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I disagree, it is intentional destruction designed to terrorize the population into submission. That is what King George did.

"Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief." - Chris Murphy (read his summary below)

Bullying to the enth degree!

Destruction and chaos is both the method and the goal.

Just to be clear, This Regime wants their actions to deliver the most intensive suffering to the state of extreme or profound pain, distress, starvation or hardship, encompassing both physical and mental anguish on the American people.

Well said!

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He bankrupted his casinos. How do you bankrupt casinos? He sells bibles, sneakers, coins, watches, he's a grifter, snake oil salesman, Open your eyes, people! He should be in a carnival not the presidency!

eyes have been open we exist on the Titanic with Nero at the helm

And where are some of his products made? Not America.

All of his products, even his ties, are made in China.

Such hypocrisy assumes we are all ignorant if the facts. I hope this is breaking thru to maGa

Nothing breaks through to MAGA. They are a cult.

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He just described Trump. 😀

Of course, but if say, you WANTED to destroy the economy after installing loyalists in every branch of government so that you could execute a bloodless coup...

He literally did. They still voted for him, with a totally incomprehensible mixture of 'we love his honesty, he tells it like it is' and 'he's just saying it for the show, he won't actually do it'!

In addition, it was the mentality that he was going to destroy the people that they don't like and that Trump would not only spare them but make them part of his wealthy boy's club.

Yes. The Republicans own this. They have stood by Donald Trump knowing he was not fit to be President.

Whether the meagerest of them thought they'd get rich through osmosis, or just wanted to "own the libs" to the grandest with ulterior motives of greed & one-upsmanship, they all had some kind of dog in this fight & were so selfish that they didn't care who & what was getting destroyed.

The extreme right believe if they destroy the world, Jesus will come back. Who would want to visit when we haven't cleaned house?

Isn't trumpf playing 4D chess and we're all too stupid to understand what he's doing.

Wonder how Mitch McConnell sleeps at night.

There is plenty of footage & recorded comment of Trump being pro tariffs MANY years ago. With the same 'they are ripping us off' rhetoric. Nothing new, he's finally getting what he yearned for, for some time.

are you implying...

I voted for Hillary, Joe and Kamala.

I knew Trump had it in for Gaza. But I didn't realize he wants to turn us all into Gazans.

Yep. Fox news should've been shut down two decades ago

trump wants businesses & world leaders to beg him for mercy. Exemptions. To glorify him. Then he can be their savior. Accept bribes. Tell a Sir story. Be king of the world. It’s corruption.

Were this author on a student visa, Marco Rubio would apprehend and deport this column's author. Compared to Rumeysa Ozturk's op-ed (aimed at Tufts admin), the FT author attacks US foreign policy and its authors ('reasonable ground...potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences')

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"Logic-washing"! 🤣💀

I loved that term, too

Trump is just following Putin’s orders.

We can bet that the billionaire cabinet secured their finances prior to this free fall.

Oh, they're getting out their rolls-'o-dough to buy low! Greed knows no boundaries.

No. It’s yet another form of extortion against every company and country. Now they all have to beg him for relief. He then gets to pick winners and losers.

The chaos is intentional. What is the long-term payoff for the Peter Thiels?

You should have put him in prison while you had the chance. Ho hum. Reaping sowing something something.

My question: When corporations start individually negotiating, (and by negotiating I mean paying him) with Trump to remove the tariff that affects their company specifically - what do we, the average people, do about it? the lure of lower prices for us is strong. How do we combat this?

Question your own integrity & choose whether to support their lack of it.

yes, of course... just wondering if there is a way to be prepared to mass protest/boycott...

Always! Go to a "Hands Off" demonstration tomorrow & network with people for future protests!

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This is also how he will use tariffs. He will impose or give relief to States and businesses who kiss his ass and ruin or build their economy using supposed tarriffs in other countries.

I'm still stuck on the stupidity thing. I'm not saying Trump is a smart man, but if your goal is to destroy the economy of an entire country and you're able to realize that goal within 90 days of attaining power, is that stupidity or is that the playbook working?

And hopefully Trump and the Republicans will pay for what they have done by voters at election time.

Three single men have taken each over a trillion of wealth from us. Putin 2022: decided to invade Ukraine Xi 2019/2020 (laboratory or not): decision to ignore/conceal outbreak for weeks Trump 2025: tariffs (if in place for a longer time) No single men should be able to do so. If so, they do it.

Republicans know he’s a nutter, but they’re cool with it.

He is more dangerous/vile/sinister than just being a ”nutter”

rapist felon Trump will be celebrated with an unprecedented second UK state visit. Im sure the world will envy little England and its big balls sovereignty sticking it to the man

Republicans in Congress are betraying their constituents and their country by doing nothing while the economy that was in great shape in January 2025 is being flushed down the toilet. They allow lifetimes of retirement savings to disappear while jobs providing government services are slashed.

