The big corps can weather the storm, smalls will have to sell, consolidate and monopolize is the plan as I see it
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Look at the Project 2025 document, its supposedly written by the heritage foundation but has a section on building a border wall and doing capital punishment. Its clearly crafted by Trump.
Inside it talks about tariffs, using them to force other countries to lower their tariffs against the US. I assume its meant to force a free trade agreement that is 100% free trade, and not a misnomer like it is now, he wants the massive shock so that country are entirely submissive.
You think trump is capable of not just coming up with the worst political takes known to man, but also is even aware of that much policy?
I think you give him way more credit than he deserves
Seems like it's not going according to plan then huh. US opponents are anything but submissive right now. I don't think US has the capacity for a long game.
The chaos is the point: make nothing normal, make nothing certain, and he can be free to do anything.
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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Trump said he would annex canada. Either he really knows or he really doesn't. I believe the latter. I also believe he's just doing what elon tells him to do.
Trump saying absolutely ridiculous things is just another day. Justin Trudeau, on the other hand, saying the United States will never annex Canada? Now that’s some fuckin’ rhetoric.
Same with China. They outright said “we are ready for war in every shape possible.”
The state of things is absolutely fucked lmfao
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Because at his age it was easier than getting penis-enlarging surgery.
I don't get the $1200 #... If every component of my purchase goods is 25% higher to the manuf passed to me, shouldn't it be 25% of my annual spend?
Not every good is imported. Not every country has tariffs leveed against it.
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25% on top of the old price, for goods not produced domestically. Assuming that's all of them, that'd be 25% of your spend going towards products (Services are part of your spend, but don't get tariffed), indeed. But some things get produced in the US, so I imagine they factored that in there. For the average household, this seems to amount to about $1200/a
Not arguing with you, just want to point out 25% is the new tax but that doesn’t mean the price is only going up 25%.
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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.
Of course he knows. The goal is to crash the economy so the people who still have money when everyone lost theirs, i.e. the oligarchs, can buy up all these assets/companies that went bankrupt. And in the future when the markets recover, they have even more power. Losing a couple billion now is nothing in comparison to the long term gain
The guy who said he'd build a wall & Mexico would pay for it doesn't know why he started a trade war?
That's a shock.
Also Trump: Has anyone seen my tan spray? Sir, you left it in the fridge again. Here. That's not it, that's barbecue sauce!
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.)