Has anyone told him that tariffs require willing trade partners?

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    The United States was at its absolute economic best when charging fucks like musk and Trump 95% tax rate … forcing them to invest instead of hoarding. Stop lying you stupid orange fuck

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    He’s so full of shit it’s running out his mouth.

    What built the industrial juggernaut that won the cold war was a 90% tax rate.

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      Also, World War II was perhaps the biggest gift for America’s economy in their history. It took them from the economic slump of the Great Depression into a booming war economy that allowed it to recover. Such an economic boom likely won’t ever happen again, unless the US openly declares war on another country.

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    How the Democrats have failed to skewer him with “tariffs are taxes: he’s raising taxes” is beyond me.

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      Because the Democrats exist as a controlled opposition party. They aren’t there to make your life better, they are there to funnel progressive energy into a harmless movement.

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      He literally raised the taxes on basically everyone that makes less than $300k and gave billionaires another tax cut because he did that in his first term too.

      Democrats still can’t figure out their messaging.

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      Here in Germany, one of the left wing parties (literally “The Left”) has been putting up election posters with lines like “If your town is getting flooded, the rich are boarding their yachts”, “If your heating is too expensive, someone’s making coal” (making bank), “If your grocery trip is too expensive, a corporation is cashing in” and such. I found that a refreshing sight.

      (Mind, some of their positions are contentious too and this isn’t an uncritical endorsement. I just felt the posters were fitting.)

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      Because unfortunately the only thing the Democrats are good at is failing miserably at being good politicians. Those of us in the US are stuck between choosing a party of feckless, stupid, corpo shills and a party of straight up fascists :(

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      Because when he says “Wealthy again”, he doesn’t mean you.

      Tariffs essentially mean you’re paying more for everything that you buy, which then goes into the corporations coffers, and the billionaires/robber barons get richer. THAT is what Trump means by the country being “wealthy again”. He means the billionaires. He doesn’t care if it’s his own middle class paying for it.

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    Pls tell me how tariffs will fix my student loans, Mr President. Pls tell me how it will pay off my mortgage and medical debt.

    Fuckin clown… Jfc

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      It’s a very important issue.

      But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that — because — child care is child care student loans are student loans… It’s something, you have to have it in this country. You have to have it.

      But when you talk about those numbers, compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to, but they’ll get used to it very quickly, and it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us, but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country,

      Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care, that it’s going to take care. We’re going to have — I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country.

      -Trump

      TL;DR: He has no idea

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    Hey Canada can you send some, y’know, special ops type people to uh . . y’know.

    WINK WINK

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    Per my ear specialist: Just never use q-tips. At least not for your ears. There’s actually a saying about never putting something smaller than your elbow in. Go to the doctor and get them cleaned out in the event they actually clog.

    Although, I bet that would be expensive in the US. Hmm, I wonder what the play is down there.

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        Couldn’t you use water yourself? It doesn’t look that hard, although I don’t know what I don’t know there.

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          Doctors use a special tube and basin with sterile water to unclog grave wax obstructions. Tweezers (also sterilized) for solid objects. Otherwise the average person should really just rub the outside with a towel to keep it dry. Very rarely people require special care, and the doctors will give precise instructions on what to do and how.

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    You should, in fact, not be using any at all. Ears are self-cleaning, the wax is precisely what transports gunk to the outside all you’re probably doing is pushing it back in. Some soapy fingering of the outsides while showering is all you need to finish that task.

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      I tried that - instead of my ears clogging after ~1 year with q-tips, it now clogged after 3 months

      I hate ear wax

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        When you suddenly stop things can clog, yes, go to a doctor. It might also be a muscle in your neck or something, giving the impression of things being clogged.

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          No, it was an actual clog that I had to get removed, but thanks for the tip. I haven’t been using any since my last cleaning either, guess I’ll see soon whether things actually improve!

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      My ear holes are so large that I could probably fit 4 q-tips in. I do an helical wipe with the q tip, no wax is getting pushed in, its getting scraped out. Some one with a tiny ear canal should not be ramrodding with a q-tip though

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    He really is with Project 2025 and dark enlightenment stuff. He wants everything to regress to 19th century world where there were plenty of snake oils (there was no regulation back then after all), women were to stay home to make babies, and tariffs only worked when the norm was that if you don’t agree-- gunboats will be sent to force you to agree.

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    A lot of Ostrich Politics about to happen over the next year(s) in the MAGAsphere.

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      The silver lining is that this isn’t going to work and the clown car is going to crash so hard that there won’t be able to redress the failure before the working class people who naively believed them.