• Godort@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      52
      ·
      3 months ago

      Trump said that there would be a 100% tariff increase starting in November, on top of the 30% one already in place.

      China hasn’t issued an official response other than “we dont want a trade war, but we aren’t afraid of one”

      People are legitimately worried because prices skyrocketed the last time he did this and they still haven’t recovered.

      • Ging@anarchist.nexus
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        3 months ago

        Oof, that really bites. I was praying it was something less serious. Thanks for the info

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      27
      ·
      3 months ago

      Trump is trying to brush off China/Xi’s extremely rational trade policy response to Trump’s extremely irrational trade policy decisions…

      … by speaking as if this is all just a minor, temporary blunder on China’s end.

      Basically, peak delusion/dementia insanity from the world’s most “never ever wrong about anything” man.

      Trump really does need to be taken out to pasture, 25th Ammendment’d… otherwise literally millions, tens of millions of Americans will starve in basically a self-imposed Republican Holodomor.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 months ago

      THE "WEAVE’, saying 9 non-sensical things at once that forms into one though that is only understable to his followers.

      • Cethin@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 months ago

        It’s actually saying 9 contradictory things and only taking credit for the good outcomes. The bad outcomes are someone else’s fault.

    • Bitcrazy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 months ago

      China should make a deal because somehow us not buying their cheap shit will cause their country to go into a depression instead of ours for some reason. I don’t think it makes sense. Don’t we owe -them- tons of money?

  • Bitcrazy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    3 months ago

    I never thought I’d see somebody dumber than George W Bush in office. This country is going through some very sad, stupid, and dangerous times right now. Pls send help.

    • MJKee9@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      3 months ago

      GWB was not dumb. I believe he’s actually a smart man…he just had no empathy for anyone who wasn’t level with his socioeconomic status. DJT also is without empathy, but also possesses a deep hatred for anyone who isn’t one of his pals. An active deep hatred that GWB never had… Or at least never displayed.

      • lefaucet@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, we misunderestimated him.

        As he so wisely said, “There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again.”

        I did think he was a dumbass when, after it was clear Rumsfeld was driving us hard the unforgivable shitshow that was W’s Iraq War he said, “I’m the decider, and I decide what is best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense.”

        But you are right. He would drop absolute truthbombs we found so unsettling, like, “I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.”

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      3 months ago

      There was a split second where U. S. politics were funny. I remember we would laugh at whatever gaff or speech “W” had made, but then war were declaredand yeah, nothing funny about it. Pprobably never was funny, but there was a moment where I had just enough ignorange to consider it so

      omg my typing sucks. Sorry, we’re just at the not-hot-enough-to-turn-on-heat/but-still-too-cold-for-comfort stage of the shoulder season here.