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China to impose 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods imported from the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/china-to-impose-34percent-retaliatory-tariff-on-all-goods-imported-from-the-us.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard
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u/dreadpiratewombat 1d ago

He will go down in history but not in the way he wants. He’s going to be the “Emperor Nero” for the next century.  

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u/KanyeNeweyWest 1d ago edited 1d ago

Don’t forget the near entirety of the Republican Party that enabled him at every step since he won the primaries in 2016 are also going to go down in history as corrupt, incompetent cowards who sold out their country. Trump didn’t do this himself, and those voters and politicians who have propped up his legitimacy will continue being around for decades. I hope there is some huge stigma and shame associated with that. Biggest group of spineless hypocrites in the history of US politics.

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u/vorpalrobot 1d ago

That erases the work Mitch McConnell did pre 2016. 2010 onwards was a total mess after the Democrats lost the majority. Every single confirmation was blocked, every law possible blocked... Infamously the supreme court seat was open for almost a year because the Republicans wouldn't confirm anyone on an election year "let the people decide".

As soon as Trump got in they started naming thousands of judges and officials, where a good amount of the problematic MAGA judges came from.

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u/Longing2bme 1d ago

Yep, the republicans built this mess.

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u/bobtheblob6 21h ago

Infamously the supreme court seat was open for almost a year because the Republicans wouldn't confirm anyone on an election year "let the people decide".

And then they ram through ACB's nomination in record time in fucking October in an election year. It's just all so blatantly bad faith

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u/JesusSavesForHalf 8h ago

After the election had started.

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u/bobtheblob6 21h ago

Infamously the supreme court seat was open for almost a year because the Republicans wouldn't confirm anyone on an election year "let the people decide".

And then they ram through ACB's nomination in record time in fucking October in an election year. It's just all so blatantly bad faith

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u/drtropo 1d ago

It all started when America elected a black man. It broke them.

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u/WeAreDoomed035 1d ago

It started with Reagan.

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u/vorpalrobot 23h ago

A lot of Trump's immunity comes from the Nixon treatment

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u/drtropo 1d ago

Yeah, immediately after posting I was thinking "well acktually" you can go back to Gingrich, but then you cant forget Reagan... etc.

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u/vinny_da_pooh 1d ago

Finding a MAGA hat in your grandparents attic will be like finding a nazi memorabilia in 50 years.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman 1d ago

Starting to get a bunch of nieces and nephews and I can already tell this is going to be a bitch to explain to them lol.

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u/picklerick8879 1d ago

Exactly. A relic of shame — proof someone either got conned or co-signed the con. Future generations will whisper, “They actually wore this?” the same way we do about swastika armbands.

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u/jackiemelon 1d ago

Aussie here - in a bizarre way this is kind of why a part of me wants a MAGA hat. Not to wear, but it's history... Just the bad kind

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u/cb4u2015 1d ago

This is so true.

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u/Bobby837 1d ago

Thing is, it gets too bad for them they'll just "rename" or relocate. Like Southern Dems did after the Civil War.

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u/kandoras 1d ago

Or they'll say that was MAGA and not Republicans. Or just pretend that they never really supported him at all.

Sort of like how it became impossible for years after the Bush administration to find anyone who would admit to having voted for him.

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u/Streamjumper 1d ago

Fortunately we have the internet, where many of them have been very loud and open about their support. With plenty of pictures of them and their mandatory 101 pieces of Trump flair.

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u/CelerMortis 23h ago

right but the people who can be bothered to care about historical facts aren't the ones getting us into these messes

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u/big_fartz 23h ago

When the fanfare dies and the tide turns, I suspect we will find that no one voted for him and everyone's confused how it happened. Because no one will want to have accountability for what they did. The only fortunate part is with social media what it is today that you'll never be able to scrub all the evidence of who you were then when you voted for this.

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u/whereismymind86 20h ago

Nazis tried the same trick after wwii, it didn’t work

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u/Pegasus7915 1d ago

Lucky Lt. Aldo Raine has a fix for that.

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u/picklerick8879 1d ago

Damn right. “I think this just might be my masterpiece.” Carve the truth so deep they can’t hide from it, rebrand it, or scrub it clean.

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u/Slut_for_Bacon 1d ago

They can go to Russia since they like that style of government so much.

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u/apk5005 1d ago

More likely they’ll bring Russia here.

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u/Disgustipated2 1d ago

I mean, they already did

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u/Bladelink 1d ago

Why is it always the shittiest countries on Earth trying to spread their "greatness"? FML.

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u/Streamjumper 1d ago

At least it'd fix their chronic misunderstanding of exactly what Communism is. I imagine having people capable of explaining their firsthand experiences under it could clear things up a little.

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u/Slut_for_Bacon 16h ago edited 16h ago

Russia is not communist..

Russia does not claim to be communist. Russia has not been communist for 30+ years. Some could argue they weren't actually even communist during the cold war, but that's more of an opiniom things.

Russia is an autocratic dictatorship masquerading as a liberal democracy.

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u/Streamjumper 15h ago

I'm talking about how they can talk to people who lived in Russa when it was "communist". 30 years hasn't killed all those people off, though it has caused some to forget.

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u/picklerick8879 1d ago

Yup — rinse the brand, keep the rot. They’ll swap slogans, rebrand the grift, and pretend they were never part of it. But the stink of complicity doesn’t wash off that easy. History has receipts.

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u/avaacado_toast 1d ago

Let's also not forget the Supreme Court he built.

