. A lot of Trump supporters are trying to present wilful blindness as a defence, and it's not going to work.
Well the same "working class" you like to reference did vote for this. The other working class whom you seem to overlook and dismiss did not vote for this
Yep, we told you tariffs are a consumer tax & what Trump's last tariff war cost:
📌$31 billion in farm subsidies
📌245,000 jobs
📌closed 1,800 factories
📌largest tax increase on consumers in decades costing $80+ billion.
🚨GOP in Congress about to budget record debt & raise taxes on working people too
the "news" is upside down. Just read a clip about senator John Kennedy (R-La.) "warning" his senate colleagues that tariffs are hurtful -- BUT,HE VOTED FOR THEM ! am I missing something here?
They all were fucking told, but they hated immigrants more. They hated student loan forgiveness. They were told, but they thought it was gonna happen to everyone else but time them. FAFO
Really. I don’t want to hear ANY MAGAt whine about what this is doing to them and families. My only concern is for those who actually went out and voted Kamala. He was clear what he was going to do. He didn’t lie. He said he was going to fuck you with tariffs. If you didn’t research- on you! 🎻
An older MAGA yesterday told me he expected to do very well in the stock market this year. I mean I guess if you have extra money to buy super cheap it’s definitely going to be a fire sale.
The thing is they did vote for it. They voted for the whole steaming pile of Trumpism because they were so blinded by hate and selfishness that they willingly swallowed all the lies and corruption and crime and didn’t give a shit about who it would hurt, assuming blindly that they’d be spared.
Had to google him.
Blogger and political strategist?
🤔 maybe he’s just another blogger with a keyboard.
Political strategist, not so much, especially when you fall for an old orange racist, misogynist, russian asset.
Didn't vote for this? Or didn't believe it because "libs" and "Dems," told you it would happen?
Listen, I only tell someone once about looking out for the vehicles on an interstate. I call ambulances on a cell phone from MY car going down the highway.
"Working class" doesn't HAVE to be dumb.
I'm afraid that we're heading into the Second Great Depression. Learn how to sew; learn how to cook cheaply but well; learn how to buy only necessities; learn how to take good care of what you already own.
The Depression mantra:
Use it up; wear it out; make it do or do without.
It was explicitly detailed in his many repeated failures as a “business man” and as a human being. All anyone had to do was look at his track record and use reason to determine that he was not qualified to operate a flush toilet, let alone an economy. And now he’s confusing the two.
This is so like Brexit madness. Just wait till the magas have lost their jobs and the bank has reposessed their homes and their kids are hungry bc there aren't enough food stamps... its coming.
Class act that Putin.
Yeah I'll only have empathy for our side. We are trying to make the world a better place. They just want to burn it all down to the ground and cause anarchy.
I'm so with you on that. What's so damn difficult about making a better world for all and doing no harm. Its sickening to watch this 'administration' play out. Its way beyond tariffs right. ♡
I feel you. I didnt vote for Brexit. At least you have the ability to change this in 4 yrs time. No opposition in the UK has provided a reversal of Brexit. 8 yrs of this shit now.
Indeed, you are correct. I suppose I meant, no opposition party has provided that opportunity for the UK. As in the neither Labour leaders. Corbyn nor Starmer. Regardless of current or recent polling on the matter.
Before 1913, federal government revenues came mainly from taxes on goods—tariffs on imported products and excise taxes on items like whiskey. The burden of these taxes fell heavily on working Americans, who spent a much higher percentage of their income on goods than rich people did.
Of all the leopards eating faces scenarios this one pisses me off the most. Not believing he'd eliminate your personal government job or benefit, or deport your nice neighbor is bad, but he literally ran on this particular face getting eaten. There wasn't any ambiguity here.
Nope. The info was out there, there are zillions of news sources, and absorbing faux to the exclusion of all other information, for whatever reason or no reason, is a choice. They chose poorly. Wilful blindness cuts no ice with me. Fuck 'em.
MAGAs deny the very things they are standing in front of and looking at. And when (if) they realise it actually is reality, they turn to "I didn't think it would happen to me" as their defence for voting for the reality that they were told would happen but said wouldn't.
