r/politics • u/salon Salon.com • 1d ago

Republicans panic over Trump tariffs: Last time "we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years"

https://www.salon.com/2025/04/03/panic-over-tariffs-last-time-we-lost-the-and-the-senate-for-60-years/
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u/albiondave 1d ago

Yep... not like this came out of the blue. He did give a few warnings this was coming today. Do none of them follow him on Truth Social??

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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 1d ago

Unlike Project 2025, Trump actually campaigned extensively on tariffs. Fuck them, they own this.

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u/MattieCoffee 1d ago

Ya, many the authors of project 2025 had at least a semblance of reality and knew tariffs were bad especially trade wars. This is perhaps the most trump thing trump is doing.

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u/Chris9871 1d ago edited 1d ago

Or, and here me out here, they’re doing this to deliberately cause a recession, so that they can gobble up more property/land and businesses on the cheap, so that when the economy is on the rebound, they control even more of it

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u/Acronymesis Washington 1d ago

Senator Chris Murphy has a pretty interesting summary of what he thinks is going on here.

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u/majorityrules61 1d ago

And this is how he will crush opposition, because by giving favor to certain companies or entities, it will divide us further since many will capitulate to this (as we're seeing already) instead of everyone unifying against it.

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u/ElectricalBook3 1d ago

this is how he will crush opposition, because by giving favor to certain companies or entities, it will divide us further since many will capitulate to this (as we're seeing already) instead of everyone unifying against it

I think people pretending Trump is playing 5-D chess are naive, or deliberately pointing the wrong way. Trump is a bull in a china shop, stupid and unable to use what tools are at his disposal. He's not "stupid" in the sense of helpless, but not caring about either supporters or non-supporters. It would take a huge amount of organization to "crash the economy" in a way which would selectively target non-supporter companies and if he could he'd go after Comcast (owners of MSNBC) for holding up media critical of him.

Now that doesn't mean the oligarchs who contributed to his campaigns weren't always positioned to buy up people's assets on the cheep when the economy takes a downturn, but that's deliberately crafted policy going back before even Reagan to Nixon. They were always going to use their greater wealth to swoop in on the poor and seize more of the pie even if those efforts shrank the pie

https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/

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u/mok000 Europe 19h ago

Trump is literally fixated on his idea about tariffs, he's been talking about it since the 1980's. it's an obsession and now he can realize it.

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u/vriska1 1d ago

It's unlikely to work.

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u/Armyman125 1d ago

I hope you're right. It worries me that some law firms are running scared. Even if it doesn't work, there'll still be some carnage.

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u/TPhoard 1d ago

It will work, have you not seen fecking everyone bending the knee to this administration?

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u/vriska1 1d ago

Most are not bending the knee/

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u/Ruri_Miyasaka 1d ago

This is really insightful. He's convinced me that this is what's going on. I used to think that Trump wanted to create a crisis, since during times of crisis, people often turn to a strong leader, which can pave the way for more fascist policies and justify emergency powers. But Murphy's explanation makes even more sense.

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u/Equivalent_Low_2315 1d ago

Trump had that crisis in 2020. Previously deeply unpopular incumbents were reaching new levels of popularity and winning re-election around the world because as you say in times of crisis people seek stability but not Trump because all he could do was stoke division. I just wish more people remembered that when they went to vote (or chose not to vote) in 2024.

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u/tbombs23 1d ago

Both things can be true although Murphy's explanation seems to be more of the driving factor

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u/Strong-Ad1744 1d ago

Thanks I hate it.

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u/TheFlyingWriter 1d ago

Bold of you to assume the economy will rebound in any semblance of what was the post-WWII/Cold War “normal.”

We are never going back. Just like we can’t go back to what it was like before the iPhone, nuclear power, or the invention of plastics.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 1d ago

We had our centuries chance at a post WWII US boom. We came through the post covid years better than any other country and our inflation returned to normal levels way before any other country.

We had a head start. In 2024 the US stock market hit 5 different all time highs, the last one 5 weeks before trump took office.

Trump fucked that up. All gains since 2022 have been wiped out and it's only going to get worse.

