• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    They all thought the foreign company paid the tariff.

    This is probably what Trump thinks, too. I can easily believe he is that stupid.

    I’m also wondering just what the fuck Trump and co. are going to do with all the money obtained from these tariffs. Just, like, spend it all on hookers and blow or what? Remember how you all believed this was the party of “low taxes?” Yeah, guess what a tariff is, fuckers.

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      14 days ago

      This is probably what Trump thinks, too.

      100%. If he isn’t reading it from a script that someone else wrote, he knows nothing about the topics he’s talking about.

      He even boasts about “knowing more than anyone about XYZ”, yet, it can’t expand on the subject, can’t answer questions about it, is vague, and reminds me of how really bad LLMs answer questions.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        I found some additional articles on what he said about this, and he did indeed flat out say he expects the “other countries” to pay the tariffs. For instance, this.

        A sweeping tariff policy will kill two birds with one stone, Trump says: It could find a new source of revenue for the U.S. government, which could offset losses from lowering or eliminating certain forms of income tax, while extracting money from rival governments.

        That’s not how tariffs have worked at any point in history.

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          14 days ago

          Yup. He does a great job “selling” ideas that simply aren’t grounded in reality.

          Like that wall that Mexico was going to pay for. What an idiot. Did his base think the United States would just send Mexico a bill for work completed and expect them to pay it? You couldn’t make this buffoonery up!

          • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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            13 days ago

            And then people buy these unrealistic ideas and when they get harmed by reality, they somehow blame ‘leftists’, ‘progressives’, ‘demon rats’, ‘Obama’ or any other bogeyman for it.

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            14 days ago

            I had a boss like this. Had all these million dollar ideas but no capacity to consider that someone else had the same idea and it either made no damn sense or it had already been done and people went to jail for it. Motherfuckers dream up grifts halfway and think everyone else is an idiot or sucker for not acting on the “golden opportunity”.

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      14 days ago

      When it’s returned to the feds it’s just destroyed. Federal return is just the return of debt, it’s not more money.

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      14 days ago

      Don’t forget who paid for the wall … I mean Mexico totally was writing the checks…fucking idiots.