Trump is such a fool. Obsessed with chaos. He could have cut the government responsibly and under the radar. But no, his way had to be clusterfuck spectacle with Elon musk assuming control of the gov and firing random people who have nothing to do with the swamp.
He could have gone back to Trump 1.0 tariffs which after an initial shock period were largely forgotten because he didn’t create such a spectacle around them. Now everything has got to be a show with this constant truth social posting and shit like “liberation day” so stupid.
All this shit with Greenland and Canada…wtf are we doing. It’s all just chaos porn.
Now there taking about mt Rushmore and a 3rd term…. I feel like we’re living in the twilight zone with all this shit
That's the point, though. He's not motivated by money or power, he's motivated by attention, and taking money and power is a way to get attention. He's like a toddler who smears shit on his face at a dinner party and is delighted because everyone's paying attention to him.
He says stuff that gets people riled up as a tactic to get them to say his name, because he'd rather have people say "trump is an idiot" than not say trump. He has a genius for listening to conversation and picking out the random stuff that gets people most riled up and then saying that over and over again.
He doesn't care about Canada, he heard someone say "we should just take over Canada" as a sarcastic remark and then watched people get het up about it and thought, hey, good one, if I say that people will say my name a lot.
He can make the left riled up by outraging them and he can make the right riled up by outraging the left, so that's what he does. He doesn't believe in anything except the sound of his own name.
I'm not some free trade absolutist, I think it's important to have domestic manufacturing and if some protectionist policies are in place to boost it then so be it. For that reason I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. However blanket tariffs are more likely to hurt domestic manufacturing than help it. Take aluminum for example, if you want to manufacturer cars, appliances, and power tools you're going to need aluminum. The US has to import aluminum because there is only so much here naturally, that's just reality. So if you make aluminum more expensive through stupid blanket tariffs, those products are going to be more expensive to make, and if they become prohibitively more expensive then the company will just move the manufacturing elsewhere. Likely these blanket tariffs will get blocked but if not I don't see American manufacturing growing.
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u/Normal_Commission986 6d ago
Trump is such a fool. Obsessed with chaos. He could have cut the government responsibly and under the radar. But no, his way had to be clusterfuck spectacle with Elon musk assuming control of the gov and firing random people who have nothing to do with the swamp.
He could have gone back to Trump 1.0 tariffs which after an initial shock period were largely forgotten because he didn’t create such a spectacle around them. Now everything has got to be a show with this constant truth social posting and shit like “liberation day” so stupid.
All this shit with Greenland and Canada…wtf are we doing. It’s all just chaos porn.
Now there taking about mt Rushmore and a 3rd term…. I feel like we’re living in the twilight zone with all this shit