Leading us to the 18th Century! 🇺🇸Tally Ho! - ThreadSky

ellenbraaten.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Leading us to the 18th Century! 🇺🇸Tally Ho!

Trump: "From 1789 to 1913, we were a tariff-backed nation and the US was proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been ... then in 1913, for reason unknown to mankind, they established the income tax."

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romkube.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hmmm let’s take a closer look. Ah, yes, the old term Robber Barons

teelee53.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fitting description indeed! 😮‍💨

derklardenker.bsky.social•1 day ago

gilead ahead.

trenchdiggr.bsky.social•1 day ago

26th explanation for tariffs - now to replace income tax! But... wasn't the 11th stated purpose of tariffs to spur US manufacturing? So with no income tax revenue and little tariff revenue cuz everything is made here, where exactly does the federal government get revenue?

Goodbye social security.

carly911.bsky.social•1 day ago

We didn’t have real global trading.

teelee53.bsky.social•1 day ago

More like the Dark Ages 🫣😖

bradleymoore.bsky.social•1 day ago

" . . . then in 1903, for reasons unknown to mankind, these 2 brothers, the Wright brothers, as they called themselves, decided all on their own to invent heavier than air flight, but we already had carriages, big beautiful carriages pulled by a couple of horses, so who needed planes in 1903? . . ."

ellenbraaten.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why indoor plumbing!?!?

outpost36.bsky.social•1 day ago

c2snow.bsky.social•1 day ago

We are gonna need Joann fabrics…

melisa23.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Reasons unknown to mankind" of course this is why all the MAGA minions hate book learnin'

labsp61.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Does this mean our horses will cost more now?

magnusxander.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, can’t we get back to the gilded age?

listessotempo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Labor costs were lower due to slavery

5miriam9.bsky.social•1 day ago

Gaaaah! He knows nothing about history. Nothing. Nothing about economic policy. Nothing. The only thing he knows how to do is to bankrupt and destroy things.

dmarco1313.bsky.social•1 day ago

Love this! Well said!! hahaha

wildeflauer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fits with his handmaid tale theme for women

sanelunatic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh, he won't be satisfied with the 1700s. His real goal is the Dark Ages - with its feudalism, plague, endless wars, famine, and average lifespan of 30 to 35 years.
And I am SO not kidding. He's literally out of his mind and would happily watch us live like that.

heeroost.bsky.social•1 day ago

And so it goes, Set Back to the USSA.

oddmediapro.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s King George 2.0

canuparadigm.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bloodletting and leeches for all! Except for the women, for they are witches

kdh52.bsky.social•1 day ago

You're a child psychologist. Can you tell us what is so fucked up in this man-child's head that he actually thinks this is a good idea?

ellenbraaten.bsky.social•1 day ago

I stick with children. This is beyond my (or possibly anyone’s) area of expertise.

falzir.bsky.social•1 day ago

"...for reason unknown to mankind." 🥴

goodkarmi.bsky.social•1 day ago

Do they not teach history or economics at the University of Pennsylvania business school? Or did his daddy buy him a degree?
There’s never been a dumber occupant of the Oval Office since the birth of our nation.

pity63.bsky.social•1 day ago

Media factcheck please!!!

dextros.bsky.social•1 day ago

Think of the benefits to the costs of healthcare, pensions, and elderly assisted living if we can reduce the lifespan of the average American from the current ~78 years old to under 30.

Win, Win.

andygilder.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also, the first income tax was introduced in 1861, the historically illiterate bumpkin

dolanj64.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dumber than a bag of hammers.

smurph.bsky.social•1 day ago

infrogmation.bsky.social•1 day ago

"In honor of the late great William McKinley, we hereby re-annex the Philippines..."

jamesh1977.bsky.social•1 day ago

He should be in a nursing home and the only thing he should be straining to liberate are his bowels in the morning.

ellenbraaten.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ouch. But funny.

ellenlg.bsky.social•1 day ago

Varmint.

missficklereader.bsky.social•1 day ago

What’s sad is that Trump clearly think he’s such a genius for remembering dates and talking about things “unknown to mankind”

mitcha11.bsky.social•1 day ago

He knows history as well as he knows the economy...

mitcha11.bsky.social•1 day ago

He doesn't know what the hell he's doing....

ellenbraaten.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not at all

stevend1000.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hmmm…..

chismigs.bsky.social•1 day ago

A basket with many heads in it.

10thbody.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Yes, we all pine for the old days of 30% or more of the population living below the poverty level.

stevebordewick.bsky.social•1 day ago

...ahh, back in the days of buggy whips. And the door to your house/business was 3 feet above street level to escape the horse shit.

Worldwide tariffs will pave an extortion freeway to his door. Enrich him under the table, and you'll get an exclusion.