Trump still hasn't figured out tariffs are a tax on consumers — Announces blanket tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
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William McKInley was not president in the 1880s, nor most of the 1890s.
there was a depression from 1882 to 1885 and a recession from 1887 through 1888, then another in 1890.
Two panic and bank runs (1893 and 1896) and another recession in 1899 when McKinkley actually was president
but I know facts mean nothing so tariff away orange man
there was a depression from 1882 to 1885 and a recession from 1887 through 1888, then another in 1890.
Two panic and bank runs (1893 and 1896) and another recession in 1899 when McKinkley actually was president
but I know facts mean nothing so tariff away orange man
JCTarheel82
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sigh
*facepalm emoji*
Turd Ferguson
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And we had segregation and women didn't have rights, and we could lynch minorities and gay people. Great times.
Turd Ferguson
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I wish one of these other leaders would just turn to him and say he is such a dumbass.
Everyone knows no gay people existed back then.
Letting that Billy Crystal play that queer Jodie Dallas on “Soap” in the late ‘70’s……that turned millions of blue-blooded American men into queens. That’s when we started having gays.
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Not to mention that Gilded Age business tycoons often treated their workers like shit because there were no legal restraints on them not to do so, and so many workers tried to organize labor unions to strike for better pay, working conditions, etc. And many of these strikes were violently opposed by the company owners and aided by the state and federal governments. Hundreds of workers were killed in violent strikes in that era - The National Railroad Strike of 1877, the Chicago Haymarket Square Riot, the Pullman Strike, the Homestead Strike, and so on. Ugly stuff, and it certainly wasn't a paradise for many, or even most, workers.
Also, instead of the capitalist idea of corporate competition, many companies formed monopolies which allowed for crappy products and high prices - farmers were routinely the victims of price gouging by railroad companies to move their products to market, for example. It may have been great for the wealthiest upper class, but it sure as hell wasn't all that great for the working class. But of course as we all know that's not who Trump is talking about - he's talking about himself and his buddies like Elon and that LA Times owner.
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America the mob state, apparently.
Tariffs all the way down!!!!!!
Step 1. Raise tariffs on Canada
Step 2. say "That's Fine" when Canada threatens to cut off oil sales
Step 3. Tell EU they have to buy more US petroleum while unleashing a supply from up North onto the free market and expect the EU not to buy the Canadian supply
Step 4. Profit?
I am personally shocked that this man managed to bankrupt a casino.
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He’s the personification of a “solution looking for a problem.”
Can anyone here who voted for this man defend this?
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Of course they can. Theyve breathlessly defended the ignoramus for damn near 10 years. Now, if “logical” is implicitly embedded in your version of “defend”, no, they can’t, but ttump and his Pepe the frog/maga milieu have never operated on sound logic.