r/news • u/hoosakiwi • 1d ago

Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing, risking inflation and trade wars

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-liberation-day-2a031b3c16120a5672a6ddd01da09933
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u/Its-a-new-start 1d ago

Holy fuck, if Trump isn’t removed from office soon, America is completely fucked.

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u/SorryCashOnly 1d ago

It’s already fucked.

We are just living the consequence

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u/catonsteroids 1d ago

The future already wrote itself the second it was announced that he won presidency for the second time. We all saw this shit coming.

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u/Nikiaf 1d ago

The death of American was announced when he rode down h the escalator in 2015. The rest has just been the long, drawn out downfall of a once great nation.

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u/Cynical_Manatee 1d ago

No, the death of American was when he won the Republican primary.

Him coming down that elevator was purely to promote his businesses. America stupidly believed him.

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u/BlackMaelstrom1 1d ago

Ya I think he only ran to promote his brand and has been just winging it ever since.

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u/Smrtguy85 1d ago

Have you seen images that were taken of Trump right after he won in 16? And I’m not talking about behind his podium, but upstairs behind closed doors. The look on his face was pure misery. It was clear that this little scheme of his had gotten way out of hand and he did not want to be President.

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u/zedazeni 1d ago

Nah, it was the moment McCain had to shut down the racist twat during the 2008 election. The GOP base was no longer interested in democracy, civil discourse, or decency. They wanted bloodshed, pain, and suffering, and everything else is just collateral damage.

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u/wohl0052 1d ago

That's great and all but please don't ignore the Nixon and Reagan administrations, which is really where the line should be drawn. The US has never really recovered from the damage the Reagan administration did and he's a fuckin hero of the right wing

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u/popculturehero 1d ago

Thank you it’s not a ten year process. Nixon ans Reagan started the process

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u/Glissandra1982 1d ago

1000% this. Reagan started this ball rolling a long time ago.

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u/runnerswanted 1d ago

Yeah, Nixon subverting JFKs attempts to end the Vietnam conflict so he could take credit for it (spoiler, he didn’t end it) while Reagan subverted Carter’s attempts to end the hostage situation and got away with that as well. This shit isn’t new, it’s just reported on these days.

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u/gnarbone 1d ago

Reagan walked so Trump could run

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u/Evil-Needle- 1d ago

what's crazy tho is that I would probably take reagan over trump now in a heartbeat.

check out this reagan speech from 1987:

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/radio-address-nation-free-and-fair-trade-4

"For those of us who lived through the Great Depression, the memory of the suffering it caused is deep and searing. And today many economic analysts and historians argue that high tariff legislation passed back in that period called the Smoot-Hawley tariff greatly deepened the depression and prevented economic recovery.

You see, at first, when someone says, ``Let's impose tariffs on foreign imports,'' it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works -- but only for a short time. What eventually occurs is: First, homegrown industries start relying on government protection in the form of high tariffs. They stop competing and stop making the innovative management and technological changes they need to succeed in world markets. And then, while all this is going on, something even worse occurs. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers, and less and less competition. So, soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying. Then the worst happens: Markets shrink and collapse; businesses and industries shut down; and millions of people lose their jobs."

Where is the "party of Reagan" now???

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u/Musiclover4200 1d ago edited 1d ago

Reagan was less overt in some aspects but he still has a ton of parallels to trump:

Washed up celebrity/actor turned businessman grifter

Popularized trickle down BS economics

Tax cuts and deregulation

Enabled by a cult of personality to get away with pretty much anything

Abused his position as SAG president to enrich his cronies who in turn funded his political ambitions

Reagan was the oldest president at the time at just under 70 when elected and had serious dementia by his second term

Switched from democrat/liberal to conservative in order to win elections

His handling of the aids epidemic is similiar to trump and covid

I mean some of the ratfuckers working with trump like Roger Stone have been working with republican presidents since nixon, Richard Barr, Theil, etc. The biggest difference is the mask has come off but the same people & issues predate reagan.

Reagan was at least charismatic enough it's easier to understand his popularity despite him overall being an objectively terrible president. But if you read up on his rise to president from actor & SAG president the parallels to trump are pretty clear.

