Trump fell into his old Trump Trap

[slewfoot]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...d9b9c0f3&ei=11


Whether by design or instinct, candidate Donald Trump set a perfect trap for the Democrats when, in September 2024, he reacted to the John Deere and Company’s announcement that it would move a thousand jobs from the Midwest to Mexico. Trump said then:

I am just notifying John Deere right now that if you do that, we are putting a 200% tariff on everything that you want to sell into the United States.

Trump saw Deere’s announcement as the perfect opportunity to jump on Deere’s job destruction, which the company used to finance 12.2 billion in stock buybacks to enrich its investors.

The Democrats? They sent billionaire Mark Cuban out to the media to complain that the tariffs were “insane.”

But threatening tariffs did not feel insane to the Deere workers who were about to lose their jobs. Nor did they feel insane to the millions of other workers who had lost their jobs due to “free trade” deals like NAFTA.

The Democrats now have a chance to turn the tables—but, alas, they probably won’t.

The Democrats stumbled into the Trump’s tariff trap and provided many workers with yet another reason to abandon a party that had failed to say anything at all about the needless job destruction caused by overt corporate greed.

After Trump won the presidency last November, I was sure he would set more tariff traps, provoking the Democrats to reflexively react as corporate shills.

But along the way something funny happened. Trump fell into his own tariff trap, and his public support has fallen somewhat. The Democrats now have a chance to turn the tables—but, alas, they probably won’t.

Even the most ardent MAGA apologist knows that Trump has dictatorial impulses. He wants to play Brando in “The Godfather” and make you an offer you can’t refuse.

But playing Don Corleone in domestic affairs doesn’t come easily. Trump can flood the zone with executive orders, but the courts are still functioning and often enforce the law. Even a pliable Congress has rules which can get in the way of the legislative results Trump is demanding.


Basically, Trumps bullshit is getting old with his own.

[Swany00]

things that never happened for $100, Alex

[RedLS1GTO]

Oh look, another stupid post copied from MSN ... there's something that we haven't seen in a few hours.

If you use the word "basically" to describe something, there's a 100% certainty that whatever follows it is absolute bullshit.

FFS, nobody expects a lot, but this wave of furiously copying and pasting shit from msn that would get a C at best in a high school journalism class is pathetic even by the usual standard.

[PLRX]

Originally Posted by RedLS1GTO

Oh look, another stupid post copied from MSN ... there's something that we haven't seen in a few hours.

If you use the word "basically" to describe something, there's a 100% certainty that whatever follows it is absolute bullshit.

FFS, nobody expects a lot, but this wave of furiously copying and pasting shit from msn that would get a C at best in a high school journalism class is pathetic even by the usual standard.

I doubt he read the article. OP thinks this is Facebook and anxiously awaits a "thumbs up."

[Onebadcad]

Don Corleone thanked TRUMP when he picked up his Oscar.

[GTOguy]

Everybody that I talk to that has a horse in the race is delighted with Trump. The parasites and welfare moms? Not so much.

We need to tear down this rotten building to the slab and build it back again. And that means putting America first, like we used to do decades ago. It'll be rough at first, but anybody with kids or grandkids will be happy that they will get to grow old in a strong America free of socialism.

[Tikiman]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

Everybody that I talk to that has a horse in the race is delighted with Trump. The parasites, welfare moms, and people who live with bars on their windows? Not so much.

We need to tear down this rotten building to the slab and build it back again. And that means putting America first, like we used to do decades ago. It'll be rough at first, but anybody with kids or grandkids will be happy that they will get to grow old in a strong America free of socialism.

Fixed it for you.

[Chemtrails99]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

Everybody that I talk to that has a horse in the race is delighted with Trump. The parasites and welfare moms? Not so much.

We need to tear down this rotten building to the slab and build it back again. And that means putting America first, like we used to do decades ago. It'll be rough at first, but anybody with kids or grandkids will be happy that they will get to grow old in a strong America free of socialism.

I don't have any kids, but just want to see a bunch of twats who have been screwing everybody under get ****ed hard back.

[Randy G]

Stopped reading at MSN.

[Frankie the Fink]

The tariffs are a staring contest and I hope the other nations blink first, but that will depend a lot on how much pain Americans are willing to suffer on Wall Street and main street. Voters are fickle and Trump could easily overplay his hand, but this is what he does and we all knew it going in.

[LATB]

The tariffs are not Trumps fault, they are the fault of former presidents/ administrations making terrible trade deals with our trading partners. Trump is trying to right the ship.

[Vandelay Industries]

[KenHorse]

Originally Posted by LATB

The tariffs are not Trumps fault, they are the fault of former presidents/ administrations making terrible trade deals with our trading partners. Trump is trying to right the ship.

Yup.

I have yet have ANYONE tell me why the US placing tariffs on foreign goods is a bad thing when those same foreign states have tariffs on OUR goods.

[Tikiman]

Originally Posted by KenHorse

Yup.

I have yet have ANYONE tell me why the US placing tariffs on foreign goods is a bad thing when those same foreign states have tariffs on OUR goods.

Because globalists around the world have decided that America is to be kicked around and taken advantage of at every opportunity. Democrats in this country also agree.


Name one other country who taxes the living shit out of its citizens to send the money to America. I'll wait...