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Trump: I have concepts of a plan.
This guy: Oh boy, I hope those concepts survive his term!
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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Sounds like a Democrat.
“They skinned my children alive while they made me sit and watch. But ya know what? I’m glad they did that. It’s what’s best for the country. Plus it builds character, and I’ll have a great story to tell my children one d….oh right”
then stfu and stop whining. this hole isn't going to dig itself.
Trump could cut this guy’s nuts off and he’d still find a way to put a positive spin on it
He's been sold on a fundamentally holistic view of the economy. "This may be uncomfortable now, but I trust it will produce a large national windfall in the future".
It isn't a bad attitude to have on its face. People do need to accept certain short term discomforts in order to achieve long term economic benefits, whether that means working industrial jobs to produce new useful infrastructure or risking personal health/safety in military conflicts to establish national security or curbing consumption to avoid long term ecological harm.
But the mass media this guy is ingesting is bullshit. So the benign "we're investing in the future" perspective is corrupted into a gullible "my local neighborhood wallet inspector is just helping to remove these counterfeit bills from the money supply" political apathy.
He's the victim of an intense, industrial scale propaganda campaign.
Incidentally...
Trump could cut this guy’s nuts off and he’d still find a way to put a positive spin on it
The indoctrination system has people willing to suffer and die for their gods.
"protected after Trump's term"
So executive orders are useless for this, and what concessions are Republicans willing to make to get a Senate super majority to pass an amendment, which hasn't happened in most of our lifetimes?
That guy is choking on copium. Downing in it.
There is no such thing as "gains" here, long or short term. This is 100% bad.
If you want more local production, you incentivize that, not hugely disincentivize everything else.
What do you mean? There are plenty of gains to be had...
...for the already rich and powerful.
Okay, so, being incredibly generous here, I sort of get their point, but why not slowly ramp tariffs up to allow domestic production to catch up? Because fuck you, that's why.
And, as always, none of any of the false promises of prosperity excuse any of the hate Trump spreads.
Instead, the xenophobic hate from an economic idiot is believable enough to start a worldwide depression over trying to get batteries for Elon while making pop-up-factories with AI staff I guess?
Or of course the alternative wartime “economy”.
Man these guys are so dumb I can't 😂😂 "I voted for this, but..." 🤣 I would feel pity for this poor sob normaly but I'm done with their nonsense.
Watch out, don't call someone "dumb" or the mods of this stupid instance will remove your comment.
After all, we can't hurt someone's feelings even though the country is on fire.
You're dumb.
I voted for what's best for the country moving forward
Bigotry? Ignorance of economics? Or both?
Increased rates of easily preventable diseases?
Both and probably a lot more. He's pretty confident that this won't affect him too much. I am sure the leopards continue to circle for a second pass at him.
Or that if it does, it's a sacrifice he's willing to make for Glorious Leader.
I sure hope these leopards find my face delicious!
Maybe if there was a group who resisted leopards and helped these poor brainwashed fools?
But apparently libs just wanna condescend all the way down.
We can't just let the leopards go hungry, you cowards!
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