The Trump administration’s tariff scheme appears less and less likely to bring manufacturing jobs back to U.S. shores.
Businesses across the country are crunching the numbers and realizing that, despite Donald Trump’s insistence, they can’t balance out his tariff hikes across the supply chain.
“Some manufacturers who had plans to open factories in the country say the new duties are only adding to the significant obstacles they already faced,” Bloomberg reported Friday.
That’s because the supply chain to produce those goods in the United States simply isn’t there, requiring companies to import raw materials and factory equipment—which Trump’s tariffs have made unaffordable—from abroad.
The way I see, Trump’s motives are:
(1) Plunder the government of anything of value.
(2) Cause a recession so rich can buy everything up on the market.
(3) Sabotage America geopolitically on behalf of foreign adversaries, most notably Russia.
(4) Cement power in their control and go after any rivals.
You’re giving him too much credit. His motives are:
get richer
have people kiss his ass so he can feel like a big boy
That’s it.
Nah.
These are definitely someone’s motives but not Trump’s.
He’s old and tired and petty. All he cares about is his ego, which he supports with power, revenge, and attention.
Trump doesn’t have any kind of plan other than waking up every day and stroking his ego.
Why Greenland?
It destroyed the Baltic alliances that are a PITA for Russia
Why kill academics?
Our economic dominance is a PITA for Russians
Why destroy the dollar?
Ibid
Why kill NATO?
Ibid
Seems like a lot of work for a lazy old man who’s not in fear from Russian mobsters
Exactly, it’s like thinking he had a plan the whole time to bankrupt his casinos or any of his other many failed ventures. He is just bad at leadership because his narcissism constantly self-sabotages, like with his casinos he constantly made terrible and expensive changes and his ego wouldn’t allow any one working for him to challenge him, so he’d blame everyone, stiff contractors, fire competent staff who could actually turn the situation around and the next thing you know the casino is failing despite it being basically a sure bet for profit in that time and place.
It’s the same here, the country will collapse because he isn’t just a bad leader, he is a collection of toxic qualities that almost guarantee bad organizational outcomes even given very positive starting conditions.
doesnt help that half the voting population seems to be just as narcist and ready to go down with the ship if certain groups get fucked harder
Yeah that is fair and I should’ve elaborated this as the Trump Administration. As in, Trump doesn’t care because he both successfully ran from prison, and is now able to golf pretty much all he wants. If anything he probably resents America for refusing to vote for him in 2020. So now all the pilot fish surrounding Trump who helped get him elected for their own end are reaping their end of the bargain.
So naturally you’ve got the Russian assets (Gabbard, Flynn, Trump himself), the zealots like Mike Johnson and Stephen Miller, the corporate oligarchical opportunists like Musk. The power-hungry (like Trump’s sons, JDV, etc.), and so on. It’s a big fuck-you to America and it ultimately matters little to me whether it’s Trump or the broader Republican party. As far as I’m concerned they all made this; they all enabled it. They are criminal cartel.