Politics Liberation Day - The biggest tax hike in world history

He's one of the most honest dishonest politicians. He's keeping every promise he made to his donors. Everything he said to people who didn't give him money was a lie. It has been so plain and so complete, it's... I don't want to say comforting, because he's killing people, but... predictable. He's a fucking demon you can set your watch to. No nuance, no loopholes, just straight up, old school evil.

 

That's where the kickbacks come in...

 

They’ve gone too far FAMS!

 

Can somebody explain the whole penguin thing?

 

Trump placed a 25% tariff on a place where no humans live....only penguins. This is the leader of our country...what a shit show. and you thought WE were dumb!

 

Rachel Maddow described the origins, or "oranges" as Trump would say, of the tariffs that crashed the economy.

When running for the first time, Trump tasked Jared Kushner, not an economist, with finding an economic advisor. Someone who would make him look "tough". Kushner went to Amazon books and scanned titles. There was a book called Death by China by Peter Navarro and Kushner thought title was cool so he bought the book. In it, Navarro argued for steep tariffs on China and trading partners as magic key to prosperity. He repeatedly cited the noted economist Ron Vara, the world renowned economist Ron Vara, the award winning economist Ron Vara as the inspiration for his argument. Ron Vara is cited in all or nearly all of Navarro's books as the noted economist blah blah. And Vara issued email saying Trump could ride tariffs to prosperity. The argument appealed to Trump who dislikes everything "foreign" except wives.

One thing Navarro does not do is cite and specific books or articles published by Mr. Vara.

Because Ron Vara doesn't exist.

The name is an anagram of Navarro and Peter Navarro invented him to give gravitas to his views. His views are so far outside the mainstream of even conservative economic thought so he needed a source. He invented one.

The US economy crashed and world economy upended by Trump accepting the views of a nonexistent person. No one bothered to even find the guy and see if he was real.
The best people
Merit based.

 

Finally, the Gen Z white men are waking up:

 

So is the eventual Stephen A Smith/Mark Cuban presidential ticket going to bring us closer to Idiocracy or further away?

 

I like Cubans ideas. Definitely not Stephen A. Smith

 

Cuban will make a fine vice president

 

My retirement account has lost 15%. I feel so liberated!

 

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