So no more need for dogs, cats, high eggs, caravans and supply chain with baby formula shortages, right!!! We had to be lied to over and over again by made up media personalities and POS GOP Congress people. All so they can own the libs and keep a paycheck. Now everyone else suffers, bastards!
During the campaign Trump talked about implementing tariffs all the time, and Harris explained that those tariffs were really a tax all the time. But the morons didn't listen.
To be fair, most (if not all) of them are as fucking financially illiterate as he is, as evidenced by their staunch arguing the wrong answer to 'Who pays tariffs?'
LOL, maybe so- sometimes I can’t tell how much is actual ignorance and how much is pretending not to know or refusing to acknowledge the facts, in order to go along with the plan.
I don’t know, some can seem pretty smart but when their political knowledge is null, they vote how they always voted Republican. Why? Because it’s not the democrats. And they are too stupid to look past this.
Here comes the gaslighting. They know exactly what they were voting for. They voted on hate and the willingness to inflict pain on the people they hate.
Doubtless many Trump enabler MAGA morons will perform acts of mental gymnastics, twisting themselves into pretzels to try to rationalize this and blame all the bad consequences on Dems and Presidents Biden and Obama!
Hoping the Dems get out of their reflexive habit of cowering and learn to fight!
I’m convinced that the rural red voters who have felt like the world has passed them by because the GOP policies haven’t pulled them up by their bootstraps really do not care..
rather than be raised out of their impoverished situations by BlueDem policies, they are content with the rest of the nation (world) being razed to their level.
Why stop at U.S. borders? Oh, that's right. They are subject to change.
Perhaps if all the countries being 'tariffed' became states, then any problem disappears.
Give Trump that coronation he so desperately desires.
To be fair, he did say he would implement tariffs but he said they would make us all rich and the stock market would crush record after record. They trusted him because they're naive and uneducated. Plus he spoke that racism they love so much.
I know this is bad for all of us but I’m here for the FO part of FAFO. I
know people IRL that I tried to warn and they still voted for him. One of them was 30 days away from submitting for their retirement. A few days ago they admitted they can no longer retire due to Trump. Fuck em all.
They very much did vote for it, and I know quite a few who still think this is a good idea. Of course none of them had degrees in economics or common sense.
No. Please sit down with your MAGA buddies until the end of time. We gotta stop inviting these people to come back and fuck up again as they've done routinely since Eisenhower. Their ideas don't work.
They don't need a time-out from the conversation; they need to get out of the conversation.
Those 77 million people are the ones who should be paying the $5 trillion fee to transfer even more wealth to the billionaires. They voted never to retire and to not have health care.
Give them what they asked for
I sure hope so. Hard to tell that’ll happen when they still cheer & their leaders tell people they fired that they probably deserved it because they look like clowns. The amount of hate they built up based on BS is astounding. Hopefully they’ll start focusing on actions instead & come back around.
I think some of them will come around if/when it starts hitting them directly, but many won't. That's how cults operate. Trump's core base is not a normal political voting base; it's a full blown cult. Deprogramming cultists is not an easy task. They will simply blame everyone against their messiah.
I keep hearing politicians including Dems I respect say that Trump lied to everyone. Um no. He told everyone he was going to do all of this and millions of fools voted for it anyways. I only cry for those who didnt because the rest: You ordered a shit sandwich, and it’s a BOGO day, so here ya go!
I actually had people that voted for him try to tell me that Harris was the rambling lunatic and that nothing she said made any sense. And that she had no policies. 🤯🤯🤯🤯 They are full on delusional.
The roots of this go back much further. The Tea Party was pre-COVID. Reagan's idiotic "trickle down" theory of thinly veiled kleptocracy was pre-COVID. The "founding fathers" (sic) said they wanted a "limited monarchy" to protect the "well bred" from a democratic "tyranny of the majority."
I know it started with Reagan. In my lifetime, he was the second worse President after dipshit. I cringe whenever I hear Dems refer to Reagan. Democratic presidents have made this country more successful, celebrate THEM!
Ha! I joke with my daughter all the time that a brain eating amoeba has infected most Americans. I just can’t rationalize why so many agree with him at their own peril.
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This is Putins wet dream.
You are the New Hungary or New Belarus
TRUMPED
Hoover
Total f***ing morons.
Yes, there was the "I never expected the leopards to eat MY face" stuff, but having been personally hurt changed her opinion.