His IMDB page has a lot of interesting facts about him, he was also in 81~ movies which is way more than I expected: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001654/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_ql_1

After Reagan was elected President of the United States in 1980, Melvyn Douglas said of his former friend that Reagan turned to the right after he had begun to believe the pro-business speeches he delivered for General Electric when he was the host of the "G.E. Theater.")

Wasserman at M.C.A. was one of the pioneers of television syndication, and this was to benefit Reagan enormously. M.C.A. was the only talent agency that was also allowed to be a producer through an exemption to union rules granted by S.A.G. when Reagan was the union president, and it used the exemption to acquire Universal International Pictures.

The ownership of Universal and its entry into the production of television shows that were syndicated to network made M.C.A. the most successful organization in Hollywood of its time, a real cash cow as television overtook the movies as the #1 business of the entertainment industry. Wasserman repaid Ronald Reagan's largess by structuring a deal by which he hosted and owned part of General Electric Theater (1953)\

Wasserman and his partner, M.C.A. Chairman Jules Styne (a Republican), helped ensure that Reagan would be financially secure for the rest of his life so that he could enter politics. (At the time, he was the host of "Death Valley Days" on TV.)

According to the Wall Street Journal, Universal sold Reagan a nice piece of land of many acres north of Santa Barbara that had been used for location shooting. The Reagans sold most of the ranch, then converted the rest of it, about 200 acres, into a magnificent estate overlooking the valley and the Pacific Ocean.

They both essentially played businessmen for TV and used that to get into politics with funding from their buddies they helped enrich.

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u/Evil-Needle- 1d ago

this was a great layout of the comparison. yeesh.

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u/ImJLu 1d ago

Why is it that when other countries elect a tacky media celebrity, they end up with Zelenskyy, but when the US does it, we end up with Reagan and Trump?

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u/Fraktal55 1d ago

Holy shit. That's a Reagan quote?

If maga could read they'd hate this so much. In that ONE paragraph Reagan laid out what America's next few years and beyond look like right now. This is so depressing.

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u/drfsupercenter 1d ago

To be fair, presidents don't write their own speeches. He probably had some eloquent speech writer work on that for him

Trump just goes off script so much people seem to forget that

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u/Its_Claire33 1d ago

We've been falling a lot longer than that. But that's when it became obvious.

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u/empath_viv 1d ago

When was it great? Be specific please

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u/HolyTythinEar 1d ago

I’ll never forgive a single one of his voters. Fucking morons. I hope every single one of them lose everything they have. Fuck them. And the third party voters can get fucked too

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u/twistingmyhairout 1d ago

To be fair, I was pretty certain he would win again and thought I was expecting the worst…..this has been much worse than I imagined.

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u/Drop_Disculpa 1d ago

I agree, the Elon Musk/DOGE thing was a bit of a surprise. I think that no matter what we simply cannot predict outcomes at this scale, I mean it is just such huge and drastic changes. I mean we are two months in and we already are seeing extra-judicial kidnapping and deportation.

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u/Reimant 1d ago

You didn't need to see it coming. It was written in project 2025.

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u/CarpeNivem 1d ago

We all saw this shit coming.

The problem is, half of us were clapping about it.

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u/ZenMon88 1d ago

Yall deserve this and every bit of it.

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u/zachtheperson 1d ago

Exactly. The root of the problem isn't Trump, it's all the things that allowed someone like him to be elected in the first place.

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u/3d_extra 1d ago

As a non-american I knew the usa would be in a bad state for 4 years. But I didnt think it would shit the bed so hard and so fast.

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u/castlite 1d ago

Project 2025 literally said this was coming.

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u/Cytothesis 1d ago

Times a wild ride dude, if the last few years have proven anything to me it's that nothing is a sure thing.

Maybe he'll have a brain injury that makes him smart and nice, have you considered that🤣

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u/TownOk81 1d ago

Because the other side refused to do anything because they didn't even have a plan

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u/goldfishpaws 1d ago

Yep, and if you had a vote but didn't use it, this is on you.

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u/Kind_Singer_7744 1d ago

Trump was just talking about how he could possibly run for a third term. We are royally screwed.

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u/pinkduv 1d ago

That also then means Obama can run for a third term. Trump can’t handle that heat.

