Trump has ample warning from financial markets of how harmful his tariffs will be. He is proceeding anyway, because the only way he can feel alive and fulfilled is by intentionally hurting people.
Comments
Log in with your Bluesky account to leave a comment
Given his astronomical daddy issues, his old man was probably a huge fan of tariffs and the whole thing is just another way he is trying to “honor” him
Do you really think Trump is that psychotic? Or have you just reached the point where his lies, stupidity, lack of understanding of tariffs, business and the consequences of his plans pushed you over the cliff?
No, this doesn't follow logically. There are wealthy people in this world who aren't cruel, & in fact who have done a lot to help others. Cruelty is a choice, & in the case of the Trump family, cruelty was seen as strength, esp by D's father.
No problem. And TBH, I've never seen so many cruel rich & ultra-rich people conspiring together as we're seeing now. Imagine what those same people could do if they worked together for good!
All I hear is China filling the void: USAid gone “Hi here to help out… maybe later we can put some military assets here, you’re welcome for the medical aid” Soft power = real power
And one harm may lead to another in a nice snowball effect. If Trump tanks the economy, may become more likely he’ll want a distraction and will do something even loonier like invade Greenland.
As far as I can tell, in all my years of following politics, that that is a part of the usual agenda of Conservatives, behind giving tax breaks and taxpayer cash to corps. They just aren't as blatantly obvious about it usually, they hide it behind "good for business and family values".
He doesn't care about other people. I think he believes in tariffs just because his father believed in them, when he was a young boy and America was great. Simple as.
I warned people years back what he is. To the extent there is a strategy it's implemented by his followers. The intention is to isolate us from our friends and allies closer to what Trump wants to be, a dictator. He would love to be an Assad, of course without the ending. Total control.
I remember your mother fondly. She was compassionate, professional and dedicated to honest journalism, and would be aghast as to what is transpiring in the U.S.
You should get out while you can.
Trump is just a chimp sh*tting in his hand and flinging it at the wall. He’s appointed other chimps who are throwing their sh*t at the wall. It can’t be cleaned off the wall so his enablers who follow along afterwards must call the sh*t “art.”
My hope is he is proceeding so that in 6 months he can claim victory, his tariffs worked, he's a brilluant hero, and because they worked so well he can remove them. Fingers x'd
Or maybe on some tropical paradise far far away, someone's offshore account is cleaning up on options trades by frontrunning the daily tariff on- tariff off news.
Oh, c’mon. I’m sure that “yeah, your are going to have to pay a lot more for cars… and eggs… and electronics… and everything else” is a winning political strategy, right? ;)
I think it's worth considering that destroying the American economy is something Putin has set him off to do by promising him untold riches await him. "Chasing the dragon."
The unifying aspect of Trump's behaviour - assaulting women, defrauding business clients, overturning an election - is that other people just do not matter to him outside of what he wants from them.
Yes, but. Dissolving the bonds that hold us together (to paraphrase a more famous usage) is prerequisite to the social violence and armed suppression that this phalanx of mutants has in mind. Project 2025 is not without ultimate goals.
There could be many reasons for him doing this, but my bet is megalomania mixed with malignant narcissism. He's been given immense power and what could be more tempting to his pathology than remaking the world's economy.
Well they had Putin’s brain on Fareed this morning explaining in stark terms how Trump and Putin are attempting to change the world order from globalism to national sovereignty. Protectionism is a feature of that policy.
The mental illness (narcissistic personality disorder) he has always suffered from is now being amplified by dementia. He has less and less self control. In any rational world he would be in assisted living.
No, you are overthinking this, he believes he's right & will be deemed a hero after this. He's got his crypto bunker money and will invoke an economical "Kein Schritt Zurück" mentality, not bc he wants to intentionally hurt people but bc he wants to show Putin and Xi that he is Primus inter Pares.
He's got the best economy and has more fire power, better fighter jets and he grabs more rare earth minerals and squeezes his neighbors/allies harder to extract "pizzo" than they do. He boss, like them... so lets compare notes soon fam...
The more challenging question is why 77 million American voters, after watching Trump in action (and endless analysis) 2016 - 2020 still voted for him anyway.
Whatever is wrong in Trump's head is minor compared to what seems to be wrong in American culture now.
Agree fully. The rest of the world could wait out Trump 2016-2020 as a populist mistake -- but no one with any sense will do that again. Trump will go away in a few years, but those 77 million and all they represent will linger for decades. The result? Ascendant China? Global Balkinization?
It's the end result of being raised in a culture that promises blind belief in utter bullshit will ensure both a ticket to Paradise, and the suffering of one's "inferiors".
The sickness was there centuries before Drumph. He was just ruthless enough to exploit it for everything he can get out of it.
Trump is a leader for losers. By attacking their perceived enemies, he makes them feel like they're winning. Of course, Trump being the consummate conman that he is, his actions will simply make them even bigger losers than they already are.
A professor once said that if you can convince a person that they are a victim, you own that person. Trump’s entire mantra is that he and his followers have been victimized… by media, liberals, other nations, NATO, the list goes on.
Trump hates America as it exists. He hates his MAGA supporters. He hates the liberal elites who mock him. A predator against women. A predator against other countries. A predator against Americans
Comments
(quote from Mary Trump)
Bullying, lying, & conning is how he's wired; this doesn't mean he's not also willfully ignorant.
They used to make or break presidents
Why isn’t be worried?
I remember your mother fondly. She was compassionate, professional and dedicated to honest journalism, and would be aghast as to what is transpiring in the U.S.
You should get out while you can.
Tired: Culture war
Expired: Race war
Watching you and sadly, reminded of the effects of a Trump admin battle on Mexican cartels.
Trump will destroy the safety net his supporters rely on.
2017: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/02/16/the-biggest-beneficiaries-of-the-government-safety-net-working-class-whites/
https://www.news4jax.com/news/politics/2025/03/27/florida-lawmakers-seek-to-roll-back-child-labor-laws-allowing-teens-as-young-as-14-to-work-overnight-shifts/
https://bsky.app/profile/jljacobson.bsky.social/post/3lld4peqd6c23
"Berlin In Ruins (1945)" https://youtu.be/d-P2qsYGrCU?si=v7erUU90Rd6ectK0
In the worst case, it could be a full blown civil war.
Whatever is wrong in Trump's head is minor compared to what seems to be wrong in American culture now.
The sickness was there centuries before Drumph. He was just ruthless enough to exploit it for everything he can get out of it.
The world is stuck with this jackass, for another 3.75 years (give or take a week or so).
Reminds me of another (in)famous politician who said,
"Give me 5 years in power, and you will not recognize Germany."
You won't recognize America, either.
...to reduce the appearance of cowardice, he might even take a page from Muammar Gaddafi's ''Amazonian Guard''.
dismantling NIH is an even bigger tell