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Trump is losing his foolish trade war. This will cost ordinary Americans greatly
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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Normalize calling them the Trump/Epstein Files
We changed people saying "Trump fucked kids" to "Trump rapes kids" in just a few days.
Phrasing matters, and it especially matters to him. Once we call it the Trump/Epstein files, news orgs will too.
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he might be losing but the bubble he lives in says he's winning
Right, he's winning the war because he's not on America's side.
But the real question is... is he personally richer? If so, then it's working.
He got a glass statue on a gold base from Tim Apple, so I guess he’s winning.
The one and only metric.
The wealth of the monarch is the wealth of the state
Welcome to the 1600s.
We’re not there yet. Right now we’re working on appealing the 19th, it sounds like. So early 1900s
There's an important revenue boost from tariffs. On the other hand, Trump's is defunding a lot a federal organizations. Where is the money going?
Billionaire tax cuts.
About 170 billion is going to form the gestapo, the rest is going in his pockets.
Tariffs are just another tax on Americans.
About half of 'ordinary americans' wanted this.
77.3m american voters directly cast their ballot for Donald Trump in 2024. That's hardly half.
Doesn't matter.
77M of 155M or 49%, about half.
You can extrapolate that the voting population approximately represents the non-voting population. Or, if you are a prick, you can say that non-voters didn't want this but refrained from voting and are therefore to blame, in which case they still chose this.
America has always been a racists, bigoted, sexist, right-wing playground. The only thing that has changed is that now they don't have to hide it.
77M of 155M or 49%, about half.
That’s not half of ordinary Americans that’s those who voted within the turnout.
America has always been a racists, bigoted, sexist, right-wing playground. The only thing that has changed is that now they don't have to hide it.
The 13 colonies was vastly different from the modern 50 states.
You shouldn’t paint the various time periods in American history the same broad brush.
America was not the same as it is today. FDR was magnitudes of a better man than Donald Trump ever was. Not to mention the populace’s beliefs have evolved over time.
It's only losing if you believe the goal was actually to improve the US economy.