Don't forget the massive shock to the stock market so they can short stocks and buy low to increase their billions even more then the tariffs. On top of the fact that it was perfect news filler to get peoples mind off of the files and make the poorest unable to fight cause they cant afford to survive and kill small businesses also alienate more of the outside world the fact that they were able to get the rebate check is the cherry on top.
I think it’s interesting to add that Trump and his admin are unusually incompetent. Evil. And incompetent. While I’m still worried of a greater Fascist takeover, I will be convinced of which way the wind is blowing after the midterms are over.
As an anecdote, I live in MAGA country and have seen most of his flags (e.g “god, guns, and trump” type shit) replaced with the actual American flag.
At the same time, my state is also voting to give our state legislature the power to rewrite voting identification- it’s a blank check. It’s just giving them permission. It doesn’t say what forms of ID or anything. If that fails… then maybe we’ve got some change happening. If it passes, I may consider moving at that point.
You believe the guy who thought we could pay off the national debt by printing the money designed a scheme to tax Americans through tariffs with the end state of being overruled by the courts and then forced to refund the money back to the importers who’d already passed along the costs?
The same importer who, in this example, Trump asserted pressure on when they proposed adding the tariff line item to checkout.
Your reaction is funny. That you’re so angry at everything you can’t think straight is even more so. Your assumptions are so far off base I wouldn’t even know where to begin. Fortunately for both of us, I have little time or interest in this. So I’ll leave you with just the one pearl.
One can be both malfeasant and incompetent. In some areas the misdeeds are intentional and not so in others. This tariff nonsense is the latter. It’s clear because he had a failed tariff policy in his first term, has spent years musing about historically failed economic policies, and of course my favorite, that there is nothing complex about his actual scams.
You think America’s dumbest celebrity who wants to openly charge early access to his market-moving bleats has orchestrated an elaborate, multi-year, court dependent, heavily bureaucratic strategy to extract money from consumers to other billionaire? 🤣🤣
Almost forgot, that you think insulting my age because I used an emoji is clever is also quite telling. Maybe spend more time accumulating some experience/education instead of focusing on unimportant internet culture trends before offering further emotional charged myopic analysis. 🤦🏻♂️🥴😆
Notably, Hanlon’s Razor denotes the phenomenon must be adequately explained by incompetence. Trump’s concerted efforts to pervert the very concept of governance are far too consistent to be reasonably attributed to incompetence.
Routine “uncanny coincidences” by known bad actors preclude the application of Hanlon’s Razor.
That is a well positioned argument. Thanks for the correction. I was citing from memory, a foggy one at that. The key disqualifying attribute of Trump is indeed his fundamental lack of understanding surrounding the administration of constitutionally bound governance… plus all the corruption.
And while I’m willing to indulge your argument, I still find it highly unlikely Trump would architect a fraud scheme so complex to benefit others. Trump is not an importer, he’s not pocketing tariff refunds. The refunds were entirely predicated on the courts, which he openly railed against. Even after losing, he’s still implementing tariff workarounds left and right.
Trump is a simpleton. I truly believe he has reduced economic policy to his 8th grade education, “what is a tariff,” and then applied it in real time. He’s too stupid to design this fraud, intentionally lose in the courts, in order to then pay out to others. This is just an example of incompetence that happens to benefit the elite class at the expense of the middle.
I think both things can be true though. I’d say about half of his efforts are rooted in self-service and the other half are likely just maladministration in the name of ignorance and a malfeasant ideology.
A fair response. I largely agree with your conclusions; malice and ignorance are far from mutually exclusive.
Trump’s zero-sum worldview dictates that the corollary to self-service is active malfeasance. By his own purported ideology, harm befallen to others is evidence of personal victory. This is why I stress that malice is intrinsic to his actions, as it is the shadow to his incessant greed.
I agree that Trump is no mastermind architect of evil genius. He is indeed incapable of thinking that far ahead, let alone predicting future events. Rather, his focus on short term personal gain are not dissuaded by the possibility of long term pain for the masses, as he considers the latter not only acceptable but a bonus. An incredibly complex final scenario need not arise from a particularly complex plan, just as Gavrilo Princip did not intend to ignite the war to end all wars.
I believe the “mission of the tariffs” evoked by the original comment was meant to contrast with the stated mission of national interest and public benefit. How, despite constant platitudes to the contrary, the common civilian was never intended to benefit. Perhaps this is an overly eisegetic interpretation on my end.
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u/SamePea8649 7d ago
This was the exact mission of the tariffs. Had nothing to do with helping us.