When you understand that crashing the economy makes him and wealthy investors richer, it makes sense what he's doing. The sane washing is because the people telling you it makes sense are owned by people who stand to make a lot of money. If people lose their homes, that building doesn't just disappear. It gets bought by investors for cheap who then rent it out. Collapsing economies is how wealthy collect more assets and passive income. A great explanation here by Gary Stevenson: https://youtu.be/XCnImxVWbvc
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There is no 200 IQ 4D chess plan. He just wings it as he goes. He says and does whatever “feels good” to him at the moment with zero regards to consequences, consistency or truth. He doesn’t consult experts, he doesn’t study anything because he thinks he knows everything about everything already. He is simply lucky when things go his way and is really good at shifting blame when they don’t.
He's not even good at shifting blame. He has an audience that believe quite literally everything he says.
That's decades of lead poisoning for you!
Makes me wonder what the microplastics have in store for us? If all we get is an "I love you" from our Costco greeter and hand jobs on the menu at Starbucks we'll be lucky.
I'm pretty sure the "4d chess genius" thing was satire to start that just got Poe's lawed.
at least during his first presidency he had a well-oiled infrastructure to rationalize and capitalize on any bullshit that came out of his mouth. He doesn't have those people around anymore.
Also this is why I've given up on "conservative intellectuals". They claim interesting things that could make sense in certain contexts (even if I disagree with those), but the moment trump says something, they abandon these values and bend over backwards to rationalize his stupid shit.
Only an economic idiot?
No. Over use of adjectives here. Better to be concise.
Again. Why do people insist his policies are smart?
They don't think it's possible to be rich and not smart. To them his wealth has a halo effect on everything else he does.
I'll never not laugh at this scene. So so good.
Its a cult full of morons. Its that simple.
Because Trump said so. Don't you believe Trump? He's the smartest!
He said so himself, so it must be true. People who disagree are publicly reprimanded by him so they must be wrong!
/s, because we’re in that place again….
Because they’re in denial about being conned by an idiot. After all, if you get conned by an idiot, what does that make you? It’s easier for them to pretend he’s got some genius plan.
If bankrupting a casino wasn’t enough then idk what else evidence these dumb fucks need
It bugs me when people cite the casino going bankrupt as an example of his idiocy, I'm sure it was an example of his malice.
I'm sure if you look Into that casino failing, he probably stole the funds. Why keep a business going making a few million a year and pay taxes on that, when you could take like 20 million right now, and not pay taxes on it.
It bugs me more because it wasn't a casino, it was three casinos.
My working assumption is that they were a money laundering front.
It can be both things. He’s bad at business because his solution to running everything equates to some type of fraud rather than any talent or skillful thinking. It doesn’t take skill to commit fraud, you just have to be a piece of shit.
To be fairish, he's more a lying sack of shit than an idiot, but that aside....
Porque no los dos?
Don’t deport me.
TARRIFED
I guess I should've been clearer.
He's obviously both. He's more of a lying sack of shit than he is an idiot.
And as I just tried to point out elsewhere, that's not to say that he's not an idiot - just that he's even more of a liar.
I’m not sure what he’s done to get the benefit of the doubt on intelligence. He literally asked if it was possible to cure COVID by injecting bleach or shoving a UV light up your ass. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177
His own staff members have called him a “moron.” And he’s bankrupted 6 companies. If there’s evidence he’s smart, I haven’t seen it.
I didn't say he was smart - I said he's even more a lying sack of shit than he is an idiot.
Despite clear evidence that tariffs are taxes that raise prices, his allies continue pushing economic falsehoods.
Evidence such as the definition of the fucking word?
He’s proven it at least once a year since 1980.
i dont remember much sanewashing in the media, maybe i consume biased media but pretty much everything i saw said tarrifs were an likely to cause recession.