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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

Accurate, except it's more like:

"Aim! Fire! No wait, ready! Fire! No wait! Aim! Ready! Ready! Reeeeaaady! Aim! Fire! No, wait..."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Even if it was aimed at the enemy back blast would take that sucker out.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This implies there’s a right way to implement tariffs so it doesn’t harm the consumer, and Trump just did it wrong. All tariffs target the consumer. That’s the point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is a right way to implement tariffs. If, say, your steel industry is struggling against foreign competition, you target steel imports from the countries exporting to you (as few as possible to minimise retaliation), for a fixed period of time, and with subsidies for local manufacturers to get their shit in order. Ideally you don't even call it tariffs, but instead accuse the foreign competitors of dumping / low quality products// worker rights violations / virgin sacrifice and say you're just trying to create a level playing field. What you don't do is tariff everything everywhere all at once and expect to get away with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, but the point about tariffs is to discourage the consumers from buying a foreign product by making it more expensive. It’s going to hit the consumer one way or another.

The comic make it look like the Trump tariffs are hitting the consumer by mistake.

[–] softcat 16 points 2 days ago

For accurate representation needs one consumer looking excited about getting shot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Why would satire be like this?
Seems dishonest & it's further perpetrating the lie.

Trump was never facing the other way, that is just for the opportunistic shit & giggles.

He is after power and the real power is control.
And to control a nation you need to control it's resources. Can't have that if your oligarchs get power from other countries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

what evidence do you have that the man who cannot string one sentence together is actually enacting a master plan?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Once again I'm reminded of that journalist whose name I cannot remember, anyhow, in 2017 they wrote:

They voted for the elephant in the china shop. Little did they realise that they were the china.

Why this happened twice, with Jan 6 in between, still mystifies me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

They've made billions through stock market manipulation and have put tarrifs on some products that can't really be obtained otherwise, therefore creating a de facto triple digit sales tax. It's interesting to see how much abuse their fanbase is willing to endure but it sucks that they're taking everybody else down with them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Needs more labels.