Has anyone told him that tariffs require willing trade partners?

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    Spot on. I think he actually knows exactly what he’s doing but will keep playing the part of the bombastic dotard. He’s crashing USA on purpose,— yes for the billionaires, for Project 2025, and for Pooty.

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      Project 2025 is the means they are using but it’s not the end in and of itself. There are at least two identifiable factions at play in that government with specific goals, and no doubt other factions too. (I’m just picking up the details of this stuff myself.) One is an extreme sect of Evangelicalism that even other Evangelicals call “heretical” or “false prophets,” and another is the “Dark Enlightenment” tech bros. These are people with specific agendas that aren’t really hidden but require some light research. (Again, I’ve only scratched the surface myself, in my spare time.)

      *edit - I thought I should add that same religious group that’s basically out for world domination exists in Canada and this article has most of what I know about their aims.

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        The donor class is the biggest issue. It’s not the really big businesses that really screech about regulations, because they can easily work around them. It’s the midsized private company guys. The people like the Uihleins and other business people who can’t stand regulations.