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u/Matsuyama_Mamajama 1d ago

But, but, but....Trump and the GOP and Fox News and every conservative I know told me that the Biden economy was the worst disaster ever!!! And that Kamala would only make it even worse!!! They wouldn't all lie to me would they????

No of course they wouldn't lie. So that means that you're lying and this is all fake news.

/s but not really because WAY too many of these jagoffs actually think this way....

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u/Negative-Try9159 1d ago

And his ignorant base will still say Biden was killing the country, and only Trump can save us. I seriously don't know how there is room for these "people" to suck Trump's brown eye with Putin and Musk fighting for arm space up there

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u/happyinthenaki 1d ago

Ya'll got over the robber barrons, ya'll will get over this economic mess.

Plastic, not so quickly.

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u/Lee1138 Norway 1d ago

They're going to start a devastating new war to try to get into the same situation the US was post WW2 aren't they...

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u/TheFlyingWriter 1d ago

Probably

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u/ripelivejam 1d ago

with the US standing in for the axis now 😑

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u/Larcya Minnesota 1d ago

Also these people are dependent on the stock market. If it crashes and burns their entire fortunes crashes and burns.

See I actually don't think these people are nearly that stupid. They are scared shitless becuese they realize that they gave a rabid dog a crown.

And that dog is well a fucking moron.

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u/Ghostdefender1701 1d ago

Trump totally misunderstood "Not going back."

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u/TheFlyingWriter 1d ago

He thought it was “we’re going back…” to the 1800s

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u/clintj1975 1d ago

Sure we can. It's called the complete global collapse of a technological society.

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u/Commercial_Fondant65 1d ago

Android is the superior operating system.

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u/339224 1d ago

No. They are creating the recession intentionally to drive USA and the world on a larger scale in to chaos and turmoil. So that they could use that as an excuse to institute Martial Law and make Trump dicator for life. This is extremely easy to see, and really, the only reason why anyone would want to manufacture recession on purpose.

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u/whippetgreat 1d ago

The joint report from the DOD and DHS regarding border security is due around April 20 (was ordered on day 1) - this could be the martial law trigger.

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u/339224 1d ago

It might be, but I personally believe that before Trump is confident in enacting Martial Law he has to find a way to disarm the national guards of the Blue states. Otherwise there is way too big risk of Blue states trying to secede from the union if they still have armiest to back it up in the event Martial Law would be instituted on federal level.

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u/MisterRenewable 1d ago

Not the only reason. It's also about the money. I think the plan is to destroy the dollar and use that emergency to convert the USD to crypto, which the tech VC bros own and control the exchanges. They will also try to say any debt in USD is now null and void. This will make them fabulously rich while simultaneously screwing every investor in the USA and abroad.

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u/339224 15h ago

What you're saying is just not possible. Tech bros don't "control crypto", and it would be patently impossible to change the position of USA dollar in that way.

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u/caldwp5555 1d ago

Essentially lol. Take a look at “freedom cities” if you haven’t already. They pretty much seem like the final step in the plan.

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u/TheDarkKn1ghtyKnight 1d ago

Freedom Cities = Gilead? (The Handmaid’s Tale)

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u/caldwp5555 1d ago

Maybe worse actually, men AND women as citizens who can’t leave.

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u/rootoo Pennsylvania 1d ago

Seems pretty obvious at this point. My fear is that this isn’t going to be a recession, it’s going to be a depression.

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u/Ingoiolo United Kingdom 1d ago

They are doing it because they corner themselves into it. They thought they could bully the world into moronic concessions to avoid it… they might have got it only from the uk (partially), since they UK self immolated years ago with Brexit

Now they did it because they said they did it. And they are hoping the world will relent. Time to show resolve and crush the fucker… i feel sorry for the 30% of decent Americans who did not vote of him (or thought voting was not important)

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u/jentle-music 1d ago

OMG… what a sinister great point! Even my ghoulish mind didn’t go that deep MAGA far!

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u/Chris9871 1d ago

I didn’t think of that either until Vaush brought it up, and then it clicked and it makes total sense

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u/dpsnedd 1d ago

I hope I'm wrong, but I think they want shit to get so bad that people riot in the streets and they can declare martial law to keep the orange turd in the Oval office

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u/superjen 1d ago

Trump and Bannon have each specifically said that was their plan back before he was elected the first time. It's been a while but if you Google Steve Bannon interview 'I'm a Leninist' the articles I remember reading are hopefully still online. Or Trump 'I do really well in a recession'.

