Let's see, he could not impose tarrifs and make everyone happy that he's not going to burn down the economy OR he could impose tariffs, shut down taxes on the ultra-wealthy and embezzel/stock trade his ass back to billionaire with cash on hand.
he DGAF what anyone wants unless they're going to make him significantly richer.
Man... Side with Trump, side with CEOs. This is one of those "Can't both teams lose" situations. Ha
All part of Putin's plan. He probably gave him the advice on tariffs.
"If you burn America to the ground, I will let you rule this ashes."
I wonder if in a Freudian slip the translator said "Self Sanctions" when discussing tariffs
Oh no! The leopards are eating faces! Who could have foreseen this?
Either Putin paid him more than the Corpos, or he owes Putin too much to turn around on it.
Did you only now notice that he only cares about himself?
Looks like Americans are about to go through their version of brexit. Good luck, it's going to be rough.
Those are nothing alike. The UK has become an empty shell of its former empire. It lacks the access to resources for a closed economy and the military strength to steal them elsewhere.
For the US it is possible to return to a closed economy. The way Trump would do it is stupid and it would fuck over most Americans, but the end goal of a closed economy is viable in principal. For the UK it was impossible to achieve anything out of Brexit.
The only way the US could return to a viable closed economy is if the world jumped into a time machine and went back to the 80s.
Over here in the UK, whilst Brexit is an absolute clusterfuck and was always going to be, it was never the plan of even the most Faragian of people to enact a closed economy.
I don't think any Westernised economy could successfully run a completely enclosed economy anymore.
That would be glorious! But I'm seriously scared for Ukraine and Europe while Amexit happens...!
I'm going to laugh so hard if Trump has an "apparent suicide" and at least one cop says it's not suspicious, if they can do it to whistleblowers who risk their profits, surely this qualifies?
Not saying it's likely, just that I absolutely will laugh, probably for days.
Trump ignores a lot of things. The Country's bigliest ignorant.
He has already shown them what he wants them to do.
Just donate $1 million to him and he will help your business
It was a billion.
See? The poor billionaires suffer inflation just like everyone else. /s
I was wondering this morning as I was scrambling my eggs just how many of the grossly unqualified billionaires that Trump is trying to nominate to cabinet positions paid for those positions?
How the actual fuck are people “blindsided” by this?
Remember that Trump lies about everything, often in both directions. Everyone knows this, including his supporters. That gives his supporters the mental freedom to make up whateverthefuck policy positions they like and find proof that they are Trump's real plan.
Donald Trump is the human version of a Bible. If you're a Believer, god says he will implement your Desire. If you're a Heretic, god says he will destroy the world. All with the same words.
But... But... Genderless bathrooms! /s
You ever talk to c-level execs? Many of them simply aren't smart. They're just very aggressive and confident which gives the appearance of intelligence.
A lot of times attractiveness plays a big role too. In modern corporate america being attractive will get you further than being smart.
Studies have shown that something as simple as being tall makes people be more likely to be looked towards as leaders.
Maybe the leopards started with the eyes.
CEOs aren't the brightest.
They thought they’d vote anti-tax first, then pushover trump on the tariffs when they had the time. Looks like they were wrong.
More faces being eaten.
The one singular upside of Cheeto 2.0 is that I'll get to enjoy some guilty schadenfreude as the face eating leopard starts eating the faces of the party-for-face-eating-leopards.
If this was his first go-around I could see some rationale to that idea. But holy shit, has there been a case of collective amnesia among business 'leaders'?!!
They knew exactly what they were getting. Because we've seen all this before. Usually this is the definition of madness. But in this case it should be the definition of stupidity.
This same surprised Pikachu shit is going to happen over and over and over again over the next 4+ years. Even right now, the media keep assuming what he says is what he will do. And I have no idea why. He demonstrated in his first term that at least half of what he promises he either backtracks on he doesn't follow through on. Why they think things will be different this time is beyond me.
He's a Russian asset, what do they think he is going to do anything that's in the US's best interest? He's here to burn it to the ground and line his pockets with what's not ashes.
Honestly at this point I don't know how anyone can't see the obvious.
This guy has tanked all of his previous enterprises due to his poor decision making and lack of knowledge. What in their right minds made them think this would be any different?
Anyone else feel like the goal IS inflation?? I feel like they're trying to contrstruct a Weimar Republic situation with this to push people further right. I hope I'm wrong, but this feels like they're really trying to come up with an excuse to kill a lot of people.
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