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I think we can just go with fuckwad at this point. No need to obscure any more.
I usually refer to him affectionately as fuck face.
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How will it be worth the price?
What exactly is the problem that applying tariffs to Canadian goods will solve?
Oh right, nothing. Fucking orange moron.
it weakens solidarity between two powerful NATO allies
Putin:
Similar was said in the U.K. about Brexit. Both situations are shite.
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Words cannot adequately express my deep hatred and loathing for this man. I wish all the worst for him and anyone who supports him.
“Will there be some pain? Yes, maybe (and maybe not!)”
Small potatoes at this point but it's amazing that this schtick still works. Really shows how gullible people are and how simple his act is relative to how well it works. This sentence means he doesn't know shit about what these tariffs will cause. That's what it means.
But to Trump supporters, if it causes pain he was right (he said it right there) and if doesn't he was also right (he said it right there). Amazing . Truly the greatest con artist of all time, especially considering how low-effort his act is.
unfortunately the faux news/conservative propaganda machine will never allow those voters to understand the reality of their terrible, terrible decision to elect a con artist as president.
it doesnt matter how bad it gets, it will never be this piece of shit humans fault.
Those voters choose to remain inside their bubble of ignorance and actively avoid any information that might challenge their preconceived notions. Painting those people as victims is just wrong.
its definitely not as black and white as that. many of these viewers do not actually know they have a choice.
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It isn't just fox news.
Myself and a few others I know who still use(d) reddit were given 3 day bans (so AFTER the tariffs hit) for just talking about how a "general strike" wouldn't be as effective as people think and the only way people would even notice were if it were rioting in the streets. Carefully worded so as to NOT be advocating for rioting.
People are finally starting to realize that musk and zuck are manipulating them. But they still don't understand that reddit and tiktok are as well.
And, to be clear: There are a LOT of bad actors on lemmy too. But outside of the particularly tanky instances, it is more a function of not having any protections against meat puppets.
Trump will tell them to blame Canada and Mexico and China and whip them into a fury and then use that to declare war.
In my opinion Trump went to North Korea, and Trump saw empty streets, empty bellies, quiet acquiescent workers that couldn't travel or complain, and a autocratic leader that was richer than anyone else.
And in my opinion Trump wanted to make America in that image.
Has he actually been clear about what the tradeoff is here and why it's worth it?
He said yesterday that the only way for Canada to get out of this is by becoming 51st state
Oh, so we're going to be suffering for 4 years pointlessly
Might just suffer permanently since Trump is dismantling the US government, consolidating power and setting up a dictatorship.
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Has he ever been clear about anything?
Wanting to fuck his daughter.
Honestly, I feel like at this point he can be completely honest that he's beholden to his fellow oligarchs, he just has to follow it up with "the democrats did the same thing, this is how we get even". And his followers will defend him, and his opponents won't have anything to call him out on, and we all lose.
Idk something about strengthening American economy making it more self reliant. Which is why he’s putting tariffs on all of the things we can’t sustainably produce here and are outsourced for a reason, y’know, so we can, uh…
He's trying to incentivize domestic manufacturing by disincentivizing foreign imports.
The problem is he hasn't promised any meaningful investment in domestic manufacturing except for a massive half a trillion dollar investment in AI.
For example, all shoes are made in foreign countries where labor costs are lower. The machinery to make shoes locally is scant if nonexistant. There were no investments made to offset this.
Nike and Adidas have said prices may go up by up to 100%. You have to inventivize these companies to make product locally otherwise they're going to find the cheapest option which is either trafficking it through a non tariffed country or passing the cost on to the consumer. They have a duty to their shareholders (the great American ethos) after all.
Idiot is basically saying “Jesus take the wheel” expecting everything to sort itself out while the American people get fucked.
No, but I can step into the breach: the tradeoff is that Putin doesn’t release the video of him fucking a 12-year old blonde girl whom he audibly refers to as “Ivanka”.
"Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people ‘I offer you a good time,’ Hitler has said to them ‘I offer you struggle, danger and death,’ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet."
This is a fucking nightmare. Who, Who, WHO voted for this turd?
77 million people. Thing is, they did it thinking he’d lower prices. lmfao
Conservatives will never fail to impress me with their gullibility, self interest and pseudoscience.
And tens of millions more decided he wasn't enough of a threat to vote against: "What's the worst that could happen?"
We're about to find out.
About 40% of the population can’t be bothered to vote in any election. It fucking sucks.
And we’re already finding out right now: immigrants, federal funding and trade wars.
the bar for minimum intelligence to survive is too high these days
About the WHO… he’s already started the exit process for that.
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I wonder how they're going to blame Obama for gas prices going to this time.
Also these maga are seriously thinking gas is coming down with these tariffs because the US will drill it's way out of it. Too dumb to realize that we're already producing a record about oil, companies already started they aren't going to massively develop expensive new wells, and the refineries in the north are set up to process Canadian crude oil and switching isn't cheap or fast.
Americans are going to suffer and we deserve it.
He’ll just blame Biden.
And his base will eat it all up just like last time.
I need to buy a shitton of "I did that" stickers with his dumb orange face on em and plaster them all over gas pumps
Even the Wall St Journal is calling him out as dumb.
Guy thinks he can stick his dick in an oil well and manufacturers will pop up wherever the voters are. The extra-amazing part is that he seems to think it will happen the day after tariffs.
Is he hurting the right people now?
Shocking.....well, not that shocking. Unless you are the kind of rube that actually believes anything a guy like Trump says.
“This might hurt, but it’s what you came here for”
It's plain to see he doesn't include himself when he refers to "Americans". This will predominantly affect one demographic, and it's coincidentally the demographic which doesn't have the savings to weather it out.
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