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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Old man yells at cloud

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Price of his diapers went up.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Oh, I hope his cult boycotts wal-mart.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Hey Trump, you know what would fix this? Price controls!

[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What the fuck do you think businesses are gonna do? Their costs went up. Planet Money podcast had an interview with a small business owner that had to pay the 145% tariff on her imports ordered before the tariffs went into effect. On a $30,000 shipment, that’s an extra $43,500. You think businesses are gonna keep prices the same and eat that? They will go bankrupt.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He really doesn't understand tariffs or business or, really much of anything, does he? Businesses pass on costs to consumers, if the government intentionally increases costs China isn't paying it, Walmart isn't paying it, where does he think the money comes from?

I have a very good relationship with a small bookstore here, a lot of their magazines are printed in Canada and a lot of their books are printed in China. I'm VERY worried for them.

They aren't in a position to absorb the costs, but at the same time, raising prices will turn off their customers. And they BARELY survived Covid.

They can't go to companies like Marvel and go "Hey, pretty please, with sugar on top, can you stop printing in Canada and China?"

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Waltons didn't spend MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ELECTING TRUMP just so he'll YELL at Them! MAYBE with a Couple More Million he'll STOP IT!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

NGL, it's hard to be mad at him for telling megacorporations to eat it. But it's the workers who will suffer.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Reality does not conform to dementia hallucinations. This is what happens when you vote for a geriatric cantaloupe.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Nice job, dipshit

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Clearly it was Biden.

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[–] [email protected] 282 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Wow. I used to think he just couldn't stop lying about tariffs...

But now I'm convinced he has NO idea what they are or how they work... NONE

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's the thing about spending 70 years lying and having someone else fire anyone that disagrees...

You start believing it all.

Same shit happened to Elon and loads of other rich people, they stop getting real feedback and understanding that they're being lied to.

The honestly believe their own bullshit, and they just don't know how to react to the truth.

We saw it with the interview about the ms13 tattoo, trump doesn't even know how to argue anymore, he's used to everyone just agreeing with him, so when they don't his only argument is "why aren't you saying what I want you to say, do you not understand what I want you to say?"

Because that's the only time they hear what they dont want to; when the person talking to them is confused about what they want to hear

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

that's the only time they hear what they dont want to; when the person talking to them is confused about what they want to hear

Sums up the online right and the futility of debating or arguing with them in any real fashion. This is the culture of JD Vance and Andrew Tate.

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[–] [email protected] 176 points 2 days ago (3 children)

He is exceptionally stupid.

[–] [email protected] 142 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had." - Professor William T. Kelley, Wharton School of Business and Finance

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah everyone tries to convince me he's smart and the ignorance is an act but I don't buy it. He truly is mega dumb.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago (4 children)

He's an idiot-savant. A total moron with a special talent for self promotion. Which it turns out gets you very far in life (along with the head start one gets being born wealthy).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Self promotion is a lot easier with a super rich daddy opening all the doors for you from jump. Don’t forget he’s a hardcore nepo-baby.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

By that, I ask what smart thing has been done?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

He developed a cult of personality around himself of significant size and used it to seize one of two pillars of political power in the USA, which then propelled him to power twice. Not smart as in "good for the world," but pretty successful in the, "empowering and enriching oneself at the cost of the commons" sense.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's really just the born wealthy. Your family is the biggest factor in success. That's why so many rich fucks are dumb as posts, they're born rich; they didn't earn it, and they've never had to develop problem solving skills because they've never faced adversity.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

Yup, see Elon Musk

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

Trump rages at truth, facts and concrete .evidence

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Well Walton family, you know what you have to do.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If you don't want the SS coming after you for "threatening the president", make it "23-skidoo47".

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

Get rid of Trump like they got rid of 1000s of small American businesses and well paying jobs?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Live life as best you can as God fearin' mountain folk?

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