his next "truth" will be about how—YELLING—he'll make China start paying the tariffs again, like Biden isn't doing. because he understands so well how this all works. I won't survive 4 more years of the idiocy. we'll all melt into a puddle of goo from having our brains atrophy.
I regret to inform you that children across the nation have been told to tear the entire McKinley section out of their history textbooks and replace them with this Truth.
What he fails to understand.
Tariffs will be passed on to consumers. Raising the wholesale prices of raw materials across ALL manufacturing. Which means electronics, vehicles, appliances, cell phones, Laptops, farm equipment, ANYTHING that You buy WILL become unaffordable. Full stop.
Think things cost too much now?
Vote Trump in and watch his policies Tank the US economy. Even IF tariffs on imported goods is something to consider, consider what happened during covid. Do you think these companies can change policy overnight to have their products manufactured in the US?
We are a globalized economy. Factories are Overseas. Think those companies are going to switch overnight? Suddenly a mass production operation for 30 manufacturers is going to spring up here?
Pipe dreams. Wake up.
Trump's economic policies will destroy America. And the global economy with it
He wants to do mass deportations
Mass deportations -> labor prices go up -> inflation
And production drops -> more inflation
We need to import more -> dollar loses value -> more inflation
Trump is inflation inflation inflation
During the 2016 Presidential run, I often commented that Trump had no actual interior mental life, that he spoke entirely by applying simplistic string transformations to input.
So does Chat-GPT.
It makes sense it can do a credible impression of him. Both lack anything under the mental hood.
I bet the point is "Tariffs didn't cause the great depression so the ones I'm pitching are fine."
Also: no way he wrote that. That's three complete sentences where each flows directly from the one before.
The argument is dumb, but coherent. He doesn't do coherent.
I don't think you give him enough credit: he's totally heard of a Smoots-Hawley Act and he knows it costs extra if she's even willing to do it. Also, he's pretty sure it's still a felony in some states, which is why it's better to ask for it on a boat in international waters.
That struck me as plausible, really. I don't keep track of who's been featured in the most recent two minutes hate.
Remember that time when, for about a month, every right-wing dipshit suddenly had strong opinions about Woodrow Wilson?
I am sure he knows about the Great Depression because I bet his dad got really, really angry about it. And blamed a very certain group of ethnically religious people for it.
The more I think about this, the more I think about the implications if you're right: DJT was notorious about his Twitter obsessions and not letting go of his phone; if he's letting staffers run the Truth Social account, it may corroborate stories that his mental state has seriously declined.
Dear @jaketapper.bsky.social I promise I will never mention your weird dating Monica Lewinsky article ever again if you ask him in the debate if he met with Sens Smoot and Hawley to talk about this.
