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Trump says tariffs on foreign-made cars would would lead to increased sales of US-made cars

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Doesn’t matter, isolationism.

That said, I am curious enough to ask my MAGA parents at some point how they mentally deal with Trump now saying DOW doesn’t matter and who cares if prices go up vs his first term where that was all he would talk about other presidents doing…

Trump is right though in that we shouldn’t care about the DOW.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

We should care because literally every time the auto industry or airline etc fails we bail it out and fuck over a generation. We’ve done it so many times were fucking over unborn generations at this point. Imagine. Being born into debt in 2050. Thats pretty depraved regardless of politics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

They'll continue to vend like a pretzel or just pretebd to be offended and storm off