r/politics • u/OnweirdUpweird • 1d ago

Trump's tariffs are 'biggest policy mistake in 95 years,' Wharton's Jeremy Siegel says

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/trumps-tariffs-are-biggest-policy-mistake-in-95-years-whartons-jeremy-siegel-says.html
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u/lemons714 1d ago

I heard from one today: It will be great in two years, Americans are stupid for selling.

They are also masters of forgetting and rewriting history now. Anyone remember when Antifa, the FBI, and Nancy Pelosi stormed the Capitol? Of course, the patsies who were not even there were the ones who needed to be pardoned.

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u/artbystorms 1d ago

Are these people that delusional that they think Americans can survive a 2 year recession on the 'promise' that it will be better later. Do they really think that most people voted for him voted for 2 years of deep economic pain?

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u/mothman83 Florida 1d ago

in their heart of hearts they still think the economic pain will mostly fall on women, brown skinned people, the LGBTQ and people able to speak other languages than english.

AKA the people they hate.

And if it falls on them they are willing to bear it as long as they think it falls harder on the people they hate. These people don't believe in win/win. They are willing to suffer as long as they believe their " enemies" suffer more.

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u/artbystorms 1d ago

Well that's terrifying. Willing to stab themselves, if the blood gets in their enemies eyes. That's Taliban level fanaticism.

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u/lNSP0 Ohio 1d ago

Brother the US is the only western country to get away with two genocides are you really surprised. We had a war because half of the country wanted to keep that going.

We then corrupted Canada kind of, the only good thing is they were kind of shit at it , they tried to pray the natives away, instead of doing it themselves after a while.

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u/dynawesome 1d ago

Don’t be reductionist, many other western countries have also gotten away with genocides

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u/BlackCaaaaat Australia 1d ago

Australian here. We did. 😞

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u/lNSP0 Ohio 21h ago edited 20h ago

Don’t be reductionist, many other western countries have also gotten away with genocides

I didn't say the US was the only one who did genocide, I said they were the only one to get away with that shit twice. (you could argue the Dutch has more if you take into account all their bs, but then they lose a few because the populations that they did it to overlap )

Most don't get past the high point of one let alone two. The greatest skill US has ever utilized is convincing people the second didn't happen.

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u/Tropicaldaze1950 1d ago

Hope they own a big car to live in.

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u/UnquestionabIe 1d ago

That's the beauty of all this: they don't want you to own anything! Trump, Musk, Thiel, and all these other wastes of life want to craft a world where they rule over us all and we can't so much as wipe our own ass without renting the toilet paper from them.

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u/icculus88 1d ago

They don't think anything lol. Trump =great . That's it. That's the extent of their brain. Make america great. Yeah I mean they're racist too but there is no deep economic thought

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u/KikiWestcliffe 1d ago

Because those women, brown people, and LGBTQ folks are lazy! We only got our jobs because of DEI!

They are hardworking Americans. Everyone knows that companies don’t lay off good workers for no reason, right? /s

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u/QuestionableAssembly 1d ago

“It is not enough that I succeed; others must fail.”

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u/Count_Bacon California 1d ago

They have no intention of us having another election again

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u/artbystorms 1d ago

Well....what did Kennedy say, when they make peace impossible they make violence inevitable?

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u/Lumpy_Machine5538 1d ago

I’m still not entirely convinced we had a real one in November.

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u/lemons714 1d ago

and here is their lord and savior with two years

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u/TickingClock74 1d ago

He was going to build a 2000 mile border wall in no time. He was going to stop a war in one day. New national health care program in two weeks.

There’s never a problem until he starts one. Has he ever resolved one?

Let’s all just wait the magical two years.

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u/lemons714 1d ago

To be fair, after eight years he did say he had the concepts of a hc plan.

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u/Moleday1023 1d ago

If you burn the house to the ground, put the fire out, you can rebuild the same house and say, see look what I built. Trump made a career of causing a problem, then pulling back at the last minute and declaring victory. Asshole went too far this time.

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u/jupiterjeshie 1d ago

Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. People /will/ die.

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u/ClaretClarinets Colorado 1d ago

But it was great two months ago! I don't understand why they think ripping everything down to gain back 10% later makes any sense.

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u/PissNBiscuits 22h ago

I heard from one today: It will be great in two years, Americans are stupid for selling.

Yup, I've heard this, too. The right wing goalposts have been moved to, "We just need to wait two years!" which is conveniently lining up around midterms for them to con their way through those and let it all collapse after they've won. Then, when everything has collapsed, they'll find a way to blame Democrats and use that as "proof" as to why Trump needs to have an uncontested third term in 2028.