In the responses I see that people can't give up the belief that there must be a pattern or plan. What if these tariffs are just the result of a whim? A passing fancy?
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Anne Applebaum
Hope people soon understand that there is no "reason' for these tariffs.
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See Sarah Kendzior…
The biggest mistake American commentators can make is assuming there is policy, pattern or a plan behind all Trump does.
There isn't, certainly not now all the adults have gone.
He has brainfarts, and acts on them. No policy, no pattern, no plan.
Like Ponzi crypto, they're part of an overarching plan.
Get retail investors in with the lure of huge profits.
And then short the market.
Right before it crashes.
Wealth transfer.
The Oligarchs win.
They create an economic crisis like pre-Hitler Germany to redirect people's anger against varying minorities. Then they can entrench their power further and gorge on more sadist EOs
That is his plan.
What else could they ask for but us to alienate neighbors/allies, destroy our intelligence agencies, risk the nation’s health, & crash the world trade
Also unsettling for those in Europe, who wish to support 🇺🇦
if you look up "canadian" in our national beliefs the first thing it says is "not american"
we're more likely to join europe
Trump is only present to stay out if jail and steal as much as possible. Also some self aggrandizement for his limitless need for adulation and notoriety.
Everything else he has outsourced to people like Dr. Evil Musk.
I also thought there was a strong possibility he doesn't actually know the US has a (nuclear-enabled) airbase in Greenland already, which might have dissuaded the whole invasion thing.
He thinks that countries which exports to the USA, takes money away from the USA.
He NEEDS that money to lower taxes, so he wants to let export countries PAY for these tax cuts.
It's the wall on the border all over again.
That is the ONLY reason for these stupid tariffs and the only thing that drives him.
I am ashamed of our country.
Yesterday:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-premier-david-eby-us-tariffs-1.7448307
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-lcbo-tariffs-trump-1.7448423
Welcome to our post-logic world.
trump is, was & remains #unfitforoffice
#Canada #tariffs #tradewar
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-25-percent-mexico-canada-trade-economy-84476fb2?st=QheisE&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink
as they just did.
He is dumb and ignorant but he's far more vain and malicious than most people can comprehend.
He will turn on Musk and Putin in a flash if they irk him.
Too many people have made the mistake of thinking Trump is simply a useful tool.
But if they stem from him there isn't any sort of grand plan to it. It's just spite.
That is their clear purpose
Kill country…rule smaller fiefdoms….pick up scraps…
Most seem to be missing this point
It’s not a whim….its very purposeful and part of the larger goal of destroying the economy and subsequently, our country…so the tech barons can easier rule it and autocracies can flourish
That's the pattern. The desire to believe that one person can't have that much impact over so many people is a problem for people in a democracy. We should have used our ostrakon properly during the impeachment.
If there is no control, then virtually anything can happen...to me! The fear is existential. Too many forget that society is a structure - a means of controlling chaos
Trump is just the clownish frontman
The plan to dismantle the govt is happening
It’s an idiotic plan by bumbling morons playing with things they scarcely comprehend
And we don’t exactly know who is pulling the strings….but Tim Snyder says they are intelligent
Let everything hit the fan.
Who whispered that in Trumps ear?
In a few months he'll declare that his genius strategy worked and there's no more fentanyl flowing from Canada. 🙄
https://bsky.app/profile/darkdementus.bsky.social/post/3lh6l5naboc2u
But agree he is a tool of those trying to take down the US
Trump wanted to slap tarrifs on Japan in the 80s, but no one listened.
This is his revenge on everyone who laughed at him then, and who promotes sound economics.
He can't help himself. He HAS to right always...
People with an idiotic understanding of how things work and a toddler's understanding of consequences are doing all of this.
But that's what this is and it doesn't make them less dangerous or evil.
SS numbers & personal data of every 1 of us. All while Democratic leadership not in DC & not doing a damn thing.
There will be an ask from Trump.
Like “$1 trillion to Ivanka”
Terrible reason. But the reason.