Experts
Experts
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One really frustrating part of all of this is they said we couldn't raise minimum wage because "it'd increase prices." Meanwhile, it's perfectly fine to do this, because prices rising is actually fine now.
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They were totally going to raise prices regardless.
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Remember when inflation and corporate prices rose?
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How did we instantly upgrade from "feeling" to "knowing"?
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Expertise
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He felt that he knew it.
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Feelings don't care about your facts
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The base doesn't understand what tarrifs are but they 100% know that the orange turd is fighting for them.
This is what happens when education takes a back seat and propaganda, identity politics, war profiteering, and geopolitical coercing takes hold to be the "greatest country of all time".
And they start to believe everything that matches their bias.
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"Ah ha! That's how I know you don't know what you're talking about, you're an 'expert!' and they don't know anything! Checkmate!"
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An "ex" is a has-been and a "spurt" is a drip under pressure.
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So that's why you spell exspurt like that
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Using Twitter in 2025 makes both these people fascism apologists
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We should just rename our planet Dunning-Kruger World.
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I consider them both clowns. Who the fuck uses twitter anymore?
Clown 1 was correct, but still, arguing on the shit pile is still just standing on the shit pile.
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In Denmark, Facebook is still by far number 1.. We might be cool politically, but very out of touch when it comes to keeping up with the internet.
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It wouldn't surprise me if that was a bot account doing it for engagement.
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I lost track, how much does it cost to get the totally legit blue check on X-twit?
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Enough to question the life choices of people who pay for it.
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"You don't know anything about this topic because what you say does not align with what I have in my head"
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Right wing governments need austerity to encourage the societal suspicion and infighting they thrive on.
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bets on the reply being a bait bot
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At least their username and pfp are accurate; he stinks.
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ekpurtz
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Oh no rasmus is cooked. He got setup to get crushed by the "thats why you're the former.."
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I mean without the deal the tariffs would've been higher. Sucks
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The tariffs only would have been higher because the same idiot that got the deal made the tariffs higher to begin with.
The only sort of lucky part for us Americans is if it’s approved we got the better end of the deal, but ultimately we’re going to be paying higher prices for things we’re likely unable to produce. Although I get the feeling that Italian Marble and French Wines will suddenly be exempt from tariffs.
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Although I get the feeling that Italian Marble and French Wines will suddenly be exempt from tariffs.
But not before his buddies bought the right stocks.
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I mean yeah but if Trump had set the tariffs at higher then that would've been worse than the current tariff deal.
Zero tariffs would've been best or maintaining the tariffs that were there before. But still 15% is better than 30%.
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I understand where he's coming from, but I personally disagree about us being worse off. It's a usage tax. Buy domestic and don't pay the tariffs. Frankly, there's never been enough pressure on exporters to keep goods in the country of origin either, so the reciprocal tariffs will hopefully put some pressure there.
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It's a tax that proportionally taxes the poor more than the wealthy, and it's not a coincidence that it's happening the same time taxes on the rich are being lowered.
Tariffs could make sense if we had a big manufacturing unemployment problem, but we currently do not. And targeted tariffs can help keep strategic industries in the country, but the 15% tariffs aren't targeted. Some countries are just better at making certain things, whether it's because of the resources they have, or the particular skills their workforce have, so trade, generally, makes sense.
The stupid "trade imbalance" thing Trump goes on about doesn't even take into account all the services US companies sell them (tech, financial, etc), and nothing is being done to stop US companies from offshoring these service jobs (some of these service jobs do have high unemployment and are being heavily offshored right now). Nevermind that trade imbalances means we're receiving more stuff than we're sending them, which is more beneficial to us.
I dunno why you want to keep resources/goods in their country of origin. Only Central and South America can enjoy coffee I guess?
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Until everyone you trade with returns the favour, and no foreign consumers are buying your products.
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That's why he didn't put tarrifs on coffee, chocolate and bananas. O wait, he did.
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Step 1: Create disaster (put tariffs on your allies)
Step 2: Rabble, rabble, rabble while you dismantle the rest of the government and put people in concentrations camps.
Step 3: Tell everyone you solved the disaster by making it a tiny bit less of a disaster.
Step 4: Celebrate?
I, for one, am ready to watch my fellow countrymen fall all over themselves to find a way to elect him a 3rd time while hating everything about their lives directly because of his policies. Can't wait!
The media will just blame it on obama or something. The "The Deep State" has always been a campaign to explain why republican statements don't match their policy results to gullible people.
Worked for Trump's first term I guess. Kill people from resisting vaccinations and mandates. Then encourage people to get vaccinated.
This. The trade deal is not too bad, but it's way worse than the pre-Trump state of things.
Yeah there's no good reason to restrict trade with the eu. They're the most similar economy to us and we've found a reasonable balance. When we compete it's often beneficial to both economies and where we don't it's in deeply intertwined ways. The sophisticated machinery you buy from the Netherlands may use parts from Chicago and be the best tool for making products in either Czechia or Alabama.
Honestly Europe had more cause to tariff us over our lax regulations on labor, environmentalism, and consumer protection resulting in an unfair advantage.