3mo ago

Americans Really Dislike Trump. But They’re About to Truly Hate Him. Welcome to the summer of scarcity and the full-blown Trump recession.

newrepublic.com /post/194705/trump-scarcity-tariffs-recession-economy

BoycottUnitedStates @europe.pub

tfm @europe.pub

3mo ago

Americans Really Dislike Trump. But They’re About to Truly Hate Him.

newrepublic.com /post/194705/trump-scarcity-tariffs-recession-economy

Progressive Politics, Gun Control, Single Payer Healthcare and Free Abortions for All! @lemm.ee

SatansMaggotyCumFart @lemmy.world

3mo ago

Americans Really Dislike Trump. But They’re About to Truly Hate Him.

newrepublic.com /post/194705/trump-scarcity-tariffs-recession-economy

politics @lemmy.world

symbolic @infosec.pub

3mo ago

Americans Really Dislike Trump. But They’re About to Truly Hate Him.

newrepublic.com /post/194705/trump-scarcity-tariffs-recession-economy

23 comments

And I know I'm not gonna see so much as one picosecond of displeased facial expression from any of you "the Democrats didn't impress me enough" non-voters, since this is what you decided was an acceptable outcome.
- I don’t know who is worse. Those “the democrats don’t impress me” people or the “both sides are the same” people…
And I bet it'll be "the hottest Summer on record" too
- So far
  
  The coolest one for the rest of our lives probably
Americans elected a dumb asshole, and natural consequences followed.
This might be my new favorite publication
As an American, my personal opinion is that America deserves all the pain in inflicts upon itself by electing literal morons and spineless idiots year after year, culminating in the literal Idiocracy America has become.
"Hot Tariff Summer"
Crash and burn
America wants this
- No we don't. Outside of rich assholes who stand to profit, not a single American wants this. We are just too stupid to handle the conman who tells us to our face that he's going to ruin is.
  There is a line from "Going Postal" which sums it up amazingly, but I can't find the quote. Something to the effect of "I tell them what I am, I show them how the cards are marked, and they smile and nod to each other, and think themselves fine fellows for doing business with me."
  It's infuriating. We could use a Vetrinati just now.
  
  Yes they do.
  not a single American wants this.
  1/3 openly wants to suck Trumps dick and loves everything he does. 1/3 didn’t care to get off their couch, so they’ve openly accepted what Trump is going to do, none of which should be a surprise unless you decided to cut yourself off from politics, which means you just don’t care.
  The only people that didn’t want this is the remaining 1/3 that voted against Trump. As for the rest of you, this is all on you. You wanted this and you’re going to get it.
  
  We are just too stupid to handle the conman
  There are an unpleasant number of US citizens who thing we're going be able to use his bullshit to their advantage and that's why they're in it for him.
Totally not true
- Which part?
  
  Not defending that guy's assertion but there's some things the article ignored in order to be a little more of a doomer take. Notably the 35% preloading of inventory and the bit about if Trump removed the tarrifs today it would be too late. Those two parts contradict. We are overstocked on inventory for now and the clock is ticking (as far as the big retailers go). However the US's reputation is marred on the world stage and trade deals are worthless with a conman. So yep, even if he drops tarrifs we're screwed, but it'll be a while still until shelves are empty.

23 comments