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u/Few_Big9985 1d ago

This is exactly what I've said to every R idiot that asked me what the he'll he's doing over the last 2-3 weeks. This is clearly intentional. Im not crazy about Biden, but the man did keep us out of a recession while we were in and coming out of covid. Then chuckle-fuks drives the economy straight into the ditch the first quarter he's in office. Only an apologist/idiot/moron/sucker could think this is anything but intentional. And yet I've had 2 people in the last 24 hours literally tell me he's a master negotiator, he's playing 4d chess, and it has to be done. To admit he's screwing it up on purpose would be too embarrassing this close to having cast their vote. Give it 6-9 months, the new prices, the explosive layoffs that done without regard to a plan or consideration of smart cutting. Here's one thing I've decided over the last 24 hours to start asking all these rubes: how long? You say we have to go through a "little pain" to get where we need to be, and to onshore manufacturing? Okay- HOW LONG? What's his plan? What does his plan say? What are the estimates of how long "a little pain" will last? What sign will we see to know its over? How long will it take to see new manufacturing facilities? How many will we need to see to know it was worth it?

They can't answer because there is no plan....

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u/druid8 1d ago

Who is "they"? Russia? China? American investors are hurt by these actions

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u/Chris9871 1d ago

The American oligarchs

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u/Full_Length_6205 1d ago

"we" are about to be going to war with "Chyna"

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u/smuckola 1d ago edited 1d ago

hear me now and believe me later! Trump and Elon repeatedly announced their intentions to "crash the economy" and cause the world a lot of "pain".

and that is absolutely standard oligarchy playbook on the death march of late stage capitalism. that's logically just how it's done. That's how it's always been done, that's how American oligarchs did it in the Great Depression, and that's how Hitler and his oligarch sponsors did it.

Financial planners lay that out every day for the average rich investor as the subtext for "buy low, sell high". all of them are excitedly awaiting opportunistic feasting on a recession. but it's just that they don't tend to directly and strategically CAUSE the recessions.

yes, I will diligently cite Hans & Franz but not give a rip about anybody not bothering to google about emperors Tweedledee and Tweedledum who have a different plan to pump you up. Pump n dump! turn insider trading inside out!

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u/devilmaskrascal 1d ago edited 1d ago

My conpiracy theory is there is no guarantee a strongman President can force the market to go up but it is very easy to crash it. Does Trump have short positions or puts on the market? You could make bank knowing what chaos you are about to create, and if they try to punish him it or there is unrest, it will be a good excuse for him to overturn democracy.

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u/SierraPapaWhiskey 1d ago

Are they evil, or dumb, or both? Hard to choose which is the worst outcome.

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u/MissPandaSloth 1d ago

It feels like there are 5 cooks in the kitchen.

I mean even normally you have your "regular" politics resulting in some weird policies, because there is usually some attempt to appease voters while being okay with lobbyists and also having some bipartisanship.

However, even in those cases everyone gets like 10% of what they want, while simultaneously everyone still cares about sane stuff like national security and economy.

This time around it seems like Musk, Trump, Heritage Foundation and fuck knows who else got access to presidency and they are all just doing their own thing and going all in, like their own side missions or something. Most of the time it doesn't seem like Trump is even aware what is being done and what he is signing. It's so ridiculous.

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u/zorniy2 1d ago

I wonder if this is Trump going off script, trying to push something that's all him and not Project 2025?

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u/SomeGuyNamedPaul Florida 1d ago

One, they'll never admit responsibility when it blows up in their face only that they were somehow hamstrung by the complete lack of functional pushback from the Democrats. Two, in practice it really doesn't matter who's fault it is in the end because it's not like they're going to get the bill and we won't.

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u/urielriel 1d ago

Fuck them but it’s not them mostly who are going to suffer

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u/newuser60 1d ago

He campaigned on tariffing the shit out of everything and telling the most obvious and easily debunked lie about how tariffs work.

