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Donald Trump's in the process of trying to fix what he broke.
Over the weekend, market observers ch
Trump don’t care about the future. If the aquifers run dry he thinks that lots of bottled water’s all we’d need to just get by. It takes lots of water pressure to help pressure wash a pig, and the glutton in the White House, I’ll admit, is pretty big. I don’t know what Trump’s been flushing, but he says it’s awful hard, to flush down what’s been ejected from his buttocks made of lard. When the chicken nuggets back up
in his colon, I suppose, Herman Melville might be moved to comment, “Lookout, thar she blows!”
The other moron Lutnick is out there saying this is only temporary. Very coherent policy. I’d hate to be anyone trying to do logistics on supply chain for the rest of the year (and perhaps the next 1,375 or so days).
Yeah, and already on Sunday, there are some Wall Street folks claiming that’s proof Trump still means business and, more to the point, that this is all going according to plan.
The willingness among otherwise smart people to suspend disbelief and in the process make utter fools of themselves, is absolutely incredible.
Like, “Oh no, there’s no way these exemptions had anything to do with the market reaction, or any lobbying from Apple and Nvidia. Trump was planning on these exemptions all along, and it’s just a clarification process on the way to semiconductor-specific tariffs two months from now, which Trump’s highly-qualified USTR needs a little more time to ‘study.”
Imagine being so shameless and so determined not to say what needs to be said — i.e., that this man, Donald Trump, is plainly a charlatan and this process is pure, seat-of-the-pants farce — that you’ll demean yourself in notes to clients who, by virtue of having eyes and ears, know goddamn well this is a circus.
And it’ll be the same thing two months from now. Trump will roll out the semi tariffs and if the market crashes, he’ll announce some other “pause” or exemption, and Lutnick will explain that away, and the same shameless people will say that was part of the plan too.
The willingness to ignore the reality of this is just un-f-ckin believable. But I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. A lot of these analysts and “strategists” voted for this guy even after seeing him lead a redneck coup at the Capitol.
The Trump leopards didn’t just change their spots, they’ve done this their whole career just not on such a big stage.
Appreciate your candour, you’re one of the mighty few not to try to out lipstick on these pigs.
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I have been wondering since Trump 1.0 what will lift the veil and force people to reconcile with supporting someone so obviously awful and anti-human as Trump. I have come to the conclusion that nothing will as long as people continue to consider propaganda to be “news”. The views that drive people to support a man like Trump are not views a humanist would ever naturally conclude on their own.
The infection of propaganda and its addictive properties are how we got Trump and how millions keep supporting Trump and the right wing party with no ideology.
The only way this ends is with pain and destruction that forcefully lifts the veil of propaganda.
I fed some of Lutnick’s most-recent statements into ChatGPT and asked ChatGPT “is Howard Lutnick an idiot?”. The ChatGPT response was all I hoped for and more:
“Ah, got it — these kinds of comments definitely raise eyebrows, especially in the context of broader conversations about the future of American manufacturing. Howard Lutnick’s comments might strike people as:
– Oversimplified: High-tech manufacturing involves far more than just basic assembly tasks.
– Tone-deaf: It could come off as dismissive of the complex skills needed in modern manufacturing or as underestimating the kind of jobs people want and need.
– A PR stretch: Some may interpret it as a way to spin minimal job creation as a larger economic success.”
I don’t think ChatGPT was hallucinating on this one…
the emperor wears no clothes.
A couple of points-
1. Melania is no Melinda. And there is absolutely a reason why the Jeffrey Epstein papers have not been and will never be released.
2. I knew Lutnick was a blowhard, and so did the creators of the All-in podcast, after listening to their “interview” with Lutnick.
3. In a weird way, I feel relieved. Even if US voters, Congress and Scotus are too weak to do their job, it turns out that the world can “vote” in US policy, as well.
It should be a little concerning that these exemptions or “reclassifications” were in response to domestic pressure. Xie did not have to make or hint at any concessions. None.
Trump may be the guy at the table who doesn’t “have the cards”?
The guy who thought he could just buy the pot, he didn’t really have to play the game.
well, certainly he is not playing with a full deck
The Atlantic published an article Saturday entitled, “Trump Brings Britain’s ‘Moron Premium’ to the U.S. Economy.” It highlights a number of lessons Trump should have learned from Liz Truss’ stellar management of the British bond crisis she single-handedly conjured in 2022, but unsurprisingly didn’t. Truss and Trump remind me of each other in a lot of ways. Although when speaking publicly she sounded more intelligent and his boobs appear to be bigger, they otherwise seem remarkably similar, conducting their economic revival shows with absolutely no hint of self-awareness, sounding simultaneously bold and brain-dead.
“Gee, Boss, we have made all these changes. Everything is now so different. What is the plan for tomorrow?”
“Let’s just see what happens.”
I could feel and hear the keystrokes on that last sentence, H.
My father works as the Mexico/LATAM GM for a company headquartered in Germany, w/ manufacturing there, Canada and Malaysia. They have subsidiaries in Spain and another that spans North America. They have 30 minute daily meetings at every global office (about 20 or so), once in the AM and another mid-afternoon (in their respective time zones) because of the recklessness that’s been transpiring this month.
In the 23 years he’s been there, he actually called me for the first time last Monday to ask wtf was going on. It’s exhausting chaos everywhere you look and everyone is over it. To your point, no one wants to exhaust resources and manpower to address any of this stupidity because you cannot put any semblance of a ‘strategy’ together for more than a day, let alone a week.