‘Makes No Sense’: WSJ Editorial Board Savages Trump Tariffs on Allies as ‘Dumbest Trade War in History’

[inputzero@lemmy.world]

Apologizing while doing terrible things to teach a lesson is the Canadian way. Just look at how they treat native Americans.

I'll be here all week folks!

[t00l_shed@lemmy.world]

Should be 10 days if possible

[glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz]

And who will remove him from office if deemed incapable?

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

That's another question.

[glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz]

Who bought this debt (US treasury bonds)? Mostly China, Japan, North Americans and Europeans … So they depend on the system, the circle closes. The US is the biggest importer in the world, and the years since 1945 where used for exporter nations to optimize and streamline for the American costumer. Breaking away from that system would be painful.

[glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz]

Say you are a oil producer, and frack gas and oil in Texas, an industry that supported trump. Now imagine what tariffs on oil-imports from Canada means for your business: rising prices, since gas from Canada would be less competitive. Same with logging and wood products.

[whiskytangofoxtrot@lemmy.world]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0230d9mp5WY

[redditsux@lemmy.world]

Well this is one of the big answers. Tariffs are a hidden or indirect tax. Stupid democrats didn't understand jack shit so didn't use it as a campaign issue. He's raising tax on everybody to pay for his tax cuts. He's said before he likes the revenue from tariffs in the old days. When you take this approach in conjunction with his thinking on the immigration issue - that by reducing pool of cheap labor, American businesses will pay more and increase wages for low level jobs, you can see where he's going with this. Prices certainly will be higher. I don't know about the wages.

[verito@lemm.ee]

Lou E. G.

[pandemanium@lemm.ee]

Yeah I saw a Bloomberg headline this week that said the price of eggs will probably never come back down. If they had published that three months ago, maybe people wouldn't have based their vote around that.

[radioactivefunguy@lemmy.world]

WaPo !== WSJ

[xella@lemmy.world]

Is there another place to see this? I deleted my Facebook last week to avoid all the Nazi propaganda

[werefreeatlast@lemmy.world]

The hashtag is #50501 apparently.

[thebat@lemmy.world]

Oh my bad

[toga77@lemmy.world]

It doesn't. Project 2025 is what is happening. This shit was literally all written down.

[swingingthelamp@midwest.social]

He's a puppet at this point. President Leon is pretty visibly in charge, and I shudder to think about the smart puppeteers who are staying in the shadows.

[tankovayadiviziya@lemmy.world]

President Eon isn't exactly working in the shadows lol.

[nutsack@lemmy.world]

he will live to be 107 and will easily finish his term unscathed

[selokichtli@lemmy.ml]

I mean, here in Mexico, we'll fight the fuck back. Our president is backed by almost 80% of us, if she says anything, we'll follow. I don't think Trump can say that, not even from his own voters. He thinks he's making America great again, but his adversaries are having a ball: America is not looking strong, America is looking dumb, treasonous, fascist and alone as fuck. At the very same time, people should be aware that BRICS is now the BRICSEEEIIBBCKMNTTUUV. This guy is beating the shit out of his own creation, the USMC.

[swingingthelamp@midwest.social]

Exactly, he's too dumb and egotistical. That's why I worry about the puppeteers who are intelligent enough to stay out of the spotlight.