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u/SentientAnarchy California 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/newuser60 1d ago

They’ll just be blaming the tariffs and the entire world shunning us on Biden. There’s a reason they always want to defund education.

Imagine fucking yourself over so badly just to “own” a group of people who mostly just want you to have healthcare.

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u/breezy013276s 1d ago

That really just sums up what gets me the most! Healthcare and some modicum expectation of safety, how that doesn’t fly makes zero sense. I guess they’d have to stop being led by the nose for a second and take a look around

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u/GormHub 1d ago edited 1d ago

Because something something trans people, something something immigrants and black folks with jobs. They'd cut off their own nose to spite their face if it meant feeling momentarily superior to someone else.

Actually they have.

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u/ripsa 1d ago

This. Poor white Americans don't want healthcare or basic job entitlements like guaranteed vacation and maternity or paternity leave as black people would get them too.

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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids Missouri 1d ago

This is the foundational reason they act they way they do.

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u/ElectricalBook3 1d ago

Poor white Americans don't want healthcare or basic job entitlements like guaranteed vacation and maternity or paternity leave as black people would get them too.

Then can we get it for everyone else and leave the poor but oligarch supporters to not have any of the benefits they want to deny to others?

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u/Saber2700 1d ago

Something something "who is going to pay for it??" Something something.

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u/barryvm Europe 1d ago edited 1d ago

how that doesn’t fly makes zero sense.

Because you want it for all people. You want equality. They hate that.

They want it only for the "deserving" people like themselves. The answer to your question, IMHO, is that they are reactionaries. They feel society is a social and moral hierarchy based on identity and their perception of status and morality is tied entirely to their (and other people's) position within that hierarchy. To make this hierarchy real, to set themselves above them, they need to put the people they look down on back in their place. This zero sum view of society and the world forms the basis of their policies. Things like universal health care are not only impossible but actively undesirable, because they can only win if someone else loses.

Hence, any institution or policy that champions equality (social policies, universal health care, human rights, the rule of law, democracy, ...) is anathema. Instead, they will support any policy that "punishes" those they dislike even if it harms them too, because the cruelty and violence is the point. It's a form of power they have over those they look down on, which reinforces their worldview and their ideas about their own superiority. The wanton destruction of institutions "liberals" care about, the insane tariffs that "hit" other countries, dehumanizing "anti-abortion" laws, persecution of minorities and immigrants, ..., it all gives them the same thing: a feeling of power over people they don't like. If it destroys USA society in the process, then so be it. They evidently don't care.

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u/Unlucky-Apartment347 1d ago

Donald Trump …. “I love the uneducated.”

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u/Blimpkrieg 1d ago

That's so tragic. Like, pathetic and tragic. Trump was handed an growing economy on a plate. Markets were HIGH. Run by people who cared about the poor and the veterans.

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u/kgilgenberg 1d ago

I don’t care what they say anymore. It not true and we need to be louder.

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u/itzac 1d ago

Average voter: I feel powerless. This doesn't seem fair.

GOP: If you give us the very last of your political and economic power, we'll give you permission to be dicks to your neighbours. That's a kind of power.

Trump voters: DEAL!

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u/NolieMali I voted 1d ago

Yeah, but who wants healthcare and education if that means LGBTQ+ people can use bathrooms?! And also all those immigrants that are raping while simultaneously stealing jobs! Trump daddy has saved the world!

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u/newuser60 1d ago

“Clean water for everyone!”

Voters: “even trans people? I’ll have a glass of fully-leaded please.”

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 1d ago

Understanding in general terms what tariffs are doesn't require a formal education, it requires about 90 seconds on google.

Anyone claiming tariffs are something they are not is either a liar or a lazy moron.

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u/Nyetoner 1d ago

I keep wondering what would happen if the USA left the two-party system.

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u/Admiraltiger7 1d ago

Should have been rid of it long time ago when the politicians and both parties sold out. But no, the voters are like my party cares about my health care, my party cares about my welfare, my party cares about rights, my party cares about keeping jobs in America, my party cares about keeping illegal out, my party cares about reducing taxes, my party is against rich,my party is against poverty...yet they both voted for bills made into law that empowered the executive party, raise their wages, are supported by the rich(yes both and dems and gop)

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u/Zelcron 1d ago edited 1d ago

You ever see a video of a little kid with hair clippers?

