• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    Why would satire be like this?
    Seems dishonest & it’s further perpetrating the lie.

    Trump was never facing the other way, that is just for the opportunistic shit & giggles.

    He is after power and the real power is control.
    And to control a nation you need to control it’s resources. Can’t have that if your oligarchs get power from other countries.

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    This implies there’s a right way to implement tariffs so it doesn’t harm the consumer, and Trump just did it wrong. All tariffs target the consumer. That’s the point.

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    Once again I’m reminded of that journalist whose name I cannot remember, anyhow, in 2017 they wrote:

    They voted for the elephant in the china shop. Little did they realise that they were the china.

    Why this happened twice, with Jan 6 in between, still mystifies me.

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    They’ve made billions through stock market manipulation and have put tarrifs on some products that can’t really be obtained otherwise, therefore creating a de facto triple digit sales tax. It’s interesting to see how much abuse their fanbase is willing to endure but it sucks that they’re taking everybody else down with them.

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    Accurate, except it’s more like:

    “Aim! Fire! No wait, ready! Fire! No wait! Aim! Ready! Ready! Reeeeaaady! Aim! Fire! No, wait…”

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    For accurate representation needs one consumer looking excited about getting shot