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People keep acting like there is some plan or higher thought process. Sometimes, people are just morons. Look at how Bessent had to sneak in and try and get t

• amelius 2y ago
  Apparently the guy is playing 3d chess. But they didn't say he's not very good at it.
  • davidw 2y ago
    We're more at the level of him looking at the chess board and trying to snack on the pieces.
  • Integrape 2y ago
    Yes, but in this case the 'd' stands for dementia.
  • 1659447091 2y ago
    He's not playing chess, his only interest in chess in getting the game manufactures to stop their DEI policy of insisting on equal dark and light squares/pieces.
• sorcerer-mar 2y ago
  You know he’s an actual idiot based on his latest proclamation that he won’t escalate further against China because “then people won’t buy.” We’re already way, way beyond levels that effectively freeze all trade between the two countries. Which, if we’re to believe the sycophants, is just the price to pay to onshore manufacturing.
• TheOtherHobbes 2y ago
  There's no coordinated strategy anywhere. The people with real power voted him in to lower taxes, and in return he is nuking the economy, neutering the Pentagon, trashing public health, isolating the US from tourists and skilled immigrants, walking public education back at least a century, killing the next generation of R&D, murdering rational climate policy with a coal-powered chainsaw, and handing government software and data to enemy powers. The entire machinery of governance - official and public, as well as off-the-record "do as I say and I'll fund your campaign" private - has folded like tissue paper. The only pushback is from the judiciary, and their orders are as likely to be ignored as implemented. And parts of academia. It's astonishing.
  • dumbledoren 2y ago
    > nuking the economy, neutering the Pentagon, trashing public health, isolating the US from tourists and skilled immigrants, walking public education back at least a century, killing the next generation of R&D, murdering rational climate policy with a coal-powered chainsaw, and handing government software and data to enemy powers. How is that any different from what has been going on in the past 40 years... Biden kept almost all of Trump's tariffs and other policies. And Trump kept a lot of Biden's policies and added on to them.
    • felixgallo 2y ago
      Did you really say how is that different?
    • gamblor956 2y ago
      This comment is so disingenous it's almost pointless to respond to. Previous presidents did things because they genuinely believed that what they were doing was the right thing for America based on their deeply-held beliefs. Trump has no beliefs. He does not act from rational thought. He does whatever makes him feel good in the immediate moment, without regard to the consequences or even his own prior words and deeds.
      • int_19h 2y ago
        I think he genuinely believes in his own genius, and that it makes him some kind of messiah figure for US.
      • Whoppertime 2y ago
        This comment is built on mind reading. Like you can tell what Joe Biden or Barack Obama genuinely believed, and what Donald Trump or George Bush were pretending to believe. No evidence can convince you one way or another because you've already read their minds and can tell who is genuine and who's an interloper
        • gamblor956 2y ago