The only ‘domestic manufacturing’ we really have left, that has any real export appeal … is…
Military equipment and commercial jet aircraft.
… And both of those are now far, far less appealing as imports, when combined with Boeing’s last decade of fuckups, Trump’s absurd belligerence against former allies, and oh right, all of those are absurdly complex supply chains that are definitely reliant on imports from people we’ve just pissed off at at least critical point.
We… could have done the Green New Deal and tried to kickstart a massive solar and wind and such backed mfg boom, that could have had some export potential.
We could have done CHIPS and tried to bring at least a good amount of domestic chip fab to our own shores… probably not as great export potential, but it is a legitimate national security concern NOW, as well as just generally a reasonable plan due to how many things are ‘smart’ now…
But nope, none of that.
Nope we’ve got our auto industry, which is a fucking dumpster fire… and pharmaceuticals… which is a turbomega dumpster fire because ‘who could have thought health care could be so complicated.’
… Like, I am no fan of neoliberal capitalism, but Trump and his fucking idiot troupe are apparently actually so stupid they don’t even know what ‘neoliberal capitalism’ even is, what those words mean.
… It is literally impossible for any remaining small farmers at this point, and even the corpo ones … you can’t just fucking unplant a field, grow everything everywhere… so much of our farming exports were feedstock exports to other countries that now all hate us… food is gonna like triple in price within 6 months.
This is gonna be an American Holodomor if someone doesn’t strangle everyone in this administration.
As soon as shelves start going bare, everyone will start panicking, including Republican politicians and everyone in the administration who doesn’t spend most of their time on camera at airport tarmacs. At that point they’ll pull back. They’ll do permanent damage to the country and leave us in a worse position, but I don’t believe they’ll sit idly by while an economic depression kicks off.
If Trump just goes full Hitler’s last days ala Downfall, everyone will just keep awkwardly and dangerously screaming at each other when not in front of him, untill he finally just actually croaks.
Pretty much, yep.
The only ‘domestic manufacturing’ we really have left, that has any real export appeal … is…
Military equipment and commercial jet aircraft.
… And both of those are now far, far less appealing as imports, when combined with Boeing’s last decade of fuckups, Trump’s absurd belligerence against former allies, and oh right, all of those are absurdly complex supply chains that are definitely reliant on imports from people we’ve just pissed off at at least critical point.
We… could have done the Green New Deal and tried to kickstart a massive solar and wind and such backed mfg boom, that could have had some export potential.
We could have done CHIPS and tried to bring at least a good amount of domestic chip fab to our own shores… probably not as great export potential, but it is a legitimate national security concern NOW, as well as just generally a reasonable plan due to how many things are ‘smart’ now…
But nope, none of that.
Nope we’ve got our auto industry, which is a fucking dumpster fire… and pharmaceuticals… which is a turbomega dumpster fire because ‘who could have thought health care could be so complicated.’
… Like, I am no fan of neoliberal capitalism, but Trump and his fucking idiot troupe are apparently actually so stupid they don’t even know what ‘neoliberal capitalism’ even is, what those words mean.
… It is literally impossible for any remaining small farmers at this point, and even the corpo ones … you can’t just fucking unplant a field, grow everything everywhere… so much of our farming exports were feedstock exports to other countries that now all hate us… food is gonna like triple in price within 6 months.
This is gonna be an American Holodomor if someone doesn’t strangle everyone in this administration.
As soon as shelves start going bare, everyone will start panicking, including Republican politicians and everyone in the administration who doesn’t spend most of their time on camera at airport tarmacs. At that point they’ll pull back. They’ll do permanent damage to the country and leave us in a worse position, but I don’t believe they’ll sit idly by while an economic depression kicks off.
I’d call that optimistic, but plausible.
If Trump just goes full Hitler’s last days ala Downfall, everyone will just keep awkwardly and dangerously screaming at each other when not in front of him, untill he finally just actually croaks.