GiddyGap@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agoTrump says he can’t guarantee tariffs won’t raise US prices and won’t rule out revenge prosecutionsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1206arrow-down12
arrow-up1204arrow-down1external-linkTrump says he can’t guarantee tariffs won’t raise US prices and won’t rule out revenge prosecutionsapnews.comGiddyGap@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squareThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up64·1 month agoSo we have an incoming administration that: Is focused on economic and legal revenge above serving the people Is hell-bent on gutting the federal government and replacing experienced civil service staff with loyal, clueless lackeys Wants to deport millions of illegal immigrants regardless of the economic consequences Plans on disenfranchise millions of voters from both parties so it can create a theocratic autocracy Doesn’t understand how tariffs work but is determined to use them anyway Has a leader who is in the pocket of a foreign enemy Will lean heavily into energy strategies that focus on climate change denialism Has a history of pissing off our allies and fawning over our enemies And those are just the points that spring to mind. There’s are plenty of other problematic points. Yeah, this is all going to go down well, isn’t it. /s
minus-squareSpacetimeMachine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·1 month agoAlmost as if he’s a foreign asset who is committed to destroying America’s economical power.
minus-squareaesthelete@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoAnd the media covered it like a horse race and pretended it was totally normal to have a convicted felon who tried to overthrow the government run for president.
minus-squareNightwingdragon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoAnd the US voting base stood up on November 5th and declared that yes, they’d like more of that.
minus-squarePersnickityPenguin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down7·1 month agoThe goal of tariffs is to make EVs unaffordable.
minus-squareKecessa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 month agoSo a 25% tariff on Canadian Maple syrup will make EVs unaffordable?
So we have an incoming administration that:
And those are just the points that spring to mind. There’s are plenty of other problematic points.
Yeah, this is all going to go down well, isn’t it. /s
Almost as if he’s a foreign asset who is committed to destroying America’s economical power.
And the media covered it like a horse race and pretended it was totally normal to have a convicted felon who tried to overthrow the government run for president.
And the US voting base stood up on November 5th and declared that yes, they’d like more of that.
The goal of tariffs is to make EVs unaffordable.
So a 25% tariff on Canadian Maple syrup will make EVs unaffordable?