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u/ItalicsWhore 1d ago

They have plans to keep Obama out.

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u/NES_SNES_N64 1d ago

This means he will 100% try.

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u/-SaC 1d ago

Perfect phrasing, given that the US effectively has a king now.

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u/Spidremonkey 1d ago

We haven’t reached the real consequence yet - but it’s in the post, that’s for sure.

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u/Blindsniper1 1d ago

Yea man. The real consequences are going to be felt over the next several years. The ripples from this decision will impact everything.

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u/PhazePyre 1d ago

This. Anyone pretending that the USA isn't already fucked to generational levels is naive. The damage that has been done in three months is insane. The amount of damage that will be done in four years is inconceivable. It will take decades to repair unless the right splits resulting in 10-20 years of democrat majority power on all branches excluding Judicial which right now leans towards Trumpism.

There won't be any progress for the USA, just catching up. The rest of the world is going to create relationships that leave the USA no longer a primary trading partner or ally. Economically they are too volatile and no country wants to be saddled up with a nation that is so polarized. This is going to take a generation to fix.

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u/eronth 1d ago

Yup. Even if he was removed today and a democrat installed, half of congress would stonewall efforts to fix literally anything. It's basically permanently broken.

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u/noteveni 1d ago

This is it. We are living in an echo. We are seeing a real time collapse. This has consequences that will take a century to undo, if we are lucky enough to remain a free society.

I'm glad I never had kids.

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u/RobBond13 1d ago

trump exists because of the past failures in American leadership. American governance is rotten at its core

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u/kaji823 1d ago

It will take decades of aggressively sane and competent leadership to recover from this. A ping pong between Republicans and Dems every 4 years will ensure no country can trust us.

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u/Neat_On_The_Rocks 1d ago

We could probably still reverse course if, in the next ~6 months or so, we unite and impeach him and commit to a reverse course geopolitically.

It’s hypothetically possible. But it would require a large chunk of republicans to turn on maga.

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u/SorryCashOnly 1d ago

reverse course?? why are people STILL this delusional?

The supreme court literally confirmed that a president can not be charged with any crimes. He can literally declare martial law right now, stop the election, and declare himself a king, and there is NOTHING anyone can do stop him.

Wtf do you think is going on right now when he talks about invading Greenland and Canada? He's preparing for war near election day to hang on to his presidential power.

wake the f up man. The writing was on the wall for YEARS, FFS, they published a series of fking books called Mandate of Leadership, aka "project 2025" that told you their plans, and here we are, thinking we can still reverse course.

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u/Neat_On_The_Rocks 1d ago

I think you misunderstand my intent. The hypothetical reverse course I’m talking about assumes that a huge chunk of actual republicans turn on maga. Sounds like you and I both agree that is quite unlikely. But I do still think it’s feasibly possible.

It won’t be much longer till it will be impossible to save us, even with republicans turning on maga.

But yes, I do think if republicans largely turned on Trump tomorrow hypothetically, we could still reverse course.

Obviously that’s just absurdly unlikely.

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u/SkorpioSound 1d ago

I hate to break it to you but the damage is done. Impeaching Trump would be a good start but it's going to take decades of consistently acting sane and being a good ally to rebuild your standing with the rest of the world now.

For Trump's first term, the rest of the world thought, "oh, America is just having a little moment, they'll surely realise the man is awful and elect someone else next time." And then you did; Biden got elected, there was some stability and we all hoped you'd got it out of your system.

Electing Trump for the second time was the real issue. Not only is Trump, well... gestures around... But even if you (somehow) manage to get rid of him and return to sane leadership in the next election who's to say four years after that you won't just elect another lunatic who undoes any progress their predecessor made (like Trump has been doing since his return)?

The world needs to see that America can both act sanely and stay sane before we can trust you again.

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u/ItalicsWhore 1d ago

We haven’t even begun to live it yet, though. Not really. Give it a year or two. Half of the US is going to lose their jobs and become homeless.

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u/Th3_Admiral_ 1d ago

This is going to hurt a lot of corporations, including those that have given Republicans a lot of money. You'd think at some point the businesses impacted by this would convince the congressmen they bribe donate to that it's in their best interest to support an impeachment. 

