Tariffs Catch-All

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Oh, good Lord. Anyone who knows what "Mag 7" is knows he's full of shit. Talk about dousing your credibility and lighting it on fire.
 
I wish Trump and Trump Would clarify their conflicting objectives for tariffs?

1. Bring in money that will make us rich, pay off our debt and eliminate the need for taxes.

2. Return manufacturing to the US, though this would not accomplish the objectives in #1.

3. Eliminate disadvantages for the US by getting other countries to remove their tariffs on US products. Obviously this would not generate money for US or cause goods to be manufactured here.

Clarify? Dude you hunting in the wrong field if you're hunting answers that make sense.

Best I can figure, not only is Trump a Moron but he HAS to act like a Moron to feed his narcissistic personality issue. (or whatever warped personality issue he's got)
 
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"Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have them. Scott Bessent has reached his, and very obviously, he has gone insane"
 
I had a thought yesterday that if I were a reporter, I would poll all of the economic and business professors at Wharton on these tariffs.
Then present them to Trump and ask him if his Wharton degree is trash or his tariffs, because based on what they teach at Wharton, it can’t be both.
You have proof of that Wharton degree? Remember that during 2016 campaign trump threatened to sue if any information concerning his educational records was released.
 
Bear with me a brief bit here.

Despite the comparisons, even from his own Vice President, Trump is not Hitler. He's not going to set up literal death camps. He's not a zealot about "social issues," like Hitler was. Trump couldn't care less about social issues other than how they may serve him. He has no actual social or moral values. But perhaps he's a zealot about economics? Again, bear with me a brief bit.

While fascism can function, albeit despicable and horrible, the most virulent form this world has ever seen (Nazism), is completely untenable. It is completely irrational and self-destructive. Nazism obliterates itself eventually, because how could it not! It's in its DNA. Despite all the talk about preserving civilization and society and what-not, it is antithetical to all those things. Nazism is like the "humans" from the film Pandorum that have adapted to life in the reactor of a ship in deep space over millennia. Or perhaps a better deep space Sci-Fi analogy - the people all eating one another in Event Horizon.

So, while the comparisons of Trump to Hitler are trite and stupid, I will posit that Trumpism is "economic Nazism." Just completely irrational. It will destroy itself in time. Only question is how many of us it takes with it.
 
And because I grew up with the same mentality, I can just imagine there's many a MAGA household child out there, looking up to their father and asking, "But he's trying to help us, right, daddy? No matter what happens?"

No!

The reason he's always been so obsessed with tariffs is because he's a complete and utter failure at business. He could not excel in the world given to him, so being a narcissist with "galaxy brain," he thinks a world of tariffs and trade wars will finally be where he proves his true genius. Perhaps even becomes the richest man ever!

It's all so dreadfully stupid.
 
Bear with me a brief bit here.

Despite the comparisons, even from his own Vice President, Trump is not Hitler. He's not going to set up literal death camps. He's not a zealot about "social issues," like Hitler was. Trump couldn't care less about social issues other than how they may serve him. He has no actual social or moral values. But perhaps he's a zealot about economics? Again, bear with me a brief bit.

While fascism can function, albeit despicable and horrible, the most virulent form this world has ever seen (Nazism), is completely untenable. It is completely irrational and self-destructive. Nazism obliterates itself eventually, because how could it not! It's in its DNA. Despite all the talk about preserving civilization and society and what-not, it is antithetical to all those things. Nazism is like the "humans" from the film Pandorum that have adapted to life in the reactor of a ship in deep space over millennia. Or perhaps a better deep space Sci-Fi analogy - the people all eating one another in Event Horizon.

So, while the comparisons of Trump to Hitler are trite and stupid, I will posit that Trumpism is "economic Nazism." Just completely irrational. It will destroy itself in time. Only question is how many of us it takes with it.
Here’s the thing:

Trump is an empty vessel. He cares only about what benefits him.

He has found that actual fascists and neonazis and white nationalists appreciate his bluster and his lack of a moral compass. They praise him, give him things, give him money, allow him to feel like a king.

In return, he allows them to dictate policy. He has no desire to do the actual work of governing and learning about policy issues—he’s exceedingly happy to let other do all that work, while he tweets and watches press coverage of himself and golfs.

So while it’s fair to say that Trump himself isn’t truly fascist in terms of political ideology and racial/cultural issues, he allows the actual fascists to do his work for him.
 
Last thing I will say, unprompted, is that - as I suspected - it took money to finally awaken people to the harm this man intends.

The Russian thing never mattered. The inept response to Covid never mattered. The coup attempt never mattered. The illegal deportations and all the dictator talk never mattered. All the shakedowns and naked corruption never mattered. The just being an absolute moron never mattered. Etc. Etc.

Money. That's what mattered.

I am reminded of the scene from Game of Thrones when Khal Drogo dumps the melted gold over the head of Daeneyrs's brother.

"A crown for a king." Indeed. And every American should receive it.

 
Here’s the thing:

Trump is an empty vessel. He cares only about what benefits him.

He has found that actual fascists and neonazis and white nationalists appreciate his bluster and his lack of a moral compass. They praise him, give him things, give him money, allow him to feel like a king.

In return, he allows them to dictate policy. He has no desire to do the actual work of governing and learning about policy issues—he’s exceedingly happy to let other do all that work, while he tweets and watches press coverage of himself and golfs.

So while it’s fair to say that Trump himself isn’t truly fascist in terms of political ideology and racial/cultural issues, he allows the actual fascists to do his work for him.
Make no mistake about my post. What he represents and supports is fascism. Yes, I totally agree. I was simply saying he has no actual values and that he isn't Hitler. But he may as well be economically. Economic Nazism.
 
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