I thought the reason for trashing trade agreements and taking a wrecking ball to the Canadian economy with extreme tariffs was because of fentanyl coming from Canada at the border?

Apparently not, says Trump, from his speech at Congress tonight: “… Tariffs are about making America rich again and making America great again”.

By his own words, he has just shown his big lie.

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    translation for the masses: it’s about “making america’s rich, richer”. he don’t give a fk about you or me or anyone else. just those very few at the top (and even then, he don’t care about them, either, unless they’re giving him a cut or are a pathway to power)

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        hate. he sells hate and hurt, and the maga nuts want to see certain people hurt, even at their own expense.

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          It’s true isn’t it. MAGAts just want to see other people suffer and be miserable. That’s how they feel better about their own shitty lives.

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            Literally

            He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.

            And they were already saying that in 2019

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            There’s many that do, yes. My mother and stepfather are two such people. They’re willing to burn their own country down around them if it means that a few of “them” die first.

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          We all know that the maga nuts will be hurt in all of this, it is common knowledge for all of us, but they can’t envision it until it literally knocks on their door. Only then, you’ll hear them crying about it, “it was supposed to affect my neighbor, not me”.

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      But at some point these rich people will have enough and all the extra wealth will trickle down, right? Right?

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      America’s rich richer. 100%. Just eat these lies, hate people that are different from you, and then someday your life will be better. As long as you like the Russian lifestyle, that is.