• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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    448 hours ago

    I found some additional articles on what he said about this, and he did indeed flat out say he expects the “other countries” to pay the tariffs. For instance, this.

    A sweeping tariff policy will kill two birds with one stone, Trump says: It could find a new source of revenue for the U.S. government, which could offset losses from lowering or eliminating certain forms of income tax, while extracting money from rival governments.

    That’s not how tariffs have worked at any point in history.

    • @[email protected]
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      198 hours ago

      Yup. He does a great job “selling” ideas that simply aren’t grounded in reality.

      Like that wall that Mexico was going to pay for. What an idiot. Did his base think the United States would just send Mexico a bill for work completed and expect them to pay it? You couldn’t make this buffoonery up!

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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        22 hours ago

        And then people buy these unrealistic ideas and when they get harmed by reality, they somehow blame ‘leftists’, ‘progressives’, ‘demon rats’, ‘Obama’ or any other bogeyman for it.

      • @[email protected]
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        156 hours ago

        I had a boss like this. Had all these million dollar ideas but no capacity to consider that someone else had the same idea and it either made no damn sense or it had already been done and people went to jail for it. Motherfuckers dream up grifts halfway and think everyone else is an idiot or sucker for not acting on the “golden opportunity”.

      • @krashmo
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        77 hours ago

        You couldn’t make this buffoonery up!

        Well somebody did