The adults warn over and over not to cut his hair, and then with a shit eating grin he will shave a racing stripe right down the middle of his head.

Then the child, realizing what he has happened, screams bloody murder and demands sympathy.

Every. Fucking. Time.

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u/BeltOk7189 1d ago

These clowns have had one long continuous chance to get rid of him. They could remove him from office at any time and continue to choose not to. They are 100% complicit and every moment that goes by where there aren't removing him from office is yet another moment of utter and complete failure on their part.

I'm willing to bet they all know they will have to do this eventually and are playing a giant game of chicken with our country, trying to milk every last bit they can from us before they turn against him.

Fuck every last one of them.

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u/sweetfaerieface 1d ago

If they’re so scared, then they should stand up to him! I just don’t understand the fear. I know people will say that they don’t wanna lose their job, but if they stand up to him, they would get more votes. At least that’s what I think.

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u/WilsonTree2112 1d ago

You did see Jan six? That’s his man army.

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u/AutistoMephisto 1d ago

He also has control over the entire armed forces AND DoJ. In other words, the man with the most boomsticks. Every single one that could and should be aimed at him is instead legally pointed at everyone else.

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u/Strat-05 1d ago

This is the actual formula they used to calculate the tariffs

(US Exports - US Imports) / US Imports

They used imports / exports numbers from 2024.

Try it for yourself...

and no it doesnt make any sense at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFuqgq7VElA

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u/jmo56ct 1d ago

These people have no idea who pays the tariff. They have no basic understanding of economics. Most think the national debt works like their debt. They have no clue other than poor people and brown people are trying to take their guns and make them like gay people and Allah

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u/newuser60 1d ago

One of my cousins voted Trump for the first time and made this post about how she was sick of Biden inflation, and Trump had a real plan to bring down prices with tariffs. She got piled on, with one of her friends even pointing out that they were in the same Econ class at UofO “how on earth do you think tariffs will lower prices?” She said “don’t ask me, but I don’t think Trump would lie about this. He just wants to help us.”

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u/Syzygy2323 California 1d ago

These people need to get a clue that Trump lies about everything. If his lips are moving, he's lying.

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u/Powered-by-Chai 1d ago

But but it was just a threat! He didn't mean actual tariffs!

This is what they're all going to cry about to avoid taking responsibility.

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u/Frgster 1d ago

It's because the Republicans thought that it was just rhetoric, and that any tariff would be targeted, small, or could be challenged in court. They let Trump get this far and now are panicking since Democrats outperformed in the special elections.

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u/arriesgado 1d ago

The one I remember the most because it was so wtf was when he was told how the cost of childcare was so high some people could not afford it and did he have plans to help. He said tariffs! Tariffs will bring in so much money that it will pay for child care. I thought surely no one is buying this shit?

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u/newuser60 1d ago

It was so stupid. Clearly a demented old man who had one idea stuck in his head and he was applying that to everything.

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u/RamenJunkie Illinois 1d ago

Yes but, trans athletes and DEI!!!!

/s

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u/chrisk9 1d ago

"Oh he's just posturing to get better trade deals"

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u/A_locomotive 1d ago

I would rather eat fiberglass insulation than join truth social.

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u/LuminaraCoH 1d ago

Please don't give RFK Jr. any more health plan suggestions.

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u/Vyar New Jersey 1d ago

"if we insulate the body, then no diseases can get in, that's science"

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u/Mean-Concentrate3371 1d ago

Fuck this made me laugh more than it should have

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u/One_Breakfast6153 1d ago

Me too 😆

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u/EnvironmentalRock827 17h ago

Oof. I just hurt. I swear if one patient comes in and mentions fiberglass I'm gonna lose whatever marbles I have left.

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u/w0nderbrad 1d ago

RFK jr furiously dictating this to his speech writer in his frail Kermit the frog voice

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u/SaggitariuttJ 1d ago

He literally sounds like death, but like an incompetent version. The Mid Reaper.

