“It’s a good idea to try,” Dave Abdallah said, referring to the new tariffs against other nations. They were bold, he felt, and he was a fan of daring action. “Why can’t we charge them with the same thing to get them to either lower theirs, or stop a lot of products from being imported into the United States?” Mr. Abdallah said.

The idea that the tariffs that Trump have suggested are based on tariffs imposed by other nations seems to be pretty prevalent.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

based on tariffs imposed by other nations

I'm not surprised a lot of people think that. Right-wing media pumps out Trump/GOP propaganda 24 hours a day. I dread what lead narrative story they're going create so they don't have to cover Trump's economic chaos. My hunch is they'll go with tired-and-true but juice it to 11. Like this...

In [insert city names] there's been an explosion in [type of crimes] by [foreign organized crime gang name 1 and gang name 2].

That will also help explain why Trump needs to "crack down" on the "illegals". It's frightening to me because they just accept everything as gospel that they see on the teevee and everything they read on those right-wing sewer websites.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I dread what lead narrative story they're going create so they don't have to cover Trump's economic chaos.

Start a war. Blame economic situation on that.

Pretty much every european country has managed to blame every "tough decision" on ukraine now for years.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

In the near future I wonder if Trump starts saying the word "Iran" far more often. If he does - that's bad. Very, very bad.