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Trump's Speech To Congress: Tariffs are NOT about Border. "It's About Making America Rich"
(lemmy.ca)
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.
I listened to it with my dad. Horrible. This guy is mentally ill and doesn’t comprehend what tariffs do. It will crash America’s economy and squeeze even harder the middle class there. Unless that’s what he wants..
No no, it'll make AMERICA (Trump's America, the billionaire and multimillionaire class) wealthier. That's what they want. The entire idea is to effectively crush whatever little middle class is left, and make the lower class dependent upon the whims of the aristocrats like him.
Basically, we're rapidly sliding back towards feudalism, with us as the serfs.
Just like how noone was punished for the great recession as corporations grabbed people's homes. They are salivating over the idea of doing that at a massive scale.
I didn't watch it. I just can't listen to him speak for more than about 30 seconds. The gibberish and gish-gallops are just too much for me to handle. I usually try to find a transcript after the fact.
Transcripts are a better use of one’s time.
I purposely didn't watch it knowing I would get better results from a summary. Like this quote from him that tariffs was about making America rich again (not about fentanyl) was all I needed to hear tonight. The rest is screaming noise.
It would be underestimating Trump to think he doesn't understand what tariffs do.
He's backed by the richest men in the world, and he's going scorched earth to make them richer.
He's not stupid; he's greedy, nefarious and will stop at nothing to achieve his goals of making America's richest folks even richer at the expense of everything else.
Trump by himself is just a rambling old man. What is scary is the army of like-minded people worshipping him.
This. We cannot underestimate how sinister he is. He talks like he’s dumb but it’s a tactic to broaden his appeal. He’s a smart narcissist and he loves to be worshipped.
He is being played like a violin by Russia. I don’t know if he’s too dumb to realize it, or he thinks playing with Russia will get him his own Putin like stature. Which it might!
...trump's an imbecile, but some clever folks are spoon-feeding their asset...
He believes he IS America, we will see if he's wrong