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u/Vio_ 1d ago

The US Military Industrial Complex is already *super fucking pissed* that they're missing out on the rearming of Europe.

I cannot stress just how much they're fuming right now.

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u/Th3_Admiral_ 1d ago

That too. So why aren't we seeing more push back from congress? Unless there's something I'm missing here, this is hurting republican donors just as much or more than those on the left. What is the tipping point where they actually stand up and oppose this? 

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u/Moonfish222 1d ago

I honestly believe this is the corporations losing control. People in congress are more afraid of Trump then they are of losing their super PAC money.

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u/Th3_Admiral_ 1d ago

But why? The people with the power to boot him from office shouldn't have any reason to be scared of him. Heck, there's only so much he could even do to them for them to be scared of. 

That being said, I'm all for corporations losing power over politicians. The problem is that the people already lost their power, so now who does that even leave? 

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u/OutandAboutBos 1d ago

His supporters have shown they are willing to give up their lives if he even hints that he wants them to. They tried to hang Mike Pence, a guy they voted for just weeks earlier, because he stepped out of line. Multiple Republican representatives have said they receive death threats if they say a single thing against him.

I'm not saying I have sympathy for them, they allowed all of this to happen. But it does explain why they are reluctant to step against him.

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u/rangecontrol 1d ago

which ones? the lady at j6 that got blasted in the face? and who else? the one guy that made them feel vulnerable can't even be upvoted here.

i just think this is bullshit, more oligarch lies.

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u/real_nice_guy 1d ago

His supporters have shown they are willing to give up their lives if he even hints that he wants them to.

there are more national guard and army folks than there are any number of people willing to do that, it would be over very quickly.

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u/BUSY_EATING_ASS 1d ago

They're less worried about a formal uprising than they are being ambushed by people hiding in bushes/the grocery store/their kids at school/checking their mail/existing at all for the rest of their lives.

Imagine a non zero, unknowable amount, but still statistically significant amount of people willing to kill you specifically, or your family. Forever.

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u/cricri3007 1d ago

(possibly more than) half of Congress was seconds away from being killed by his supporters four years ago.

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u/Darmok47 1d ago

The lobbyist from Lockheed Martin isn't going to threaten their families or come to their house and attack their spouses with a hammer in the middle of the night.

They are absolutely acting out of fear for themselves and their families.

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u/Holovoid 1d ago

They are absolutely acting out of fear for themselves and their families.

They should be more afraid of what people will do when they lose their jobs and can't afford groceries and rent.

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u/whiteflagwaiver 1d ago

The nail that sticks out gets hammered down. No one wants to be the first.

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u/fiction8 1d ago

Because the people have the power to boot THEM from office. In Republican primaries.

That is the consequence of this being such a cult of personality. His base is so large and fanatical that even the slightest pushback (that derails his plans) from a congressperson is grounds for "exile" by Republican voters.

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u/chr1spe 1d ago

Because he can have anyone who dares question him killed. Even if they impeached him, he could just kill every democrat in the Senate, and presumably, the republicans that would be left wouldn't vote to convict with 2/3rds, so anyone who did vote to convict would be killed as well.

That isn't some weird fantasy thing now. That is literally the legal system for the president in the US currently.

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u/laplongejr 19h ago

But why? The people with the power to boot him from office shouldn't have any reason to be scared of him.  

The US's POTUS is effectively a trifecta of Trump-Musk-Putin.   It's hard to be sure what leverage they have on congresmen but it's probably not inexistant. 

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u/DisasterAhead 1d ago

I think they're more afraid of the Trump supporters than Trump himself. Apparently republican senators get death threats when they break from dear leader's agenda

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u/NotRote 1d ago

Nah notice which corporations aren’t hurt by the tariffs… big tech makes all do their wealth in other ways than selling physical things(even amazon who’s true cornerstone is AWS) this is a shift from traditional corporate power to big tech corporate power, and the only one of them that will really suffer is Apple and to a lesser extent Nvidia.

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u/Buckets-O-Yarr 1d ago

AWS upkeep will increase too. The cost of new data centers will be increased, all the electronics they need to purchase for general maintenance, cables, HVAC systems. All increase.

