Trump tariffs based on massive error, conservative think tank says

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1. Not so much an “error” as a “paper-thin ruse”

2. The massive error of supporting tRump.

3. Was the error voting for Trump?

4. That’s what happens when your policies are based on chatGPT.

5. Yes, a massive error called Trump and the people that voted for him. A second time. So fucking dumb.

6. The absurd formula reflects Trump’s worldview:

   A nation that has the audacity to sell stuff to Americans that Americans want deserves to be punished.

   I may as well go vandalize my local supermarket because it has the nerve to sell me food while it buys nothing from me in return. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

   Moral of the story: Avoid using the ChatGOP bot when creating policy.

7. Trump’s first term was based on a massive error. Trump’s second term is just representative of his voter’s poor decision making abilities.

8. Ya think? Thanks Brain Trust for being so on the ball!

9. Low intelligence combined with low effort and little understanding, like trump does everything.

10. Punish people selling things to you that you don’t, can’t or won’t make. While simultaneously punishing Americans for buying these goods.

    I mean it makes sense to protect and encourage some retention of manufacturing, but this hideous knee jerk reaction will go down in history as the dumbest policy ever. Let’s just hope it’s abandoned before the Greatest Depression ever.

11. America failing an open book test

12. If by “error” you mean “intentionally duplicitous obfuscation” then yeah. Navarro and Bessent knew what the numbers represented even if Trump didn’t.

    There are multiple agendas at play within the administration.

    It’s really important to understand – on this topic and all others – just because the people in the administration are subservient to an idiot, doesn’t mean that they are all idiots.

    Make no mistake, there are reasons behind the idiocy. They might be dumb fucking reasons, but they are reasons nonetheless.

13. Tarriffs aren’t the error. Conservatives should accept that the whole MAGA adventure is the biggest error they ever made.

14. There should be zero errors at this level. We all make errors. Errors are part of life. If the decisions we make have the possibility of impacting a great deal of people, those decisions are looked at by more than one person to ensure that things run smoothly. This is basic stuff. One of two things has happened:

    * Only stupid people were involved with the decision and intelligent people were never consulted before making a decision that would affect millions of people on a global scale. The fact that this is even a likely reason for the tariffs should be a tremendous cause for alarm.
    * Intelligent people WERE involved and are maliciously attempting to destroy global markets. This is also a cause for alarm.

    The gop really needs to stop being so malicious and/or stupid.

15. Ya think? Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck?!? His casinos, hotels, golf courses, country clubs were disasters. He is Billy McFarland and we are Fyre Festival, USA. Our country and economy will soon be the wilted sandwiches, wet mattresses, blown over tents, no band, no food, no supermodels, no yachts, just a disaster with ding a ling Trump standing on a table shouting at incensed citizens.

16. Yeah. There is zero doubt of this.

    Trump is out of control and once you drive a bus over a cliff edge and it’s real hard to apply the brakes

    Meanwhile everyone gets to watch the ground approaching at what is rapidly becoming terminal velocity

    Some of the things being done can’t be undone.

    Not just the spiralling domestic economic effects of this shit. But also the reputational impact and how that affects long term trade

    How can nations trust an America that can flip so far so fast?

    It’s sad.

17. I buy $100 worth of bananas from you

    You buy $50 worth of grapes from me

    How dare you rip me off, I’m gonna make your bananas $150 now, take that!

18. Amateur hour in the White House.

19. I mean yea but also he fundamentally does not understand what a tariff is and who pays it, neither do his supporters.  

20. And the administration will never admit it, and won’t walk it back, because they never make mistakes!

21. Yeah… The error was electing republicans.

22. Not an error. At best: terminal stupidity. At worst: intentional malice.

23. Tariff Logic is not the point.

    Trade Deficits of manufactured goods are a natural fact of life. We can’t sell more ice to Eskimos or more rice to China. It doesn’t work that way. Meanwhile, US economic output is service-based (technical, financial, IP etc.). We have trade surplus in services that far outweighs our trade deficit in manufactured goods. In other words, a solution in search of a problem.

    Bringing back Manufacturing jobs?.. fantasy. Modern manufacturing is all about reducing human involvement. Legions of lunchpale US factory workers punching in and out of shits will never, ever, ever happen again… ever.

    These “Tariffs” are intended to be negotiation tools to leverage power and political loyalty. If an industry leader, or Governor, or Congress person grovels to Trump for tariff relief. They will pay with their loyalty. It’s literally a Mob-boss protection racket…. Think this sounds crazy?… Just look at what he’s doing to Law firms.

24. The error is that trump isn’t in jail right now

25. The massive error is electing him.

26. The massive error being the election of Trump, I assume?

27. “No shit”, everyone else says.

28. Is that massive error re-electing a twice-impeached president?

29. All conservative thought is based on a massive error.

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