We can all agree that polling is completely meaningless now yeah? It obviously has zero correlation with reality.
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Why? The polls showed Trump winning and he won, if anything they got more accurate.
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American Voters soon to get bad news that Trump does not give a fuck about them.
The only poll that mattered was on November 5, 2024.
He has absolutely no reason to care now
"could" increase consumer prices? Really? Still not sure whether they will actually increase, if tarriffs are implemented?
Let him do this tariff thing. Maybe people will finally learn how "good" he and his party is with money when the US economy is completely ruined.
Republicans have been tanking the economy my entire life. Their voters do not learn
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I understand the appeal of "teaching them a lesson", purely for spiteful reasons. But there are problems with that approach:
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You can teach a child never to put his hand on the burner by putting his hand on the burner. He'll learn alright, but he'll also have a nasty burn. Similarly, you don't want people to learn the dangers of populism and extreme right by letting the extreme-right populist do stupid shit and wreck their lives.
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We who didn't vote for the dangerous populist live in the same country as those who did: even if we wanted to let the dangerous populist hurt them to teach them a lesson, he'll hurt us too in the process.
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History always repeat itself: even if everybody learns a hard lesson after Trump is done wrecking the economy - or worse - our children, or our children's children will invariably elect another Trump some day. So we might as well do our best to limit the damage each time.
Your second point only applies to people who voted against him. If you didn't vote you voted for him.
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Probably not, they'll still find a way to put the blame on others.
I mean, people are still fueling the flames now for not voting Democrat because AOC is being shafted by the establishment, ignoring the bigger picture. When the GQP proves to be far, far worse, they will still be spouting something akin that both sides are the same. Part of it has to do because propaganda campaigns plays both sides and this is the way the side that could vote Democrat is played nowadays.
And how much of that will find its way into his personal funds? So many big donations from big companies already - he's going to milk this for all the money he can.
It's almost like maybe we shouldn't have elected the guy.
Seriously…. If 74% think his economic plan is bad, and yet a majority said that ‘the economy’ was the biggest reason for who they chose…. How?
If I learnt anything recently, "polls" quotes on Lemmy and reddit mean jackshit.
They just said "the economy" because they don't want to admit it's racism
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What American jobs is he protecting? We DON’T HAVE ANY manufacturing in the US to speak of anymore. At best we assemble stuff here that is made for n China. Except for car companies, what true industry is left?
The American car manufacturers moved their production to Mexico, meaning they'll rise the prices on them due to the tariffs. And from what I read somewhere (and I can be completely wrong), the only car manufacturer that produces the car in America is one of the Japanese ones (~~Hyundao~~, Toyota etc). Still funny to think that "Japanese" cars are made in America, and "American" cars are made in Mexico 😂
Edit: i got no clue about cars
Tesla has two factories in the US.
Very true! Forgot about them (and I have a Tesla 🤣🤣🤣 obligatory fuck musk). I think my mind was on ICE cars only.
Right there with you. Mine is 5 years old with about 110k miles. Hopefully in 5 years there will be a compelling car that I like. But it could be an RV. I know a guy that electrifies RAM vans with Tesla battery, drive train, computer etc. No supercharging but can DCFC at EA, etc.
NAFTA. Or "the great big sucking sound" spoken of by H Ross Perot, the rich guy that owned EDS.
Crazy?! If only someone had said something!!!
He’ll probably only care when he actually crashes the economy and everyone turns on him. It’s only a matter of time. I give it 1.5 years from Inauguration Day.
Has he ever given a flying fuck. He's a complete moron.
TLDR: this news paper found that less than 150 Americans out of the only 200 that were asked in a non-specified state think his tariffs will worsen inflation. This is bad news for Trump because he cares about what those 150 people think for some reason