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The Economist @economist.com

Tariffs guarantee that America will become steadily less important to its trading partners. That is one predictable consequence of an unpredictable presidency econ.st/4mx5SPo

aug 24, 2025, 12:00 am • 223 78

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Jake Achée @superobscure.com

Why don’t articles like this ever mention that HE CAN’T ACTUALLY UNILATERALLY ENACT THESE TARIFFS LEGALLY?!?!?!

aug 24, 2025, 4:01 am • 0 0 • view
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Linda James @ljamesnc.bsky.social

Everything the idiot defiling the White House does makes America less important. In trade, science, soft power, dependability, and moral leadership on human rights, aid & freedom.

aug 24, 2025, 12:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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RITA 💙🦋💙 @onegraphrita.bsky.social

I could have given you an in depth analysis of how this was going to go. How was any of this unpredictable? No one learned the 1st term. No contingency was prepared. The predictability, of this probability, is 💯 the damn outcome. The lunatic is robbing this country blind. No one's reporting that 🥺

aug 24, 2025, 1:00 am • 0 0 • view
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MeMyself Andi @neusa222.bsky.social

Trump SUCKS and Republicans ruined America!!!

aug 24, 2025, 12:25 am • 0 0 • view
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Adrian @adrian-h-sophia.bsky.social

Well, at least The Economist has probably got one prediction right.

aug 24, 2025, 2:25 am • 0 0 • view
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🍞🍞 Spacebread98 🍞🍞 @spacebread98.bsky.social

Trump should tarrif the holy sea

aug 24, 2025, 12:51 am • 0 0 • view
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blk16-24.bsky.social @blk16-24.bsky.social

All this growth taken directly from the United States, thanks to Trump

aug 24, 2025, 1:13 am • 0 0 • view
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username123 @usernamem123.bsky.social

Can we call tariffs "trump tax or maga tax" It'll be the difference between calling the affordable care act, affordable care act or Obama care.

aug 24, 2025, 4:10 am • 0 0 • view
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Remember America! @flynavy77.bsky.social

What does a magazine written by highly regarded economists know about the effects of tariffs? We have a guilty rapist who defamed his victim, cheated on his business records, committed fraud, stole classified, attempted a coup, bankrupted most of his businesses, & wears XXL diapers running things!

aug 24, 2025, 12:54 am • 2 0 • view