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Here is what I was told today by someone who voted for Trump, almost word-for-word:
His base doesn't care. They don't see stonks crashing news. By the time news gets to them it's all racial crime, trans athletes, and Democrat watchdog shit.
Mfw 4 of the last 20 years of presidents was this guys Guy lmao
also false, it's around 1% iirc but it's not none. and it's partly because American cars are too fucking big for small Japanese urban streets
Also, American companies don't give a shit about foreign regulations or cost competitiveness and the dollar is artificially inflated so it can't compete lmao. So mostly they export "status" cars like Mustangs, Chargers, Camaros, and Challengers because why the fuck would they do anything but the bare minimum to reap the highest profit (the domestic market)?
They're trying to solve a whole heap of contradictions with tariffs alone it's so stupid.
The average Ford F-1488 (or whatever number they're up to now) taking up 2.5 lanes of a 1 lane Japanese street, just tearing up walls and houses
"not my problem, they should add more lanes, obviously"
This follows Trump's deeply held belief--perhaps his only deeply held belief--that every single interaction is zero-sum and has a winner and a loser. His base has bought into that wholeheartedly. The idea that multiple parties can win (or lose) in a given interaction is totally anathema to this worldview. If another country is mad about it, the US must be winning.
Well he also truly loved Abe Shinzo
how many japanese people choose to drive an inferior product? basically nobody. how many will choose to drive an inferior product when it is even more expensive? even less.
I don’t think they even have American car factories there while most of the cars from Japanese brands are at least assembled if not fully manufactured here
false, most of them are single digits