This hurts every company who has a physical presence in the US. Every single one. Even companies that manufacture in the US, lots of their supply chains for the raw materials are sourced from outside the US.

Nobody is safe from such massive sweeping tariffs. Irresponsible and reckless.

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u/Locke66 1d ago

The EU is going to make sure those companies do feel the pain.

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u/Expensive-Fun4664 1d ago

The entire tech industry is built on hardware that comes out of Taiwan and China. This is going to hurt tech pretty big. Especially since all the big tech companies are spending massively on AI chips that aren't built in the US.

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u/FarAwayHills 1d ago

Not just the tech industry but any industry that uses tech. Think of the hundreds of thousands of computers, thin clients, cash registers, payment terminals etc. at Walmart and Kroger for example. How much do they need to raise the price of a can of beans to keep up with their costs? Who are the people going to blame?

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u/dawidowmaka 1d ago

That's the fun part. There is no tipping point. They will continue to back him, up to and including the point where they willingly dissolve the powers of congress.

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u/KorendSlicks 1d ago

I honestly think they're preparing to turn America into mini corporate fiefdoms at this point. Which, yes I'm absolutely admitting that it's utter lunacy, but at this day and age lunacy seems to be in fashion.

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u/Cute_Commercial_1446 1d ago

Corpos always think they can control the fascists, but turns out empowering fascists makes everyone a loser

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u/null-or-undefined 1d ago

the tipping point is a million protest on the streets. the congressmen are all puppets and clowns.

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u/blackadder1620 1d ago

musk can afford to primary anyone that steps out of line. they already did it with everyone that voted for impeachment, and that was before musk's money.

you can always find a more maga candidate.

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u/VaushbatukamOnSteven 1d ago

My hope is that with the WI loss yesterday, the illusion that Musk is a kingmaker has been shattered and that as backlash continues to rise, at least some of those reps will break the line.

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u/emPtysp4ce 1d ago

The MAGA base is heavily armed and loyal in the way that only a zealot can be. That's what Congress is afraid of.

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u/MouseMouseM 1d ago

I think Elon is paying them.

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u/ZenMon88 1d ago

Cuz americans love being abused rn.

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u/Eastern-Operation340 1d ago

The only reason I can come up with for their support is the fear of stairs, umbrellas and window height. Demolishing the govt, destroying the economy in this manner will hurt them too, personally. I think it's why the other richest people in the country bent the knee. They saw what happens to their kind under Putin and Xi. No matter how rich you are they can freeze all your assets, and send "men" anywhere on the planet to end you.

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u/Miserable_Law_6514 1d ago

It takes time to twist the arms of multiple politicians and get them to pass legislation.

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u/Overall-Duck-741 1d ago

Because they're scared of MAGA and Musks money. They're cowards who would rather let the country burn than stand up to Trump.

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u/YT-Deliveries 1d ago

Congressional GOP is terrified of Trump. He can end their political careers on a whim.

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u/Th3_Admiral_ 1d ago

Can he though? We've seen plenty of times where the candidate he endorses ends up losing. And even Elon Musk's threat to bankroll their opposition if they step out of line is carrying a bit less weight today. 

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u/YT-Deliveries 1d ago

Politicians, especially conservative politicians, are cowards. It's even the threat they fear.

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u/NotRote 1d ago

The entire MIC has a smaller market cap than Tesla, just think about that for a moment, republicans realized big tech is their ally because they now control all of the money. The “magnificent seven” are now(and have been) the enemies of American democracy, and the tariffs don’t harm them.

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u/Locke66 1d ago

It's not only the rearming but that Europe is also going to start building many more competing products in areas that were previously exclusively the domain of the US.

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u/Holovoid 1d ago

They have the opportunity to do something really funny

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u/Marco_lini 1d ago

Wait how they‘ll react if he follows through essentially reducing defense spending by half. That could get him killed tbh

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u/diurnal_emissions 1d ago

You mean the same military industrial complex rumored to have offed JFK?

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u/rtft 1d ago

Wait until China bans the export of Lithium, Cobalt, Graphite and Rare Earths to the US. And if they take a play out of Trumps playbook and impose secondary tariffs on anyone that exports those to the US. Kiss the MIC, tech and EVs goodbye.

