‘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’
Trump announced 25 percent tariffs against the country's neighbors to the north and south that were slated to go into effect Saturday.
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's dumb, it's Trump.
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.
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 <group> 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.
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.
As always, the elites think they can control a stupid man, but the stupid man does whatever he wants anyway.
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.
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.
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.
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.
paywalled WSJ article link
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https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-25-percent-mexico-canada-trade-economy-84476fb2
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