He can not seem to grasp that your enemy is allowed to fight back and if you make enemies of friends eventually that is all you will have.
He can not seem to grasp
…anything, really. And his closest henchmen know this well, too! Just read the entire chat on Signal.
They’re just using him because he pulls (or used to pull) public consensus, while working around his bullshits.
He’s just gone. Nothing’s going on upstairs. I sometimes think of an ancient clip of Ali G trying to sell him some kind of ice cream glove and there was enough brainpower to realize it was bullshit and try to get out of that situation. Now tho, there is nothing there. He doesn’t grasp the most basic things.
President musk really need to stop Trump from talking
The word is “crybully”
He has concepts of what he’s trying to do
“If you guys damage the US economy, I will do even more damage to the US economy.”
—stable genius
The most stable. The best at being stable.
I’m the stablest, geniusest potus the world has even seen. When does the Mt Rushmore amendment start that’s all I want to know
Apparently that what it will take to wake up Congress and the voting populace.
It’s like he can’t comprehend that other people would react to his actions.
He raised tariffs, other nations reduced trade with the US and looked elsewhere. If he continues to raise tariffs it will inevitably cause the US to be isolated in trade.
It’s not even a shocking/daring tactic, it’s a self destructive tantrum because his misunderstanding has led to mismanagement and now he’s doubling down
This doubling down is really telling…
It’s a move to spur domestic manufacturing and move the US to Autarky — straight out of Hitler’s playbook; albeit an incompetent attempt because he’s a mentally challenged degenerate.
Autarky isn’t bad — covid highlighted the weaknesses that capitalism and globalism created for every economy — but Trumps goals are not risk mitigation or “national security”, and he certainly intends for it to enable imperialist wars and conquests. The fact is the allies won WW2 largely because of US manufacturing capacity (Europes was destroyed). China could take Taiwan tomorrow and the world would have to let them as we are entirely reliant on Chinese manufacturing; they could cripple us if they halted exports.
I agree with almost everything here, but I don’t think an embargo on China would be as damaging as you think it would.
It would hurt, don’t get me wrong, but China is largely in the position it is now because the developed world was looking for cheap labour and China fit the bill. There is no lack of underdeveloped nations who would gladly shift their economy if it meant they could support a fraction of the manufacturing supply that China currently commands. Africa and South America (not a single nation, I know but this is true of many African and South American nations so I’m combining for simplicity’s sake) is positioned both politically and geographically, to be a sudo-China in terms of manufacturing if the wider world decides to embargo China-proper.
The US and EU pulling out of China would devastated them far more than it would affect the former. I’d like to think that the EU at least, would be willing to withstand some economic damage to aid another nation in need.
I’m not well read on india’s modern manufacturing capabilities, but I do know that they have been trying for a while to up their manufacturing exports and entice jobs that would normally go to china. 1 billion ppl is a competitive sized workforce.
If America and EU needed an immediate substitute, india could fit the bill.
This is exactly it. There are plenty of options, removing what is currently the best option just means picking the next best and so on and so on until we reach stability
Not really, for the same reasons Russia’s economy is now in the shitter: sure they could sell oil to another country, but changing the whole infrastructure is not something that can be done in days. Same with moving the whole production of goods to a completely new country.
Also consider that nowadays western countries have lost the knowhow to produce efficiently goods (while their service industry still remains unmatched)
I can see the point your making. I’m not suggesting it’d be easy but if we moving to Russia as the example Russia would be the standin for China, not the wider world.
Russia’s economy is now shit because they got embargoed, as China’s would be, it hurt the wider world briefly, but that has mostly passed.
And I didn’t suggest western countries take on the brunt of the manufacturing, I suggested it should be countries that would benefit from the overhaul to their economy
it will inevitably cause the US to be isolated in trade
That’s the goal. He isn’t a Kremlin asset, he is a Pyongyang asset, implementing Juche in the US ;)
Ah, so that’s why he loves them so much.
Isn’t trump the one actually pushing economic harm to the US? Maybe he should look into that.
do it, cunt. the US relies on the EU and its neighbors way more than they rely on the US. you don’t even make shit anymore, and whatever you do make isn’t up to standards anyway. no one needs the US.
The only thing the US exports is tax avoiding, minimum viable product supplying, data collection companies.
Not only does the rest of the world not need that shit, they’re better off without it.
Fuck the US and everything it has come to stand for.
Keep doing what you are doing Europe and Canada
The trump regime’s only purpose is to TANK the US economy so that stocks, businesses, and industries can be bought by billionaires at rock bottom prices.
They are the ones already owning the companies. It’s not like the middle class had much of the ownership lol
“The bottom 90% of Americans own approximately 7% to 11% of all stocks. This highlights the significant concentration of stock ownership among the wealthiest individuals in the U.S. .”
Trump is hurting the rich. Which is hilarious because it’s not like he has anyone else’s interests in mind ahahaha
Oh yeah, his top buddy Putin
The wealthy can always try to own more.
Each time this happens, it’s another transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top.
The top takes more, and the bottom has to fight amongst themselves for a smaller and smaller piece of the pie.
Yet another thing that is beyond our willfully ignorant American Republican’s comprehension.
Adults cooperate with others who are open to mutually beneficial cooperation. Babies (and largely seniors past 70 as we become very similar to our sunrise at the sunset of life) kick and scream demanding to get their way the way they want it.
I’m a 40 year old manchild who collects movie props and even I know that.
“only I can do economic harm to the U.S!!!”
Please destroy our economy… I really want to buy a house.
I really don’t think that’s how it works. Like no one has ever sold their house below market to such an extent that one would run to buy it. That makes no sense. If you lose your house, it goes to the bank.
Think about what you’re saying. The market value fluctuates over time. Right now US housing is artificially inflated because of monopolies and rampant real estate speculation. When it tanks, it could tank hard and fast, and it might never get back to current levels. Nobody knows. And that is the time when tens of millions of Americans would love to buy homes.
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I can see you weren’t around when the fallout of 08 happened. Read some articles about the 08 crash. With all of these people losing their jobs, you don’t think there will be ramifications to that? The job market is complete shit right now, more people looking than jobs available. The dominoes have been tipped and are starting to fall. The sooner you realize that the better you will be on the recovery. There’s a bad moon rising and trouble is on the way.
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But it’s gonna be interesting all the way to the wild west.
This is such dumb shit. I wish his father hit him more as a child. It wouldn’t have beaten the stupid out of him but maybe he’d be quieter
Donald should have been punched in the mouth when he was a teenager. All his rich classmates at boarding school are to blame.
A good walloping may not fix stupid, but it sure could muffle the sound!
“I plan to shoot myself on the dick EVEN HARDER this time”
lol Eric cartman was created for this guy
Bring it on Trumpet, USA can’t stand upto EU’s economic power
Threatening to throw a tantrum if one’s opponents gang up, is only an admission of vulnerability and an invitation for opponents to gang up quicker.
Besides, the EU has already held consultations with China (which got a tariff raise last month) about how to adapt to the situation. Both have previously used response strategies aimed at Trump’s support bases. They’ll do it without hesitation.
And if Trump is going to enact “far larger” tariffs against every big trade partner, he’ll knock the US economy into a recession.
