Three months ago Jamie Dimon was telling people to "Get over it" in regards to their fears with the Trumpican Tariffs. Fuck this guy.
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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Yeah, this Sherlock just discovered that water makes you wet.
The former Greek finance minister says that weakening the dollar is the objective:
https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-trumps-tariffs-are-a-masterplan/
So rising prices are to be expected.
Anyone ascribing thoughtful intent to trump has no fucking clue. He's a goddamn muppet.
Though we risk the abyss staring back when we attempt to gaze into Trump’s mind, we do need a grasp of his thinking on three fundamental questions: why does he believe that America is exploited by the rest of the world? What is his vision for a new international order in which America can be “great” again? How does he plan to bring it about? Only then can we produce a sensible critique of Trump’s economic masterplan.
What fucking master plan? This fucking lobotomized baboon cannot formulate plans. Plans are formulated for him, and he, wittingly or not (mostly not), carries them out.
So why does the President believe America has been dealt a bad deal? His chief complaint is that dollar supremacy may confer huge powers on America’s government and ruling class, but, ultimately, foreigners are using it in ways that guarantee US decline. So what most consider to be America’s exorbitant privilege, he sees as its exorbitant burden.
Holy shit, this dude is projecting some degree of normal cognition onto Trump, as if he is able to crystallize truth and internal consistency from the noise. As if he's... intelligent.
Varoufakis is not a dumb man. But he is so myopic. The obvious answer is sometimes obvious because it's actually the fucking answer.
it's called Occam's Razor, put simply, states: “the simplest solution is almost always the best.” It's a problem-solving principle arguing that simplicity is better than complexity.
edit: added link to reference.
There's nothing simple about divining the intent of the severely mentally ill so what exactly is your point?
just what you said, only pointed out there is a quote/theory that could apply here.
often we overcomplicate instead of seeing the simple explanation. the theorem applies to many cases, not just to solve problems.
I am not saying that the theorem is or isn't correct here, I was just mentioning it as it sort of fits the last couple of sentences in the comment.
I did not mean to say anything about this case in particular, just a comment to the simplest explanation/solution is often the correct one.
I am sorry if this came out confusing or out of context as this was not my intention.
Varoufakis is not a dumb man. But he is so myopic.
Which is why his gig as finance minister can be measured in weeks.
I have a hard time believing this. It's more of the 4D chess that his supporters believed he was playing, but I think the evidence has shown that he isn't pretending to be ignorant and stubborn. If a different sort of President instituted tariffs then this could have been the plan, but if it happens now then it will be happening by coincidence.
(Or is the extremely careless and unreasonable way that the tariff rates were calculated also part of Trump's madman theory? I doubt it.)
I think so. If Trump would be mad for real, Wallstreet and the big companies would finance an impeachement.
This is a show for the people so that they don't discuss the additional tax.
Duh, you think?
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