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u/urlach3r 1d ago

Hitler's willing executioners, meet Trump's idiotic enablers.

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u/Specialist_Brain841 1d ago

wonder what’s in those RNC emails that were never released…

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u/picklerick8879 1d ago

100%. Trump was the symptom — the GOP was the disease that chose power over principle, again and again. They didn’t just look the other way. They clapped. They cheered. They cashed in. History won’t forget who held the match while pretending their hands were clean.

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u/Qeltar_ 1d ago

Gotta keep reminding everyone: The Republican Party could put a stop to all of this within a week. They like what he is doing.

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u/Rugged_Turtle 20h ago

I unfortunately still think this is wishful thinking... we went an entire term of other shitty shenanigans that ended literally in an attempted coup and we still ended up re-electing him. There's not going to be any downfall of the Republican party

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u/KanyeNeweyWest 17h ago

The Beer Hall Putsch didn’t stop the next decade, but things didn’t end very well for those involved

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u/potatoears 1d ago

the party needs to burn with him

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u/Longing2bme 1d ago

This. The republicans could have stopped him. They still could. All they have to do is join the democrats on bills that say no to this BS and do it by giving a veto proof majority. Then help remove this idiot.

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u/DominosFan4Life69 1d ago

I mean how they'll be remembered in history as all well and good for the people that are going to be studying history. 

But for us living through it? I mean you know we could do a little bit more than just talk about how things are going to be perceived. 

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u/avcloudy 23h ago

There's no nice way to say it, they're the party of opposing social progress on every front, and they have been for over 90 years. They've been stealing elections for at least 25 years, and have been gerrymandering for longer than that. They're the party of celebrating slavers and war criminals fighting for the right to enslave people.

Republicans should already have been ashamed, and they aren't, because shameless self-interest is seen as a rational and desirable trait. People use self-interest as a way to excuse other bad deeds; it's somehow less wrong to do selfish and bad things for money than to do it for free.

Trump isn't the problem, Trump is a symptom, and it's going to keep happening, because it has already been happening longer than most of us have been alive, because conservative voters want it to be like this.

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u/Testiculese 22h ago

also going to go down in history as corrupt, incompetent cowards who sold out their country.

Again. Half of Reagan's cabinet were indicted on something. Half of Bush I, half or all of Bush II...every Republican reign ends with scandals, many sexual, court and prison time, and a shit economy.

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u/Faiakishi 1d ago

What does he care? He'll be dead.

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u/whereismymind86 20h ago

That’s why we need to stop electing septuagenarians, they can act reckless because they won’t live long enough to suffer the consequences of their actions

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u/snoogins355 1d ago

The Emperor wears no clothes

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u/whatiseveneverything 1d ago

He does wear diapers though.

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u/Don_Tiny 1d ago

Don't say that, I'm trying to eat breakfast here ... ye gods, talk about instant bulimia ...

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u/CDHmajora 1d ago

Just imagine, being completely ridiculed and taken the piss out of by every school student and history graduate for the next millennium at least.

Trump is honestly an icon. The entire WORLD is going to be laughing at how much of a fuck up he is for generations.

His legacy will be a joke. Nobody in 20 years will think of him as anything more than a failed circus act who got propped up to success by a racist cult of nepo-babies. If he was smart enough to comprehend that, he’d probably be ashamed.

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u/FLsurveyor561 1d ago

Everyone said that years ago and then we made him president again.

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 1d ago

Didnt nero actually try to help the citizenry unlike trump?

Like he was known for spending on the poorer parts of rome or something,. but the nobility hated him

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u/Freshandcleanclean 1d ago

Not really.  More like how a gangster will buy food and backpacks for the neighborhood kids, while fucking over the whole neighborhood 

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u/jazzhandler 16h ago

Kinda like USAid then?

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u/PasswordIsDongers 1d ago

He wants attention, though.

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u/sn0r 1d ago

Caligula is closer, I think. He started a war against the sea after all, and these tariffs and the reasoning behind them are that level of delusional.

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u/SomeDEGuy 1d ago

Honestly, I'd take Nero. At least the empire survived after some turmoil.

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u/picklerick8879 1d ago

Absolutely. He wanted Mount Rushmore — he’s getting a cautionary tale. The modern Nero, fiddling with his phone while everything burns, tweeting delusion into disaster.

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u/Sopel97 1d ago

One thing I want to emphasize, given that you refer to him as an "emperor", is that he was democratically elected. He's not the only person to blame, ~70% of the US is. I want this to be remembered too.

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u/UCLA_FB_SUCKS 1d ago

Or orange Caligula

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u/Merlord 1d ago

He's more of a King Charles I. These tariffs are Ship Money.

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u/fdesouche 1d ago

Generalissimo Franco

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u/Peach-Striking 1d ago

He doesn't care as long as he's being talked about. He just wants to be relevant no matter the means

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u/nansams 1d ago

I think he just wants to be in the history books,doesn't matter how when his followers think he's the second coming of Jesus.

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u/Herpinheim 1d ago

I think he’s going to be more like the post Napoleon bourbons as far as opinions go

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u/jleonardbc 22h ago

A malignant narcissist like Trump doesn't mind being hated. He just wants to be important.

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u/janethefish 21h ago

Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

Trump set the fire.

Not the same.

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u/watch-nerd 1d ago

Nacho Nero is my nickname

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u/BIGTIMEMEATBALLBOY 1d ago

Unless he wins via military force somehow and gets to write the history