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Citing National Security, Trump Has Abandoned Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Ovens
(insideclimatenews.org)
His decrepit brain mixed up what kind of coke Don Jr. likes.
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This seems like the biggest stretch of the "national security" justification I've heard yet.
Is he planning to make the nation "secure" by making it so much of a shithole no one wants to go there?
The goal is to reduce the quality of life of the average US citizen to match the low quality of life in poor countries so our labor can "compete" in the market by vastly reducing our pay and purchasing power.
It's part of why Trump is pushing the "return to manufacturing" angle so hard. He doesn't want people in other countries being paid pennies a day to put together $300 Nike shoes, he wants people in the US being paid pennies a day to put together $300 Nike shoes.
I mean, it's a long time coming. The wealthy have clearly thought for a long time that US workers are too coddled and demand too much and deserve far far less.
The goal is to reduce the quality of life of the average US citizen to match the low quality of life in poor countries so our labor can "compete" in the market by vastly reducing our pay and purchasing power.
I swear the republicans watched Hunger Games 1 and thought fuck yeah let's build a fascist dystopia.
My bingo card has for 2027 > Trump introduces a hunger games like gladiatorial death match tournament.
You are absolutely wrong. Idk why people attribute Trumps incompetence to some grand scheme. They gave him money through one of his many laundering schemes and he is looking the other way for them. It’s really not complicated.
Yeah he doesn't get that the US is the consumer of those $300 sneakers and if he destroys our economy there wont be enough people to buy those sneakers and their value based on supply will crater without the demand.
Billionaires will only buy the sneakers once.
Intelligence is not one of his assets. And TBH, as long as him and his cronies make $$$, then don't care who they take down.
Money Obsessed Persons are too stupid to understand cause and effect.
Who do they expect to buy their $300 shoes, then?
I can't believe I have to say this, but... USA isn't the only country with a viable middle class to sell shit to anymore. There's Canada, most of Europe, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China... Other countries may not have as large of middle class citizens to pull from, but they exist as well in places like Brazil, India, Egypt, Israel, Iran, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates as well as others.
Sometimes I am dumbfounded by my fellow US citizens still somehow thinking we're the center of the fucking world when all that good will from the rest of the world was flushed down the shitter after 9/11. Trump is just the final stages of no one giving a flying fuck what happens to our middle class anymore.
300 million people in the USA are the bottom 90%, that's a fucking drop in the bucket of the worldwide population. Do you really think that they're gonna be hurting by not selling to just us anymore? Just, christ, USA's economy doesn't exist in a vacuum.
What about the part where Trump burned all goodwill with the rest of the world through his trade war and actual wars? He tanked the US's export market at the same time that he's tanking the domestic market. There are other wealthy consumers, but they'd rather be buying from literally anyone else besides the US.
Unfortunately, they don't think that far because them and theirs will be able to buy those shoes.
Right now something like 10% of Americans are doing around 50% of consumer spending. Back to feudalism for us!
I mean, it’s not a biiig stretch. For well over a century, steel production has been classed as a matter of national security, to feed the American addiction to military hardware.