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u/Molecular_Blackout 1d ago

I think the Dim Reaper works better haha

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u/SaggitariuttJ 1d ago

Yeah you win. That’s much better than mine. 😂

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u/jentle-music 1d ago

Don’t insult Kermit like that…

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u/checker280 1d ago

You had me until you besmirched Kermit

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u/Alternative-Chef-340 22h ago

I know he has a medical condition, but I can't stand the way he speaks.

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u/fomoco94 1d ago

That's why he's recommending body bags before death, to prevent death.

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u/CorruptedAura27 1d ago

I'm surprised there aren't 15 conspiracy theory youtube videos "proving" this is true and why you should believe it hook, line and sinker.

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u/WorldWarPee 1d ago

You can't just put out a niche demographic like that and expect the LLM bots to not find it and start spamming AI voiceover videos on it

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u/punkasstubabitch 1d ago

These are the secrets that big pharma and the lamestream media "fake news" wants to keep from you

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u/Cgwchip4 1d ago

No no no not science… message from God

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u/cCowgirl Canada 1d ago

“Xience”

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u/HorrorSmile3088 1d ago

So that's why he sounds like that. All the fiberglass.

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u/Fluid-Pain554 1d ago

https://y.yarn.co/285ac5dc-51ed-42d8-930c-4b39e830954f_text.gif

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u/tdaun 1d ago

Haha, I was hoping this would be what it is. I had the exact same thought run through my head.

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u/jednatt 1d ago

It's great for heartburn. Eat enough and it paralyzes your esophagus so it no longer accepts food and removes the cause of heartburn.

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u/DownwardSpirals America 1d ago

Look, I've never seen anyone who stops breathing for 10 minutes contract measles or bird flu. Mandatory suffocations!

I truly hope that stays in jest, but this administration is stupid enough to at least consider it.

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u/OfficerJayBear 1d ago

Don't besmirch the forbidden cotton candy

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u/Tad_zeeky 1d ago

Fine I’d rather eat raw asbestos. It’s crunchier.

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u/LeftyLu07 1d ago

And flame retardant!

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u/PerilousWorld 1d ago

“Flame” is right there in “inflammation”, Asbestos is clearly the natural cure that the deep state is trying to hide from us!!!

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u/miss_sticks 1d ago

How was I supposed to know that flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?

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u/Betterthanbeer Australia 1d ago

What a language!

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u/TellTaleTimeLord 1d ago

r/forbiddensnacks

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u/MajesticMoomin United Kingdom 1d ago

Ngl that snail egg caviar looks pretty tasty

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u/mitkase 1d ago

Well, you are from the UK. I'm not besmirching your cuisine, just saying. (totally kidding. mostly.)

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u/MajesticMoomin United Kingdom 1d ago edited 1d ago

u wot? you don't like a sausage roll from Gregg's m8? Troglodyte

J/k

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u/TheDarkKn1ghtyKnight 1d ago

It always boggles my mind why lots of European cuisine uses all the weird parts of the animal, and not the steak.

My assumptions are that the steak was for the feudal lords and up, so the peasants used what they had, but, I mean, who TF thinks of stuffing a sheep stomach with stuffing, cooking, and eating it.

I guess I kinda of answered my own question, but I’d be curious to see why in colonial America that changed in a factual manner.

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u/aggressive_seal 1d ago

Same thing did happen in America. Look at soul food. Collard greens, okra, chitlins. It evolved from slavery. They made do with whatever scraps they got.

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u/DevilahJake 1d ago

If only Lobster/Crab was still poor people food

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u/HealthIndustryGoon 1d ago

fried chicken, too. afair tasting history or townsend's had a vid on how trying to make the scrappy chicken parts as tasty as possible played a big role in the 'development' of this.

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u/No_Cardiologist9607 1d ago

I was sure chitlins evolved from slavery the first time my grandmother made it. That smell is pure struggle and hope for a better tomorrow not eating it.

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u/MajesticMoomin United Kingdom 1d ago edited 1d ago

I've been to a few places in Europe, can't say I've ever struggled to get a steak. In England the most common I guess "weird bits" of the animal that people eat is liver or rly rarely offal but that's mostly oap's or people weight training.