Nailed it. Republicans let this happen and refuse to act to stop it. They own it as much as Trump.

Hit the streets and town halls, give em an earful!

Trump has no economic plan. These tariffs are happening because he is a child and he is mad at certain countries.

If you consider this is how chump gets to extort individual companies, you will see why he did it.

YUP. Without Republicans what a wonderful world it would be.

MAGA politicians and non-politicians, both complicit.

"logic-washing" my favorite new word to use with maga types

At what point does someone invoke the 25th amendment?

Never. It’s a fucking death cult. He literally tried to kill the last VP and even he didn’t try to use it.

Expert opinions are not required

What it fits into best is the old Soviet playbook of overthrowing a government 2) Destabilization: Sink the economy Damage foreign relations Weaken the military

True in some sense. Also the tariffs give him extraordinary power to grant exceptions to American businesses and foreign nations and thereby exercise even more control and power via corruption and bribery

Everyone knows that Trump is a moron. I'll be that nearly every GOP member knows that Trump is a moron. They own a huge part of the blame for all that is going on. They know better, but they were too cowardly or self-serving to do anything about it.

I feel this way about the @lincolnproject.us, I appreciate they woke up but many people there can be personally blamed for where we are now. Remember "The Reality Based Community?" ... I do. People like them and others laid the groundwork for the hellscape we are in now.

Good thing stupidity and greed is not a felony in the US, otherwise the prisons would be a lot more packed as they are already. But wait... The FBI is run by an eff-ing moron as well, so they probably won't investigate any of this either, despite the law'n'stuff...

The whole cabinet is comprised of his flunkies - nutso flunkies!

The true supporters of the American economic crash.... the new greatest, biggly depression begins.....and it won't stop for years, and many more years is what it will take for a recovery by a just and sane politician....

How long do you figure they'll continue to trust the process? Why do the fools rule?

And these Troglodytes would follow a leader, (the beginnings of herding" and since they were not knowledgeable, they followed the leader everywhere, and served the leader. If the leader went over a hill with an unforeseen cliff, and went over, the rest followed. And that's what his followers do.

Well, for my oped, I want to say for as long as they might live, however, if we trace back the origin of the herd behavior, or the sheep's theory, we go into the caveman era . As these in the The meaning of TROGLODYTE -is a member in antiquity who lived or were reputed to live chiefly in caves.

🤔Not the future I had in mind. Let's not let the Neanderthals lead us next time.

I agree. However, how do we ensure a non Neanderthal candidate, since the bar and expectations of work history and education has become non existent in most Republican candidates.

"We" did allow this inevitably to grow and fester... Still do... Not sure we can blame everything on the marks.

Brexit on Ketamine.

i heard once that the uber wealthy capitalists without a conscience love recession. its like a giant sale to them..... properties for pennies on the dollar, extra cheap stock grabs, prices raised that will never come back down, and desparate people willing to work harder for less .... so very sad

Ready for the bidding war between Denmark and Canada to buy California, Oregon, and Washington states 🙌🏼

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I agree Occam’s razor suggests that Trump and his advisors are simply idiots

The very liberal…Financial Times.

FT is pretty liberal these days, unlike the right wing they engage with reality. Sometimes at least.

TREASON

I've seen comment that it's to cement his power. People will swear fealty to him to be 'let off the hook' of tariffs, hence he becomes an almighty king!

They're not playing chess, they're not playing checkers, they're eating the pieces off the board...

It's Peter Navarro from project 2025 so we know it's idiotic and destructive.

The plan was right there, before election time! But it required reading in more than 60 second flashes.

@amras.me On the other hand, could it be this? bsky.app/profile/chri...

Yes, it's a tool for a king

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There actually is. But the explanation has nothing to do with economics bsky.app/profile/chri...

Just don’t call them “reciprocal.” These are DEI Tariffs: The tariffs cover a wide DIVERSITY of products in an attempt to bring EQUITY to world trade with full INCLUSION of scores of countries, even some with more penguins than people!

Can't it be both at the same time?

Funny that they can smell the rank smell across the pond while WSJ/NYT/WAPO are still talking "appetite for risk " as we are zerging the masses here towards "appetite for rich".

i am going with what Chris Murphy said - not stupidity - a plan to bend business to his will. extort businesses like he is doing to academia and law firms.

All those who voted for a man who self inflicted multiple personal bankruptcies are to blame as are those Republicans who fail to stop him. He has been a con man his entire life.

Amen, amen 1000 times amen!

100% correct

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They have a negative ZERO understanding of what life is living paycheck-to-paycheck as costs rise. And they do not give a damn about any of us including MAGA. Biggest confidence game in history.

