• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    “Yeah, I voted for Trump, absolutely. Did I know he was going to increase the tariffs? Yes, I did,” he said. “However, I thought that the infrastructure would be set up prior for small business to come back to America and manufacture in America. …"

    When the fuck did Trump promise that, bozo? Small business support was the Biden/Harris campaign platform.

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      Hear me out: We pool our money together to pay for the infrastructure. It will be a percentage of your income for it. Those who make more money pay a higher percentage because they benefit from that infrastructure more. Then we have organizations to make sure the money is fairly collected and responsibly spent and make sure they can do their work unhindered.

      Oh wait, that’s like the opposite of what Trump has been doing.

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      What gets me is what infrastructure did he think would be setup? Did he expect magical wheel factories to appear for him to start distributing from? It’s not like he’s designing or something guy is just drop shipping cheap alloy wheels.

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      This is a neighbour to the “Shirley Exception”. Let’s call it the “Shirley Prerequisite.”

      People will hear an idea they broadly like, and rather than actually examine how its going to be implemented, they’ll simply assume that it will be the way that they would implement it, because to them that’s obviously the only logical way to do it. Sometimes their way is the logical way, sometimes it isn’t, but the point is that they can’t get out of their head enough to consider any other possibility.

      In this case, the possibility left unconsidered is that Trump is a fucking moron.