• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    115·
    2 days ago

    I will rejoice the day I read his obituary. Fuck this stupid fat arrogant ignorant lying grifter who makes the human race look stupider by merely being allowed a moment to speak his lies. My country will be ashamed for the rest of its short life if we make it long enough for the maga morons to die off.

    The apprentice fucking sucked as a show. People literally only liked it because he was a stupid asshole on it. I’m barely okay with a show like that existing, let alone its essence dominating billions of lives in a terrible way.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      36·
      2 days ago

      The Apprentice is the only thing he did that ever actually made money. All his other “businesses,” he grifted into bankruptcy.

      • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
        47·
        2 days ago

        Because it wasn’t his business. He was a paid ‘actor’. It was as real as other reality TV. Unfortunately, he believed it to be true and his confidence inspired confidence. Hence the term.

    • Pirata@lemm.ee
      26·
      2 days ago

      Seriously. I’d be ashamed of being a Trump supporter and show my face in public. So embarrassing.

      And even more so now that it’s pretty clear that he’s barely sentient and Musk is the actual poorly hidden shadow president.

  • KulunkelBoom@lemm.eeEnglish
    57·
    2 days ago

    First: consolidate the military so they won’t rise against you and so you can use them as your internal police force.

    Second: tumble the economy causing fear and uncertainty in the population. It won’t affect the leaders - only the lower classes. The military will be used to keep order.

    (the first two entries in “how to topple governments” by vlad putin)

    • Eheran@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      You also need to do some inside jobs to unit against the outside enemy. And be sure to be very incompetent and say that those other bombs were just tests.

  • Oneser@lemm.ee
    31·
    2 days ago

    I mean the logical explanation is that companies are filling up their warehouses as much as possible before the tarrifs hit. It’s not like the US has suddenly tripled the amount of foreign goods it buys.

    *Edit: weird typo.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      44·
      2 days ago

      No one with a firing neuron did. Anyone who said that couldn’t have come close to winning an argument with a person whose brain works and knows the first fucking thing about economics. And the bar was low. You just needed to understand that costs get passed on to the end consumer.

    • SunshineJogger@feddit.org
      18·
      2 days ago

      It’s so weird how too many still think he has some kind of plan that will benefit the country.

      At this point it looks to me as if trump is actually a saboteur and as soon as he has done as much damage as possible to USA and nato and all others he can he will flee to Russia

  • karashta@piefed.socialEnglish
    35·
    3 days ago

    Why must it be balanced?

    Americans import more than we export. They use the word “deficit” to make it scary.

    These other countries would prefer having our money and financial instruments rather than the actual goods and services they are providing to us.

    They are giving us actual things for the money the fed creates ex nihilo.

    This is not the same thing as pointing out we should have local manufacturing and reduce reliance on global supply chains.

    I’m not defending the Orange Doofus, just tired of seeing these debates being fought through the wrong lens.

    • davesmith@feddit.ukEnglish
      41·
      2 days ago

      These other countries would prefer having our money and financial instruments rather than the actual goods and services they are providing to us.

      Actually, no.

      You may or may not like this to be the case, but this is not a post second world war scenario, with a decimated Europe and bankrupted former colonial powers.

      Trump is absolutely hastening the collapse of the dollar era, which, despite the uncertainty could very well be doing the world a favour. If he manages to impoverish the US worker to the degree that they can compete with India or China on manufacturing costs, this will be to the benefit of the billionaire class. I doubt Chinese middle class people are harkening for a return to being the world’s factory workers in the way Indian slum-dwellers might quite like.

      The question regarding de-dollarisation has always been ‘can the US relinquish its exorbitant privilege without starting world war 3?’ It appears that this question will be largely answered over the next four years. Honestly, generally I have liked the American people I have come to know over the years. I don’t think you all could have a weaker, more exploitable leader in what is shaping up to be a period that could shape American quality of life for decades.

    • lemmyman@lemmy.world
      33·
      2 days ago

      A trade deficit is not, itself, a problem. That is the mainstream thinking in economics.

      But Trump himself has railed against the US trade deficit, so it is meaningful to point out that he is making it larger.

    • Wanpieserino@lemm.ee
      13·
      2 days ago

      We sell you items for euros. You give us USD for our euros. You spend the euros on what we produce.

      We use your USDs to buy your companies.

      Your population continues to buy our production…

      Cycle continues

      That’s how China is buying stakes everywhere

    • drspod@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 days ago

      A trade deficit puts downward pressure on the value of the currency relative to the currencies of the trading partners.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    33·
    3 days ago

    It’s funny you can pretty easily identify the different presidencies in the chart without looking at the years