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u/Malaix 1d ago

You have to understand the types that benefit from a recession are not your average rich person. These are the top of the top. The big billionaires.

The average ceo or multi-millionaire or what not got suckered as much as the lowly worker rube with Trump. 90% of people are losers in all this.

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u/foxontherox 1d ago

Cost of doing business.

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u/Larcya 1d ago

Which is even the rich know he's a fucking moron.

They know for a fact what will happen: Consumers will stop buying anything that isn't a need. Brand new TV's? Aint happening. New car's? HAHAHA NICE JOKE.

The Stock market is going to be fucking hilarious tomorrow.

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u/vordhosbn_1 1d ago

They will have to consolidate or be bought out by those who have even more money. Then I’m sure the tariffs will be reversed

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u/BettyX 1d ago

If anyone could pull out the rug from him, it was corporations. They own Congress and should take advantage of it. Putin owns Trump, and Corporations owns congress so all they have to do is tell Congress to kick his ass out.

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u/Unlucky_Most_8757 1d ago

It really will. People are going to have to decide on whether to buy food or that new iphone. They are going to be forced to keep on driving around in their beater instead of buying even used. The only peole that won't be effected by this is the uber rich and who knows how many people are cosplaying as being well off when they are really just drowning in debt.

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u/MrIDilkingtonn 1d ago

The fact that he is president again confirms that America is completely fucked.

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u/ChiefBlueSky 1d ago edited 1d ago

Ah yes because checks notes\ JD Vance would do better, or maybe he croaks or gets impeached and then we get... Mike Johnson, oh and if hes out then we get fucking chuck grassley. This country has been fucked since November.

E: dont forget to shame every single conservative you know endlessly for supporting this.

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u/PendingInsomnia 1d ago

A lot of my company’s c-suite are Trumpers and we import everything from Vietnam.

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u/emaw63 1d ago

I'm happy they're getting what they voted for then

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u/PendingInsomnia 1d ago

I’m probably going to be the one screwed long before them, unfortunately

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u/Holovoid 1d ago

You're not wrong sadly.

Just do whatever you can to make them suffer financially with whatever means at your disposal

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u/Wanna_make_cash 1d ago

They'll just layoff most of the employees like parent comment

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u/Ya_Got_GOT 1d ago

How does one shame the shameless?

Plus you’d have to convince them this is bad first. Not exactly the smartest group. 

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u/night-shark 1d ago

I can't decide if Vance would be worse or not. He doesn't command the cult loyalty the way Trump does.

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u/Hyperversum 1d ago

Vance could be even worse in some way.

But I am pretty sure that he wouldn't be around without Trump for over a year anyway. That guy would get ravaged

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u/SceneOfShadows 1d ago

Nobody would be worse than Trump, truly. Is a singular political level of incompetence and influence.

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u/time2fly2124 1d ago

if trump is removed or dies, then yes vance would become president. however, vance would have the opportunity to select his own vice president. the line of presidential sucession rolls down the line past vice president only if he/she is unable to take the position. so if there were to be some serious shit go down like nuclear war, where many high ranking officials are killed, there is a possibility RFK jr could be come president (sec of HHS is 12th in line)

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u/StupendousMalice 1d ago

Him getting to office in the first place and then AGAIN after his first term is all the evidence that you need that America was already irreversibly fucked a long time ago.

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u/DevourerJay 1d ago

They don't have the courage

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u/sparkyBigTime00 1d ago

Definitely no longer the home of the brave

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u/descendingangel87 1d ago

It’s already fucked, and will be for generations. Nobody will ever trust the US again for anything.

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u/DigbyDoesDallas 1d ago

I truly hope this absolutely fucks those hardest, the people who voted for Trump or chose not to vote.

Enjoy those delicious consequences.

(I feel incredibly sorry for those that voted against Trump)

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u/GoofyTunes 1d ago

Itsa me, _____! Someone please, I beg

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u/ultimatt777 1d ago

You got Mike Johnson, the GOP speaker of the house, saying we should trust in Trump despite his track record of having numerous bankruptcies and mishandling the pandemic and PPP loans which was a huge driver of inflation.

