He can not seem to grasp that your enemy is allowed to fight back and if you make enemies of friends eventually that is all you will have.
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2025
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He can not seem to grasp
...anything, really. And his closest henchmen know this well, too! Just read the entire chat on Signal.
They're just using him because he pulls (or used to pull) public consensus, while working around his bullshits.
He's just gone. Nothing's going on upstairs. I sometimes think of an ancient clip of Ali G trying to sell him some kind of ice cream glove and there was enough brainpower to realize it was bullshit and try to get out of that situation. Now tho, there is nothing there. He doesn't grasp the most basic things.
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Classic bully / troll behavior. Always the aggressor yet also always the victim.
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Im thinking there’s another country he wants to be besties with.
standard sexual abuser.
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It's like he can't comprehend that other people would react to his actions.
He raised tariffs, other nations reduced trade with the US and looked elsewhere. If he continues to raise tariffs it will inevitably cause the US to be isolated in trade.
It's not even a shocking/daring tactic, it's a self destructive tantrum because his misunderstanding has led to mismanagement and now he's doubling down
This doubling down is really telling...
It's like someone showed him a plastic toy mallet and it's the only tool he's aware of in his toolbox.
It's a move to spur domestic manufacturing and move the US to Autarky — straight out of Hitler's playbook; albeit an incompetent attempt because he's a mentally challenged degenerate.
Autarky isn't bad — covid highlighted the weaknesses that capitalism and globalism created for every economy — but Trumps goals are not risk mitigation or "national security", and he certainly intends for it to enable imperialist wars and conquests. The fact is the allies won WW2 largely because of US manufacturing capacity (Europes was destroyed). China could take Taiwan tomorrow and the world would have to let them as we are entirely reliant on Chinese manufacturing; they could cripple us if they halted exports.
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To be fair, if you look at it from the perspective of a narcissist who has never been told "no" his entire life, it makes perfect sense.
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For many years I have argued that Putin's actions in Ukraine and Europe "make sense" based on the assumption that no country in the world actually has agency in its actions other than a handful of superpowers - Russia, the US, and China. Any other country not on that list must be a vassal state of one of the ones that is, so if the Eastern European countries are no longer Russian vassals then that must logically mean they are now American vassals.
It would appear that Trump is under a similar delusion. He's apparently trying to beat countries into submission that he views as already being American vassals. Hence why he thinks stuff like the "51st state" garbage is no big deal, since in his view Canada's already 90% of the way to being a state anyway.
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“If you guys damage the US economy, I will do even more damage to the US economy.”
—stable genius
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do economic harm to the US
.... Like the economic harm you're doing to Europe and Canada?
You're literally that bully that's starts screaming "don't hit ME!" when the victims punch back
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US: Bashes Canada for no reason. Starts a trade war.
Canada: Makes new trade partners.
US: Canada how dare you find other trade partners! Come back here so I can bash you again!
The only person doing economic harm to the US is him.
do it, cunt. the US relies on the EU and its neighbors way more than they rely on the US. you don't even make shit anymore, and whatever you do make isn't up to standards anyway. no one needs the US.
The only thing the US exports is tax avoiding, minimum viable product supplying, data collection companies.
Not only does the rest of the world not need that shit, they're better off without it.
Fuck the US and everything it has come to stand for.
Isn't trump the one actually pushing economic harm to the US? Maybe he should look into that.
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The trump regime’s only purpose is to TANK the US economy so that stocks, businesses, and industries can be bought by billionaires at rock bottom prices.
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Trump fucks everything up forcing nations to find other economic alternatives then says I will destroy you if you work together. This is the plot of a bad 70's comic book.
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Next, I'll use a shotgun, and aim for my entire leg instead of just the foot!!
Yet another thing that is beyond our willfully ignorant American Republican's comprehension.
Adults cooperate with others who are open to mutually beneficial cooperation. Babies (and largely seniors past 70 as we become very similar to our sunrise at the sunset of life) kick and scream demanding to get their way the way they want it.
I'm a 40 year old manchild who collects movie props and even I know that.
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Trump is like a doll and when you squeeze it all it says: "Tariffs!"
Trump: starts trade war
Trade partners leave the chat.
Trump: surprised pikachu
"only I can do economic harm to the U.S!!!!!!!!!!"
"I plan to shoot myself on the dick EVEN HARDER this time"
Another year of this, and these threats will carry about as much weight as North Korea threatening you with sanctions.
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There's an old saying that says: "Tarrif me once, shame on you. Tarrif me twice - you can't get tarrifed again".
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lol Eric cartman was created for this guy
shut the fuck up and do it you cunt, it's about time we unite to put you out of your collective misery
This is such dumb shit. I wish his father hit him more as a child. It wouldn't have beaten the stupid out of him but maybe he'd be quieter
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Remember he said he was going to make mexico pay for that wall? The wall was never completed.
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Oh now we just GOTTA unite with Canada!
He (like Putin) is afraid of the EU. He won’t be able to take Canada if they are allied with the EU
K. 🤷🏼♀️🇨🇦
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