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Analysis/Opinion China to impose 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods imported from the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/china-to-impose-34percent-retaliatory-tariff-on-all-goods-imported-from-the-us.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

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u/budgefrankly 2d ago

Trump's never had less than 40% support at any point in the last eight years. That's not election fraud, that's the electorate.

And as for propaganda: yes it exists, but there's no "state broadcaster" in the US. All the old new channels still exist. People are choosing Fox, OANN and the rest because it's easy and makes them feel good (even if it's feeling good about believing things are bad).

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u/rczrider 2d ago

People are choosing Fox, OANN and the rest because it's easy and makes them feel good (even if it's feeling good about believing things are bad).

While this is true, it's only half the story.

The puppet masters behind the Republican party are far from stupid and their (literal) evil genius was recognizing the long game.

They carefully worked their way up through the system, manipulating local politics and the electoral configuration of the nation to slowly bring everything farther right. The average "Democrat" politician is right of center. Use of the word "liberal" is a joke.

While this was happening, they attacked education, dumbing down their voting base and turning them into single-issue voters. They gave their new dogs a bone and let them chew on it, then told them the left was coming to take that bone away. Doesn't matter that it wasn't true; the GOP base is now too dumb to realize the bone isn't the problem, it's that the GOP is taking away their food bowl all the while.

Conservatives "choose" right-wing media partly (mostly?) because they're stupid. The GOP made them stupid. The GOP also encourages hatred, so these stupid people are also angry at what the GOP is doing to them, but because they're stupid, they don't realize the GOP is their real enemy.

Don't get me wrong, my capacity for sympathy and understanding is gone. The conservative voting base - and high-horsed non-voters, let's not forget those assholes - are the reason the US is speed-running its collapse. I hope they suffer, a lot and quickly, because it's the only chance we have that they'll wake the fuck up.

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u/MikeinAustin 2d ago

It’s not the overall number. It’s the states that are swing states. You just need to win by 1000 votes and you get the electoral college.

He has 20% of the vote in non-rural counties. The … ignorant.