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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Cope narrative I’ve seen circulating about the tariffs. I’ll take it for now.
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phil
@phil
ah, yes green text the ultimate pundit
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Reeeny
@reeeny
Best take I have read is that he will create pledges of loyalty from individual CEOs to get tariff exemption. Loyalty to Trump = competitive edge.
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Agost Biro
@agostbiro
This is typical cope about authoritarian regimes. Strong man does something seemingly stupid, but he is a strong man, so there must be some master plan behind it. In reality, there is typically no plan, just a lack of checks on the leader.
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gFam.live (UrbanGladiator)
@gfam
I don't think this person knows what American farmers actually grow... are US citizens going to eat all that soy? The last line is such an obvious lie.
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@purp
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@highplains66
When it comes to Trump I like to lean into quite advanced risky gambits that 100% save America from the rich /$
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Terry Bain
@terrybain
Utter bananas.
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@luka
“Trump is literally taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor.” That’s some first class cope right there.
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Tokenized Human
@tokenizedhuman
Literally robbing from the rich to give to the poor. That's some impressive mental gymnastics.
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Calvin 🎩🔥🐹🍖
@50cal-eth
Lolol that last sentence is pure cope
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sean
@swabbie.eth
1. yes, a depression does lower the cost of everything, this is true 2. no, american farmers selling only to americans will not lower the price of groceries 3. trump is taking from everyone, and those with capital at the end of the destruction will be the ones to buy everything up and consolidate more wealth and power 4. volatility hurts workers, entrepreneurs, and small business owners much more than the wealthy or large corporations 5. again, eggs will be cheaper when no one has money to pay for the luxury of eggs during a depression
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Alex
@asenderling.eth
The egg prices thing is very dumb. Prices are lower because we imported a ton of eggs lol
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MM
@listen2mm.eth
Ah yes, Trump the ultimate Robinhood as he has clearly displayed throughout his life
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
I don’t know for a fact what the administration’s thinking is, but this narrative feels quite generous. Trump increased the national debt by ~8 trillion dollars, or 23 extra percentage points of debt over GDP, in his first term. He never displayed any particular concern about the sustainability of the debt. Yet we are now to believe that he’s worried about national solvency -> he needs to lower the refinancing terms -> he needs to convince the Fed to lower the interest rate -> he needs more liquidity in treasuries -> he needs to cause a flight from equities -> he needs to cool down the economy quickly -> best way to do that is to start a blanket trade war (all other consequences be damned). That’s what people believe when they say he’s playing 9D chess. And of course, he could have come out and explained all this, but if he did, and any step after that failed to happen, he’d take the blame. Whereas if he does not disclose the plan, he can maintain strategic ambiguity and avoid accountability
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@bezero
What they are doing is they are trying to control the power of the purse from congress. Fund things with tarriffs get rid of income tax. So the power of the purse is under the executive
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