Listen, I know you’re feeling nervous about the economy sinking faster than an anvil thrown into a black hole. Hey, even people who mere months ago were saying, “Get over it” are now screeching for salvation from the economic tsunami towering over us. And those people are billionaires — most of whom are apparently not very smart.
In any case, this should make you feel better: the president doesn’t give a fuck about you or the economy.
OK, maybe that’s not very comforting, but it is the truth.
You see, Trump has been “insulated from the consequences of his own actions his entire life and appears to care very little about the economic sinkhole he just created.”
In fact, the guy is more defiant than ever. And because there is no master plan, and no real desire to improve the lives of Americans, this bloated and rambling lunatic will continue to lead the nation down a path of chaos and despair until we hit Great Depression levels, at which point he will declare victory.
That’s what he did when he paused his idiotic tariffs for 90 days that will no doubt be filled with apprehension, dread, and confusion. But the damage has already been done.
In the interim, economists and financial experts will debate if the Trump tariffs are “the dumbest economic policy in modern history,” or merely a harbinger of recession.
One can’t keep up with all the rationales the Trump administration has given for their arbitrary and mathematically challenged policy. But what the justifications have in common is that they are, at best, the kind of conservative magical thinking that got us the Iraq War and an imaginary wall on the border that Mexico paid for.
At worst, they are the active mechanization of oligarchs and madmen who want to burn the country down and reduce us all to serfs.
Somewhere in between is the most likely scenario, at least from Trump’s perspective, which is that he said he was going to do this, and now he is doing it, no matter the consequences to anyone else. In 90 days, or less, we will likely go through all this needless suffering again.
The bizarre and random nature of the tariffs have led some politicians to claim the Trump administration “is the most sloppy, unprofessional, arrogant, and stupid group of people ever assembled in government.” They are saying Americans “haven’t learned yet how to battle this stupidity, [and] the country and the world is suffering from the whims of a madman.”
By the way, those are the words of Republicans.
It’s that clear to everybody.
The tariffs are “a torrent of nonsense that threatens to destroy the very thing Trump insists on saving,” which brings up the disturbing realization that “if this is what it looks like when Trump decides he wants to save the economy, God help us if he ever decides to destroy it.”
It’s like they always say — never trust a narcissistic sociopath with 32 felonies and a half-dozen bankruptcies.
Well, maybe they didn’t say it before, but they are most certainly saying it now.
Too bad it’s far too late.