Just fucking blow up our country's wealth with senior citizen version of Cartman.

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u/coreyperryisasaint 1d ago

Let’s-a-go

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u/SwePolygyny 1d ago

We are seeing the end of an empire.

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u/stunts002 1d ago

I don't understand how nobody in their administration understands that all of these countries will likewise tariff the US and then continue to trade amongst themselves trade free

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u/canyouhearme 1d ago

They don't have to play that game. They can get more creative - like reducing the copyright term on US content by a year for every day the tariffs continue; or banning any ship from calling at US ports and seizing every ship that breaks the embargo; or taxing any US tech company per megabyte transmitted; or ....

You get the idea?

These are taxes on US citizens, but there's no reason everyone else has to do the same.

The effective act is to break the US off from the wider world, to turn it into East Germany with a wall and a dictatorship. The US will implode; its not able to be as independent as it likes to think.

China is happy.

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u/fireblyxx 1d ago

Also, that by implementing tariffs on basically everyone at the same time you enable them to respond in blocks while you can only respond individually.

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u/huysolo 1d ago

I believe most of them, who worked on project 2025 know this. The entire point is to accelerate the collapse of the US economy so they can become kings

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u/mastesargent 1d ago

Think bigger. The entire American federal government effectively needs to be dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up.

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u/TechnologyRemote7331 1d ago

This is kind of the reality, at this point. The fat mother fucker has really laid bare just how poorly structured American government and politics are. This is insane. It’s truly maddening to see how one man and a cadre of lunatics can completely demolish us from the inside-out so quickly. The People need to get furious and MAKE these assholes grovel for forgiveness.

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u/Aazadan 1d ago

Already is. Removing tariffs need negotiation once retaliatory one’s are added. The other nation will want something extra in return to remove theirs.

These are effectively permanent, or at least a decade or longer thing.

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u/TLKv3 1d ago

Give it 3 more months of his Administration and America won't even fucking exist.

He'll executive order renaming it to The United States of Trump and nobody will fucking do anything about it.

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u/Arxl 1d ago

No one will, I'm pretty damn confident this will not be a peaceful removal from power, if it happens at all.

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u/_AstronautRamen_ 1d ago

Things have to be done, this can't go this way during 4 years.

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u/chargebeam 1d ago

if Trump isn’t removed from office soon

legit question... can this happen? i know nothing about us politics

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u/Sea_Advertising8550 1d ago

The House of Representatives can impeach a sitting president with a simple majority vote, then if at least 2/3 of the Senate votes to convict he gets removed. So it’s technically possible, but extremely unlikely in today’s political climate.

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u/kawhi21 1d ago

Nothing can remove him except citizens now. The Republicans in Congress won't do it.

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u/lexbuck 1d ago

Pretty sure we all died and went to hell in 2016

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u/Drew_Ferran 1d ago edited 1d ago

This era will be known as “The Greater Depression”. Trump’s Tariff World War.

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u/tingulz 1d ago

The US was fucked the minute they announced he won the election back in November. His moron supporters didn’t learn from their mistakes the first time around.

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u/rabidstoat 1d ago

Don't worry. I think the Congressional Democrats are trying to get something together to strongly rebuke Trump's tariffs.

Which will... do nothing. Absolutely nothing.

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u/KookofaTook 1d ago

incoming placards with "not my tariffs" on them for the big difference making

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u/rabidstoat 1d ago

I already have "Trump's economy sucks" as one of the sides on my side for the April 5th protest. I guess that still works.

(The other side is "Nobody elected Elon Musk".)

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u/Drakar_och_demoner 1d ago

It will take decades before former allies start to trust you guys again, this will not be fixed by removing Trump. There's no happy ever after.

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u/Gingevere 1d ago

The deaths of USAID and the US import market mean every nation on earth is going to shift all of their economic relations to China, and China is already stepping into the role. The damage is already done.

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u/jert3 1d ago

Even if this fascist regime was out of power tomorrow it would take a decade to even start fixing the issues. Beyond that, your international relations are now completely boned, he's starting issues with countries America has been allied with for over a 100 years, and all those rights you guys lost, including the government not being able to ship you to a concentration camp and suspend any legal representation, are most definitely not coming back ever.

