And now the US is in a no-win situation.
IMO the most important thing for a business is stability.
Some businesses can do incredibly well in a high-tariff environment. Some businesses require a low-tariff environment. Some businesses need a light touch with regulations. Some businesses need a lot of government regulation to make long-term investments pay off. Businesses can even thrive in times of war, in times of government censorship, in times of prohibition. Businesses can even find a way to adapt under a dictator who rewards loyalty and punishes traitors, as long as they know what the rules are.
What they can’t handle is uncertainty. If you don’t know what’s going to happen next year, or next month or even next week, you can’t make any plans. This absolute chaos is making doing business next to impossible.
The only constant under Trump is more chaos, so even when he backs down from a bad decision, it’s yet another change that people have to cope with.
Economic uncertainty is now literally off the charts, twice as bad as it was under COVID.
I hear Hitler was pretty shitty at art too.
“I’m manipulating the market to fuck you over while I enrich myself and my friends” “Harder please daddy 🥹”
If he and his ‘friends’ aren’t front-running these announcements, I’ll eat my hat. Once I’m rich enough to buy a hat from China again, of course.
I love that this isn’t even a joke at this point. This is literally the justifications they offer.
Mask off for facists who worship their fascist dictator
“Art of the Deal” was a book where a ghost writer bragged about Trump’s deals to build Casinos.
That turned out great.
You should just keep making the post longer every time this happens
Yah, that will really show them.
I hate this economy
It’s all pump-n-dump by design to enrich himself and his backers, but MAGAs don’t know how to play connect-the-dots.
Set the reminder for 90 days from now.
Just because Trump said 90 days doesn’t mean he’s actually going to wait 90 days. What Trump says has zero impact on what Trump does. Trump signed the previous trade agreement with Canada and Mexico last time he was in office that he violated with these tariffs.
He just said “90 days” to maximize the market bounce. In two days he’ll complain that other countries are not removing their retaliatory tariffs (because real governments value consistency and won’t yo-yo their population like that) and I give him two weeks before he puts them back again. A month tops, but that’s giving Trump way too much credit.
I dunno, “Liberation day” and January 6th both arrived on schedule and people acted as if there was no way to foretell the events of those days.
The big short 2 will be a short feature where those “in the know” just read a newspaper.
I wonder if even that is giving him too much credit. IMO it’s more likely that people freaked out, so he changed his mind, then different people freaked out, so he changed it again.
He may well have informed some people in advance about what he was about to do, and they made a lot of money as a result. But, I don’t actually believe that he’s clever enough to have done this intentionally as a plan.
I don’t think him to be clever at all. He has handlers. They tell him what to do. Maybe the things you’ve described happened with the background “brilliant” (I don’t think they’re brilliant either) minds playing 4D chess, but trump is a [cheating] checkers man through and through.
It is market manipulation for sure though. They just don’t want to tank things too early so they’re riding the razors edge. I am sure there are dissenting opinions on how to do this wonton destruction and what sort of carcass is left behind. This shows up as chaos with his decisions. Again, as in my original post, I only say “his” as he is the mouthpiece for the cabal of evil idiots.
I don’t think him to be clever at all. He has handlers. They tell him what to do.
Sure, but they don’t all speak with one voice. Some of them are trying to pull one direction, others pull in another direction. Sometimes he listens to one advisor, sometimes he listens to another. It probably depends on how good they are at manipulating him.
They just don’t want to tank things too early
Again, you seem to think there’s a plan here. It’s much more likely that there’s just chaos. One faction of advisors was listened to, and Trump liked them because he always liked tariffs. And a lot of the most effective advisors (i.e. the best at kissing ass) are the most deeply stupid. His main tariff adivsor, for example, was caught quoting an “expert” in his book that was just his own name with the letters re-arranged.
he is the mouthpiece for the cabal of evil idiots
And I don’t think there’s a cabal. There are people trying to influence him, but they don’t agree with each-other, and many of them don’t know what they’re doing. They’re near him because they’re good ass-kissers, not because they’re really clever.
You… do the hokey-pokey and turn the economy upside down?
How long will this meme get I wonder?..
Normal humans cant comprehend the strategy of the genius Donald Trump
/s
This president flip flops more than the foot wear with the same name.
This is humorous because it Is an accurate observation to any person familiar with that specific type of footwear.
What do you call a Frenchman is sandals?
Philippe Floppe
Can we add another panel every time he does this?
art of the steal.
“Some of you billionaires will become even more wealthy.” “Everyone else, fuck off.” -diaper don-
