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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Trump’s latest tariff moves are shaking markets and roiling our relationships with allies, but Trump doesn't seem to care. Could there be a method to his tariff madness? thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p

The Big Picture · Three Theories Behind Trump's Tariff StrategyBy The Big Picture

@georgetakei there is no method, only madness.

@georgetakei He's an idiot, or Putin told him to do it.

@georgetakei stealing enough money with his friends and making sure amerika has 0 friends left. So russia can attack amerika without any one in the world want to help them

@georgetakei@universeodon.com

There's money to be made in shorting stocks.

There's entire fortunes to be made if you can cause stocks to tumble.

@georgetakei Thank you Canada for punching back. Not even China is standing up to our bully. China added tariffs to Canada to support Trump. I guess we are seeing who really are the stronger and more capable countries!

@georgetakei

Naomi Klein explains it all in The Shock Doctrine

@georgetakei once you realize that everything he does is to benefit Russia, it all starts to click and make complete and perfect sense.

@georgetakei I don't think the term “allies” applies anymore. A US signed treaty is now worth as much as a Trump university diploma, it's just expensive toilet paper. Even if the tarifs would be undone, it will take decades to restore trust…

@georgetakei

Maybe Trump and his bullies (<<< Sorry; "buddies" 😉 ) are smart enough to abuse (Again! "use") tariffs that way.

Maybe.

If so, even more "😱".

@georgetakei
The way I see it
Dictators like Trump tend to burn bridges and keep their victims in isolation.
This nwo of theirs is to keep the citizenry poor. They have no need for the middle class. The richest seek power as they already have the money. That's why we can't relent.

@georgetakei „Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”

@georgetakei

He probably doesn't know how McKinley's presidency ended. 🙄

@georgetakei no. No there isn’t. He doesn’t understand that countries are not companies and that you treat with them differently. Not everything is a financial transaction.