They’re too scared to come into a big bad city they’ve been told it’s crime and murder and chaos around every corner for years. They hide in the woods and become cops.
Well, they’re certainly going to be whining about it. I’ve already seen griping about the price of coffee going up … and that was before the tit-for-tat crap started.
Hopefully no one will point out to them that, unlike the original tea partiers, they will have already paid for the coffee they're dumping in the harbor this time.
Someone else skeeted this earlier, but don't call them "tariffs." Call them "Trump taxes" or "Trump price bumps" or similar. "Tariffs" sounds administrative, neutral & doesn't tell a story. Brand it with something sticky that tells a story & reinforces Trump is responsible for prices skyrocketing.
People are hearing the word, tariff. These are not folks who are well versed. Perhaps trump tariffs is the way to go. You can’t say one without the other?
Patriotic citizens might consider ordering some "My tariff did that" stickers to assist their fellow Americans in understanding why coffee, egg and gas prices are skyrocketing:
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#trumptax seems to have first appeared on BlueSky 2 months or so ago, undoubtedly triggered by his announcement of his taxes. It deserves to be picked as the universal standard whenever the issue is discussed.
Since the time of Ailes, Reagan and Gingrich, Republicans have been the masters of Lakoffian language engineering.
Trump is both disabled by and empowered by his sociopathy. It gifted him with the almost preternatural ability of bullies to brand their opponents.
Please offer us here on bsky more terms that are simple to remember, evocative and accurate to describe what's in front of our noses. A standard dictionary for universal adoption.
The language engineers know that repetition is reality.
Can we tie Vance to it, too? Everything we can collectively do to make that man’s name synonymous with failure and hardship would bring me great personal joy and hopefully chip away at his political cache.
I pay sales tax; federal, state, and local income tax; social security tax; property tax on 1500 sq. ‘ home; gasoline taxes & other excise taxes on God only knows; pop bottle deposits; registration fees on car; tolls to drive it; I DON’T NEED TO PAY NO DAMN TRUMP IMPORT TAXES on coffee & chocolate.
Don't even give him credit; make them "GOP taxes" and "Republican price hikes." He hates not getting named, and the focus on him is pulling the hit away from the party in lockstep behind him.
Trump Tax is going to stick and remind people he is responsible. The right plays with language, and then they repeat it like parrots, until MAGA starts saying it.
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“Thou shall not waste the beans.”
Stupid fucks.
Trump tax - oil & gas
Trump tax - cut flowers, just in time for Valentines.
#trumptax seems to have first appeared on BlueSky 2 months or so ago, undoubtedly triggered by his announcement of his taxes. It deserves to be picked as the universal standard whenever the issue is discussed.
Trump is both disabled by and empowered by his sociopathy. It gifted him with the almost preternatural ability of bullies to brand their opponents.
Please offer us here on bsky more terms that are simple to remember, evocative and accurate to describe what's in front of our noses. A standard dictionary for universal adoption.
The language engineers know that repetition is reality.
That is that Trump is putting HIS tax on given item.
As in:
What's the Trump Tax on that cup of coffee?
What's the Trump Tax on that television?
What's the Trump Tax on those onions?
And since he's so fond of owning his marks:
The Trump Tax™
Rhymes with bump stocks
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