If he understood anything about his electorate, he would know that it would be a choice of 1 meal a day instead of 3, if the rent is still paid.
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Why isn’t it “rich people will have 1 yacht rather than 4”?
Because you keep your yachts in the Caribbean so they aren’t subject to tariffs anyway
Let them eat cake!
Goddamn fucking piece of shit fucking moron
"The american people will suffer but china will suffer more." So hes hurting us to hurt them? Great job dumbass.
but he insisted China will suffer more from his trade war.
Even if this were true (which is dubious) this doesn't make me feel any better. That would simply make this a Pyrrhic victory.
What is the point of any of this? Oh yeah, cruelty is the point.
Nah, raising a shitload of money fast for tax breaks to pay off the billionaires who handed him the presidency is the point. Cruelty is why idiots would vote for this
The point? I think he expected the world leaders to come bearing personal gifts and favors. Trade some of the US's global position and power for his own personal wealth and power? I don't have proof, but it would be on-brand for Trump.
He's also surrounded himself with yes-men and crazy people (e.g. Navarro). He clearly has an elementary understanding (at best) of economics. Money good. China bad. Money go to China bad (trade imbalance). Tariffs keep money here.
Combine all that with the fact that he never admits responsibility for anything. When China pushed back, he retaliated. When they stopped participating, it leaves us in a stalemate that I believe will hurt us a lot more than them.
So, I think the trade imbalance is the justification. The goal is likely just personal power for Trump. But he doesn't really know what he's doing, doesn't care to learn, just thinking he's the greatest being in existence and everything bad is not his fault.
What about the kids who were lucky to get 2 dolls prior to the trade war? Shit outta luck I guess.
Just tell them kids in China have negative dolls. That will make them feel better!
Trump has a plan for them too. The coal mines.
Florida is already making it normal for children to be the future workforce.
They get to BECOME the doll of some rich kid. You woke people really hate freedom.
Reminds me of middle-age tales where when a princeling disobeyed his whipping-boy would get beat.
Except the kids aren't getting 2 dolls. They're getting dragged out into the middle of the street half naked in the middle of the night because the brownshirts can't even read an address correctly when they're casually disappearing whole families.
Why the fuck is this even reported on. Fuck this whole system, down to the author that thought 'ya that's worth making an article'
Don't buy your kids dolls. Buy them fpv drones.
Sadly, this probably concerns the average voter more than all the Nazi shit...
Yeah, I'm sure China's trembling at the mere idea.
China is happily selling to the rest of the world, and yes their sales will go down without the US market, but they won't in sense of the word "suffer".
Can't wait to see what happens when China stops buying our debt.
Donny "2 dolls" trump.
2 dolls instead of 30 works out to a reduction of 93.3%! That's HUGE. If that's supposed to be his positive spin on things, Americans are truly fucked.
It really shows that he doesn't care about Americans, he cares about punishing and attacking people that he doesn't like. That is all that matters to him, and he doesn't hide that. He doesn't want to make things better, he wants to make people suffer.
The fact that he has supporters is absolutely unfathomable to me. Then again, those same supporters want to punish the same people he does, so it starts to make sense.
He wants to punish Americans more than probably anyone else. Americans had the nerve to laugh at him when people joked about his hair, or makeup, or physique. Americans did not elect him in 2020. Americans allowed him to be forced out and didnt fight back hard enough when Biden "stole" the election. Americans allowed him to have some minor inconveniences when they put him on trial, raided his house for classified docs or made him take reaponsibility for his actions. Americans are going to pay because he knows nothing other than vengence for percieved slights and Americans allowed them all to happen
Suffering is the point
A real "let them eat cake" moment.
That's the real statement. Instead of 30 dolls it will be 2, but that translates to food supplies, too. Instead of 30 dinners in a month, we'll only have 2.
In the year after Maduro took over Venezuela, the average citizen lost 40 pounds.
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Cause American girls were getting 30 dolls every Christmas.
This guy is such a psychopath that he doesn't even understand how Christmas gifts work.
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The rich will still get 30 and a new sports car
We are already at a family video game for the kids to share and a really good dinner for the week.
doesn't sound like you're sacrificing enough. good dinner should be monthly
This is Christmas Dinner. Once a year 😭
...we get a good dinner once per week on a good week; we get a good week once per month on a good month; we get a good month once per season on a good season; we get a good season once per year...
Except a doll is $10 for the crappiest model, meaning were already only getting two dolls in the average budget. With that logic, we'll have to save up for the doll parts and assemble a single doll ourselves.
It's one doll, Michael, how much could it cost? 10 dollars?
Cutting off your nose to spite China
China's economy is still projected to grow while US heads to recession , this guy tries to create his own reality everywhere he goes.
China has the whole world they still can sell to. The US has shut the door on all existing and potential partners
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Even if this were true, a policy that hurts everyone isn't sucessful just because someone else suffers more than you.
When your worldview is completely transactional, and you believe that literally everything is zero-sum, then you do view that as successful.
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People are going to die in the streets due to the impact of these policies.
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I don't understand the hard on the right has for China yet they benefit greatly from China's low costs. As soon as the USSR fell and Islamic fundamentalism faded away I just knew the US would be looking for a new boogeyman to keep us distracted and justify defense spending.
The fact that they call it a defense budget and not a military budget kind of says it all too.
I'm all for actually defending your country, of course, but yeah...
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Is an anti-consumerism Trump on anyone's bingo card??
Didn't you know that consumerism is not conservatism? No? Neither did I, but the ~~good~~ people of r/conservative think so all of the sudden. Somehow.
Bad luck for the ones who could only afford two to start with huh?
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