- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@lemmit.online
- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@lemmit.online
Summary
Donald Trump lashed out at China for retaliating against his new tariffs, calling the country the “biggest abuser” of U.S. trade.
After Trump imposed an additional 34% tariff on Chinese goods, China responded with its own 34% tariff on U.S. products and suspended key imports.
Financial markets in both countries plunged, with U.S. economists warning of a potential recession.
Despite backlash, Trump defended his strategy, urging the Fed to cut rates and calling the tariffs a path to long-term gain. Critics warn of global economic instability and rising protectionism.
“W-when I specifically asked you not to…?”
Trump is incredibly weak. It blows my mind that anyone looks at that slug and sees anything other than a despicable, pathetic cretin.
Have you ever interacted with a magat?
They are cowards. All they have going for them is that they are going to call the cops or get their gun. They don’t see trump as a sniveling coward. They se themselves. And since they are big and strong that means trump is big and strong.
I was going to reply, but your username made me miss
XCOM hit percentages are real fake news.
I understood that reference
100%
I work with some die hard MAGA (one had a custom “NFOWARS” plate until he crashed his car driving drunk) and this describes them to a T. Weak people that see weak people act like “strong men” on TV and latch their whole identity onto them.
We live in a completely different information environment than Trump fans.
Spend some time watching the MAGA media ecosystem, and you can see why people hang on his every word. I blame them, influencers profiting off MAGAland, more than any supporter consuming it.
I have. I have family, some of whom I lived with during some of the MAGA years.
He’s no less pathetic there.
At some point, you have to accept that people legitimately love the bullshit spewing out of his mouth. The people who go to his rallies and watch him live, no intermediaries, fall over themselves with adoration.
I’ve watched fox news try blame a crash 1 day after tariff announcements as somehow Biden’s fault. Not a very convincing argument for why i shouldn’t blame Trump for thousands of dollars in personal investment losses.
Am i missing some step, like turning off my brain? Will I then be able to happily vote for someone who is personally fucking me with almost surgical precision?
You’re just a totally different base than Fox’s. They’re telling viewers want they want to hear, which has always been this, for decades. They have to, as otherwise they’d switch channels and lose engagement blaming non-liberals for anything.
No you just aren’t in a ideological cult information bubble, they aren’t watching fox to learn or gain context they watch fox, listen to conservative radio, and consume smooth brain influencers to reinforce the narrative. Its the same reason that the Soviets and NorKs have constant broadcasts on telephone poles with the only key difference being that these folks are doing it voluntarily, after all if you have a willing audience it’s a lot easier to control them. They need that constant reinforcement or it starts to break down.
And if you want to disrupt the pipeline of shit that eventually leads to Trump, that’s where to start.