But here's the SOB now:
Trump: "I spoke to a lot of leaders -- European, Asian, from all over the world. They are dying to make a deal, but I said 'we're not gonna have deficits with your country' ... to me a deficit is a loss. We're gonna have surpluses or at worst we're gonna be breaking even." pic.twitter.com/xnW7jb0u3R
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 6, 2025
Is everyone starting to get it?
The financial deficits he's talking about is just a trade deficit. We have a trade deficit with Madagascar. They sell basically vanilla. We have bakeries and ice cream factories and whatnot. They have people who are too poor to buy US goods. That's a trade deficit. Botswana sells diamonds. Same deal--we have jewelers and people buy engagement rings and so forth. They don't have the kind of incomes to be buying a lot of US goods.
It just is what it is. Not everyone is going to be giving us a trade surplus--to think it can be so is just crazy and what you get when you don't know geography, or how anything but particularly trade works--you trade for shit you can't make or get easily. If I'm a pumpkin farmer, I don't want someone else's pumpkins--I want something I don't have. How is this hard to get?
But it gets dumber. The point of tariffs is it makes outside goods prohibitively expensive by raising the costs--that's why it is called "protectionism". It protects the goods your country happens to produce. But we don't really do a lot of stuff like coffee, bananas, avocados, and so on--stuff we totally use all the time!
Who are we protecting? So maybe people don't buy as much of these goods and substitute them with--nothing. Because people will adapt. So you don't collect tariffs on goods that aren't being sold and ta-da!
Your tax is whack. It's a lax tax. Just talking facts.
Trump has DOGE wrecking the IRS so it will collect about 10% less revenue and talks a funny game about having an "External Revenue Service" because he still alleges, after all this time, that the foreign countries are paying the tax.
They are most definitely not. This is absolutely 25th Amendment territory except of course, we have a White House stocked with knee-walking cretins. And the fraudulence of it all might be impeachment worthy but little Mike Johnson would never let articles of impeachment go anywhere.
So, while MAGA morons might be thumbsucking their way through the next handful of weeks telling themselves Soros paid for the thousands of people who marched Saturday:
when what we've actually got here is a lot of people who don't need a whole 100 days of Trump to realize he's not okay, and none of this is okay.
It's actually very damaging, and it absolutely sucks. And Trump and all of his retinue gotta go.
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So instead of tax breaks that are in the works for the richest, the rest of us are getting broken by taxes on everything we buy.
Regular folk are already shutting down any new purchases to be able to pay for the most vital necessities.
I’ll go hungry so my wife and grandkids have enough to eat and medicines they may need. But I will also protest and kick congressional and senatorial ass until this madness is stopped. Been through this shit before, so get ready for mean streets and bloody gutters.
The people who think Soros can buy protests might believe revolution comes from books, but it comes from people putting groceries on credit and not being able to afford a baby's medicine. When people learn resistance from life, you can't ban the books people are reading their lessons from. Fresh pages of wrath are written every day.
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