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1w ago

Trump is losing his foolish trade war. This will cost ordinary Americans greatly

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Trump is losing his foolish trade war. This will cost ordinary Americans greatly | Steven Greenhouse

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FenrirIII @lemmy.world

4d ago

Trump is losing his foolish trade war. This will cost ordinary Americans greatly

www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/aug/11/trump-losing-trade-war

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1w ago

Trump is losing his foolish trade war. This will cost ordinary Americans greatly

www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/aug/11/trump-losing-trade-war

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Release the Trump-Epstein files
- Normalize calling them the Trump/Epstein Files
  We changed people saying "Trump fucked kids" to "Trump rapes kids" in just a few days.
  Phrasing matters, and it especially matters to him. Once we call it the Trump/Epstein files, news orgs will too.
  
  Fixed
he might be losing but the bubble he lives in says he's winning
- Right, he's winning the war because he's not on America's side.
But the real question is... is he personally richer? If so, then it's working.
- He got a glass statue on a gold base from Tim Apple, so I guess he’s winning.
- The one and only metric.
- The wealth of the monarch is the wealth of the state
  
  Welcome to the 1600s.
There's an important revenue boost from tariffs. On the other hand, Trump's is defunding a lot a federal organizations. Where is the money going?
- Billionaire tax cuts.
- About 170 billion is going to form the gestapo, the rest is going in his pockets.
- Tariffs are just another tax on Americans.
About half of 'ordinary americans' wanted this.
- 77.3m american voters directly cast their ballot for Donald Trump in 2024. That's hardly half.
  
  77M of 155M or 49%, about half.
  You can extrapolate that the voting population approximately represents the non-voting population. Or, if you are a prick, you can say that non-voters didn't want this but refrained from voting and are therefore to blame, in which case they still chose this.
  America has always been a racists, bigoted, sexist, right-wing playground. The only thing that has changed is that now they don't have to hide it.
  
  Doesn't matter.
- Citation needed. There are over 300M Americans. How many voted for this?
  
  77M voted for this. those who did not vote, voted for this as well, by not voting. only 1/3 of them voted against it
It's only losing if you believe the goal was actually to improve the US economy.

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