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The government is really just one guy right now, Trump. According to his own people he doesn't take no for an answer and isn't interested in input from anyone
by duxup 1y ago
The government is really just one guy right now, Trump.
According to his own people he doesn't take no for an answer and isn't interested in input from anyone else. He has surrounded himself with opportunists and yes men. His own department heads often will do press conferences and inadvertently contradict Trump, seemingly without realizing it. At one point Trump and his staff couldn't get on the same page about IF they were or were not talking to China about tariffs, they waffled for several days on it.
A few Trump staffers whenever asked about strategy with tariffs or other things just ignore the question an start praising Trump out of the blue. It's a creepy scene.
I've yet to see anyone with an education or domain knowledge explain the existing tariffs strategy / where this should lead with these whipsaw type decisions. There simply is nobody with a clue willing to do that.
At least in Idocracy President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho chose to listen to someone smarter than him. This is very much not the choice of the current President.
- K0balt 1y agoThe actual point is to create barriers to trade so that companies will seek exceptions (buy his shitcoin, donate money, or prove fealty). It’s a power/money grab, nothing more, nothing less. Trump has one ideology - trump first.
- pjc50 1y ago> government is really just one guy right now, Trump. Americans call this "separation of powers" for some quaint reason. In practice all three branches of government do what he says in executive orders.
- duxup 1y agoCongress is his people and just sycophants, but the real tragedy as far as separation of powers goes is that the SCOTUS majority has chosen to ignore their job and put their hands in their pockets. Anytime a judge does something that might result in a confrontation SCOTUS sets it aside while the legal process continues ... this a farce as in the meantime people are fired, tax payer data is handled poorly, budgets are cut and everything falls apart. Effectively the law is ignored and the damage is allowed to happen regardless of the court outcome. It won't matter by the end of it all. It's the same as SCOTUS rubber stamp approving all of it... IMO they've disqualified themselves for that job by simply refusing to do it.
- kagakuninja 1y agoRepublicans could, and should have removed Trump from office after the Jan 6 attack. They are the real cowards.
- duxup 1y agoYeah that party really has had no real leadership for ages. Just one "strong man" showed up and they were happy to push out any remnant of critical thinking and they're just empty suits. Every traditional Republican ideology is now upside down / been violated with gusto. They're a whole new party in many ways.
- slipperydippery 1y agoIf you've talked to many "real American" Republican voters, Trump is exactly what they've wanted since at least the 90s. "Traditional" Republicans were just all they had as an alternative to Democrats, who are obviously going to make your kids gay and take all your guns and impose sharia law and implement communism, so you can't conceivably vote for one of them. What's new is someone had the money and platform and good idea to leverage that huge gap between what Republican voters wanted, and the Republican platform, to judo-flip and pin the whole official party apparatus in the span of a couple years. Republicans, the voters, didn't change, or if they did, it was years and years before Trump.
- platevoltage 1y agoIt would only be cowardly if the party actually saw what he did as wrong.
- estimator7292 1y agoWell, his actions largely violate the letter of the law, and likely constitutional law, I haven't really checked. The problem is that the rest of our government is either inept, asleep, or have no will to do anything. Plus the Supreme Court has been stuffed with cronies, so there's really no other legal recourse.
- vesinisa 1y agoMaybe Trump is just doing what's good for America and he's strategy is exactly being unpredictable and chaotic. This is stressful for others and they make political concessions to please him in exchange for a period of stability. EU for example bulged for exactly this reason and accepted 15% one-way tariff for access to US market. Before the deal the uncertainty about the level of coming tariffs was deemed worse for European companies trading to US than the negotiated tariff itself. European political leaders including the head of NATO have also practically turned to giving rimjobs to Trump's ass wishing he would not throw tantrums at them in important meetings: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17wejpw79qo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17wejpw79qo Ultimately this all just strengthens US hegemony and makes other countries weaker, which is the explicitly stated goal he keeps repeating..
- IAmBroom 1y agoYou make the preposterous claim that "what's good for America" is increasing its hegemony at the cost of other nations. What's good for America is protecting her people's liberties and increasing their satisfaction in life. The first is clearly going downhill; Trump's plummeting popularity amongst his followers suggests the second is, as well.
- duxup 1y ago> Maybe Trump is just doing what's good for America and he's strategy is exactly being unpredictable and chaotic. I haven’t seen an explanation of how this works as far as the current tariff methodology goes.
- stouset 1y agoThe amount of mental gymnastics y’all seem to constantly have to do to try and find some way to make sense of the inherently nonsensical looks exhausting.
- philistine 1y agoWhat do you make of the bold faced lie that the external country is paying the tariffs that Trump is putting in place? Part of the same desire for maximum chaos? When does chaos stop?
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- TiredOfLife 1y agoTrump is a Stochastic parrot