Which is odd since he's doing exactly what he said he'd do.
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2025
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Most voters are dumber than dogshit.
No, no, see - he said the other countries would pay us the tariffs! We'd all be rolling in money!
And some appreciable fraction of the American public still doesn't understand that's not how tariffs work.
We're three fucking months in, and people STILL don't understand what they are. Three. Fucking. Months.
We got a lotta high level intellectuals over here, let me tell ya...
He's been talking about them since he campaigned for his first term, so I'd argue we're closer to a decade in. Which of course just strengthens your point.
What's interesting is what he's doing, but what he never mentioned until after he was elected.
The annexing Canada and Greenland stuff was brought up very fast after he won. It wasn't an idea that just popped into his head. They were thinking about it the whole time, and very successfully made sure it never leaked during the campaign.
Had he been pitching this, he probably would've lost. It would've been too crazy. But they kept it quiet.