Trump doesn’t seem to know why he launched a giant trade war
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I'm capable of doing so, if I want to. But again, its not my job to enforce it, I'm just availing myself to the laws protection, like all other citizens, corporation, or individual.
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So explain it
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Because republicans want to fund the country entirely from tariffs instead of taxes.
Which worked out great for every country that has ever tried it.
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That was how I made peace with Biden in the first place.
"You aren't voting for the man, you're voting for the cabinet and judges he appoints".
Atleast Biden's cabinet was more-or-less competent. I didn't always agree with them, but atleast there was a logic outside of "this will only benefit the obscenely rich/Russia"
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Yeah. Dude knows exactly why he's weakening America as much and on every front as possible, it's just he can't exactly say the truth and isn't smart enough to effectively lie about it.
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Market manipulation. If you can tank the stock market at a time YOU know well in advance, then you stand to profit "tremendously".
He or people in his stead might have purchased put options ahead of the anouncement of tariffs. -> profits
When he then says "it was just a prank brooo!" he can make money by buying the now devalued assets and sell them as soon as they recover.
rinse repeat.I smell market manipulation maybe I am mistaken this smell and it is really the smell of mental instability....
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He has to be. I can't think of any other reason why he'd be trying to hard to antagonize and disrespect long-time allies, while praising Russia. He then made that ridiculous statement that Ukraine started the war, when Russia was the one who invaded them, and also said that Zelensky should be 'nicer' to Putin. But Putin, who ordered the attack that caused who knows how many deaths, shouldn't be 'nicer'?
There was also the first term, where Trump fired the FBI director over an investigation into Russia, and then told Russia that he fired 'that nut job'. What kind of message does that send to their own people? Not just that he fired the director, but that he bragged about it to the people he was investigating.
I honestly think most of the GOP knows, but they're too embarrassed to admit it. Or maybe it's just pride, they think it's beneath them to be held accountable to anyone.
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Exactly this, Biden wasn't better health wise but surrounded himself with competent people.
Right now we have a fox news host leading defense, an anti-Vax moron handling a measles outbreak, a wrestling tycoon killing our education system, and more.
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This only works so well. Especially when he's proven that he flip flops as often as he does, no one will reinvest, because who knows when the next time he does something stupid to tank the market again. The smarter ones will actually catch onto the grift, and see it for what it is, and just pull out altogether so when the recession/depression hits full on, they at least have something instead of nothing.
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Of course he knows. The goal is to crash the economy so the people who still have money when everyone lost theirs, i.e. the oligarchs, can buy up all these assets/companies that went bankrupt.
And in the future when the markets recover, they have even more power. Losing a couple billion now is nothing in comparison to the long term gain -
...or they're on the take as well.
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He can't exactly say "destabilization".
Oh wait, he totally would. In this politicsl climate it doesn't matter anyway.
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It was really weird when he was telling Zelensky during that meeting that he and Putin had been through hell with the collusion investigation. Like why would putin care?
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Idk if anyone will still have anything left after there is an all out market crash, who knows really? it could be going global... our world is more interconnected than it seems. especially economically...
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Also, why should Zelensky care.
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Does he know where he is, what time of day, or even which day of the week? ok maybe we should see if he can repeat this: "Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV" he seemed to pride himself in his ability to allegedly be able to do so..... .....allegedly....
