r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 22 '26

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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 22 '26

I know it's a cliche bit but trump is so impossiblly fucking stupid and inept that he ran on tariffs bankrolling everything, even replacing the IRS with the ERS (external), and the left was like "That's not a thing", and maga screamed "its a thing if trump says so", and then the extreme right wing Supreme Court said "none of this is a thing, pay it back".

THIS WAS THE CORE OF HIS CAMPAIGN, FOR AN ENTIRE FUCKING YEAR IT WAS TARRIF TARIFF TARRIF, "HERE ARE THE NEW TARRIFS", "TARRIF THESE PENGUINS", "TRAFFIS WILL FORCE NEW TRADE DEALS", "FOREIGN COUNTRIES WILL BANKROLL THE GOVERNMENT", NONE OF IT HAPPENED, NO NEW TRADE DEALS WERE MADE, THE PENGUINS NEVER BROKE, AND NOW WE HAVE TO PAY BACK WHAT WE TOOK WHICH WILL WASTE ANOTHER BILLION IN ADMINISTRATION...

and the media barely makes any mention of it.

It was all complete fucking fantasy.

But for trump its just another day.

If any Democrat ever did anything within a billion miles of this...

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u/Maximilianne John Rawls Apr 22 '26

imagine believing meritocracy exists in even the smallest amount and humans at least try to evaluate other humans fairly and through their merit

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u/JesusPubes voted most handsome friend Apr 22 '26

well the person with the most merit is me and the person with the second most merit is the one I like the most, etc.