Allow me to put this as Trump himself might on Truth Social: THE MAN IS AN IDIOT!!! Tariffs supported most of what the federal government did in the 1800s because the federal government didn’t do much of anything. newrepublic.com/post/193614/... - ThreadSky

mjtoma.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Allow me to put this as Trump himself might on Truth Social: THE MAN IS AN IDIOT!!!

Tariffs supported most of what the federal government did in the 1800s because the federal government didn’t do much of anything. https://newrepublic.com/post/193614/donald-trump-tariffs-dumb-history-income-tax

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jeanpauldelier.bsky.social•4 days ago

Sorry 54% of Americans ages 17-65 read at sixth grade level or lower & 24% of the rest are virtually illiterate. We stopped Teaching the Humanities some 40 years ago when education was reduced to “how much $$ da ya wanna make?” even at our “best” schools. So among this crowd Trump is a genius

ericritter.bsky.social•4 days ago

What percentage of Americans can define the difference between monetary and fiscal policy? I’m guessing single digits. People in the late 19th century had more first-hand experience with the problems of currency based on a fixed supply of metal (reinvented as crypto) and govt finance from tariffs.

ericritter.bsky.social•4 days ago

NY customs office used to be a real power center. And so, so corrupt. The Spaniards genocided a continent to get gold. Why? Because that’s what the money was made of, duh, not for any intrinsic worth. Influxes of gold from Spanish conquest and various gold rushes wrecked economies.

ericritter.bsky.social•4 days ago

Businesses couldn’t get credit because of limited gold or silver supply, not because they were unsound.

timferan.bsky.social•4 days ago

So, let's see.... who would want to divide, degrade and/or destroy the United States culturally, politically, militarily and politically? You were right if you said his name rhymes with Mad Bootin'......

mightychin.bsky.social•4 days ago

To be fair, the government not doing much is part of trump’s plan

csinpnw.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump just found out he's the first US President blessed with a double-digit IQ and he's bursting with pride.

amaruq909.bsky.social•4 days ago

Your not gonna convince DT of shit! He has never been poor and know what it's like to go hungry! He has his hidden millions off shore I bet! So he don't give a crap about anyone but himself! THIS alone makes him a bad leader! But really takes the cake is he thinks he is God's gift to humanity!

allanschlosser.bsky.social•4 days ago

From this trade & tariffs debacle to the DOGE purge to alliances in disarray, America's problems today are largely self-inflicted by an at best ignorant, at worst unstable, Donald Trump.

kastero.bsky.social•4 days ago

The poster he invented though was a very delicate way to try explain the economic theory. People cheered and are obviously exited about their income taxes being swiped off the table by tariff revenue.

dameofdestiny.bsky.social•4 days ago

Bigly low IQ.

vcat11.bsky.social•4 days ago

“While tariffs are highly likely to generate at least a temporary rise in inflation, it is also possible that the effects could be more persistent,”

Jerome Powell
April 4, 2025

What to do? What to do? Wait! Maybe Trump's national security confidant Laura Loomer has the answer.

piquedpensioner.bsky.social•4 days ago

Minus feral intelligence, Trump is an idiot. But the billionaires & tech bros & Bannonites (& Russians) who eagerly got him elected are not idiots. Agreed upon burn-it-all-down strategy rather than dumbassery?
Trump is this stupid.
Many of his voters are, too.
But the $$$ that got him elected isn’t.

hiptrigger.bsky.social•4 days ago

IAgent Orange is a the distraction out front of a very serious crew of next gen fascists.

Some in the admin are there just to be loyal and destroy.

But there’s a plan.

They are working us up while burning the US down, stealing from us …to get to the point of martial law.

https://bsky.app/profile/hiptrigger.bsky.social/post/3llnjli5vec2q

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