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"Lighten up and have fun," he says at the end. For what will we actually hold him accountable? It's a smoking gun that he's a bullshitter, but it's not a crime

by rexpop 2y ago

"Lighten up and have fun," he says at the end. For what will we actually hold him accountable? It's a smoking gun that he's a bullshitter, but it's not a crime to be a racist.

galaxyLogic 2y ago
Right, but it is in large part because of Navarro that Trump thinks universal tarifss are a great idea, since Navarro advocated for them and created credibility for his theories by inventing this fictional "expert". It gave Trump plausible deniability, he can claim he's just doing what great experts from the academia are advocating. And it gave us the market-crash and global trade-war. It's easy for billionaires to lighten up and have fun, but not for most other people. Tariffs are a sales-tax, which means poor people have to relinguish a larger proportion of their income to the government, than rich people. It is great wealth transfer from ordinary people to the rich. And one can only conjecture that THAT is why Trump and Navarro advocate for it.
- CRConrad 2y ago
  > And one can only conjecture that THAT is why Trump and Navarro advocate for it. I'd guess: Navarro yes; Trump, no. In his case, it's just stupidity.
CRConrad 2y ago
> but it's not a crime to be a racist. That's the problem: It should be, if not legally, at least in terms of electability. But with enough of a proportion of racists in the electorate, it's no wonder racists get elected. Good bye and godspeed, America; it was nice knowing you.
- rexpop 2y ago
  > it was nice knowing you. Not sure you ever "knew" America if you think this is the first time racists were ever elected.
  - CRConrad 2y ago
    Yeah no, I don't think that. But: 1) Back then, racists were elected everywhere else too. America didn't much stand out just because of that. 2) Back then, America a) wasn't led by a moroniac[§], and b) didn't intentionally alienate itself from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid it's really goodbye this time. I mean, 2016-20 was weird enough, but then we thought normalcy had returned... But then you -- or they? -- went and re-elected him. There's just no way of knowing where America will go; looks like a total basket-case. Seems quite a lot of Americans agree with me on that, BTW. Didn't they ever know America either? ___ [§]: Maniacal moron, or moronic maniac? Can't make up my mind.

by rexpop 2y ago

"Lighten up and have fun," he says at the end. For what will we actually hold him accountable? It's a smoking gun that he's a bullshitter, but it's not a crime to be a racist.

galaxyLogic 2y ago

Right, but it is in large part because of Navarro that Trump thinks universal tarifss are a great idea, since Navarro advocated for them and created credibility for his theories by inventing this fictional "expert". It gave Trump plausible deniability, he can claim he's just doing what great experts from the academia are advocating. And it gave us the market-crash and global trade-war. It's easy for billionaires to lighten up and have fun, but not for most other people. Tariffs are a sales-tax, which means poor people have to relinguish a larger proportion of their income to the government, than rich people. It is great wealth transfer from ordinary people to the rich. And one can only conjecture that THAT is why Trump and Navarro advocate for it.

CRConrad 2y ago
> And one can only conjecture that THAT is why Trump and Navarro advocate for it. I'd guess: Navarro yes; Trump, no. In his case, it's just stupidity.

CRConrad 2y ago

> but it's not a crime to be a racist. That's the problem: It should be, if not legally, at least in terms of electability. But with enough of a proportion of racists in the electorate, it's no wonder racists get elected. Good bye and godspeed, America; it was nice knowing you.

rexpop 2y ago
> it was nice knowing you. Not sure you ever "knew" America if you think this is the first time racists were ever elected.
- CRConrad 2y ago
  Yeah no, I don't think that. But: 1) Back then, racists were elected everywhere else too. America didn't much stand out just because of that. 2) Back then, America a) wasn't led by a moroniac[§], and b) didn't intentionally alienate itself from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid it's really goodbye this time. I mean, 2016-20 was weird enough, but then we thought normalcy had returned... But then you -- or they? -- went and re-elected him. There's just no way of knowing where America will go; looks like a total basket-case. Seems quite a lot of Americans agree with me on that, BTW. Didn't they ever know America either? ___ [§]: Maniacal moron, or moronic maniac? Can't make up my mind.