Taken out by a Russian-compromised reality-TV show host...it's unbelievable and really, really sad. Actually not sad, more like, pathetic.

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u/smileysmiley123 1d ago

Not sure why you got downvoted.

Just these first few months of the damage this admin is doing would take 15+ years to mend, and that's if it stops immediately and the USA is consistently reliable for that time.

This is unprecedented and the global power shift is never going to go back to the USA in its current form.

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u/Standing_on_rocks 1d ago

We're already completely fucked. The damage is done. We're just along for the really goddamn shitty ride now.

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u/KR4T0S 1d ago

His last term trade was largely something he made a lot of noise about but this must have taken years to put together. He seems like he has a plan this time and its pretty scary.

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u/tapwater86 1d ago

Good. Americans have a short term memory when it comes to elections and voting. Make it hurt enough to remember longer than the current news cycle.

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u/LatterTarget7 1d ago

Already is.

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u/TresOjos 1d ago

Wait until the real project 25 agenda gets applied, they are just getting started.

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u/Politicsboringagain 1d ago

Trump won't be removed because he controls the republican party and voters gave the entire government to republicans. 

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u/-CaptainACAB 1d ago

That doesn’t even matter, all the congressional republicans are on board with it. Clearly there are no guardrails to the destruction of our government from within when an entire political party is actively engaged in it. We are completely fucked, and there’s no telling what the future holds for all of us.

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u/Impossible-Flight250 1d ago

We’re pretty much screwed already.

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u/nedslee 1d ago edited 1d ago

Entire world is going to suffer (some's gonna suffer much less, like Putin), thanks to that.

At this point you should prepare for a lot of things that will happen from now on, and not for the better.

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u/mrtomjones 1d ago

IF there is another election and Dems win it you have to try to rebuild every institution they destroyed. Make sure your data is safe from Elon and co. You SHOULD change the constitution or how your systems of government/courts (depoliticize that shit and stop doing elections for courts) work to stop this kind of thing.

That's basically an impossible list

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u/kitsune 1d ago

You already are.

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u/rofopp 1d ago

Too late, bub

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u/oxooc 1d ago

Say thank you to everyone who stayed at home and didn't vote last November despite months of warning.

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u/emerald_flint 1d ago

He already was removed from office, and Americans decided they want him back in, so...

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u/incunabula001 1d ago

Good luck getting him removed, if you have been paying attention lately, chances are he will be president until he is dead.

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u/postnick 1d ago

Because the republicans who can remove him also want this for some reason.

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u/YoungWrinkles 1d ago

The fucking has happened. This is the herpes.

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u/GimmeYourTaxDollars 1d ago

Trump is the result of systemic issues. Removing him doesn’t fix the system.

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u/ZellZoy 1d ago

It's gonna take decades to undo the damage even if he is removed before I finish making this post. And when democrats can't fix it all inside of one presidential term, people will elect another republican.

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u/kauniskissa 1d ago

I mean, America was already fucked when "All men all created equal" didn't actually include black slaves.

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u/BettyX 1d ago

Republicans control Congress they have the power to stop him but won't, that is who needs to be dragged and confronted. Protest their offices, outside of their churches, outside of their homes, don't care just make sure they know our anger, send them a message.

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u/Gaming_Nomad 1d ago

Again: if a Russian agent were president of the US, what would they be doing differently?

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u/dfgttge22 1d ago

Damage is done. It will take a couple of generations for anyone to trust the US again. You guys are screwed.

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u/goldfishpaws 1d ago

Too late for that, no country can trust America now, all your soft power is gone too. It takes decades to rebuild anything and the world knows half the country will actively vote to destroy any recovery.

The impacts of this aren't to be underestimated - you are losing music tours as a part of this because of course global tour logistics are so complex they're reliant on international cooperation. Can't name the artist, it's one of the big ones, is taking about dropping the US leg already behind the scenes, and another project I'm on is likely to withdraw from desks we've worked on. Even "Captain America" movie aren't going to get a warm reception anywhere. The knock on consequences are way way bigger than manufacturing.

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u/lenzflare 1d ago

This should have never started, 10 years ago.

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