The Trump administration set midnight on April 9 as the deadline for raising tariffs against China by 50%, part of the fallout from Trump’s “Liberation Day”
Why stop there? Why not making it 1,000%? Or a billion? Or 1.21 gigawatts?
Fuck every Republican for enabling this moron.
Also the Democrats who keep siding with them.
If they made it a billion percent they could pay the national debt off in a couple days.
Donald: IT’S OVER 9,000% TARIFFS!
A fourth digit? Is such a thing even possible?
I can’t honestly see how the orange russian muppet thinks China will back down. They make almost everything that every single big box store imports and hundreds of millions of Americans buy daily, weekly, monthly.
Trump is fucking over both sides here and instead of doing anything, he’s golfing.
Why not assume at this point that breaking the entire system is the purpose? Winning a trade war would benefit Trump’s ego, but the people pulling the strings want it all burned down. Just because the media keeps playing this as traditional economics and politics doesn’t mean it remotely is.
Honestly are we even sure there is anyone pulling the strings? Like I’m pretty sure it’s more akin to the fucked up mess that was Nazi high command than anything else, where everyone is pursuing their own interests because they don’t directly overlap (with the exception of Musk who fits roughly into Himmlers role in this dynamic) but are still repeatedly fucking each other over via collateral. All the while Trump is just doing whatever the fuck since he is the source of their power and lets them do whatever so long as he is allowed to do whatever.
I don’t think we can be sure, no. But it’s a very safe bet that the Kremlin is giving the majority of the orders that suit them. The problem with Trump being so dumb is normally you’d look at guile and such to find a direction. But everyone around him knows how easy it is to manipulate him. Whoever gets in his ear last, whoever promises the most to him (whether that comes to pass or not), they’re all also factors. But these plans while insane and stupid to almost everyone, have not been created by him. They’re too involved for that.
I’m not denying that aspect, the tariffs are definitely his but most everything else probably isn’t. The point im trying to make is that everyone is enabling each other in a weird incestuous power dynamic. The only real rule being that Trump is in charge and will back anyone on what they want so long as they kiss the ring, the biggest problem with that is that the ability to be around him as a yes man means they probably aren’t the most intelligent. Not saying they ain’t dangerous or that they can’t plan just that the planning won’t be all that smart.
But I do think you are correct in that Trump will basically do whatever the fuck the last person tells him to do. Its that that is also influenced by the fact he can’t really be directly controlled because he is too fucking stupid and ego driven.
Because trump isn’t smart enough to do anything right, assuming that’s his goal.
The only people who’s going to pay for that is his loyalist idiots for their MAGA Made in China swag.
His line of thinking is that other than US no one can absorb Chinese production. Which means either China have to budge or they have to go to deep recession or listen to orange babboon’s demands. The fact is China have stockpiled for this situation and there is a very high chance that they will move towards Taiwan and shift the economy to wartime. I dont think US can win a war against China but orange babbooon is so confident on US ability to win a war against China in Chinese waters all alone without NATO/ India/Russia etc and along with Australia and UK.
The russian muppet is following a plot. He doesnt think. He acts.
Dollar stores are gonna go out of business
Let the real recession begin.
“President Trump has a spine of steel, and he will not break.”
Maybe that’s because he isn’t the one who will feel pressure from higher prices. He doesn’t care who this hurts because it isn’t hurting him.
Oh stop threatening and just do it you Cheeto pussy
It really is absurd watching our president have the Marty-McFly style reaction to being called a chicken with the full faith and credit of the American financial system.
While yes, I think it’s really easy to do make a strong argument he’s Biff with unwarranted McFly reactions.
Can’t wait, they think they’ll clean up the the pieces and rebuild the U.S. government from the ground up. But what’s really gonna happen is the states will revolt one by one, and the U.S. government won’t be able to do shit about it. Gonna get real spicy soon. And I am not looking forward to it.
He’s turning the USA into a penny stock.
So… They are just going to pretend he’s mentally sound, and for as long as they do, this shit just gets worse and worse until we all die from it.
I’m convinced there is no master plan. The administration isn’t perfectly calculating the optimal path to fascism, it’s just the natural consequence of idiots running rampant until someone stops them and the American people and institutions being either not caring enough or being too incompetent to stop it.
Same story as with Putin and the war in Ukraine. There was no logical reason nor a strategic benefit to a war in Ukraine. They had already humiliated Ukraine nationalists and ensured Ukraine could never join NATO by annexing Crimea. Ukraine would’ve been drifted into being a Russian client state like Belarus but the idiots in Moscow declared war anyway. No master plan, just gross incompetence and an impotent opposition.
Can’t wait to get sphered by china here in Oz. Who knew that the only thing you needed to do to become the new world hegemon was run a competent government for a couple decades.
Enjoy dropping 3 grand on an iPhone from now on lmfao
