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bucolic_frolic

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2. He is readying to blame the collapse of his economy on liberals????

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Sat Aug 9, 2025, 09:42 AM

Aug 9

The reason the economy collapsed from my tariff policies is the tariffs weren't high enough? Liberals did this?

This man is deluded. Not that MAGA won't believe him.

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Trump says US court ruling against tariff authority 'would be 1929 all over again' [View all] Dulcinea Aug 9 OP

. Autumn Aug 9 #1

He is readying to blame the collapse of his economy on liberals???? bucolic_frolic Aug 9 #2

He's using the tariffs to manipulate the stock market and he's making a killing. Autumn Aug 9 #4

or off the whitehouse roof johnnyfins Aug 9 #10

That would be even better. Autumn Aug 9 #11

A Republican insisting that a tax cut would cause a depression. unblock Aug 9 #3

it is a very regressive tax lapfog_1 Aug 9 #6

Yeah, broad based tariffs are stupid as hell. unblock Aug 9 #9

What the fcuk does he know? C_U_L8R Aug 9 #5

If the court rules against Krasnov gab13by13 Aug 9 #7

For those readers and lurkers, the Smoot Hawley Bill made things worse Vogon_Glory Aug 9 #8

$109 billion is a pitifully tiny amount of revenue from tariffs. Wiz Imp Aug 9 #12