kent_eh

Either it’s market manipulation or bad economic ideals

Both can be true in this case.

Hint: Germans didn't fix it by themselves.

Of course, but the rest of the world didn't take those actions until after the German military moved into several other countries. And that action was done in the defense of those other countries as much as it was to spank the Germans.

Nobody is coming to the US to save the US from itself. Things will have to get a helluva lot worse before that happens.

And it won't be done to rescue the Americans, it will be intended to beat them into submission.

Plus, the rest of the world remembers that the Americans didn't help us in WW2 until the war finally came to their shores, after the rest of us had been fighting for 3 years.

We're a bit busy protecting ourselves from the US.

You Americans can fix your own damn problems.

America has always had a skewed view of itself

What the fuck is wrong with the GOP that this is who we have as VP?

The same thing that is wrong to allow the orange menace to be president.

Does he have to be an asshole to everybody?

It's his only skill.

It's well understood by business people (at least by competent ones) that if you do something that makes your customer leave, they dont come back.

A lot of people might decide to violently resist such an eventuality

I don't see a lot of evidence to suggest that'll happen.

My interpretation is they're referring to the majority of Americans who aren't out protesting.

or something ultra specific that is super easy to source from any other country, to exclusively hurt the american businesses

That was part of what went into how Canada chose the targets of our first rounds of counter-tariffs.

Product categories that we also make here, or can easily get elsewhere or can comfortably do without for an extended period of time.

That combined with a consumer led boycott of anything "made in the USA " and even staunch Republicans like Mitch McConnell are starting to push back against Trump.

Cult leader is accurate.

we don't hate americans, we hate the asshole and his goons.

Though we are increasingly frustrated by those Americans who are sitting on their hands, and not actively trying to save their country from the self-harm it is currently experiencing.