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[–] 88 points 10 months ago

A weak person’s idea of strength.

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  • [–] 82 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    "Wow, he raised the prices of everything after he campaigned on lowering prices! I love you, Mr. Trump!!"

    "Wow, he's lowering the cost of coffee to a bit higher than it was before he raised the prices of everything! I love you, Mr. Trump!! You're going all-in on affordability!"

    "Wow, the price of coffee is still as high as it was before he signed a bill because American companies realized that Americans will pay the higher price for them! What a brilliant victory for Mr. Trump!!"

    That is what these people sound like.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It's possible a significant portion of Republicans are closeted and repressed sado-masochists that keep having political outbursts in lieu of expressing themselves in a more appropriate environment.

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  • [–] 49 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    t: “I am adding tariffs to the foods you sell.”

    Seller: “we will raise our prices to cover the cost of the tariffs.”

    Customers: “we can’t afford the foods and won’t buy as much.”

    t: “I am removing the tariffs I added earlier. Now you can lower prices.”

    Customer: “yeah. Lower your prices now.”

    Seller: “…no.”

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  • [–] 33 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    The damage is done Don, you fucking dimwit. Prices will remain.

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I kinda think that was the point. He's been taking bribes openly for a while now.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Perhaps, but I'm sold on the fact that he's just that stupid. I have a coworker that is a NY Trumper that seriously believed what they were told by the admin about tariffs: that the businesses overseas should pay those, not consumers. I really believe Trump thought that. He's a cave man.

    (Apologies to all the cave man homies out there.)

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That's a fair point. I do favor the hypothesis that he's only successful as a scam artist, making him effectively a ouija-board planchette controlled by his entourage who are all controlled by billionaires, think tanks, and foreign states.

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The sad part many people will see this as him doing something to reduce prices…

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    "Stop moaning, I'm going to stitch up that wound...that I caused by stabbing you repeatedly.
    THANK ME, THEN! TELL ME HOW GLORIOUS AND NICE I AM!!"

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    That's exactly what that is, bringing them $20 flowers after forcibly pimping them out for $200.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Nope, they'll still be $200. Suppliers would be idiots to lower prices, it's free normalized margin now and insurance in case Trump puts the tariff back again.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 10 months ago

    I agree with your assessment of what will happen with prices.

    I should clarify that I meant he forcibly extracted a value from his victims that's at least an order of magnitude greater than anything he's offered in return, making it a symbolic gesture at best, and too little, too late.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Sad part is its effective. People will be so happy that you were there to take care of them, they will forget you were the one that hurt them in the first place.

    People who abuse others that way are actually evil.

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    [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    Meet Eric, Eric has the brain of fruit fly, Eric quotes Charlie Kirk for "inspiration", don't be like Eric, read a book instead and keep your idiotic opinions to your self, help make the world a better place

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Gee, tariffs cause inflation? I was informed otherwise by trusted felons.

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  • [+] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • Stop hitting yourself! Ah, do you see how my hands, which have been tightly wrapped around your wrists this whole time, are currently not making you hit yourself? You're welcome.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago*

    Damn, that's like the most (and only?) real Christian thing he has ever done.

    reference

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    Create a problem, sell the solution. Second oldest trick in the book.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    How do American cattle ranchers feel about imported beef being made more affordable? Serious question.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago*

    Trump is such a covfefe piece of shit.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    I still have my phone set to autocorrect that to covfefe.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Didn't he just say the affordibility crisis was a conspiracy created by the democrats at a rally two days ago?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago

    Yeah, I can't wait to hear how deep that conspiracy goes. We have receipts that show current prices. Hundreds of witnesses have seen and attested to the fact that he enacted the Tariffs. It was recorded, broadcast and he bragged about it. Yet still, somehow only the Democrats knew the prices would go up and they're somehow responsible. It could be as simple as AOC using her communist powers to get all sellers to coordinate a price-fixing scheme. Personally, I hope it's more of a Manchurian Candidate situation and Mamdani hypnotized him with his leftist Muslim powers.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Affordability is a Democrat hoax.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, same old story. Coolidge and Hoover worked so hard to get inflation down. Hoover had it down to -10% by 1933, but then fascist FDR hoodwinked the American people and cherry-picked that perfect economy! He jacked inflation up to over 12% by 1942! Some other stuff happened, too, as I recall, but that inflation, though! I guess some things never change.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Donald Trump cold rape a child on daytime tv and then shoot it in the face. The next day he'll ban guns to protect children and Americans would cheer him on

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    “..and 1/3rd of Americans would cheer him on.” While another 1/6 would ignore it or try to blame it on the libs. The centrists would shrug and say “both sides…” The people on the left would be outraged, and Schumer would OK replacing the bloodstained carpet after a few weeks of ineffective negotiating.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    This is more accurate. Don't forget the part about hundreds of members of congress waiting for the guns to be destroyed before buying up arms manufacturer stocks and voting to overturn the ban. I think that's how that would go.

    Edit: missing a word

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Prices aren’t coming down because record profits and shareholders. The only thing that will bring prices down in this godforsaken dystopia is guillotines

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Someone post the Eric Andre shooting Hannibal meme.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    The serial stabber telling you he’ll stop stabbing a couple specific body parts. They expect praise for their benevolence. Praise them, you common chattel.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    We NEED Tariffs to PROTECT our National Security and Pocketbooks!

    -People CHEERING Trump for DROPPING his Tariffs to Protect our National Security and Pocketbooks!

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Thanks, Dear Leader!

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    If it worked for Viktor Orbán, it'll work for Donald J. Trump.

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