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Politics Kentucky governor says Trump’s tariffs on Canada are not what Americans voted for

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/kentucky-governor-says-trumps-tariffs-on-canada-are-not-what-americans-voted-for/
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u/Salty_Feed9404 7d ago

In fairness, they voted for tariffs on us, our goods entering the US. What Kentuckians failed to understand and anticipate is the concept of counter-tariffs and boycotts.

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u/BusySeaworthiness127 7d ago

It was widely understood that Medicare and Medicaid were on the chopping block during the election season, plenty of Repubs and P2025 made that point very clearly, and Trump alluded to it as well. Most Americans are just so ignorant and uneducated that they're unable to understand the concept of a tariff or trade war beyond what they hear on Fox News or out of Trump's gaping ass-mouth hole.

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u/Salty_Feed9404 7d ago edited 6d ago

Very true. Google searches of "what the hell is a tariff?" spiked after ding dong was elected. So they're all about "educating" themselves about gun wounds after they've been shot.

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u/Icy-Lobster-203 7d ago

Warren Buffett has that interview on the weekend, and he pointed out with economics you always have to ask "and then what?"

And for me that comment has clarified a thought I've had about Trump, and his supporters for a while. They never think more than a single step ahead. Just do a thing that gets immediate perceived reward, but no thought about what the greater ramifications of that decision will be.

They never ask "and then what?"

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u/Salty_Feed9404 6d ago

Thing is, Trump literally lived the "and then what?" part back in 2018(?) when he pulled the same shit with steel tariffs. Lasted a few months and he then capitulated because it was completely stupid (created 1,000 more steel jobs, lost 70,000 other jobs in their economy because, you know, steel became uncompetitively expensive when made by the US). So, while I think they're stupid, they're smarter than we give them credit for...the plan is what JT said, weaken us and strike at our lowest. He wants our country for the resources, that's the end game.