All - “Hi Patrick”
You have proven that you are idiots and don’t know what you are talking about.
But they wanted to own the libs.
Now they won't even have enough money to buy coffee for the libs.
You bought it and fucked everyone else. Thanks cretin. Beast part of you fell in the toilet.
“Meanwhile, no one really knew what Trump was going to d—”
I wonder if that guy has found enough crow to eat in the last few weeks
Worked out quite well – crow and humble pies flying like hot cakes.
Or his companies will of course have exemptions to that rule‼️😡🙄😡
https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2025/04/wine-of-wrath-of-god-american.html
@PatrickRuffini
Remember, it's not a market collapse if you sold before the tariffs were announced.
This ALWAYS happens. OK NOW is the time for Democrats to unleash a national ad campaign saying "NOW DO YOU BELIEVE US?"
Total ignorance and brainwashing by Fox News 24/7.
I really should make stickers.
-'tariffs are a tax on the American people'
- how much more they would cost American families
Now MAGA is surprised?
Like, politically "aware" people.
At one point, in a local group, they were going on about a trans comment she'd made.
But none of them watched the debate. Not a single one. They heard it from a propagandist.
She had never said it.
A lot of people who hated Kamala didn't even know what she was saying; they couldn't've taken the warnings seriously, thus.
They are surprised because they never heard the discourse outside of propaganda.
One of the guys in there changed his vote later, because he went to a rally and was like "Oh, hold on..."
This dude had been campaigning since 2012 for MAGA/TP
He'd never seen a debate.
What did you vote for? Hm?
The flawed numbers, the rationalizations, are causing such great harm.
There's a reason they paid almost a billion for deceiving the public.
Face
There will be a world wide boycott of American products.
Ugh, these idiots.
I read a book on mental illness that described a guy who would panic and run when he heard the word ‘lion’. Trump lives in that magical world.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/harris-trump-election-10-16-2024/card/trump-calls-tariffs-the-most-beautiful-word--YMVPAupw4EjBRp6yobOy
📌$31 billion in farm subsidies
📌245,000 jobs
📌closed 1,800 factories
📌largest tax increase on consumers in decades costing $80+ billion.
🚨GOP in Congress about to budget record debt & raise taxes on working people too
#TaxThePenguins
Blogger and political strategist?
🤔 maybe he’s just another blogger with a keyboard.
Political strategist, not so much, especially when you fall for an old orange racist, misogynist, russian asset.
Listen, I only tell someone once about looking out for the vehicles on an interstate. I call ambulances on a cell phone from MY car going down the highway.
"Working class" doesn't HAVE to be dumb.
The Depression mantra:
Use it up; wear it out; make it do or do without.
Class act that Putin.
No one will be immune to this tariff fuckery.
We'd have to reapply.
It’ll be prescription drugs that bust most folks.
💊
I call it retro soviet chic.
MAGA should just vow never to vote again!
GOD BLESS be sure to wear your red hat.
R 💙
Tim Walz repeated said on the campaign trail, "They wouldn't have bothered to make a playbook if they weren't going to use it."
They literally told us what they were going to do. One side believed them and the other didn't.
"He Said He Was Gonna"
for $200, Alex.
Hoping the Dems get out of their reflexive habit of cowering and learn to fight!
Perhaps if all the countries being 'tariffed' became states, then any problem disappears.
Give Trump that coronation he so desperately desires.
Case in point: Con Mum.
He is conned by his own mother. Everyone sees she is a fraud, except him. Because he thinks he will inherit millions.
know people IRL that I tried to warn and they still voted for him. One of them was 30 days away from submitting for their retirement. A few days ago they admitted they can no longer retire due to Trump. Fuck em all.
And seriously they don't care until it affects their bottom line. Otherwise, screw everyone else.. 🤨🇺🇸🦅
They don't need a time-out from the conversation; they need to get out of the conversation.
Give them what they asked for
~30% of the country.
(From Ruffini's "Intersection" https://www.patrickruffini.com/p/what-the-working-class-gop-is-and)
They did an experiment where they surveyed people on trump and Harris' policies but didn't attach their names to them.
Guess what? People loved Harris' policies when they didn't know.
But really though, people got exponentially dumber over the course of a few years.
I suspect they clap because they've been trained by a FOX.