It is so, so bizarre that the core of Trump’s policy agenda is based on just lying about how tariffs work at the most basic, 101 level imaginable. It’s not controversial. It’s not even complicated. It’s just a lie. It’s like saying income taxes are paid by leprechauns.
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NO MYTHICAL HOMINID IS ABOVE THE LAW.
Yet people will vote for him to bring back the good economic times.
Excuse me I need to call my tax planner…
A. Smith debunked protectionism centuries ago.
That we would be VAT free after.
Morons who live on a flat earth
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For the best democracy, please re-skeet.
It’s just straight up lies now.
If he publicly states that, no, it's not a lie, he truly is just that belligerently uninformed, then so be it. His words, at that point.
Why do you think they collect all that gold?
/s
More seriously, this election cycle has made clear how the press has been very much “broken to the saddle” by TFG.
Depressingly ill-equipped for the moment.
If Harris hopes to get these votes, she could easily say "Trump's tariffs will cost American consumers, just like a sales tax. Trump wants to tax Americans."
"Do you honestly think there's a whole bunch of money this country could get from the rest of the world but just hasn't for no reason?"
I do my part by wearing this sweet bastard:
https://a.co/d/9DC3dIn
A Chinese company is not going to export item X for $5 and then pay $5 in tax. Is this super hard to figure out?
And if the idea is that it will attract FDI and nearshoring, it collides with the anti-immigrant stuff, because there aren't enough people to fill the jobs.
Which then makes me think: "Which country has a track record of rapidly standing up infrastructure in a time-frame that's remotely adequate and timely to the need?"
🤔
My favorite was the anon WH staffer who leaked that they had to change the morning briefing to have mostly pictures because he wasn't reading it.
He's a deeply stupid man.
I think his worldview could be largely based on a fundamental misunderstanding of some very basic things.
1) They don't care about any of Trump's policies.,
2) They understand Trump is the worst possible person,
3) They want to put the worst possible person in the WH to spite the people they blame.
4) They have no clear idea who they blame or for what.
A better vocabulary perhaps would be "haha", "lol", "omg", "you stupid?" and "gtfo".
"He's calling them tariffs because you might not understand what tariffs are, but they are effectively a tax on all the goods you buy."
Dems could have gotten rid of the law that allows the president to do this when they had the House and Senate.
But I'm saying that the boy's also stupid.
He has no idea how tariffs work.
He has no idea how dishwashers work, how would he know how tariffs work?
― George Orwell, 1984
But if the American equivalents of these goods even exist, they're already more expensive, so you pay more either way.
Wait a minute...
we only know on Bluesky because we crowdsource and we're not dirt dumb
so that ought to be true of his economic plans.
Even the Heritage Foundation knows that one's bogus,
and aren't likely to let him do it based on how badly his last tariff tantrums failed.
I had to go to my mental happy place after that one.
Next question."
and many in the crowd clapped and cheered! idiots! the lot of ‘em!
#TrumpIsUnfit
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#KamalaHarris2024
But they chose to clap instead of guard anything.
Fascism #1 - lie then lie more
but his mendacity is consistent with his pretense that he alone can fix everything; that "everybody wanted Roe gone" because now states supposedly can follow their hearts + who doesn't like that; that Trump is such a dealmaker tradeoffs don't exist
Like when they call asylum seekers who have shown up at the border "illegal immigrants".
Or are you talking about the same guy who thinks NATO is a bank account countries pay into?
It’s funny how he got raked over the coals in 2015 primary debates about not understanding tariffs & here we are again 10 years later