I need some brave Canadian MP to make this kind of offer on Vermont or Michigan.
Wytch
We really should be handling our own shit here.
Oh, do you guys think he might be a stupid maniac gosh
And we'll know exactly which countries bought him off
The Art of the Deal
Wait, y'all can just convict a right-wing political figure and like, get rid of them? Forever?
We gotta check our math, I think we did something wrong over here.
He doesn't understand the economy well enough to intentionally tank it. You're right about the revenge part though. He is pissed about being rejected, prosecuted, and ridiculed.
The tariffs are his attempt, I think, to extract revenge on the "weak" leftist non-authoritarian democracies that don't show him deference or capitulation.
Master negotiator, 4D chess, stable genius; what a fucking joke.
Civil lawsuit is the easiest and most cowardly way to turn Americans against each other and unleash the weaponized paranoia of the reactionary right.
They want to draw a new one in brown.
The best take I've heard so far is this: there is no strategy. Pulling the levers is the point unto itself. He likes tariffs. Like most things, he doesn't understand how they work. Maybe he thinks China pays them. But it's not part of some economic plan. Clearly. Trying to sort it out is to delve into the twisted mind of a dim-witted narcissist.
He's not trying to accomplish anything. The effects however, may entertain him. Every justification is post-hoc.