Remember when Trump misused tariffs in 2018…and he ended up having to bail out our farmers with tax payers money…
Why wasn’t that “lesson learned”???🤔🤷♀️
Naaaa I hope he goes ahead and does it. I want hear all the white Christian red neck MAGA’s bitching about inflation. I want to see his approval rating fall through the floor within the first 6 months. I want to hear his fumbling inane excuses trying to blame everything on Joe Biden.
Yes, it’s the new “flat tax” in the form of a sales tax to replace income tax. Red States are already doing it, including the one I live in. Extremely regressive.
That's funny. But the reality is he imposed tariffs last time. When the Chinese responded in kind many farmers were unable to sell their crop. Trump sent them government checks to cover their losses. Will he do the same thing time & toss us further into debt?
My F ing Financial Advisor flat out said, (when I told him, he didn’t even know what Tarrifs do!) said yes he does. I looked at him said you’re full of shit!
Most likely, his ranting and doubling down on tariffs is after many people have explained it to him.
Either
1 - He really doesn't get it
or
2 - It's all planned
He thinks he can successfully lie to his Neanderthal voter base about who actually pays the tariff, but sometimes you have to wonder if he’s started believing his own lies. He seems to get confused often.
I knew a salesman who kept a little black book of all the lies he told in his suit jacket pocket. His memory was starting to fail and he had to refer back to it a lot.
The CIA is busy preparing the Trump daily intelligence briefings ordering new picture books and crayons. The problem is still the same as last time. Trump won’t read, can’t comprehend and refuses to listen.
Here’s how what’s left of Trump’s brain works. Trump makes a declaration and it instantly becomes real, the truth and the law of the land. As a country we are fucked.
Trump never understood the term supply chain. Trump’s first experience with the term was during the Covid pandemic and he thought it meant Dr.Ronny Jackson’s dispensing drugs at the White House.
Tell us how. I agree, but in all my years fighting fascism locally, I don't see a path other than total collapse leading to outrage from us ALL including his supporters. I'd love to have a praxis. I don't.
People HAVE been explaining & he’s doing he expected: he thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room & will ignore everyone who disagrees w/him. WE NEED TO SUFFER THIS PAIN. There I said it. It’s the only way to wake half this damn country up. Nothing changes until this happens. The way out is through.
Honestly, I think people have tried, but he's fixated on his interpretation of it and as with almost all malignant narcissists, he's not wrong, everyone else is.
He knows.
How else are you going to get the U.S pop. to support slave labour, if you don't soften them up first with sky rocketing prices?
Interned immigrants held in camps, unable to be deported because other countries won't take them, are libel to American forced labour laws for the incarcerated
No one explained it to him last time he was prez, and there were actual adults in the room. Now he’ll have a cabal of yes men/women…none of whom will rise to the occasion.
We'd need a crowbar to excise him from Trump's backside! He did buck Trump on Ukraine, but Trump wasn't in office then.
I was thinking of his personal finances. His creditors have an interest in him not destroying the global economy. Financial pressure may be the only thing he's sensitive to.
Oh, yeah, corporate America will shut down the deportations of migrant labor and most of the tariffs, right after he massively redistributes wealth to the the shareholder class with more corporate tax cuts.
It's going to be the biggest redistribution of wealth in modern history. Economic disparity is already on the edge of dangerous. Bad things happen when rising expectations meet sinking realities. In the past, it would be precursor to revolution. I'm not sure what it leads to in modern times.
He knows what tariffs are and what will happen. The orders from putin are to destroy the US economy and the relationship with our allies. That’s why we are getting tariffs.
Trump is a dumbass that thinks he's smart (100% Dunning-Kruger effect) so I really don't think he understands how tariffs work. I think his billionaire donors told him the tariffs are what he should do, so that's what he's going to do.
He’s trying to replace the progressive income tax with a regressive sales tax in the form of tariffs, to benefit the rich at the expense of everyone else. In that sense, he’s a typical Republican.
There’s no way teams of people - whom he respects - haven’t explained it to him yet. He’s just using it to gaslight his supporters. Look at this BS. And just like that, he’s fixed it all 🙄
Trump’s plan for tariffs criticized as 'excellent plan to ruin our economy'
"Trump really doesn't know what a tariff is. He thinks it means other countries pay money into the U.S. treasury like medieval tribute.He is a colossal moron."
I firmly believe he knows exactly what they are he just doesn’t care as it’s only going to be his poor uneducated MAGAts who’ll suffer. They can’t hurt him. He’ll make billions in 4yrs not giving them a 2nd thought unless it’s to con/rip them off some more
He's had people explain them, and he understands them. He just knows that he can extort other countries with them, and that his followers are too stupid to understand what they really are.
One can only hope. But, they've been spending $20 on fake, Trump $2 bills, $50 on tank-flags and $30 for acres hat, and can't figure out why they don't have anything left for eggs or gas, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
I suspect that he cannot learn. People have been trying to explain it to him since 2017 but here we are. The tariffs in his last ten devastated farmers, and no one seems to remember.
Oh they’ve probably explained it to him, with tears in their eyes, but he doesn’t believe them because he’s smarter than everyone else in the room 😂🤦🏻♀️🐾🐾
It’s intentional. Move the taxes (through tariffs) to middle and lower income brackets to fund the tax breaks for the wealthy. Just a continuation of the movement of money from the bottom to the top.
Half of the country tried, but as you know the Putin wannabe knows more about tariffs than anybody, the climate than anybody, the economy than anybody, foreign policy than anybody aw fuck let’s just admit it, he knows more about everything than anybody, except how to serve in the military, sore feet
He knows what they are. They are leverage for him to extort money from entire companies. So he can pick winners and losers in the economy. So he can punish whose who do not cave in to him.
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Why wasn’t that “lesson learned”???🤔🤷♀️
Will be an affidavit for JD why he isn't fit to govern.
Either
1 - He really doesn't get it
or
2 - It's all planned
What do you think?
Trump can't do that on camera.
How else are you going to get the U.S pop. to support slave labour, if you don't soften them up first with sky rocketing prices?
Interned immigrants held in camps, unable to be deported because other countries won't take them, are libel to American forced labour laws for the incarcerated
I was thinking of his personal finances. His creditors have an interest in him not destroying the global economy. Financial pressure may be the only thing he's sensitive to.
"Trump really doesn't know what a tariff is. He thinks it means other countries pay money into the U.S. treasury like medieval tribute.He is a colossal moron."
https://www.rawstory.com/trumps-excellent-plan-to-ruin-our-economy/
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-trade-tariffs-eu-colorful-cards-2018-7
How could Republikkkans do this to us?
Or : have you heard anything from Trump himself recently?
https://bsky.app/profile/mutsy67.bsky.social/post/3lbxwvmqooc2i
"No amount of evidence will persuade an idiot."
Follow it up by telling him what it'd be like if France was hit with #tariffs, his French fries 🍟 would be more expensive.
("But Belgium?" A whisper from the dark. "Shh. Donnie is learning.")
Because that's what he is: Donald Trump, Living Id. Freud could have written one book about him, and never again had to work a day in his life.