Because that's what it's all about - someone else suffering more. The objective is to increase the amount of suffering in the world, since we clearly don't have enough of it just yet, but making sure others suffer more than us. Because trying to make it so that everyone suffers less is communist, unamerican and bad, I guess...
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Everyone knows the goal of running a country is to make people suffer. Not to accomplish anything positive. That would be GlObAlIsM
If Utilitarianism is about maximizing overall benefit and minimizing harm, Trump is an Inutilitarian
I don't think most kids get 30, but is he already talking about how Christmas is going to be? Tomorrow is May 1st. That is 7 months away.
Buy presents right now. I'm serious.
Doesn't work great for young kids, their interests and abilities change a lot in over half a year. Especially with a new school year which doesn't start til August/September.
It's just another example of him being delusional as fuck.
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but wait until he can't find a good inflatable doll any longer...
Fuck this shit.
Nobody cares about how many dolls kids are getting.
More like two meals instead of three
Nothing like a rich guy who has never known struggle to tell everyone else they need to struggle because he's a moron
This speaks to a broader issue -
whenever there is an economic crisis, whether manufactured by trump or created in other ways, its never the rich that have to sacrifice its only the middle and lower classes. And when the wealthy are ever asked to sacrifice in the form of higher taxes they get pissed off and call everyone else a "taker" of their money.
I genuinely believe that most people understand this but our collective voices have been muted, manipulated and managed by some in positions of power.
Even the Grinch didn't go on TV to tell peoole he was stealing Christmas.
“People are worried, even some people who voted for you, saying ‘I didn’t sign up for this.’ So how do you address those concerns?” ABC host Terry Moran asked Trump.
“They did sign up for it, actually, and this is what I campaigned on,” Trump replied. He added, when questioned about price increases on electronics, clothing and homebuilding, that “China probably will eat those tariffs.”
Man I hope democrats use that ammunition he left sitting there for the next 80 years.
How do you eat a 140% tarrif? Set the actual items value to a negative number?
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"It's One Banana, Michael. What Could It Cost, $10?"
Why parrot his bullshit in the headline? China will not suffer as much as the US. This is such bullshit.
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The Anti-Santa Claus.
Americans are basically winning because they aren't suffering the most
Trump singlehandedly destroying American overconsumption.
Ah yes, the country with an established industrial base and centrally planned infrastructure is gonna suffer more from tariffs than the checks notes usury and consumption economy run by competing interests and bolstered almost entirely by the ownership of foreign assets and reliance on its currency for international trade.
Honestly my only conclusion is that they know and are willing to create an economic crisis for the purpose of consolidating political power in the form of "emergency measures" as fascists usually do. I refuse to believe they are just stupid
Trump, and many of his supporters, think that America is China's biggest client. They're totally blind to the idea that China is China's biggest client, and that it's not even close.
Their total lack of understanding of the world outside their little exceptionalist bubble is hilarious and depressing
American kids might “have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,”
Operating on the assumption that most households aren't buying their kids 30 dolls (and those that do are probably going to be under the least economic pressure to cut spending), if American households actually cut spending on their kids by a proportional 93% of whatever they were going to spend, I expect that midterms are going to be interesting.
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Trump has no idea how the world works at all
“Kids might get two calories per day instead of 2,000. But hey, Chinese kids will suffer too!”