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Trump is losing his foolish trade war. This will cost ordinary Americans greatly

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Trump is losing his foolish trade war. This will cost ordinary Americans greatly | Steven Greenhouse

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4d ago

Trump is losing his foolish trade war. This will cost ordinary Americans greatly

www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/aug/11/trump-losing-trade-war

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Release the Trump-Epstein files
- Normalize calling them the Trump/Epstein Files
  We changed people saying "Trump fucked kids" to "Trump rapes kids" in just a few days.
  Phrasing matters, and it especially matters to him. Once we call it the Trump/Epstein files, news orgs will too.
  
  Fixed
- The system needs a cleanse.
  The victims deserve justice and society has to ensure that pedophiles get prosecuted.
  If we as society can't muster that, then we deserve what's coming our way.
he might be losing but the bubble he lives in says he's winning
- Right, he's winning the war because he's not on America's side.
But the real question is... is he personally richer? If so, then it's working.
- He got a glass statue on a gold base from Tim Apple, so I guess he’s winning.
- The one and only metric.
- The wealth of the monarch is the wealth of the state
  
  Welcome to the 1600s.
There's an important revenue boost from tariffs. On the other hand, Trump's is defunding a lot a federal organizations. Where is the money going?
- Billionaire tax cuts.
- About 170 billion is going to form the gestapo, the rest is going in his pockets.
- Tariffs are just another tax on Americans.
  
  It is a tax corporate profits first and foremost.
  Some of that cost will be passed down to americans. Some will not.
  While in put pricing is a factor when setting the end price, practically we all know that the corporate Parasite uses all that data to set that perfect price ie top price the market accept.
About half of 'ordinary americans' wanted this.
- 77.3m american voters directly cast their ballot for Donald Trump in 2024. That's hardly half.
  
  Doesn't matter.
  
  77M of 155M or 49%, about half.
  You can extrapolate that the voting population approximately represents the non-voting population. Or, if you are a prick, you can say that non-voters didn't want this but refrained from voting and are therefore to blame, in which case they still chose this.
  America has always been a racists, bigoted, sexist, right-wing playground. The only thing that has changed is that now they don't have to hide it.
- Citation needed. There are over 300M Americans. How many voted for this?
  
  77M voted for this. those who did not vote, voted for this as well, by not voting. only 1/3 of them voted against it
It's only losing if you believe the goal was actually to improve the US economy.

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Release the Trump-Epstein files