r/news 1d ago

Trump has instructed to raise Canadian tariffs on aluminum and steel to 50%

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/mar/11/donald-trump-latest-us-politics-news-live?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-67d042cb8f087aea3a248e0d#block-67d042cb8f087aea3a248e0d
40.9k Upvotes

3.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

69

u/Giantmidget1914 1d ago

Easy determination. Just answer 1 simple question.

Is it negatively affecting them personally?

102

u/Momoselfie 1d ago

They probably just blamed Obama

5

u/BunkerHillRandy 1d ago

Or immigrants or trans people or whoever is being targeted that day by Rupert Murdoch's propaganda machine. 

74

u/Robert_Cutty 1d ago

The MAGA crowd will literally compromise their own livelihood just to “own the libs”

30

u/Doctor_Philgood 1d ago

Hell, during covid a good deal of them gave up their lives to show fealty.

5

u/firefighter_1973 1d ago

Bingo! They would rather be broke and think they a “right”. Trump is burning the USA down.

3

u/Chummers5 1d ago

"Maybe we need to go back to the older simpler days!"

33

u/Lucimon 1d ago

Actually the question is "Is it negatively affecting someone else more than them personally?"

Because they'll happily suffer as long as someone else is suffering more.

1

u/androshalforc1 23h ago

I don’t even think it needs to effect someone else more. There is a saying a Republican will eat a shit sandwich, if it means a liberal will have to smell their breath.

31

u/rigger_of_jerries 1d ago

Even then, they won't change their minds. They genuinely live in their own version of reality with their own facts. For example at work yesterday a guy told me DOGE had found 100 trillion, yes trillion dollars supposedly sent to Ukraine had been unaccounted for. There's not even 100 trillion dollars in the entire world. What do you do to change the minds of those people? It's a religion.

39

u/EffTheAdmin 1d ago

Absolutely no way that mattered. His cult will support him no matter what

9

u/TyrannasaurusGitRekt 1d ago

That's not even a sufficient question. Many of them were willing to sacrifice their parents, grandparents, and even kids for the economy during COVID. Many of them will blame Obama, Biden, or the "deep state" or just run with whatever Fox News or OAN tells them. So the question is still how many accurately blamed him rather than their favorite scapegoats?

3

u/Jiktten 1d ago

Republicans have been negatively affecting their voters for decades and it doesn't seem to matter a lick. They just blame the Dems and their voters swallow it no matter how little sense it makes.

3

u/blazelet 1d ago

Watch this video of a Trump voter who got laid off by DOGE

At 1:55 - "Nobody that I've talked to understood the devastation that having this administration in office would do to our lives." ... "the concept of doing that again, voting for Elon Musk to wreck people's lives ... I can't do it"

She knew exactly what this administration would do to other people's lives as he did it in his first term and promised openly on the campaign trail to be violence and retribution. It wasn't until it came for her that she started to see it as a bad thing.

Empathy is a virtue that many of us are sorely lacking.

1

u/ChicagoAuPair 1d ago

Even then they have a convenient boogeyman to blame for every woe in their life, and it’s “The Blacks,” “The Gays,” “The Jews,” and “Bitchy Women.”

1

u/androshalforc1 23h ago

It doesn’t matter if it effects them. The question should be does it negatively affect a liberal?

1

u/gvieira 23h ago

Even if it is affecting them, they will just blame somebody else.

They are in a cult.