Donald Trump just imposed the Idiot Tariffs, and everyone who said he wouldn’t do it is also an idiot. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02... - ThreadSky

faineg.bsky.social • 25 days ago

Donald Trump just imposed the Idiot Tariffs, and everyone who said he wouldn’t do it is also an idiot.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/01/us/trump-tariffs-news

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rfc19129.bsky.social•25 days ago

You know these tariffs are complete bs b/c they all end on a 0 or a 5. I don’t think that’s how real economic policy works. Willing to bet they just threw out numbers and whatever sounded the best they went with. Least serious people ever.

piratesandpoets.bsky.social•25 days ago

It is a shame a hurricane has never hit that shit hole Mar-A-Lago.

dave-littler.bsky.social•25 days ago

I think so many "mainstream voices" just cannot bring themselves to acknowledge how fundamentally stupid, vicious and cruel Trump is. Either personally, because they don't want to grapple with that reality, or professionally, because they know doing so is bad for business. They can't do it.

dave-littler.bsky.social•25 days ago

"If I just acknowledge what a deranged, simple-minded psychopath he is, I won't get invited on as many speaking tours and talk shows and such as I am right now, so I need to make excuses for him even wherre I oppose him ideologically. I need to pretend that what he's doing makes some kind of sense."

randymiller.bsky.social•25 days ago

The media is built around the idea that there are two reasonable sides to any political question and that the republicans & democrats represent those sides. They are ill equipped to deal with a mainstream political movement that is wholly replaced from reality, expertise, and common sense

dave-littler.bsky.social•25 days ago

Their business model is predicated upon the idea that one can discuss these things as though the people involved are rational actors, since they need to be able to take in ad revenue to function, and you don't sell as many ads if you acknowledge on your programming that one side are lunatics.

adamvann.bsky.social•25 days ago

I understand this is a serious matter and people will suffer, but a tariff on Canadian oil after Trump and his party spent well over a decade whining about the Keystone XL pipeline approval is objectively funny

rnavarre.bsky.social•25 days ago

There’s a lot of opportunities for gallows humor with these dudes.

jeremyludlow.bsky.social•25 days ago

Why is he working from home? Hasn't he been told to get back to the office?

lizthegrey.com•25 days ago

Faine, I really appreciate you always using alt text. thank you <3

themanfromrio.bsky.social•25 days ago

I really have no idea where this bizarre version of Trump who does things that make sense and isn't stupid came from. It's a bizarre benefit of the doubt that would not be applied to any other human being. I knew there were low information voters, but it's like they existed on Earth B or something.

balinares.bsky.social•25 days ago

That astounding thing where I keep finding myself thinking, "No, he can't possibly be *that* stupid," and then soon have to curse myself for an optimist.

daveward.bsky.social•25 days ago

I feel like the average Bluesky user is better informed about the risks in play with Trump than the media, business leadership, and Democratic leaders

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