We realize that most Americans didn’t vote for Trump (only 49.8%) and that most of those who did probably didn’t understand what tariffs are and how they work and we realize that Trump’s action and our response are going to hurt poor Americans, and poor Americans in red states more than others, but we’re not going to take illegal tariffs sitting down.
Just a reminder who Trump is pissing off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHSaHRd4Q48
https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/lend-hand-do-what-you-can-remembering-generosity-gander
That’s what happened last time. Global trade realigned and the US was left out. Just ask soy bean farmers.
Soy bean farmers got direct subsidies to offset the damage that Trump did last time. They didn’t learn shit, they voted for him again, and would again given a choice.
Large industrial farms got subsidies. Many small farms went under permanently.
And for every job that was saved, it cost the US ~$900,000.
But the saddest thing were the TV interviews of some of the farmers who had lost the business that had been in their families for generations. Many of them were saying that they still believed in Trump.
They figuratively shot themselves in the foot and were yelling “Ha! Take that libs”
I remember one of them saying they “didn’t really like the tweeting”.
As if the TWEETING was the fucking problem. Yeah, he’s fucking everything up, including my livelihood, but if only he was just a bit more CIVIL about it and not so coarse on the intarwebz.