It’s not about being smart for America, it’s about being smart for Putin. Trump’s going to do that with every single decision until we’re completely destroyed.
I hear that again and again, but I don’t quite understand the endgame anymore.
There was the theory Russia had compromising material on him to get him to play along, but the MAGA crowd is so committed and reverent that I’m not sure anything could shame him anymore.
Russia could show a tape of him porking his 7-year-old daughter on the Times Square Jumbotron and the GOP would rally to lower the age of consent to 6. If the Russian financial authorities showed incontrovertible proof that Trump was broke, Congress would declare he had a bazillion FreedomBux ™ to magically settle his debts.
Why would he bother listening when there’s no leverage left?
It’s more chilling to think this is pure domestic terror with no evil-other boogeyman to blame. The far right got all their best and brightest in one place, and thry couldn’t dilute their paranoia and hate enough to serve their greed.
Yes, any kompromat the Russians had is completely useless now. Even if people believe it to be true, he apparently wouldn’t lose a single vote.
Dumbest trade war in history…so far
But when you add Putin into the mix then it all makes sense.
Yeah, I think this is the correct angle.
People (e.g. mainstream press) are responding to these events as if Trump were actually trying to accomplish something useful for the US - as if he were well-intentioned but incompetent.
But (1) Trump is a compulsive liar, so his talk about “Make America Great” should be treated with suspicion, and (2) Trump is owned by foreign interests (Russia, China, Saudi Arabia) who will benefit from the US having weakened international relationships.
From this point of view, it makes sense that Trump is alienating our allies.
Trump is a fool who is being used by hostile powers to sabotage the USA and its allies. But he’s also a bitter, vindictive, petty little man who wants to sabotage his country anyway.
Legit question, why and how is he owned by Russia, China and Saudi Arabia?
Speaking for the Russia part, he owed 400 million to Deutsche Bank (https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-secret-ugly-breakup-with-deutsche-bank-revealed-2022-10) which was his biggest single lender and which just happens to be the same bank which also funneled billions of Russian dark money offshore (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/deutsche-banks-10-billion-scandal). Just a coincidence no doubt.
To add to this, the FBI has been trying to prove his connections to Russian crime organizations forever. I wanna say since the 70s. Russian criminals have major stakes in Trump Towers - including actual real estate - and he’s been “gifted” everything from private planes to yachts by them. The FBI has never been able to get anything to stick, however.
Decades into the future, it will come to be known that Putin has a video of trump fucking an obviously underaged blonde girl whom he audibly calls “Ivanka”.
They don’t get to say shit, as they were directly involved with electing this shitstain.
Yes, we know. But if the established, non-broligarch folks realize that they won’t be in the winning end after it’s all done, they might do something about it. Not until all the brown people are exported and the government is drowned in the bathtub, though. Those were the WSJ’s priorities all along. if they get upset, it will only be because Elon jumped the line in front of them for the cash.
I agree, but the guy literally said this was what he was going to do, and they were all for it then.
We can parade around and yell “we told you so” or we can welcome anyone who wants to add to the resistance. It’s up to us. That said, I don’t know if WSJ will ever be of any meaningful value to the resistance.
I’m sorry, might be jaded but what you’re saying about welcoming anyone who wants to add to resistance was how I was in 2020.
And I watched the same idiots where were complaining about his policies in 2019 go vote for him again this time.
They’ll be mad to get people to accept them right up until the choices come back then goosestep in party line again. Fuck em.
I doubt the orange guy wants to drown the government in a bathtub. In fact, that’s the place that gives him his power as of now.
As always, the elites think they can control a stupid man, but the stupid man does whatever he wants anyway.
In my estimated guess and opinion, Putin has told Trump that if he doesn’t sign those tariffs Putin will make more planes crash.
Trump is being exploited.
Doesn’t matter, he doesn’t read. His aides might, but they won’t tell him for fear of getting fired.
The Emperor will be waltzing around the White House lawn with his orange wang swinging back and forth in the open air and they still won’t say a thing.
More like his old man balls swinging back and forth than his tiny orange wang.
This is WAAAAY more than I’d ever want to read about trump’s little…. baby carrot.
Can we talk about kittens and bunnies now?
Does he actually spray tan his wang?
Wouldn’t be the first president to do so. 🤭
Savages, eh? Savages while the other side of the same mouth runs the propaganda machine at Fox that enabled this trade war. Self-serving propagandist motherfuckers.
paywalled WSJ article link
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https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-25-percent-mexico-canada-trade-economy-84476fb2
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