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
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