The Trump administrationās tariff scheme appears less and less likely to bring manufacturing jobs back to U.S. shores.
Businesses across the country are crunching the numbers and realizing that, despite Donald Trumpās insistence, they canāt balance out his tariff hikes across the supply chain.
āSome manufacturers who had plans to open factories in the country say the new duties are only adding to the significant obstacles they already faced,ā Bloomberg reported Friday.
Thatās because the supply chain to produce those goods in the United States simply isnāt there, requiring companies to import raw materials and factory equipmentāwhich Trumpās tariffs have made unaffordableāfrom abroad.
Nah.
These are definitely someoneās motives but not Trumpās.
Heās old and tired and petty. All he cares about is his ego, which he supports with power, revenge, and attention.
Trump doesnāt have any kind of plan other than waking up every day and stroking his ego.
Exactly, itās like thinking he had a plan the whole time to bankrupt his casinos or any of his other many failed ventures. He is just bad at leadership because his narcissism constantly self-sabotages, like with his casinos he constantly made terrible and expensive changes and his ego wouldnāt allow any one working for him to challenge him, so heād blame everyone, stiff contractors, fire competent staff who could actually turn the situation around and the next thing you know the casino is failing despite it being basically a sure bet for profit in that time and place.
Itās the same here, the country will collapse because he isnāt just a bad leader, he is a collection of toxic qualities that almost guarantee bad organizational outcomes even given very positive starting conditions.
doesnt help that half the voting population seems to be just as narcist and ready to go down with the ship if certain groups get fucked harder
Why Greenland?
It destroyed the Baltic alliances that are a PITA for Russia
Why kill academics?
Our economic dominance is a PITA for Russians
Why destroy the dollar?
Ibid
Why kill NATO?
Ibid
Seems like a lot of work for a lazy old man whoās not in fear from Russian mobsters
Yeah that is fair and I shouldāve elaborated this as the Trump Administration. As in, Trump doesnāt care because he both successfully ran from prison, and is now able to golf pretty much all he wants. If anything he probably resents America for refusing to vote for him in 2020. So now all the pilot fish surrounding Trump who helped get him elected for their own end are reaping their end of the bargain.
So naturally youāve got the Russian assets (Gabbard, Flynn, Trump himself), the zealots like Mike Johnson and Stephen Miller, the corporate oligarchical opportunists like Musk. The power-hungry (like Trumpās sons, JDV, etc.), and so on. Itās a big fuck-you to America and it ultimately matters little to me whether itās Trump or the broader Republican party. As far as Iām concerned they all made this; they all enabled it. They are criminal cartel.