Trump is losing his foolish trade war. This will cost ordinary Americans greatly
a year ago by FenrirIII to c/politics
cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/post/140509
He's winning due to a serious lack of reality checks among the general American public. Aside from a generally pissed-off left, most of the country is still laughing at memes and planning dinner parties with their family and friends as if it were any other time. They don't believe it can get as serious as it can get. The American public has been in a safe stasis field for 40+ years. Most people don't remember the last time they truly panicked about anything beyond rent, or why they ever would.
If we all woke up to this shit, looked around and saw the same agreement on eachother's faces to right this wrong, we could.
We probably won't, tho.
You are so right. My most downvoted comment on Piefed ever was about how Trump might be doing something out of pure greed instead of just stupidity, and I was called a "moron" for thinking that Trump was capable of something other than imbecility.
He is the very personification of greed. And tariffs give him a perfect vehicle to screw everyone over so he can make money whenever he wants. We say, TACO, he chickened out. He still makes money on the announcement of a change in tariffs. In fact he makes money when he announces AND when he withdraws the change.
Dear Americans. I'm sorry, and I know not all of you are idiots. But I'm starting to run out of fucks to give.
I’m an American. Don’t feel sorry. I try talking to home and it’s like speaking to a wall. This has to happen.
Not like the US hadn’t been experiencing some pretty awful suffering in many places, especially considering it’s “the richest country on the planet”. They’re just super insular and when they are forced to look outside themselves they pretend like basic principles don’t apply to them and that’s why things have to be that way.
It’s not even entirely based on racist divides such that they can pull that card. Straight, white US citizens are getting fucked on the daily and still that’s not enough. The middle class isn’t a real thing, really, and people still pretend that it is to avoid admitting how bad things have gotten.
There must be pain before action begins. This is necessary.
I agree. The longer we go without feeling the pain from the damage he is causing, the more damage will happen. It is similar to his Medicaid cuts not kicking in right away. Too much time will pass between the action and the negative effect caused by that action.
This is the part I find most galling - the Americans are too comfortable. The people don't want to jeopardize their comfortable livelihoods and individual lives so expect the 'powerful elected officials' to do their bidding. After all, the public gave them the power to do just that. Otoh, the politicians don't want to jeopardize their cushy jobs and accumulated power by challenging the majority, so are waiting for the public to start a jan6 situation so they can point and say, 'see, the people are unhappy so we should act'.
It's a shitstorm of no consequences and a man child literally hacking away at the country and no one seems to be doing anything meaningful.
BUT Trump told me we're WINNING so this is FAKE LIBRul MedIA! I do my OWN RESEARCH!
I can fit 12 Peruvian avocados up my butt, which I learned, by doing my own research.
Russia is winning
I think you misspelled China. And the way USA is screwing up, I suppose China even deserves it.
Russia on the other hand is economically in ruins due to the war against Ukraine. Putin miscalculated every single aspect of that war. And will not be able to recover fully within 2 decades.
Release the Trump/Epstein files
I think people are smoking crack if they think a Trumpcession will hurt the MAGA movement at all. These guys could lose their jobs and be stuck eating lentil soup to survive and insist the economy is great or will be great again any moment now. I truly believe that there is a significant subset of the population who cannot be helped because they simply cannot defy Trump for reasons that are quite frankly incomprehensible to me.
Yeah, but Taco Camacho got that really cool trophy from Apple.
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