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I've been saying that Trump and his 'ideas' on tariffs are just... completely, fundamentally broken and self contradictory, at every possible level.
He literally just doesn't get it, he doesn't grasp what you'd be taught in AP Macroecon or a first quarter of Macroecon at a college or uni.
Yes, of course, more competent oligarchs can profit from an engineered economic collapse...
But Trump and his immediate orbit are literally too stupid to understand why what they are doing won't work the way they think it will.
These idiots are very largely at the peak of the dunning kruger confidence vs actual knowledge curve, right before you fall off into the abyss of 'oh shit this is actually really conplicated and i am a moron.'
Of course, they'll never admit they are morons or were ever wrong, they'll just keep lying, misdirecting, and inventing new insane conspiracy theories with secret enemies thaf explain why they failed
Fascism believes its own lies, I guess. Even kings had court jesters to criticise them. Trump is surrounded by dumb yes-men. I do feel sorry for the poor people caught in the mess the world is in right now.
My only income is Social Security Disability Income.
I am quite literally having a call with a pro bono lawyer from a non profit law firm that specializes in Social Security matters in a few hours, after having gone through their application process last week.
I am just trying to pre emptively set myself for at least some kind of legal counsel... as it now seems inevitable that I will need one, given the insanity going at Social Security, thanks to Musk and DOGE not being able to understand how any of their databases work, and taking a hatchet to staff headcount and shutting down Soc Sec physical locations.