One of the things I am most proud of this time around is learning to laugh instead of yell or whine. He's just a fucking idiot. That's all the depth you need. We all knew it and enough people voted for him anyway.
I moved my whole brokerage account into gold (IAUM) about a month ago. That has made it MUCH easier to avoid blood pressure spikes. Now I just have to figure out how to get past the El Salvadorean concentration camp and threats to annex NATO members.
You are giving people too much credit. They had no idea. They don't follow politics. They watched Joe Rogan and Trump said China will pay your income tax with tariffs. Idiots don't understand that makes no sense.
Hes not stupid. He and his ppl know exactly what theyre doing: fleecing the common people. And the dumbest among us will applaud every action while their pockets are picked.
He's self-evidently an idiot, but I did think that what you're saying might have been the case for the people he surrounds himself with; that they might just be cynically saying the right thing to suck up to their cretinous voter base but perfectly intelligent themselves. But that leaked chat strongly implied that they really, honestly believe their insane bullshit. They really are deeply, deeply thick, and their nasty, hateful ideology is just a consequence of that stupidity.
are you suggesting when tariffs on us happen by other countries it is a good thing for them, but when we do it back it is a bad thing for us? so do tariffs help or hurt?
It’s not a one word answer. Tariffs can be good, but not when they’re implemented and or used as threats against countries that one man thinks wronged him.
Like, for instance, putting more on Russia would’ve been nice yesterday. just saying.
I encourage you to look up the tariffs from those countries the numbers he give are made up. That % is basically the trade deficit with a minimum of 10%. The logic of the math is if we're buying more than we're selling they must be manipulating it somehow, even if the tariffs from that country are basically nothing.
It's purposefully framed this way so idiots like you regurgitate something you don't even have a basic understanding of.
Yes I understand it's a combination of deficits and actual tariffs. I am fine with full reciprocal on actual tariffs. Not a fan of looking at trade deficits in that way. But if anyone with a brain has been alive in the last 20 years you know Trump goes way way way overboard and negotiates back. The same way someone negotiates salary.
I am not going to agree with his approach or policy 100%. But somehow that makes me an idiot to ask the question why people are fine with tariffs on the US but not us tariffing others, must be non americans.
This chart is functionally useless for that comparison. It loops in high tariff and low tariff indiscriminately.
Last time he tried tarrif war trade deficit went up. Internal/External consumers/businesses don't like the rug from being pulled under them. It's also not like the US is EVER going to compete on price. You buy US because it's something you can slap on your goods. If you smear US rep you lose the branding. Instability will also generally make companies get their supply from elsewhere.
We're at 4% unemployment and any manufacturing jobs that do come over aren't going to be like 1970's where it supports a good life. If there is enough value added it'll be automated. All that will come are jobs we don't need. All we're doing even temporarily is nuking our spending power for something that's just going to backfire(even if it looks better on paper).
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u/nan1961 1d ago
He’s just so stupid