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It's a power he has, of course he's going to exercise it, just like a toddler presses all the buttons on the elevator.
by cozzyd 2y ago
It's a power he has, of course he's going to exercise it, just like a toddler presses all the buttons on the elevator.
- tombert 2y agoI mean, sure, but it's still completely frustrating to me. It's especially frustrating that these people are always looking for secret "codes" being spelled out by politicians, instead of actually listening to anything they actually say. I saw a meme recently that said Trump was wearing a purple tie to signify unity between Republicans and Democrats, despite the fact that Trump spent the entire talk complaining about Democrats. It's infuriating, and it's worse than "stupid", it's outright dishonesty on their end.
- cocacola1 2y agoMaybe it’s me, but I’ve seen a general uptick in people trying to discern meaning from meaningless drivel over the years. Not to make light of the current situation, but I recall people reading tea leaves trying to divine that Rockstar would make some significant GTA6 announcement on December 27th.
- tombert 2y agoOh I hear you, and it drives me crazy for that stuff too. It's not exclusive to conservatives, I know plenty of left-leaning people who do dumb stuff like this too, but it does seem to have become the identity of the party after Trump took over.
- morkalork 2y ago"The bear is sticky"
- mcphage 2y ago> I recall people reading tea leaves trying to divine that Rockstar would make some significant GTA6 announcement on December 27th Good ol' "U R MR GAY" strikes again.
- red-iron-pine 2y agothe point behind the "firehose" disformation strategy is to keep a constant, unceasing stream of that BS going all the time. often it doesn't even involve making stuff up -- just let the rubes spew dumb ideas via social media and run some mild repost bots. the point is that there is so much dumb stuff any real, valuable speculation gets lost in the noise, and correct (if only semi-credible) discussion gets drowned out by other bits.
- Grosvenor 2y agoToddlers?
- defrost 2y agoNot all the buttons, famously (in many puzzles) just the ones they can reach. > It's a power he has, I̶'̶d̶ [of] course he's going to exercise it, Dang? Surely not!
- donbox 2y agoYeah, especially the ones colored red, which are also usually on the bottom row.
- polotics 2y agoWhat if you're wrong? What if the apparently irrational behaviour hides a well planned policy that has desirable outcomes for someone?
- cozzyd 2y agoSo the argument is that there may be some secret super compelling justification that for some reason can't be articulated, and, against all odds, hasn't been leaked, despite being telegraphed for months? Yeah, that's not plausible at all.
- ty6853 2y agoIMO the tariff on Canada is purely because they are in free trade with Mexico and without Canada imposing the same tariff on mex, the US must impose the same on Canada or they become trivially an import proxy to bypass our tariffs on Mexico. What the US really wants imo is for Canada to tariff Mexico so we can remove the Canada tariff without undermining the Mexican one. Pretty much guarantee we'll see Trump pushing Canada to do that in the upcoming negotiations.
- cozzyd 2y agoYet, rather than saying that, Trump is implying that he wants Canada to be a US state. Whether or not he means that, US-Canada relations will be irreparably harmed for a long time.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoPretty sure Trump doesn't actually want that. If Canada became a US state, it would add two US Senators, and several US Representatives. Those new members of the US Congress would be likely to not be Republicans. Mind you, I don't know if Trump has thought that far. But "own Canada, but good bye ruling majority"? I'm not sure he really wants that.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoWhich of course, is the opposite of what just happened - Trump just delayed the Mexican tariff implementation. Sounds like he's more interested in punishing Canada than punishing Mexico.