"Who knew tariffs were so good for the environment. Nobody knew. One day, an oil tycoon came to me and said, 'sir, I think tariffs will drive us out of business.' I said fine. We need to reduce the fossil. Scientists say, and we know how much we can trust them... They said it, it's true... Fossil is bad for the environment." -- Trump taking credit for this.
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Fossil is bad. Fossil is bad! I said it first. Way back when nobody knew. I knew. I knew all along. But you gotta play it smart. Can't show your cards. Not a lot of people know about fossil, but I always knew. Ask the ones who know and they'll tell you. A lot of people will say I didn't know. A lot of people will say I said to drill. Never said it. I always knew. I always know.
Trump crashes the US economy and deters consimer goods, especially oil. Alternative conspiracy that he's really an environmentalist? /s
The first degrowth president
Second, we already had Hoover. Trump's policies are basically a rerun of an economic approach we proved doesn't work 100y ago.
Based on me reading wikipedia, in Hoover's fairness, Smoot-Hawley was mainly a congress led thing and he mainly rubber stamped it. He also introduced stimulus to help industries that he wanted to up their output.
Trump isn't doing anything stimulus-wise (if anything the opposite by introducing huge government cuts) to aid the new manufacturing processes he's assuming will spring up overnight, and he also seems to be the mastermind behind rebranding the US as tariff-land.
I don't know what my point is, that Trump's policies are a lot worse than Hoover's? I doubt anyone needed me to reach that conclusion to be fair.
The president hurt itself in its confusion.
4d chess ladies and gentlemen
Undercover maoist agent conspiracy is looking more and more real every day
He's actually secretly setting up socialism with American characteristics
We've had socialism with American characteristics for about 45y at this point. We socialize the losses and privatize the gains.
Oof that was a little too good