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Except the kids aren't getting 2 dolls. They're getting dragged out into the middle of the street half naked in the middle of the night because the brownshirts can't even read an address correctly when they're casually disappearing whole families.
Why the fuck is this even reported on. Fuck this whole system, down to the author that thought 'ya that's worth making an article'
Don't buy your kids dolls. Buy them fpv drones.
Sadly, this probably concerns the average voter more than all the Nazi shit...
Even if this were true, a policy that hurts everyone isn't sucessful just because someone else suffers more than you.
It is for Republicans
It wouldn't even be a pyrrhic victory. It would just be mutual suffering.
China's economy is still projected to grow while US heads to recession , this guy tries to create his own reality everywhere he goes.
China has the whole world they still can sell to. The US has shut the door on all existing and potential partners
That's kinda how he rolls. Just ignore reality and bully everyone that says otherwise until people are too tired of it and change reality to what he says it is.
2 dolls instead of 30 works out to a reduction of 93.3%! That's HUGE. If that's supposed to be his positive spin on things, Americans are truly fucked.
It really shows that he doesn't care about Americans, he cares about punishing and attacking people that he doesn't like. That is all that matters to him, and he doesn't hide that. He doesn't want to make things better, he wants to make people suffer.
The fact that he has supporters is absolutely unfathomable to me. Then again, those same supporters want to punish the same people he does, so it starts to make sense.
He wants to punish Americans more than probably anyone else. Americans had the nerve to laugh at him when people joked about his hair, or makeup, or physique. Americans did not elect him in 2020. Americans allowed him to be forced out and didnt fight back hard enough when Biden "stole" the election. Americans allowed him to have some minor inconveniences when they put him on trial, raided his house for classified docs or made him take reaponsibility for his actions. Americans are going to pay because he knows nothing other than vengence for percieved slights and Americans allowed them all to happen
A real "let them eat cake" moment.
That's the real statement. Instead of 30 dolls it will be 2, but that translates to food supplies, too. Instead of 30 dinners in a month, we'll only have 2.
In the year after Maduro took over Venezuela, the average citizen lost 40 pounds.
Cause American girls were getting 30 dolls every Christmas.
This guy is such a psychopath that he doesn't even understand how Christmas gifts work.
What about the kids who were lucky to get 2 dolls prior to the trade war? Shit outta luck I guess.
They get to BECOME the doll of some rich kid. You woke people really hate freedom.
but he insisted China will suffer more from his trade war.
Even if this were true (which is dubious) this doesn't make me feel any better. That would simply make this a Pyrrhic victory.
What is the point of any of this? Oh yeah, cruelty is the point.
The point? I think he expected the world leaders to come bearing personal gifts and favors. Trade some of the US's global position and power for his own personal wealth and power? I don't have proof, but it would be on-brand for Trump.
He's also surrounded himself with yes-men and crazy people (e.g. Navarro). He clearly has an elementary understanding (at best) of economics. Money good. China bad. Money go to China bad (trade imbalance). Tariffs keep money here.
Combine all that with the fact that he never admits responsibility for anything. When China pushed back, he retaliated. When they stopped participating, it leaves us in a stalemate that I believe will hurt us a lot more than them.
So, I think the trade imbalance is the justification. The goal is likely just personal power for Trump. But he doesn't really know what he's doing, doesn't care to learn, just thinking he's the greatest being in existence and everything bad is not his fault.
"The american people will suffer but china will suffer more." So hes hurting us to hurt them? Great job dumbass.
Because that's what it's all about - someone else suffering more. The objective is to increase the amount of suffering in the world, since we clearly don't have enough of it just yet, but making sure others suffer more than us. Because trying to make it so that everyone suffers less is communist, unamerican and bad, I guess...
China is happily selling to the rest of the world, and yes their sales will go down without the US market, but they won't in sense of the word "suffer".
The rich will still get 30 and a new sports car
Goddamn fucking piece of shit fucking moron
If he understood anything about his electorate, he would know that it would be a choice of 1 meal a day instead of 3, if the rent is still paid.
Nothing like a rich guy who has never known struggle to tell everyone else they need to struggle because he's a moron
“People are worried, even some people who voted for you, saying ‘I didn’t sign up for this.’ So how do you address those concerns?” ABC host Terry Moran asked Trump.
“They did sign up for it, actually, and this is what I campaigned on,” Trump replied. He added, when questioned about price increases on electronics, clothing and homebuilding, that “China probably will eat those tariffs.”
Man I hope democrats use that ammunition he left sitting there for the next 80 years.
More like two meals instead of three
Everyone knows the goal of running a country is to make people suffer. Not to accomplish anything positive. That would be GlObAlIsM
Let them eat cake!
Even the Grinch didn't go on TV to tell peoole he was stealing Christmas.
Can't wait to see what happens when China stops buying our debt.
Trump singlehandedly destroying American overconsumption.
Americans are basically winning because they aren't suffering the most
Ah yes, the country with an established industrial base and centrally planned infrastructure is gonna suffer more from tariffs than the checks notes usury and consumption economy run by competing interests and bolstered almost entirely by the ownership of foreign assets and reliance on its currency for international trade.
Honestly my only conclusion is that they know and are willing to create an economic crisis for the purpose of consolidating political power in the form of "emergency measures" as fascists usually do. I refuse to believe they are just stupid
Trump, and many of his supporters, think that America is China's biggest client. They're totally blind to the idea that China is China's biggest client, and that it's not even close.
Their total lack of understanding of the world outside their little exceptionalist bubble is hilarious and depressing
Yeah, I'm sure China's trembling at the mere idea.
Except a doll is $10 for the crappiest model, meaning were already only getting two dolls in the average budget. With that logic, we'll have to save up for the doll parts and assemble a single doll ourselves.
Suffering is the point
Cutting off your nose to spite China
Trump has no idea how the world works at all
We are already at a family video game for the kids to share and a really good dinner for the week.
doesn't sound like you're sacrificing enough. good dinner should be monthly
“Kids might get two calories per day instead of 2,000. But hey, Chinese kids will suffer too!”