I bet Trump didn't have many playmates as a child.
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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My understanding is that Trump has no fucks to give, is reveling in the chaos, and that nothing short of dethronement will stop him. So ya'know, we're fucked.
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Liz Truss did less damage than this and we had her in the stocks in Trafalgar Square in under a week.
Don’t hold out any hope that magats will wake up, they’ve already been programmed to rationalize it and are suckling boots like good little followers
At this point I'd just call him PINO.
I fucking hate magats so fucking much
Can't wait for the next year when he screams in the corner about other countries being mean to the US, so he is forced to do military incursion into the Greenland.
Fuck everyone who voted for this, btw. But also fuck every single motherfucker who enabled this orange bafoon long before he got there.
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So I guess it's another precipitous drop on the stock market when it opens again.
He's finally figured out a number bigger than 100!
No. He said "50% more !"
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China and the USA ruining each other. I'm going to need more popcorn.
China will be fine
China is getting economically hit in the short term, but the amount of soft power they were gifted by this administation is something they have dreamed for decades upon decades.
And it's knly getting hit in regards to US trade. They also trade a lot with other nations, Europeans also know their way to buying all the Teemu, Shein and Ali express slop.
Not just that. Try manufacturing anything without Chinese parts.. They make everything switches, resistors, motors, just everything.
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Nah, US is suicide bombing its economy in the vicinity of China. Still popcorn-worthy.
At some point ~~tarrifs~~ tariffs won't matter anymore because at that tariff height the goods could just as well not be available at all.
you fool, you missed a tarrif
Yep, we are watching the active teardown of the global trade infrastructure that has been built over the past 5 decades.
That international trade has been the single largest deterrent to international warfare. Neighbors who actively trade are far less likely to go to war with each other. Powerful nations have an interest in exploiting less powerful nations economically rather than conquer them militarily - it's cheaper, and you can extract value from the exploited nation over an extended period rather than gain some short-term value while destroying the source of that value. The exploited nations benefit by not being attacked, and may have more flexible options for improving their position economically (i.e. Japan in the electronics market in the 1980s).
The Trump administration looks like when a new manager takes over a functional team, doesn't know how anything works, can't be bothered to try to understand, and just starts breaking established processes to prove that they're in charge.
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One r two fs in tariff
Since we're apparently going to have to be spelling it all the time now.
Ah, yes.
I'd rather like to forget about it all until I can do more than just avoid American products
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"Back off or I shoot myself in the other foot!"
It's got some real "Black Knight" energy to be sure.