2d ago

The art of the deal

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Trump is such a coward. He can't commit to anything he says. I thought actually implementing the tariffs was the goal? What about that whole schtick on eliminating income taxes with tariff revenue? Do people just dream big on Trump's pie-in-the-sky fantasies, get on board, and then get brought back down to reality and conveniently forget all that big talk only to still have the audacity to call it a fucking W? The threat of the tariffs accomplished nothing. Trump is incompetent beyond belief.
- They have replaced their god with trump. Trump did it therefore it was good. Trump criticised it therefore it was bad. You're asking them to retain information and think logically and critically about it instead of cheering on their lying and very false god. All the statistics say that support for right wingers drops off heavily the more education you have. His supporters aren't the smart cookies. They like what he says and they like how he says it and he never tells them they're stupid. They're not fact checking him, that's what libs do. They're not libs, they're red blooded Americans. Trump can absolutely do no wrong in their eyes.
  
  This is the real TDS.
- Trump has loudly announced his presence on the world stage and made sure nobody can ignore him. Starting with high or ridiculous demands is his way of getting concessions.
  We don’t know what negotiations are taking place behind closed doors.
  
  Trump has loudly announced his presence on the world stage and made sure nobody can ignore him.
  Sure they can. China already is. The last time Trump tried to hit China with tariffs, they retaliated and then the Trump administration bailed out the farmers by giving $60 billion in welfare to red states to offset the cost of his failed trade war. Why would they do anything different this time?
  Starting with high or ridiculous demands is his way of getting concessions.
  What concessions?
  No, seriously, answer the question.
  The "concession" that he got from Trudeau was already an agreement that Canada had made under the Biden administration.
  The "concession" that he got from Sheinbaum for sending 10k troops to the southern border was something that Mexico regularly agrees to do - it happened during Biden's term and also during Trump's first term. Evidently, all you have to do is ask politely.
  So far, neither country has conceded anything that they haven't already previously agreed to or have historically been willing to do without threats of economic sanctions or tariffs.
  We don’t know what negotiations are taking place behind closed doors.
  Then if we don't know what he actually negotiated for, how can he or anyone else for that matter claim it was effective? We have no evidence that he's getting anything more than what was already promised to him for backing down.
  You can stop simping for Trump now, he's not going to call you back.
- Trump has loudly announced his presence on the world stage and made sure nobody can ignore him. Starting with high or ridiculous demands is his way of getting concessions.
  We don’t know what negotiations are taking place behind closed doors.

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