• Tedesche@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    At this point, I’m rooting for this tariff war to keep heating up. Yes, it hurts American and Chinese consumers, which sucks, but the more Americans are hurt by Trump’s ridiculous dick-measuring policies, the more of them will recognize the error of their votes. The MAGA crowd is in a cult and will never change their minds, but its the independents that really got Trump elected and they’re sway-able. Admittedly fucking stupid to vote for him in the first place, but perhaps sheepish enough to change their votes once they see the wolf’s teeth.

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      You appear to be under the misapprehension that there will be another election. What gives you this impression in the face of all the existing evidence demonstrating that the current “administration” has no qualms about dismantling democracy under the guise of Government Efficiency?

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        Oh, no, I’m not under that misapprehension; I do not expect Trump or his cronies to cede power. I just want as many of his voters from last year as possible to regret their votes, purely for schadenfreude purposes.

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          From “voting to destroy the US to own the libs”, to “cheering for China to destroy the US to own the MAGAs”.

          Not that I’m feeling different. I hope the entire world embargoes the US and widespread famine takes hold here. Just as a wake-up call that Americans are neither special, nor protected. Maybe some balkanization. I guess both MAGAs and us can agree on one thing: Time to end this country.

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        There will be elections in the US. Heck, the Russians and the Belarussians still have elections. Do you think that Trump can avoid the fanfare of a massive election win?

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      They actually want it though. This exactly what they want. There’s a lot of proud people about it.

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        As I said, the MAGA cult will worship and rationalize anything Trump does; the independents and swing voters can regret their votes when Trump’s policies come and bite them in the ass. They don’t want that. “It was the other immigrants who were supposed to be deported.” “The tariffs were supposed to be paid by Mexico, not me!

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      Without outing yourself, can you give us some numbers on the impact? Which materials /tooling is most impacted?