MAGA sure does love having their faces eaten
Explaining his approach to the tariff policy that has triggered weeks of turmoil on global markets, the - president compared the US to the world’s department store.
“I am this giant store. It’s a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there,” he said.
"And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I’ll say, ‘If you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay.’ "
This sounds like the thinking of a dictator, not of a leader. He doesn’t own the “store”, the people do.
He seems to have this the wrong way around.
The world is the store, and he’s just some person outside its front door, holding out his hand and asking US customers for 5 bucks for every item they want to go home with.
That’s actually a way more relevant take than my original comment. He’s still acting like tariffs are fees paid by foreign nations, when in fact, they’re paid by the consumers in the nation imposing the tariffs.
Sadly (for those of us stuck in the US), the only people who will be hurt by these tariffs are the people whose best interests he’s supposed to be responsible for.
I own the store, and I set prices
So capitalist that it’s gone all the way around and become communism.
I’m just going to point out that while communism has its problems itself, no, this is capitalism alright.
Just make people panic and you can have covid like shortages as soon as next week :)
I wonder if anyone in the Badminstration, specifically the Department of Agriculture, have thought about all the crops that will go unharvested in the fields starting around August because migrants won’t go out to pick them for fear of being deported by ICE.
Don’t know about them, but my wife and I are learning how to can and we are buying tons of Mason jars to do so.
I wish everyone luck. The global economy is going to crash hard and we all will be fucked Im afraid.
I feel the global economy won’t be too bad off. Likely some collateral damage, but the United States on the other hand…
They’re already carving out exceptions for farm workers. Whether those migrants will feel safe enough to come back is another story.
Are we great again yet?
Many will cross the borders into Mexico and Canada to buy necessities. Eventually, the borders will need to be closed. 47 will lose his shit over this. What happens next is anyone’s guess.
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