r/IntellectualDarkWeb • u/Desperate-Fan695 • 3d ago

Why no tariffs on Russia?

As we learned yesterday, Trump's calculated "tariffs charged" by foreign countries aren't actually tariffs but rather based on trade deficits with a minimum of 10%.

The tariffs apply to 185 different countries and territories. Even extending to remote, uninhabited islands that have no trade with the US.

So the question I have... why not Russia? Not only do we still trade with Russia, we have a 2.5 billion dollar trade deficit with them. By Trumps own criteria, they should have been on the list. It seems we're really not beating the claims of allegiance to Putin.

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u/russellarth 3d ago

We all know.

MAGA and conservatives as a whole have their heads buried in Trump's asshole.

Democrats and liberals can only complain so much. We have TDS, of course.

Things need to change. People need to be shamed out of polite society.

Stuff's about to get real bad, and it's all on really loud, really dumb people. Many of which are here.

I predict a lot of people pretending not to be so hard for Trump very soon. But the rest of us will remember.

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u/Ozcolllo 2d ago

TDS is a more apt descriptor for the cult-like behavior of his supporters than his critics. I hope it’s a product of the batshit insanity of the conservative media ecosystem’s monolithic and ubiquitous propaganda and not something worse.