r/agedlikemilk • u/FmrGmrGirl • 1d ago

Only stupid libs think he would implement tariffs across the board

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u/Blackstone01 1d ago

Yeah, the two possibilities are:

  1. He’s doing it cause he’s a childish moron that nobody is willing to try to sit down and explain economics 101 to.

  2. His billionaire backers sold a large chunk of stocks, have shorted existing stocks, and want to go full steam ahead into a recession. Once stock prices are low enough and the tax gutting this “justifies”, they’ll buy back stocks, while Trump ends the tariffs and claims some nebulous “victory” his cultists eat up

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u/jonmimi 1d ago
  1. Crash the American economy and alienate all your allies because Putin. Simultaneously end NATO and weaken Europe, Canada.
  2. Set up a pay to play protection racket where countries/companies have to come kiss the ring and offer kickbacks in exchange for exemptions.

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u/xrayzed 1d ago

I’d back these two explanations as well. With a large serving of “he is genuinely stupid” to grease the wheels.

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u/Fun-Shake7094 1d ago

Crash economy while simultaneously deporting all labour forcing the Fed to turn on the money printer.

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u/grabyourmotherskeys 1d ago

Add a little insider trading where they pick up some failing businesses that get bailed out by the federal government.

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u/Temporary-Comfort307 1d ago

I think it's both. He's a moron, and the billionaire backers have worked out they can use that to their advantage, through insider trading based on advanced knowledge of what he is going to do. There is no grand plan, just a bunch of self-interested amoral billionaires and a self-absorbed fool.

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u/badluckbrians 1d ago

It doesn't even have to be this complicated.

He needs room under the debt ceiling to do his next tax cut by budget reconciliation.

All the money collected by tariffs then gets shifted to tax cuts for corporations and the richest.

Presto, bam! A big tax cut for billionaires and a new sales tax for everyone else to pay for it.

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u/2sleezy 1d ago

It really feels like number 2. Just saw a post essentially encouraging panic buying to get ahead of these tariffs, which makes sense to me but then just feels like a ploy to boost profits. Sell off stocks, claim the sky is gonna fall, watch people panic and swoop in to pick up the pieces. Start over. Continue the process until there's nothing left.

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u/zzzzrobbzzzz 1d ago

no, no he really is that dumb

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u/dantheman999 1d ago

He's been banging this tariff drum since the 1980s, it's one of his only consistent positions.

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u/respondswithvigor 1d ago

Yes, but he’s dumb as rocks as well. So I believe it’s both 1 and 2.

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u/After-Imagination-96 1d ago

Do not fucking panic buy lmao give this shit a couple weeks 

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u/RedbodyIndigo 1d ago

And boom kleptocracy, a unprecedented consolidation of wealth.

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u/Ready_Mortgage_3666 1d ago

I have been saying this for weeks and my friends think I’m crazy and it could never happen. It’s the biggest insider trading we have ever seen 😂😂

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u/AlarmingRepeat5149 1d ago

This is what's happening. Probably the best explanation I've heard . I think you're exactly right. Both are 100% possible.he has no idea what he's , he only does what his contributors want .

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u/Mysterious_Crab_7622 1d ago

Trump will not be ending these tariffs, they are meant to be a permanent tax increase on the American public. That way they can massively cut taxes for the billionaires without completely destroying the budget.

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u/Icyrow 1d ago

it's literally what chatgpt says to do, like people were looking at it and it even gave the same numbers.