Discussion: Trump Ignores GOP Guidance On Tariffs, Believes Base Won't Punish Him

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#68

Let’s face it: Trump could dig up the deceased parents of his supporters for daily necrophilic debauchery while drinking the blood of the firstborns from each generation still living, and the supporters would just claim he was giving their parents heaven babies or some such.

Hell, Falwell Jr. would probably preside over affairs, sprinkle holy water and call it the new communion.

It’s not that his supporters are (overall) stupid and can’t see the connections – they just refuse to. And Faux News gives them just enough misinformation and obscurement that they can maintain enough plausible deniability to keep the cognitive dissonance at bay.

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#69

We need to write this down somewhere and look at it from time to time. He’s never played to his opponents, he’s alienated a lot of voters, and I believe he starts out with a nearly 3 million vote deficit in the form of the popular vote he lost to HRC. If Joe is nominated, ipso facto we get PA back.

His (shrinking) base however may not put it together that his policies are killing them when they buy that dishwasher or pound of tomatoes and just blame the retailer.

@leftcoaster

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#70

Would someone please explain why what we are living under in the US is not a totalitarian regime? Please explain why what Trump has done is not a completed, successful coup? I’m serious.

#71

We’ll fight for every vote, of course, but Trump’s down by percentages in the teens from 2016 in all the key states that put him over, if memory serves. He won in large part because there was a large slice that isn’t the base that said what the hell, how bad can he be? Now they know.

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#72

We won an entire chamber of Congress and the new members were seated normally and are now giving the administration fits. That’s a hint.

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#73

Trump’s base is so dumb they think “Tariff” is some Muslim guy who belongs to ISIS.

#74

And speaking of our great S.O.S (appropriate acronym for someone in this job like Pompeo, isn’t it?):

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#75

He stepped in it big time. He’s headed to Sochi next and will likely get his photo-op with Lavrov -of course.

#76

Stable genius testing the boundaries of worldwide financial stability and the limits of his obviously flawed brain function ,this may challenge 2009 as having a disastrous effect on the average persons retirement accounts…and the serious OFF beat goes on…

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#77

Not even then. He doesn’t pay for these things, and no one around him will tell him.

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#78

Meanwhile the stock market has lost over 600 pts and is down over 2% Trump is killin’ it.

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#79

Correction, Trump is killing US…worse yet…he does not care.

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#80

And that is crucial. I think a lot of people fail to differentiate between the true believer base and his base of soft support.

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#81

According to PBS “Marketplace”, farm bankruptcies are up 19%.

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#82

Trump doing something stupid is no longer news. If he ever does something smart, THAT will be news.

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#83

Totalitarianism is a political concept of a mode of government that prohibits opposition parties, restricts individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life.

So it’s as @mattinpa says. We still have the right to vote, to gather and protest peacefully on the street or in parks or almost anywhere, to write critically of the occupant in cyberspace and in newspaper letters to the editors and elsewhere. Most importantly, we have a chamber of Congress which is majority Democrats.

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#84

China has timed the negotiation out perfectly. It is now planting season here. Farmers must decide how much to plant. Do they plant like last year and hope the China market reopens or that Trump has more hush money?

#85

I wonder if a second day of 600-700 point drop in the stock market would get trump’s attention? Or would it take farmers driving tractors past the White House?

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#86

The combination of soggy fields delaying planting, $8 a bushel for soy beans and dropping corn prices, and senseless tariffs hammering American farmers makes for a really pointless planting season. Why plant if there is no reason to expect either a crop or a profit?

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#87

Somebody should tell DumDum that his base is 35%…not enough to keep him out of jail

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