I also believe this is all just peacocking and him and all his billionaire buddies and the ultra rich corporations all got to use the VERY predictable stock market changes to get even richer. Of course he doesn’t care if the tariffs hurt anyone. He is busy making the 1% money so they don’t starve or go without healthcare or education. Didn’t you hear? Republican is the new working class party. Just ask all the government employees that Muskrat just fired …
I had to do a double-take on the fact that Trump’s approval rating has been steadily improving since the beginning of January. Jesus fuck people are ignorant. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised with the wealth inequality, the media consolidation, the education standards the way they are…
The fact that his approval rating still exists after that first term shows that he can do whatever he wants and his followers will still support him. It’s a cult, nothing will change that.
Thats what happens when the average joe gets his news from Xitter or Fox News. They get rid of all critical thinking skills for the sake of owning the libs and freeze peach.
Trump could literally burn down their studio and Fox news would still spin it like “The democrats would have done even worse”
I think that’s all about who’s doing the polling and how they are doing it: https://abcnews.go.com/538/trump-approval-polling-average-works/story?id=117999010
Trump said he was going to raise the price of Canadian and Mexican things by 25%, then he didn’t do that.
Wouldn’t that improve your opinion of him?
As an onlooker from Europe eagerly awaiting the fall of the US, this is disappointing. :( But congrats to the people of these three countries I guess.
At least US is still shooting itself in the foot with the China tariffs.
I mean, he still manage to bring the very divided Canada together. Most people around me cancelled every US based subscription services they had, and people will pay attention not to buy americans products. The world needs to come together to bring this undereductaed and dangerous country down.
As an American living in America. Trumps actions make me not want to buy anything American either.
I hate that this clown has turned me into an accelerationist, but at this point what do we have left? Our society and even our species has shown how hopeless our situation is, the ONLY way forward from here is if the numb and dumb start experiencing consequences for making terrible choices in leadership.
To this end, I want to see it all burn. Not because I hate anyone, but because I think we can do a lot better as a species if we held consistent values and didn’t get led astray by literally anyone who can weave an entertaining story. Our parents were supposed to teach us the value of thought and reason and the risks of making bad choices, but then we all got on the internet and learned that no matter how wrong we are, no matter how backwards our thinking or decisions, there will be some group that supports you wholeheartedly and without nuance.
Idk, I kind of love the China tariffs.
Oh wait, you meant the tariffs we’re putting on China, not the China tariffs they’re putting on US oil and coal.
But really I’m happy with any taxes on oil and coal.
But really I’m happy with any taxes on oil and coal.
I’m sure this will lead to a massive investment in renewable and clean energy sources.
Aaaaannnny day now.
Ignorant perspective. They basically pumped and dumped, but in reverse, and everyone thinks they’re the stupid ones.
This is exactly how we got here. Please stop.
Stocks. They are manipulating the media so they can sell high and buy low. Rinse and repeat.
Trump shrugged off the market reaction on Monday, suggesting to the reporters in the Oval Office that he wasn’t aware of the volatility. “I don’t know. I don’t think about it,” he said.
Based on his reaction, yes it was completely about stocks. When the hell does he ever act like he is unaware of something
Unfortunately to his fans it looks like he won! Which probably means more tariffs going forward.
Yah, I think we’ll start making progress again in this country when we all realize that most people don’t care about facts, they just want stories.
Donald Trump’s power has nothing to do with anything other than his flagrant disregard for reality and his chronic disorder that makes him just launch into stories about anything and everything. And not just stories, they’re always ridiculous stories like you would tell children. This works because most people are again, children who want stories.
While Trump and his ilk have woven these epic stories of good versus evil and how rotten the enemies are and how great the good guys are, the left and the dems have been trying to quadruple down on being “civil” and producing charts and graphs and data to back their arguments. I get it, I used to think reality mattered to other people, but now I get it, that for the vast majority of humans, nobody really thinks.
I don’t mean that as an “I’m smarter than everyone” statement, but a discovery about a fundamental quality of the human experience, which is people only think they think. What actually goes on for all of us, all day long, is we feel a thing, experience a sensation or emotion, and our brain writes a story to explain it. You believe this story because you tend to never doubt what you come up with in your head, but your brain doesn’t naturally default to facts and logic, just ways to connect feelings and experiences. This is intrinsic to how our minds work and it’s what let us survive ice ages and predators and apocalypses of ancient times. But in a modern, complex world with language and politics and technology, it just makes us more confused and wrong, which is why people tend to cling to people who can successfully create a narrative that weaves everything together in some sensible way. Not actually sensible, it just has to “feel” right and the brain will accept it even if you don’t agree with the person telling the story. This is why there are so many people and institutions that suddenly feel like they’ve turned “pro trump” it’s because we’re monkeys and we follow our leader, especially when they can make enough of us follow a storyline.
I do not think so. Even Fox news was calling him out for raising prices on … checks notes … almost everything. He didn’t win on this, even to them.
At best he broke even. And there are other bribery / corruption cards for him to play using tariffs.
