r/agedlikemilk • u/karmaceuticaI • 20h ago

Curdled.

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u/Interesting-Pin1433 18h ago

I member all the MAGAts saying "he's not actually gonna do it, it's just a negotiating tactic"

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u/mtdunca 15h ago

They are still saying it's a negotiating tactic.

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u/Synectics 14h ago

r-conservatwat had this literal comment about his blanket tariffs. "It's negotiation."

The fuck it is.

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u/-prairiechicken- 13h ago

It’s as much of a negotiation as rape is a negotiation of “human contact”.

Victims of their own self-imposed denial.

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u/More-Butterscotch252 13h ago

Meanwhile, the US imports most of its rare earths from China and China just banned exporting them to the US.

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u/Aslit11 13h ago

Yes, I saw lots of comments saying it's temporary. I guess gambling with the entire economic system seems acceptable to folks who elected a casino owner for president.

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u/dbgtboi 14h ago

Can you blame them? The shit Trump is doing is so mindboggling levels of stupid that there must surely be some grand scheme going on right? RIGHT?

It's going to take some time before people come to the realization that there is no plan, and Trump is just a senile 80 year old man like any other, he just happens to be rich.

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u/CotyledonTomen 12h ago

I can. His business history is available for anyone to see. The problem is the average person fails to realize how much money you can earn, even as you fail time and time again, if you had money to begin with.

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u/Interesting-Pin1433 11h ago

The shit Trump is doing is so mindboggling levels of stupid that there must surely be some grand scheme going on right? RIGHT?

Well, no.

Everyone should have learned that he isn't playing 4d chess after his first term. But people are stupid