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MAGA sure does love having their faces eaten
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Explaining his approach to the tariff policy that has triggered weeks of turmoil on global markets, the - president compared the US to the world’s department store.
“I am this giant store. It’s a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there,” he said.
"And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I’ll say, ‘If you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay.’ "
This sounds like the thinking of a dictator, not of a leader. He doesn’t own the “store”, the people do.
He seems to have this the wrong way around.
The world is the store, and he’s just some person outside its front door, holding out his hand and asking US customers for 5 bucks for every item they want to go home with.
That’s actually a way more relevant take than my original comment. He’s still acting like tariffs are fees paid by foreign nations, when in fact, they’re paid by the consumers in the nation imposing the tariffs.
Sadly (for those of us stuck in the US), the only people who will be hurt by these tariffs are the people whose best interests he’s supposed to be responsible for.
I own the store, and I set prices
So capitalist that it’s gone all the way around and become communism.
I’m just going to point out that while communism has its problems itself, no, this is capitalism alright.
I wonder if anyone in the Badminstration, specifically the Department of Agriculture, have thought about all the crops that will go unharvested in the fields starting around August because migrants won’t go out to pick them for fear of being deported by ICE.
I wonder if anyone in the Badminstration, specifically the Department of Agriculture, have thought
Can stop you right there.
It won’t matter if they rot if there’s no one to buy them
The salmonella and campylobacter laced chicken should reduce demand before the fall harvests.
RFK is installing his brainworm parasites into the food supply, so there is lots of reason to be optomistic about supply and demand becoming balanced.
Food poisoning will lead right back to a toilet paper shortage. Never mind that the US is net exporter of TP.
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I feel the global economy won’t be too bad off. Likely some collateral damage, but the United States on the other hand…
