r/politics • u/throwaway16830261 • 1d ago

Terminate the Trump tariffs before it's too late

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-rand-paul-terminate-trump-tariffs-before-its-too-late
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u/MattisBest 1d ago

You have terminated your relationship with every country around the world for the foreseeable future. Tariffs or not. The effects of this fuck up won't even go away with removing the tariffs.

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u/BrianBurke 1d ago

I think he truly believes a bunch of countries and businesses are lining up to grovel at his feet this weekend. What's actually going to happen is he is gonna get shanked by 180 countries at the same time and more and more people are gonna go elbows up and boycott because he's a deplorable asshole.

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u/Gerbil-coach 1d ago

Et tu Mcdonald Islands

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u/Cantthinkofnamedamn 1d ago

March of the Penguins...to the streets!

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u/Harbinger2001 Canada 1d ago

The Free Trade Coalition’s first meeting should be on McDonald Islands. 

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u/TheAlphaKiller17 1d ago

I just realized Trump likes McDonald's so much because it has his name in it. That took me a minute.

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u/Ok_Information_9382 1d ago

Right wing Americans believe that Americans (White right leaning ones) are fundamentally and inherently better than everybody else and that the world needs them more than they need the world

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u/Glass_Channel8431 1d ago

Correct.

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u/hombrent 1d ago

Wait. He's correct that people believe that? Or what they believe is correct?

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u/keeper_of_kittens 1d ago

People do believe this! My dad always told us this growing up. I believed it when I was a kid. Then I traveled and learned more about the world and saw the flaws in my country. I saw that people are pretty much the same everywhere, and although being born in the USA has huge advantage compared to some places, there are plenty of other great places out there too.

My dad was a hardened trump supporter until recently. 

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u/Yamza_ 1d ago

He isn't going to get shanked, we are. He is doing to us exactly what he wants. He will be just fine.

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u/Glass_Channel8431 1d ago

Krasnov is only doing his job. People need to realize this.

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u/Cantthinkofnamedamn 1d ago

I have heard the reason it is so many countries is so even if all the big players reject the US, the white house can still coddle Trump and tell him about the great deal he just made with Botswana or something

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u/sylbug 1d ago

The American empire is over. Countries like Canada, France, and Germany are stepping up. We will all feel the pain for a while, but when the smoke clears America will just be another irrelevant, fascist backwater, and the rest of us will have moved on to a new equilibrium.

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u/Harbinger2001 Canada 1d ago

I wouldn’t go that far. The US still has a massive internal consumer market. They will certainly be poorer, but still big enough to not be able to ignore. 

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u/Old-Design-9137 1d ago

They have no manufacturing base for common consumer goods, and they've just systematically destroyed their education, health and public welfare systems. They're also on the verge of civil war.

They're absolutely fucked.

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u/shunted22 1d ago

Everyone is going to be fucked from all of this, but the USA will be the most fucked yes.

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u/Darth_GravelCyclist 22h ago

I hate the Trump administration but this is extreme and untrue. I live here and idk where you get your news but life is going on as normal. Prices are rising, there is uncertainty, but our systems are still intact and there is not some kind of civil unrest like you’re making it seem. It is not suddenly unsafe and violent here. Hopefully it doesn’t get to that point and congress will finally do something but you’re painting an extreme picture that isn’t actually happening.

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u/Intelligent_Gold3619 1d ago

Like Russia is now.

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u/Harbinger2001 Canada 1d ago

No way they get that poor. But yeah, I'd guess they'll lose 30% of their GDP. At least if they keep reserve currency status. If they lose that, then all bets are off. They'll be faced with default and it will get very ugly as they try to strong arm their debt holders to take a huge haircut to prevent a default. Hopefully by then the rest of the world will be ready to tell them to stuff it.

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u/netabareking 1d ago

Even if we managed to get someone fantastic in the white house in 4 years, other countries have no reason to believe we wouldn't bring someone this horrible in again. It's going to take generations to fix this.

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u/BruceBanning 1d ago

What would the civilized world need to see happen in the US to change that?