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And not a one, including himself, understood what tariffs were.
Now when we tell people they voted for this we can point them to their best buddy saying it too.
Exactly, this is not the policies of just one (although completely mental) guy. This is republican politics.
And the Democrats that allow them to go on and never reverse them.
Ok this is the third thing he says i agree with in these 100 days.
What were the other two?
Eventually he farts out a truth... You got what you voted for. It's just the many morons that voted didn't understand tariffs, basic human decency, or that fascism=bad.
One of the few times I agree with this flatulent.
If you lie so much you'll have trouble keeping your story straight, and eventually make a mistake and drop a few truths in there somewhere
a qoute from a ds9 character, you never tell the same lie twice.
That has to be Elim Garak
But that's just something he overheard from one of his customers. After all, he is just a simple tailor.
Other than him bragging about rigging the election, anyways.
This is why I think Trump stickers next to prices should say, "You did this." He not only won't except blame for anything but he'll gladly shift blame to the people he's hurting the most.
Maybe this will wake up these MAGA morons to pay attention to policy and not culture war manipulation when they vote? Doubt it, but here’s to hope.
I doubt they are able to connect surging prices with the Trump tariffs. According to Trump, it’s Biden’s fault, and that’s all they need to hear.
Ask any trump voter why they voted for trump. They will say "because I like his policies more". Ask them which policy do they think will benefit them, they will have no answer.
The policy they like but can’t say out loud is white supremacy
It is baffling how behind him they are for as little they can coherently articulate why.
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They did vote for him. Too bad most of his voters will hurt the most
Congrats, you voted to become poorer.
Given the way voters and non voters work, it’s pretty clear that there was a huge number how voted or de facto voted for him.
Oh my God, the leopards can speak!!!
He also said tariffs were a tax that other countries paid...so there may have been some confusion over what exactly they were agreeing to.
He said the economy would go up on day one, prices would go down and America would be in a golden age.
He said the economy was doing great in 2024 because people were predicting He would win the election, and then when the economy went down in 2025 he put all the blame on Biden.
I said this in 2016: he doesnt mean anything he says, he just says whatever he thinks in that moment will get him what he wants. He lies so frequently that you might as well just disregard everything he says because it doesnt have any basis in reality.
It doesn’t matter who pays the tariff. Anyone with half a brain knows that the cost will be passed down to the consumer either way.
Anyone with half a brain
Trump voters
Pick one.
If you're not informed and take Trump at his word, I can see how you might end up thinking the tariffs were a country-to-country transaction, like literally China paying the USA.
In that case you wouldn't necessarily arrive at the conclusion that the cost has to be passed on, along the value chain.
But on the other hand I don't have a good track record of estimating what uninformed people who don't care to seek information think...
As a non-American it’s difficult to grasp how uninformed the average American voter is. It’s not that difficult to look up what tariffs really are.
It's actually very difficult for them to look up what tariffs are, because they read below a 4th grade level and are functionally illiterate. Most explanations regarding tariffs that I have read seem to assume a European high school level of reading proficiency.
Pretty simple, they didn’t give it a second thought because there was never a first thought
Anyone with half a brain
Oops, I think we found the problem.
Yep. Less than half a brain and less than half a heart. Amd absolutely no self-awareness.
Socrates would chug a 20 ounce hemlock Mountain Dew just on principle after meeting an average American.
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