Just watching this Trump tariff debacle unfolding is like watching a kid playing what he thinks is a game of monopoly, not realising that there're real people in those streets & utilities, houses & hotels. In this case, we're dealing with a mentally deficient man who probably doesn't care. I feel desperately sad for all the millions of people - most poor sods in the US - who'll have their lives upended by this madness. I just hope it doesn't affect people outside the US as much. 1/2
You realize this is all going according to plan right? Orange Man isn't stupid. The division between people on these topics is all around creating fake crisis, so that America gets the same horrific system Europe has with the EU. This is a great schizo-post about the system: