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"Well, they did sign up for it, actually. And this is what I campaigned on," Trump said of the tariffs during an interview with ABC News that aired Tuesday.

And you can't really argue with that.

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[–] MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

voters threw away their future so they could "help" the poor people in Gaza from getting bombed by "the evil democrats". I SWORE UP AND DOWN voluntarily making things worse for us because it might help some poor people on the other side of the world was the wrong move and I was vilified for this opinion by everyone in existence.

Now Gaza is still getting bombed and they are additionally committing war crimes against American people instead of just Gazans. Fuck me. Even feral animals have the ability to watch out for themselves better than this season's swing voters did.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm convinced those people spamming that shit were bots / Russians / shills. Because as soon as the Democrats lost, they were gone.

The problem is that the damage was done. For all of the intellectual superiority we like to profess, plenty on the left are dumb as bricks and easily swayed by propaganda and bullshit.

[–] emmy67@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

That being said, I'm not sure they're wrong. World opinion is turning against the US and by extension what the administration stands for right now.

I won't be surprised if the next elections mark a real turning point in support for Palestinians.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Only place he should be backed is to a stone wall with a blindfold and 9 deputies lined up drawing a bead on him

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 hours ago

Someone smarter than me once said:

The dildo of consequence rarely arrives lubed.......

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago

You signed up for all of it and everyone that was opposite of you told you it’s fucking predictable it was going to happen. Even yelled out project 2025, it was right there in your face. But you don’t read a damn thing, of course you weren’t going to read that book like you don’t read the Bible. Stop. Falling. For. Obvious. Bullshit.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 28 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Well, he's right on that at least.

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Tbf, some of the things he said or what’s on Project 2025 is there… people just voted for him cause he said, “I’ll make your price of eggs go lower.”

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us

Lower than the cost in September, that’s why they’re cheering him on for that

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

This is literally irrelevant. That was the height of the bird flu. It wasn’t Bidens fault and if Biden had been reelected it would have sorted itself out, most likely faster because Biden would have actually made decisions based on fact and science.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I heard some variant of, "He lies all the time, so I don't think he's serious about tariffs/Project 2025."

Which is interesting to square with the thought of, "He tells it like it is, so I trust him."

But I don't live with chronic cognitive dissonance, which I assume these people accept as just another uncomfortable feeling humans have to live with. Like aches that persist with age, or feeling exhaustion at the thought of getting out of bed and going to work. That flicker of doubt from seeing that your beliefs contradict each other is just another sensation that needs to be suppressed and ignored.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 15 hours ago

Do we really think people voted Trump based on eggs? I think we need to read between the lines here.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I didn't back him. I didn't sign up. Can I be excused please?

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos"

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Consumes Simpsons enough to adopt it as an ideology.

"I'm wicked smhart."

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Really just that one line, its been very useful in today's clownworld

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Clownworld brought to by ass blasting supreme^tm ceral and fast food, it's meatacular!

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nope. Welcome to Democracy.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

The US hasn’t been a democracy for a long, long time.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes. Unfortunately we all have to suffer because a quarter of the US population is as ignorant as a box of rocks.

That being said, he also has the option of not destroying the US economy. Nobody is forcing him to recklessly abolish society.

More than a quarter. Include everyone who didn't vote...

[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 5 points 12 hours ago

A box of rocks would at least have the sense not to vote for a fascist criminal.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I agree with him on this one. Leopards meet face.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

From https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 39 points 1 day ago

And not a one, including himself, understood what tariffs were.

[–] SeriousMite@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gotta read the fine print. And by fine print I mean Ariel Black 72pt.

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[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Now when we tell people they voted for this we can point them to their best buddy saying it too.

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[–] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Well I didn't back you, clown. Tariffs should then apply only to MAGAt morons and lazy ass ButBothSides types

[–] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 139 points 2 days ago (3 children)

He also said tariffs were a tax that other countries paid...so there may have been some confusion over what exactly they were agreeing to.

[–] bollybing@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 1 day ago

He said the economy would go up on day one, prices would go down and America would be in a golden age.

He said the economy was doing great in 2024 because people were predicting He would win the election, and then when the economy went down in 2025 he put all the blame on Biden.

I said this in 2016: he doesnt mean anything he says, he just says whatever he thinks in that moment will get him what he wants. He lies so frequently that you might as well just disregard everything he says because it doesnt have any basis in reality.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 53 points 1 day ago (7 children)

It doesn’t matter who pays the tariff. Anyone with half a brain knows that the cost will be passed down to the consumer either way.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anyone with half a brain

Oops, I think we found the problem.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 55 points 1 day ago (27 children)

Ok this is the third thing he says i agree with in these 100 days.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago
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