. . . & I resent it!

Actually all of your politicians are to blame. Every single one of them. They had plenty of time to fix up the law so this could not happen. I 100% blame all americans for this, every single one.

My side has put forth weak and pathetic opponents, and done Absolutely nothing to assure the people that they will be addressing the real issues. The Democrat party is just as much at fault, we have had a clear and defined villain party in our country for the last 20 years, and we tried to play nice

Since our southern border was a big issue - Biden should have aggressively addressed it. Actually, an efficient immigration system should have been implemented long ago.

Lots of shoulds that didn't get done for generations.

Dems gotta get with the ticket; no more gentlemen's courtesy & playing by the rules. This requires street fighting. When they go low, we DON'T go high. This is why we need new people who don't default to politics as usual - because they haven't been doing it their whole lives.

Yeah - and do you think we'll have learned a lasting lesson 100 years later? me neither

Biden deported a ton of people and was proposing a right wing border bill.

But mostly AFTER we lost control of both houses. Timing is everything, isn't it?

Yeah, but the bill was everything the GOP wanted, there was no reason to not vote for that shit bill except 47s orders.

True

It's a carefully crafted policy designed to get our allies to sell the dollar and make the Chinese currency the world's reserve. This all makes sense if you realize who the Trump administration is working for.

Absolutely. 🔥Part of how we know that with certainty is they were making up this chart the morning of the press conference. That's why it's so pitiful and insane.

Yes, but you know that they will not take the blame.

If there was ever a time for the Major Questions Doctrine, $6 Trillion in tariffs would be it. Constitutionally, Congress NEVER intended to delegate the power to the President to tax us in a magnitude on par with the entire federal budget.

(For the record, that's $6 trillion over a decade, but that doesn't change your basic point.)

Even more argument its not an "emergency" and should be decided by Congress, not the Executive.

And brain dead MAGAloids that thought that defunding and demonizing education is a good thing.

Think again. . .

FT vastly outpacing peers in facts don’t care about feelings approach to journalism. Very nice to see

They’re in the UK and are less vulnerable to presidential retaliation

Is it fun to be a cowed population, Daniel?

That’s not fair. I’m more sheepish than cowed.

Republicans could stop this, and they haven’t. These are #Republican #Tariffs.

Because they are on board with the plan. Agencies destroyed, small businesses destroyed, massive sell off pennys on the dollar, it’s a shift towards Russia style oligarchy, where they never have to worry about campaigning ever again.

This👆🏾 This is not strategic. This is Trump’s one-note 19th century thought. And… he is punishing investors who benefitted from Biden’s economy because in Trump’s twisted fig-sized brain, anyone who benefitted in deserves to be punished for disloyalty. It doesn’t make sense but there you have it.

Fig-sized brain, what a perfect description.

Amen!

If I were looking for a grand strategy, it would be that they (the ultra-rich through Trump) deliberately want to destroy the US as a global power, thinking it will unleash them to operate without regulatory restraint here and weaken Europe’s. Trump is their very useful idiot.

He wants all countries to bow to him. The US wasn't enough

I have a friend, that 100% believes that the problem is that we just don’t have ALL the info on Trumps plan. A Jewish Accountant, veteran whose wife had brain cancer, has NO CONCERNS and thinks I’m the brainwashed one…

Produced by an idiot who has found a new word, Reciprocal, without even understanding what it means. www.ft.com/content/c4f9...

Welcome to the resistance FT

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Wonder what Trump's used as his ludicrous formula for determining tariffs for 180 countries? www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWhv...

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It’s not a plan. It’s egotism and revenge.

I'm not convinced. No question his personality traits play a part, but I believe he's aiming to smash it all up as much as he can manage, including the Government. Then he gets to build it up again. Hopefully he won't manage to do get far enough that the resulting civil unrest triggers Martial Law.

I really wish people would stop pretending that there is some greater strategy at work. His brain can't handle strategy as intelligent people know it. It just occasionally burps up some idea, then he forces his sycophants to make it happen

But it sure can handle meanness, manipulation & revenge!

There is a typos in your useless meme...it is NAZI party. Also, what are you doing about this? Oh, right, posting....good job. youtu.be/QEQOvyGbBtY?...

Gift link?

I disagree, what he is doing is essentially destroying the United States from within, possibly according to orders from the Kremlin.

You would think it is the GOP leaders; the Republicans I know do not set economic policy.

Republicans are scum.

somebody gave Trump a history book about the 1930s where global tarrif wars aided the rise of fascism. big mistake.

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FT has written on their philosophy of dark enlightenment before, here’s a recent Time’s piece. This is what they’re doing, and what outcome they seek—they want to destroy the US economy, rip away your house equity and pensions, to enact a new feudalism. time.com/7269166/dark...

