Wealthy business leaders are turning on US President Donald Trump over his plan to impose a colossal set of tariffs on America’s trading partners, as losses mount on stock markets around the world.

Yeah, because of course they are. I mean, it’s not like they could have POSSIBLY known how bad the shitgibbon would shit the bed, right? RIGHT?!

  • @lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com
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    548 days ago

    We will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that will take years and potentially decades to rehabilitat

    Awesome, so a democrat cannot fix it in 4 years and the population will vote for an idiot again. Endless circle of stupidity…

        • @galanthus@lemmy.world
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          -108 days ago

          Being more competent than Trump is hardly remarkable.

          I believe you are being unfair to republicans. I understand the desire to caricature the other side, but this is unbecoming of Boddhisatva.

          • @Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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            138 days ago

            I believe you are being unfair to republicans.

            Nonsense. There were perhaps two republicans in Congress that stood up to Trump. They were both primaried. The age where a reasonable conservative can succeed in the Republican party is over.

            • @galanthus@lemmy.world
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              -78 days ago

              Why would they not support him? A sizeable portion of their base love the guy. He has a lot of power.

              And why would the situation not change if a more sensible person assumed leadership of the party? Things can change rather quickly, and if his term goes badly I doubt the conservative establishment will appreciate another idiot nominee with a god complex.

              The democrats nominated a barely functioning senile man that can’t string a sentence together for president twice. That does not mean that every single nominee that comes after is going to have dementia, does it?

              • @Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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                58 days ago

                The conservative establishment has lost control of the party. A sensible person cannot assume leadership of the party because that sizeable portion of the base you mentioned. They do not want reasonable things and they are profoundly vitriolic when they’re demands are not met. There simply aren’t enough reasonable conservative voters left to take back control of the GOP. If the leadership tried to force the issue, all those Trump voters will probably follow MTG or Donald Trump Jr to the libertarian party. That will leave the GOP without enough votes to beat the Democrats no matter who they put up. The only way the GOP can continue as a viable party is to stay extremist and keep feeding the monster they created.

                • @galanthus@lemmy.world
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                  Maybe you are right, but I would not underestimate how quickly things can change. The did change quickly with Trump, did they not?

                  • @Triasha@lemmy.world
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                    37 days ago

                    I realized around 2012 to 2014 that republican voters were not being led astray by extremist politicians. The politicians were more reasonable than the average voter. The party leadership like John Boehner were holding the base in check.

                    That is less true now. John McCain has passed away. Mitt Romney is in the wilderness. The lunatics are running the asylum.

                    Now we are in the find out phase for the average voter.

      • TheHiddenCatboyOP
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        48 days ago

        Maye the next Republican will be a competent Fascist and we won’t get another do-over.

            • @galanthus@lemmy.world
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              I assumed you meant the competent republican will be so successful, the party will win the next election and the dems will not be able to compete. So you would rather they fail and let you win.

              But now I realise that you actually implied they will rig the elections, which makes me think you are dramatising even more, since I doubt that will happen.