This jackass in the White House is singlehandedly destroying the world economy. Yet his minions are cheering him on. They have one reason and one reason only for that: their prejudice. They hate foreigners so when he says “tariffs on foreign goods” all they hear is “foreign goods” and that means he’s right and the foreigners are bad. He says affirmative action is unequal and since they hate minorities, all they hear is “whites are not treated equally”. They cannot accept their horrible lives are the direct result of their horrible personalities and horrible behavior. So what do they do? Blame the marginalized and make their lives miserable too. God forbid they accept personal responsibility.
While we’re on the subject, one of their main gripes that seems to have set is that the South African government is seizing their land. Isn’t it a lot easier for the RSA government to justify taking it if they have fled the country?
For those types of reasons, and I say this being aware of my privileges, Walmart raising their prices might be a good thing. We’re all going to get our faces eaten in the process, but anything that peels more people away from the leopards eating people’s faces party helps.
I think a lot of people are going to be shocked come Christmas. Whatever toys are going to be coming in from offshore are already ordered and are going to start showing up in the US soon. If tariffs were paid on those imports, then even if Trump drops all the tariffs later in the year, We The People will still be footing that bill if we want to give our kids Christmas presents. And Trump has already been telling us to expect higher prices for Christmas presents. Gone are the days of 30 dolls and 250 pencils under the tree. You’ll get two dolls and five pencils.
Not sure whether this belongs in this thread or the Stupid MFers or the Evil MFers thread. A brain-dead pregnant woman is being kept on life support because a heartbeat was detected and the hospital is in ass-covering mode due to Georgia’s heartbeat law.
Regardless of their margins, why wouldn’t they still pass on any new government mandated costs to their customers? They still have a responsibility to their shareholders, regardless of how much or how little money they’re making otherwise.
He said, “There’s a new word that I came up with which is the best word, ‘equalize’.”
He’s saying he came up with the idea to use that term for this strategy.
What he’s saying is nonsensical babble, and even taking credit for the term is moronic because that’s a pretty normal usage. It’s like saying, “We are going to make a lot of money, I came up with the word ‘profiting’, we’re going to be profiting.” No Donald, that’s just a word anyone would use.
But he’s not saying he literally invented the word regardless of what this YouTube person is claiming for clicks.
It’s a form of speech I’m familiar with. It’s like saying, “We were trying to decide on dessert and I came up with fruit pizza; it’s a new dessert and the best one.” It means it was your idea, not that you literally invented it.
Maybe Trump is literally saying he invented the word, but without more context it’s impossible to say for sure. To definitively say he’s claiming he invented the term when that’s not actually what he said is the kind of click bait BS that’s pretty common in social media.
Trump says insane things multiple times a day, shit, he said multiple insane things even in that clip, it’s not necessary to bend what he said to try to find another.
In that situation, every person I’ve ever met in my life might say, “Hey, let’s have a fruit pizza. That’s my brand new idea for dessert tonight.” Something along those lines makes sense. Not a single one of the aforementioned people would say, “Hey, we were trying to decide on dessert and I invented fruit pizza.”
Trump’s speech is the verbal equivalent of a dog chasing squirrels or a cat chasing a laser pointer.