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Is it not? He did say many times he will enact tariffs and that other countries will pay for it.
I suppose capitalists only expected a 20% tariff on China and be done with it. it's interesting they didn't say much about DOGE Austerity program which has similar effect of dampening investment and consumption but I guess thats fine because it punishes workers.
he said so much shit that everyone was able to create a headcanon trump of their own, by deciding which of his idiot promises to ignore
Just like Trump 1. These people have the memory of a goldfish.
The capitalist class’s view on gutting public programs is that it will push people and institutions to use private equivalents or near-equivalents.
“No we’re not gonna build private equivalents, what are you a fucking idiot?”
The private equivalents are already there when it comes to a lot of those government programs; they’re called loans. Or, in the case of non-profits and academia, there are grants that the private sector will hand out, but they come with private sector strings attached (the petro-chemical industry loves to fund climate “science” research).
In biomedical research basically everything is government funded. Even the research being done by private companies is government funded. The few private grants that do exist are either one billionaire’s pet project or just government funding from different sources being repackaged.
Private industry in the biomedical industry isn’t real. The whole thing is a facade held up by middlemen. It’s designed to make it look like private industry is capable of doing things but if you actually look below the surface that’s entirely made up, and like 99% of the money can be traced back to the government.
His first term he basically just cut taxes and then fucked off to golf for 3 years. So I guess they assumed it'd be more of the same. I honestly think Elon is more the one running things this time since he seems to have a ketamine fueled delusion of megalomania.