• Burninator05@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    …voting for business savvy…

    Did this guy sleep through Trump’s first term? Things are worse now than it was then but he messed things up the first time too.

  • KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca
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    TL;DR:

    Craig Fuller, founder of FreightWaves and once a potential Trump transportation pick, says the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods have triggered a supply chain collapse, truck traffic from LA ports is down 23%, with 50% import drops predicted. Even major logistics firms like Knight-Swift blame “toxic tariffs” for plummeting volumes.

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    I don’t understand, why doesn’t he just “pull himself up by by his bootstraps” and work harder. That’s what they tell everyone else, right?

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      That is a real shame. All these people are choosing to be poor. The real trick of this whole thing is you need to be independently wealthy for it to work for you. If only these folks understood that, they might choose differently.

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    I did not vote for a neutron bomb to wipe out supply chains and small businesses…

    Yes you did jackass. People like him are the reason I don’t have a job anymore.

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      “See the next GOP president will fix it all with this one simple trick. Yup. It’ll totally work. USA USA.”

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      They are the only game in town, particularly at the state and local level.

      Republicans are in a suicide pact with their party. If you try to leave, your peers will kill you that much faster.

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      At some level, I’m just jealous of these people for getting what they voted for. I haven’t gotten what I voted for ever since I was old enough to vote.

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    I’m sick of calling my senators I’m gonna start calling these guys and dunking on them

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    Craig Fuller thought he was voting for business savvy, not economic shock therapy.

    Does he know anything at all about the felon who has left a long trail of failed businesses and can bankrupt a casino three casinos? Trump is doing pretty much exactly what he said he’d do and any CEO that doesn’t know that deserves to be unemployed.

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    In his view, the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods are functionally an embargo, and they’ve been rolled out so suddenly that U.S. companies haven’t had time to adapt. “It’s too much too fast,” Fuller told reporters in a phone interview. “The economy can’t absorb it.”

    If only an expert had known this beforehand.

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      If only our government was being ran by competent people and if someone is incompetent they were removed.

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        Do you want a government full of Steven Millers? 'Cause that’s how you get a government full of Steven Millers.

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          I said competent and I meant at their job, not at being a Neonazi!

          For an example, when Kash Patel shows up without a budget to the budget hearing he gets removed for gross incompetence.

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            They’re still going to pick neonazis, though, so if you insist on competency then they’ll end up with competent neonazis. That, to me, seems like the worst-case scenario.

            (Also, I want to make it clear that my comments shouldn’t be construed as any sort of praise for Steven Miller’s competency… he’s just the first one who came to mind that was clearly evil yet not also a buffoon.)

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    Heartbreaking? Nah. More like utterly infuriating that they were duped despite the prior term and decades of demonstrated corruption and incompetence.

    I’ve no sympathy at all.

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    Doesn’t anyone care about the poor CEOs anymore? Lol. Trump said he was going apply tariffs, which always reduce trade. He’s getting exactly what he voted for.