• sporkler@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    There is no chance he wasn’t informed ad nauseam that tariffs ‘don’t work that way’ to which he likely responded, ‘I know’

    His only bet is that the one American that matters to him gets paid.

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      Here’s a video by Money& Macro that somewhat convincingly argues that they have some kind of plan. It’s a shitty plan and it’s guaranteed not to work, but it’s a plan.

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        IMHO whether there is a plan or not is the least compelling of my complaints against this administration. that there’s even a 1% chance that it could succeed doesn’t matter because what we have built up as a nation since it’s founding has been gradually and sometimes painstakingly built up over many years, and a large amount of value in the country that has been lost was so much more valuable than anything a ticker on the bottom of a screen could reflect .

        These actions were taken largely against both the words and the spirit of the Constitution, and the stability and generosity that we projected as a nation, no matter how calculated and self serving it may have actually been, can never be replaced, because it existed since the founding of the country

        /Rant