• Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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    4 days ago

    He was banging on about how they’ve made 2 billion this week, neglecting to mention that every last penny was paid by US companies, importers, and citizens. He may be one of the most smooth-brained embarrassments to ever draw breath.

  • jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    This whole thing reminds me of when Trump wanted to drop corporate tax rates to 20%. Not due to some well thought out analysis… he just thought 20% was a nice round number.

    This dude is a fucking moron.

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    That’s a lot of fingers to count. He must have had the entire staff of the White House holding up both hands.

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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    4 days ago

    If I was China, I would lower their retaliatory tarrif by 1%, just to fuck with him.

    He’ll either claim it as a win, or be insulted and raise tarrifs more.

    Then, once he does, china should respond raising it back to the original retaliation, and see what he does, just because no one knows wtf is going on anymore.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    It’s like that scene in The Office where Jim keeps giving higher and higher numbers and Dwight’s like “yeah, I could see that”, “quite possibly”, “I’d say so”, “most likely”.