‘Makes No Sense’: WSJ Editorial Board Savages Trump Tariffs on Allies as ‘Dumbest Trade War in History’
‘Makes No Sense’: WSJ Editorial Board Savages Trump Tariffs on Allies as ‘Dumbest Trade War in History’
It's not about being smart for America, it's about being smart for Putin. Trump's going to do that with every single decision until we're completely destroyed.
I hear that again and again, but I don't quite understand the endgame anymore.
There was the theory Russia had compromising material on him to get him to play along, but the MAGA crowd is so committed and reverent that I'm not sure anything could shame him anymore.
Russia could show a tape of him porking his 7-year-old daughter on the Times Square Jumbotron and the GOP would rally to lower the age of consent to 6. If the Russian financial authorities showed incontrovertible proof that Trump was broke, Congress would declare he had a bazillion FreedomBux (tm) to magically settle his debts.
Why would he bother listening when there's no leverage left?
It's more chilling to think this is pure domestic terror with no evil-other boogeyman to blame. The far right got all their best and brightest in one place, and thry couldn't dilute their paranoia and hate enough to serve their greed.
Yes, any kompromat the Russians had is completely useless now. Even if people believe it to be true, he apparently wouldn't lose a single vote.
I don't know if I think it's Kampromat so much as simply business. Republicans have been flying to Russia to suck dick for years now, even on American holidays, just so Putin can show the world they're bought and paid for dogs. I think it's as simple as that - whatever endgame there is is part of whatever contract they made with another country's leader in exchange for him getting them in power and them letting him weaken and destroy the country. In the end, they all get to be lords of the ashes, and that suits all their interests just fine.
There is no endgame for these clowns, only opportunism.
It's Russia for the same reason it was voting machines and woke professors and DEI: it's a handy way of pretending the country isn't really like that, and if only we got rid of
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things would go back to normal. Because if it's not, you'd have to face the reality of a country that elected both Trump and Obama. Twice.But when you add Putin into the mix then it all makes sense.
Yeah, I think this is the correct angle.
People (e.g. mainstream press) are responding to these events as if Trump were actually trying to accomplish something useful for the US - as if he were well-intentioned but incompetent.
But (1) Trump is a compulsive liar, so his talk about "Make America Great" should be treated with suspicion, and (2) Trump is owned by foreign interests (Russia, China, Saudi Arabia) who will benefit from the US having weakened international relationships.
From this point of view, it makes sense that Trump is alienating our allies.
Trump is a fool who is being used by hostile powers to sabotage the USA and its allies. But he's also a bitter, vindictive, petty little man who wants to sabotage his country anyway.
Legit question, why and how is he owned by Russia, China and Saudi Arabia?
You also have to consider that any time Trump refers to America, or the American people, he's actually referring to himself. Substitute the word "trump", and the statements make much more sense.
Dumbest trade war in history....so far
Doesn't matter, he doesn't read. His aides might, but they won't tell him for fear of getting fired.
The Emperor will be waltzing around the White House lawn with his orange wang swinging back and forth in the open air and they still won't say a thing.
I mean it makes perfect sense there WSJ, the journal that tacitly endorsed this fuckwit, he's a massive fuckwit that doesn't understand how anything works.
And you guys backed him, your editorials proved that regardless of your "no endorsement" fuckery, so fuck you feigning shock when a moron does moronic things.
It makes sense.
If the goal is to create a crisis so bad, it requires unitary executive power "to solve".
In case of US it probably also makes sense as a tax since US is so deep in debt and tarrifs are probably the only acceptable tax for trump voter base .
The revenue is like a drop in the bucket, maybe not even a gain at all if it reduces economic activity.
We will need more taxes on the not-rich.
Savages, eh? Savages while the other side of the same mouth runs the propaganda machine at Fox that enabled this trade war. Self-serving propagandist motherfuckers.
Trump's tariffs are going to hurt businesses. It is very likely that his policies are only going to help his selected cronies and his own family. As we can see, the stock market also went down after announcing the tariffs.This is why oligarchs are up in arms.
That being said, the good news is that agitated oligarchs could move against Trump and support someone more business friendly. Harris before the elections has been endorsed by economists as being good for the economy. Oligarchs could endorse someone more moderate after Trump's presidency (if there will ever be another election).
Just fyi to everyone, I am not saying that oligarchs are good overall. I am just saying that the US is an oligarchy for all intents and purposes, and since Plato mentioned that oligarchy is not a unified group, they still each have their own interest and that could be used to advantage.
They can make money on market downturns; especially if they know it's going to go down beforehand. Also, during extreme downturns, the rich buy up everything for cheap.
The tariffs is going to affect the American economy as a whole in the long term. This will definitely make the rich angry.
It's dumb, it's Trump.
Whenever You start a sentence with "Trump", it will probably end with "dumbest in history". You actually only need one more word, "Trump is dumbest in history". Simple, tells the story.
In my estimated guess and opinion, Putin has told Trump that if he doesn't sign those tariffs Putin will make more planes crash.
Trump is being exploited.
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They don't get to say shit, as they were directly involved with electing this shitstain.
Yes, we know. But if the established, non-broligarch folks realize that they won't be in the winning end after it's all done, they might do something about it. Not until all the brown people are exported and the government is drowned in the bathtub, though. Those were the WSJ's priorities all along. if they get upset, it will only be because Elon jumped the line in front of them for the cash.
I agree, but the guy literally said this was what he was going to do, and they were all for it then.
I doubt the orange guy wants to drown the government in a bathtub. In fact, that's the place that gives him his power as of now.
As always, the elites think they can control a stupid man, but the stupid man does whatever he wants anyway.