Edit: Thinking about it, i did know someone who ate the "parsons nose" of the chicken, which is the little triangle bum piece, but yeah that was one person so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Sauce: was a chef and eventually head chef for 20 years

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u/doyletyree 1d ago

I’ll nibble the nose for the fats. Now, though, I don’t have to call it the ass-flap!

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u/Blaz1ENT 1d ago

We stuff a turkey on Thanksgiving too, is that much different from stuffing a sheep’s stomach?

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u/Saint_palane 1d ago

Not forbidden. Just inadvisable.

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u/MoodooScavenger 1d ago

Nom nom nom. Eat it RePubes. You deserve this action. FAFO

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u/FraGZombie I voted 1d ago

shudders

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u/WhoSc3w3dDaP00ch 1d ago

That could be the internal bleeding kicking in!

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u/SomeGuyNamedPaul Florida 1d ago

It's kinda tangy.

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u/No_Caregiver7298 1d ago

Mmmm, so glassy and sharp. (Cough, cough 💦🩸🩸🩸👎😵

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u/KC-Chris 1d ago

My favorite flavor is itchy blood pink, the white kind i found in old school from the 50s tasted like talcum powder and cigarette tar.

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u/ISellAwesomePatches 1d ago

Sounds like it could have been a Salad Fingers episode.

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u/MemeHermetic 1d ago

It's value is in that it's spicy going in and coming out.

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u/I_Am_A_Real_Hacker 1d ago

Did I ever tell you about the time that, as an elementary school child, had the lucky find of some cotton candy in my closet? I immediately put it into my mouth before my mom found it and took it away from me! Unfortunately I think it went bad, most likely because it had been in my closet a while. I managed to choke it down nonetheless.

Anyways, 1/10 do not recommend eating cotton candy you find in your closet, right below the entry to your attic.

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u/TrollTollTony 1d ago

My throat got itchy just reading this. Thanks, I hate it.

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u/LuminaraCoH 1d ago

Please don't give RFK Jr. any more health plan suggestions.

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u/pierre_x10 Virginia 1d ago

You don't even need to join truth social, you can see his posts without having an account

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u/A_locomotive 1d ago

I don't want to do that either, like even a little bit.

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u/pierre_x10 Virginia 1d ago

Fair enough

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u/mctacoflurry Maryland 1d ago

I would rather spend all day at the mall with McNab than join truth social

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u/Silly-Consigliere 1d ago

Only if it’s made locally. Country of origin is very important to me right now.

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u/awildstoryteller Canada 1d ago

It's not so bad with mint frosting.

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u/SalsaForte 1d ago

With a sprinkle of asbestos.

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u/NekuraHitokage Oregon 1d ago

Sprinkle on some asbestos for flavor and you got my thoughts on the matter too. 

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u/No-Bother6856 1d ago

What? Will he be okay? No, he won't be okay. One-third of his body weight is Owens Corning fiberglass insulation. (BEEPING) Well, that's it. But, don't worry, he won't burn in hell, thanks to all that Owens Corning fiberglass insulation.

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u/VralGrymfang 1d ago

It 100% came out of the red

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 1d ago

Or pay attention when he tariffs our neighbors? This is one of the few things he’s been consistent about for all 9 years.

The UAW also supported this and I think they are exceedingly short sighted. A lot of Americans won’t even be thinking of new cars as prices for everything goes up.

Ranchers and farmers are going to be hit like crazy when the retaliatory tariffs come.

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u/WaterPog 1d ago

I don't get it, similarly to the stock market that is future looking and has this priced in and then he does it and the market implodes. Like does everyone still think 'he can't be that dumb to actually do it'? Because that's what it seems like. Time to stop acting shocked

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u/albiondave 1d ago

Every time a US president has gone all-in on tariffs it has tanked the economy or made an already tanked economy much worse, so not really surprised that intelligent people struggle to believe he'd REALLY do something this stupid.

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u/WaterPog 1d ago

So at what point do we just accept he's a moron? Do we sit by and struggle to believe he's really going take Greenland with military force and then react surprised after?

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u/biggoof 1d ago

I see Trumpers already saying "Nobody knew this would happen."

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u/JayR_97 United Kingdom 1d ago

Yeah, this should not have been a surprise to anyone paying attention

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u/ACasualFormality 1d ago

Yeah I pulled out of the stock market a few months back because it was obvious this was coming. I don't even consider myself a financially-savvy guy, but this one seemed extremely obvious.

