Trump threatens 'far larger' tariffs if EU and Canada unite to do 'economic harm' to the U.S.
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He can not seem to grasp that your enemy is allowed to fight back and if you make enemies of friends eventually that is all you will have.
He can not seem to grasp
...anything, really. And his closest henchmen know this well, too! Just read the entire chat on Signal.
They're just using him because he pulls (or used to pull) public consensus, while working around his bullshits.
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He can not seem to grasp that your enemy is allowed to fight back and if you make enemies of friends eventually that is all you will have.
Classic bully / troll behavior. Always the aggressor yet also always the victim.
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It's like he can't comprehend that other people would react to his actions.
He raised tariffs, other nations reduced trade with the US and looked elsewhere. If he continues to raise tariffs it will inevitably cause the US to be isolated in trade.
It's not even a shocking/daring tactic, it's a self destructive tantrum because his misunderstanding has led to mismanagement and now he's doubling down
This doubling down is really telling...
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We will impose bigger tariffs, a lot of people say they haven't seen tariffs so big, maybe ever and the EU, when you look at Canada the trade deals we have and I saw them and I said "no way, José!" and then I deported him folks, and the tariffs, the EU is going to pay for them and ours are much bigger than theirs! EU economists, big economists came to me with tears in their eyes and they said Mr President we can't take those tariffs but when Canada who is our state really folks but they bring in so much fentanyl that we just have to tariff them unless they join our amazing and best healthcare system that Obama and crooked Joe ruined, but now it's already better than ever
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Classic bully behaviour.
Stupid and self defeating.
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Bring it on douche
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Always Opposite Day with these clowns. Everything was fine before tariffs. For every action there’s a reaction. You caused this baby carrot
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Hey dipshit (not OP), the whole point of tariffs is to reduce imports. Of course a, sane person would ramp them up over time to allow any domestic production the chance to fill the gaps.
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It's like he can't comprehend that other people would react to his actions.
He raised tariffs, other nations reduced trade with the US and looked elsewhere. If he continues to raise tariffs it will inevitably cause the US to be isolated in trade.
It's not even a shocking/daring tactic, it's a self destructive tantrum because his misunderstanding has led to mismanagement and now he's doubling down
It's a move to spur domestic manufacturing and move the US to Autarky — straight out of Hitler's playbook; albeit an incompetent attempt because he's a mentally challenged degenerate.
Autarky isn't bad — covid highlighted the weaknesses that capitalism and globalism created for every economy — but Trumps goals are not risk mitigation or "national security", and he certainly intends for it to enable imperialist wars and conquests. The fact is the allies won WW2 largely because of US manufacturing capacity (Europes was destroyed). China could take Taiwan tomorrow and the world would have to let them as we are entirely reliant on Chinese manufacturing; they could cripple us if they halted exports.
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We will impose bigger tariffs, a lot of people say they haven't seen tariffs so big, maybe ever and the EU, when you look at Canada the trade deals we have and I saw them and I said "no way, José!" and then I deported him folks, and the tariffs, the EU is going to pay for them and ours are much bigger than theirs! EU economists, big economists came to me with tears in their eyes and they said Mr President we can't take those tariffs but when Canada who is our state really folks but they bring in so much fentanyl that we just have to tariff them unless they join our amazing and best healthcare system that Obama and crooked Joe ruined, but now it's already better than ever
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Ah, he thinks choosing to take our balls and play with each other, rather than him, is against the rulesv I see. Can't wait to see how this plays out.
Like, I know this is what Poutin planned to happen, but what does Donny Dorko here think the end result is going to be?
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This doubling down is really telling...
It's like someone showed him a plastic toy mallet and it's the only tool he's aware of in his toolbox.
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He can not seem to grasp that your enemy is allowed to fight back and if you make enemies of friends eventually that is all you will have.
I'm not condoning it, but he sees
thishis original actions as retaliation. Or purports to see this as retaliation. Sigh.Edit for clarity
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It's a move to spur domestic manufacturing and move the US to Autarky — straight out of Hitler's playbook; albeit an incompetent attempt because he's a mentally challenged degenerate.
Autarky isn't bad — covid highlighted the weaknesses that capitalism and globalism created for every economy — but Trumps goals are not risk mitigation or "national security", and he certainly intends for it to enable imperialist wars and conquests. The fact is the allies won WW2 largely because of US manufacturing capacity (Europes was destroyed). China could take Taiwan tomorrow and the world would have to let them as we are entirely reliant on Chinese manufacturing; they could cripple us if they halted exports.
I agree with almost everything here, but I don't think an embargo on China would be as damaging as you think it would.
It would hurt, don't get me wrong, but China is largely in the position it is now because the developed world was looking for cheap labour and China fit the bill. There is no lack of underdeveloped nations who would gladly shift their economy if it meant they could support a fraction of the manufacturing supply that China currently commands. Africa and South America (not a single nation, I know but this is true of many African and South American nations so I'm combining for simplicity's sake) is positioned both politically and geographically, to be a sudo-China in terms of manufacturing if the wider world decides to embargo China-proper.
The US and EU pulling out of China would devastated them far more than it would affect the former. I'd like to think that the EU at least, would be willing to withstand some economic damage to aid another nation in need.
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Well I really hope we don’t get the conservatives in in this coming election so we can actually help the rest of the world fight back against this piece of shit and his stupid fuck ass country.
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The only one doing economic harm to America is this orange assclown.
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Next, I'll use a shotgun, and aim for my entire leg instead of just the foot!!
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I'm not condoning it, but he sees
thishis original actions as retaliation. Or purports to see this as retaliation. Sigh.Edit for clarity
Just like how Putin sees Russia's invasion of Ukraine as retaliation, or claims to. Great minds think alike, I guess.
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It's like he can't comprehend that other people would react to his actions.
He raised tariffs, other nations reduced trade with the US and looked elsewhere. If he continues to raise tariffs it will inevitably cause the US to be isolated in trade.
It's not even a shocking/daring tactic, it's a self destructive tantrum because his misunderstanding has led to mismanagement and now he's doubling down
For many years I have argued that Putin's actions in Ukraine and Europe "make sense" based on the assumption that no country in the world actually has agency in its actions other than a handful of superpowers - Russia, the US, and China. Any other country not on that list must be a vassal state of one of the ones that is, so if the Eastern European countries are no longer Russian vassals then that must logically mean they are now American vassals.
It would appear that Trump is under a similar delusion. He's apparently trying to beat countries into submission that he views as already being American vassals. Hence why he thinks stuff like the "51st state" garbage is no big deal, since in his view Canada's already 90% of the way to being a state anyway.
