Trump doesn’t seem to know why he launched a giant trade war
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can you really copyright your comments?
By default, everything you write, from a novel to an Internet forum shitpost, is not only copyrighted by you but also "all rights reserved."
What that guy is doing is (a) making his writings more available for reuse than they would be otherwise, and (b) making a point about how fucked-up it is that corporations treat stuff posted to social media as if it were a free-for-all they could use however they want.
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The secret ingredient is crime. The casinos were fronts for money laundering and "failed" on purpose as part of the scam.
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Because hundreds of millions of people believe him and corporations bow to him and expect favour.
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Why can't we make him unalive? He wouldn't be able to play with WWIII that way...
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How much was his dads gemstone mining business worth?
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Less than a billion dollars.
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Do you actually know how much it was worth though?
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But backwards again, the nairuhcnaM etadidnaC.
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Or just watch him bankrupt USA just like his casino, I think US need to go through that pain to realize why they should not vote for a showman, TV show host again.
Sun Tzu: "Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."
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Am I the only one surprised at how low the cost per household could be? I keep thinking it should be quite a bit higher.
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Actually in his previous presidency he managed to lose personal wealth rather than increase it. He is so incompetent he can't even enrich himself with 4 years of being president lol.
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I mean, it's getting harder and harder each day to argue against him deliberately destroying the west.
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maybe if everyone is telling you the same thing, it's not us that's wrong? food for thought.
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Yeah, they have no savings because they plow all profits into stock buy backs. Hell, a lot of them have borrowed money to do buy backs.
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I don't think Trump knows very much about anything he's doing, whether this or anything else.
(Incidentally, this also means I don't think he's doing most of the bad things he's doing out of malice or dictatorial ambitions. He just has no idea about anything he's doing.)
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maybe if everyone is telling you the same thing, it’s not us that’s wrong? food for thought.
One, not everybody is telling me the same thing. I learned to do this from someone else here on Lemmy, and I've had others tell me that they like that I'm doing what I'm doing, and that its ok to do.
Two, never heard anybody give a valid reason why I'm wrong, just that I'm wasting my time, or that they don't like me doing it because it bothers them to see it, as if they want the Internet to format what they see to their personal tastes/likes.
Three, its a single line of text that appears in a smaller font at the bottom/footer of a comment. If people are really getting bent out of shape over it, then maybe they need to do some self-interspection on their end.
Four, if its not a smaller font line of text, and they seeing regular sized formatting text, then they need to talk to the developers of the client they are using, and ask them to support sub/superscript fonts. The web site client shows it just fine.
~This~ ~comment~ ~is~ ~licensed~ ~under~ ~CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0~
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Techbro led gvmt - move fast, break stuff. Chaos leads to opportunity to profit, by which I mean him and his class to profit.
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The mistake most make is acting like Trump and his goons are stupid and acting like headless chickens. They are not stupid, and know incredibly well what they are doing and why.
You don't get to win an election twice if you're as much of an idiot as most make him out to be. If we keep underestimating our 'opposition', we will continue to be defeated.
See this article for more: https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-trumps-tariffs-are-a-masterplan/
TLDR:
In this article, Yanis Varoufakis analyzes Donald Trump's economic strategy, arguing that it is more sophisticated than his critics assume. Trump's focus on tariffs is part of a broader plan to reshape the global economic order, which Varoufakis describes as an "anti-Nixon Shock." Trump believes the U.S. has been exploited due to the dollar's role as the global reserve currency, which he sees as a burden rather than a privilege. He aims to weaken the dollar to boost U.S. manufacturing and reduce trade deficits, while maintaining its reserve status to fund U.S. deficits and military power.
Trump's plan involves using tariffs to pressure foreign central banks to lower interest rates, thereby depreciating their currencies relative to the dollar. This would offset the price increases caused by tariffs on U.S. consumers. The second phase of his strategy involves bilateral negotiations with key countries, leveraging tariffs and security threats to force them to appreciate their currencies and make concessions, such as buying more U.S. goods or relocating manufacturing to the U.S.
Varoufakis acknowledges the risks, including potential domestic backlash from Wall Street and the possibility of foreign countries, particularly China, creating an alternative financial system. However, he argues that Trump's plan is coherent and should not be underestimated, even if it diverges sharply from traditional economic thinking.
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The chaos is the point: make nothing normal, make nothing certain, and he can be free to do anything.