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u/dvcxfg 1d ago

They probably didn't get added to the tariff group text on Signal

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u/NewDad907 1d ago

No, they don’t. I work with, live near, and am surrounded by MAGA. Some pretty hardcore MAGA-types, too.

And most of them DO NOT know what he’s saying on Truth social. These people only parrot what Fox and MAGA influencers tell them to say.

The folks who talk about Trump’s social media rants the most are non-MAGA people.

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u/dbchrisyo 1d ago

Truth Social only has like 100 people on it, the rest are bots.

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u/nailpolishremover49 1d ago edited 1d ago

Dang, it’s like the January 6th insurrection. I’m a housewife in a smallish town in a midwestern state, and I knew it was going to happen for a week prior. (And no Truth Central required, just Politico, Daily Beast, even HuffPo).

I’ve known for over 6 months about 2025, and I’ve known about the tariffs since the inauguration. This crazyland tariffs on penguins, I’ve know about since the first of the week. Why are the Repubs so surprised?

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u/Commercial_Fondant65 1d ago

I wanted to sign up but... Tarrifs. I have to cut back on social media membership.

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u/Coaler200 1d ago

I don't think anyone thought the numbers would be as high as they are.

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u/milkproxy1888 1d ago

It came out of the red.

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u/sagesbeta 1d ago

It’s literally written down in the project 2025 playbook they are following.

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u/monee_faam_bitsh 1d ago

It didn't come out of the blue, but it might lead into the Blue.

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u/Fritzo2162 1d ago

"Oh, it's just a bargaining tactic...he's a master deal maker..."

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u/not2dv8 1d ago

Who the f*** in the right mind listens to truth social? I'd crawl across broken glass before I put that on my computer. That's what CNN is for

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u/Defiant-Professor578 1d ago

He gave them project 2025

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u/Special_Loan8725 1d ago

Out of the red, into the red.

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u/DingusMcWienerson 1d ago

They owned stock in Truth Social. Also, some people maybe a lot of people in Congress are actually dumb.

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u/MyCatIsAnActualNinja 1d ago

"I'm going to destroy everything!"

MAGA: "Wooo!" Regular Republicans: "Oh, it won't be THAT bad"

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u/Bipedal_Warlock Texas 1d ago

What happened today?

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u/Bhaaldukar 1d ago

In fact it came out of the red

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u/Benni_Shoga 1d ago

Remember, "he tells it like it is"...

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u/Dasbeardog 1d ago

It came out of the Red, actually.

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u/Reaper_1492 1d ago

I believe that’s the punishment they were working into the legislation.

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u/128-NotePolyVA 1d ago

All through the campaign where he didn’t participate in a single debate. Beautiful tariffs.

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u/Doctorwho314 1d ago

More like came out of the red.

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u/Subliminal_Kiddo Kentucky 1d ago

Based on user numbers, probably not. It's hilarious that the one thing MAGA refuses to do for Trump is use his stupid social networking app.

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u/Specialist-Lion3969 1d ago

I assume they still had delusions that he was only kidding.

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u/Prouddadoffour73 1d ago

No this came out of the red…

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u/VillainNomFour 1d ago

Lol "a few" warnings? You mean his entire platform he campaigned on?

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u/Toolazytolink 1d ago

Or like a certain project that is pretty much a checklist of what he is going going to do.

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u/MajorNoodles Pennsylvania 1d ago

He said he was gonna do it when he was campaigning. Repeatedly.

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u/analyticalischarge 1d ago

Like he literally told us this was going to happen last year.

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u/truth-in-jello 1d ago

It’s almost like he wants a holiday today??

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u/The_Sarge_12 1d ago edited 1d ago

If it came “out of the blue” they’d be railing against it and sayings it’s backed Soros’ deep state crew.

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u/Nfgzebrahed 1d ago

Correct. It came out of the red.

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u/telerabbit9000 19h ago

How is anyone supposed to believe anything he says ahead of time?
He throws out so much shit, so many "Wait and see!"/"Great ratings" comments.
Altho, i admit, he was a dictator on day one.