creating problems and then "fixing" them because he knows his supporters are stupid enough to fall for it

And I'm still going to keep boycotting American goods and services because fuck 'em for electing that douche canoe in the first place and for making us go through one of the worst bout of collective axiety Canada's ever had since WWII.

He called the previous deal a terrible one. The same deal he negotiated.

My boss, who as far as I can tell, still supports Trump, but is getting super pissed off. One of our suppliers in Canada wrote us a very earnest letter in mid January about how the upcoming tariffs were probably going to destroy his business, but he still wanted to be there to provide is excellent made in Canada parts. He said he would be forced to raise costs 25 percent on February 2nd. My boss got worried and put in 40-50 grand worth or orders that day to several of our Canadian suppliers, just for the Feb 2 to some around and Trump to say "sike!". Now he is pissed that Trump is going to the Superbowl "how much is it going to cost us in taxes?". His decisions to support trump are biting him where it really hurts: his wallet. It's hard for me to remove the grin from my face.

Trump understands that the American voter is a goldfish who is easily distracted. He can just jingle some keys and say he won and they’ll pay attention and call him a winner.

Democrats lose because they expect people to be smart and remember things.

TO DEMONSTRATE THE POWER OF MY DEALS, I SAWED THE ECONOMY IN HALF

His follows will still eat it up. I've been on conservative reddits that insist that he got Canada and Mexico and Colombia to all bend to his will. This is not only bullshit, but the Colombian president even forced Trump to alter much of his terms. The media didn't report on it and acted like he caved in when he didn't.

Everyone's eating it up, not only his supporters. He got a solid like, 2 to 3 day's worth of news cycle out of an absolute nothingburger, while everyone is safely diverted away from analyzing all the other shit he's been doing, say, through executive orders. I think he's just throwing a massive amount of shit at the wall, seeing what sticks, seeing what he can get away with. Media will not contest him shitting on trans people, or removing DEI from all the government websites, or forcing government employees back into offices that don't exist, among any number of other things.

It doesn't even really matter if the things he proposes are even possible at all. The only way he'd be able to invade gaza with US troops in order to forcibly relocate the palestinians, conceivably, is by overthrowing jordon, which could be something they've been cooking up for a while, or pressuring egypt into doing so which would probably completely fuck over egypt's domestic politics and flip the region into an uncontrollable civil war which would be another actor in the region that's no longer amenable to israel, and the resulting blowback might even cause the total collapse of israel. Even with that excuse, which is ultimately what it would be, it would basically just be a full US backed genocide, both in the literal sense of having to kill basically everyone, and under the academic definition. That would probably kill any domestic US support for israel, and again, would maybe result in their collapse. Outside of that, outside of a full US backing and ground invasion, Israel can only really do what they've already been doing, to a mixed amount of success.

Despite the improbability, he might still go through with all of that. It's not even really up to him in terms of sort of, just whether or not he's dumb enough to do that, which he probably also is, but it's mostly just whether or not everyone else in the administration is actually planning to do that. Will the concentration camp in guantanamo that libs failed to shut down before it got to this point get off the ground? Will the ICE officers actually be capable of running around and arresting everyone, or will that be utterly stupid as an idea for the same exact reasons that it's always been utterly stupid, and for the same reasons that the foundation of the system is basically non-functional? Is this all just a bunch of bullshit until trump can justifiably pass almost uncontested another round of tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy? Who could say.

I mostly just find myself hoping that the admin goes careening off a cliff after the internal contradictions of the system begin to fully bear their weight, and something better emerges in the wake of that. It's not really up to us, at the bottom, and it never really has been. It's maybe up to, how hard the pharoah lets his heart become, or what have you.

except unlike the mighty flex tape. lord diaper costs a lot more, has a shitty name brand attached, is hardly reliable, leaks like a sieve, and is prone to breaking at any time to globally disastrous results.

Just that little voice... add it to the pile... it is time to get the fuck off of social media if that's where you become politically "informed"