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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Which is odd since he's doing exactly what he said he'd do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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.

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