Otherwise known as an extortion racket.

It's also EXACTLY what #Project2025ers told us "they" would do with their #PuppetPresident installed.

yup…

It's his tickets to violence, chaos and war Look at all the Nazis and Fascists. behind this all Then you'll understand

With a little culty worship thrown in

These tariffs are revenge for things that never happened that Trump made up in his sociopathic mind.

“There can be no logic washing” - a tacit, maybe explicit, admission that the FT previously engaged in such “logic washing” in the past, eg intentionally misinforming its readers.

Attn: MSNBC and Ayman (sitting in for Rachel) who are trying to logic-wash this right now.

The administration is stupid but the destruction is deliberate and intentional and not the byproduct of the stupidity.

There is a video going around, source unknown, that claims it's all part of an ingenious plan to "reindustrialise" the US and economically subjugate the rest of the world... I assume the purpose is to quiet the fears of the MAGA faithful.

We are going to starve everyone our country owes money to. They either forgive our National Debt to them or we will begin wartime actions. It's EXTORTION! We don't plan to pay our debts just like other Trump Inc. bankruptcies. Our credit will be shot. No debt will be payable with US currency.

Extortion is 47's modus operandi

I don't just want to repost this, I want it on billboards in every town.

‘Logic-washing’ and ‘sane-washing’ got us to this point. So many want tRump to be something he has never been: rational.

The “strategy” is to serve Putin. The sooner you grasp that, the more it makes sense.

I agree, but I don't understand what his end-game is. He destroys the country, now what? What is the plan for after? I know he's too stupid to even have a plan, but someone does.

People sell off real assets for pennies on the dollar, rich people scoop them up and become oligarch level rich. They jet off to Dubai, New Zealand or the next friendly haven. There is no plan for an “after” for anyone else.

So in other words, they are raping your country for all that they can get, and they will get away with it as most people that could stop him/them are afraid to do anything. And then they'll just leave the wreckage behind.

Trump’s policy is designed to force global leaders, US-based special interest groups & Republican senators / congressmen to call for the tariffs being dropped. In return for which Trump will demand praise, obedience, power concessions & staggering amounts of $$$. For Trump, it’s not stupid at all.

The Republicans did let things slide, they actively worked to undermine voters' trust and government efficiency to get to this point. Do you see any of them helping us? No, they are in on it.

It's a Fundie Chtistian power play. All of it. Palestine. Orthodox Russian. Slagging Europe leaving "Once shared values" This crowd... Jesus

Today is the first day in human history when if you say "He's a feckin' idiot" then 98% of the world's population and millions of penguins will know exactly who you are talking about! Brexit was the worst economic decision in 21st century. US "Hold my coat".

There is a #CurtisYarvin logic to it: Dark Enlightenment, NRx Influences…

I was going to say that with a little 4 ricochet basket made story but you make more sense

They're basking in the fact that their pockets are getting fatter💵💵💰

the tariffs will ruin the economy. someone needs to reverse the trend. this is no excuse error of judgement. the POTUS should not have these decision making authority that constitutionally belongs in Congress. Dems are complicit in this "strong" president hoax

The MAGAs have put our enemy in the White House.

No logic-washing here!

In short, Trump strategy is: Pay ME and I'll let the tariffs go away.

The USA since the end of WW2 as absorbed unequal tariffs from europe and others because we felt they needed the help after a devastating war. We have done this to our detriment now to the point of national bankruptcy. I for one say enough is enough.

“National bankruptcy”??? Have you recently been kicked in the head by a horse?

Have you seen the national debt?

Have you seen the interest rate the US now has to pay to service the national debt since the announcement of tariffs? It’s ballooned from under 4% to over 4.5% in a week. Seriously, if your top concern is the national debt, you’d be 💯 against inflationary tariffs.

Absolutely not! Trump's tariffs are nothing more the a revenge game to him.

It is orchestrated and by design to destroy the American dollar and force Bitcoin on the world

I look forward to seeing the queues in Supermarkets as it takes hours to process a payment (rather than the ~10 minutes it takes with Bitcoin now, as barely anyone uses it). Crypto doesn't handle that number of transactions. It's best used for small numbers of large transactions.

Everything he touches dies.

Wait til the Republicans' constituents lose their jobs in massive layoffs. Let the calls begin from the hurt caused. We can start with Iowa. 651 Whirlpool employees. June 1.

Already begun

900. Wow.

A gut punch to them, I'm sure. I do wonder how many of them voted for Trump since he won both states?

Imagine a majority? And if they voted for him, are they feeling any remorse? I guess time will tell.

yup.... very well put.....

Agree. I keep asking where the republicans are. There are no adults in the room with him?