Here’s his VP’s plan:
“I think we are increasingly in a situation where we are going to choose between one or the other. We’re going to have to get a little uncomfortable on some of these things or maybe you’re going to have to be willing to pay a little bit more for certain consumer goods. We may even have to be willing to attack some of the companies financially that are waging war on the American people.”
I’d quibble with calling it “deranged”. Illogical sure. Nonsense, even ridiculous, but not deranged.
His only real play has always been to define a scapegoat and stoke outrage. That’s the point here, rather than anything useful
I’ll slap tariffs on banana imports so people buy domestically grown bananas!
I’ll slap tariffs on cocoa imports so people buy domestically grown cocoa!
Everybody knows that Arkansas grows the finest coffee beans in the world.
Don’t spill the beans
I wonder if he knows the price of a banana.
It is one banana clgoh. What could it cost. 10 dollars?
How much can they be clgoh, $10 dollars?
Something belched up thoughtlessly does not count as a plan.
Does it count as a concept of a plan?
He doesn’t understand the nuances of making policy decisions, so his default answer to stuff like this is to just impose tariffs because that’s all he knows. He doesn’t care to understand and would likely eat the crayons you use if you were to try to explain it to him. He’s just incapable of that sort of mental growth.
I don’t know how you can miss that, though.
Tariffs on imported goods means the price raises to cover the increased cost to import it.
Tariffs are a mechanism to encourage domestic production by making foreign competition more expensive.
It’s literally the opposite of reducing the cost to consumers.
Trump has to understand this. But he knows his rabid base do not. So he says it like it’s going to help consumers, rather than exclusively the domestic producers that are already overcharging.
Honestly no, I don’t think Trump understands. The way he talks about his precious tariffs, I’m pretty sure he’s under the impression that imposing a tariff on Chinese goods means making China pay for it. It’s really just the latest iteration of “build a wall and make Mexico pay for it.”
Trump has to understand this.
Who says? It seems like these days he doesn’t even know which state or city he’s in, I think the likelihood of him understanding literally any political theory at all is close to zero.
It’s certainly possible, but I don’t buy that level of ignorance.
Trump was savvy enough to keep interest rates low to heavily inflate real estate as the obvious money dump for free money. As a real estate mogul, this directly benefited him personally.
And don’t give me that nieve nonsense that the president doesn’t control the fed reserve. Trump’s corruption was thorough and complete.
Trump absolutely understands basic economic principles of supply and demand. He is constantly trying to manipulate competition to give himself more power so he can gain from it. It’s the same as raising tariffs to give domestic producers more power so they can raise their profits at the cost to the consumer.
He just doesn’t give a shit about the consumer, only the kickbacks he gets from the producers.
He doesn’t understand anything. He’s lived in a completely separate reality his entire life.
Why do average Americans still rate Trump as better on the economy? It’s certainly nothing rational.
Trump bizzness man, trump smart
Don’t insult the Pakled like that.
They are smart.
They outsmarted Captain Janeway by getting Rumdar onto the Enterprise as a spy.
Red alarm!
Trump’s hat is small.
Gas prices lowwwww
4 in 10 Americans are fucking morons.
That roughly checks out with our electoral results tbh
Stable Business Genius: Let’s lower prices by raising prices - checkmate liibs
Trump is an economic idiot.
It’s bad when you are the most vocally anti regulation party, and cato goes at you.
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