• InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    19 days ago

    Serious question - How serious do you think Trump is about all these batshit tariffs on Canada, Mexico, BRICs, etc?

    In other words - if you use a 1 to 10 scale then ~2 is Trump doing minor tariffs while he lies that it “punishes” the bad countries. 10 is Trump seriously damaging the US economy in record time.

    • mkultrawide [any]@hexbear.net
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      It seems like he’s already going back on them with Mexico and Canada. I think he’s using this to make a fake crisis and then he can have a meeting with global leaders and tell his followers that he fixed everything.

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      19 days ago

      That he even knows about this dedollarisation narrative is concerning to me. I wouldn’t dismiss it so easily and all that needs to happen is someone even slightly smarter next to him suggests sanctions instead of “tariffs” and shit starts getting quite serious imo.

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        19 days ago

        In my opinion, if the biggest risk is the USA sanctioning a bunch of countries, then that’s a great situation for the world. Both tarrifs and sanctions would sink the US economy even further while creating the conditions for accelerated global cooperation. If these are the two choices, the empire is finished.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      The tariffs will happen, but if you donated to him, or are a subsidiary of a donor, your goods will be exempt. The highest tariffs are going to be on electric cars, for obvious reasons. So it’ll fuck up things, the losers are consumers and corps that didn’t pay him or enough, and the winners are Musk and similar

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      18 days ago

      As serious as he is with all of his policy: Fully committed to it until he talks to someone who he thinks is smarter than the last guy he talked to