President Trump Announces Liberation Day

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1. Tariffs will be yet another Trump foreign policy failure because of the already massive inflation. Gas prices are still up because conservatives now love Musk, so Musk gets another government handout. Deep structural conflicts prevent manufacturing from ever coming back to the USA. There is no plan and never was. Trump is not educated and has no historical context for Mckinley or anyone else from that era. Tariffs for him was a rabble rousing tactic during the campaign to predicate the larger dogwhistles about race. Where did the Wall go? You never hear about that anymore. I expect tariffs will suffer a similar fate.

   Meanwhile Musk thwarted the GOP in Wisconsin. That was good to see. Trump’s coonass governor in Louisiana was rejected in his attempt to do the usual GOP bait and switch for the rich whites so they could run further away with their cuckservative lies. I’m glad the white middle class’s latest white flight is failing. It could be that 2024 was a post-COVID mirage and we see a regression to the Old Deal. Ukraine and even Iran are looking pretty bad for Trump.

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   • Let’s unpack this.

     1. First, Trump was deadly serious about the tariffs and made good on his promise to reset the terms of trade with both our allies and adversaries alike. In doing so, he has created chaos in financial markets and foreign capitals, so the idea that this is all swagger and talk is simply false.

     2. Second, the massive spike in inflation was caused by Biden spending trillions of dollars to “go big” and run the economy hot. Democrats celebrated the wisdom of this at the time. They blamed Obama for his tepid response to the 2008 financial crisis.

     3. Third, there is nothing new about Democrat overperformance in special elections given the tilt of their coalition. It is meaningless. Democrats also overperformed in the 2022 midterms and special elections throughout 2023 and 2024.

     4. Fourth, the wall went to court like everything else, which eventually produced the SCOTUS ruling that he could use military funds to build it. The same is true of other policies like Remain in Mexico which are in place after being mitigated in his first term. Building the wall shouldn’t be a problem this time around given Trump’s standing in the party and control of the Senate.

     5. Gas prices aren’t up. They went down after Biden caved to pressure after the energy shock of 2022. They are still down around like $2.70 a gallon here.

     6. Subordinating trade policy to foreign policy to maintain American leadership of the “rules-based international order” is what offshored manufacturing. European and Asian workers benefitted from that relationship. So did American consumers.

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     • 7. So far Trump has secured commitments for about 5 trillion in industrial investment, two and a half months in. The idea that there can never be industry in the US again is ignorant. Massive capital flight has been happening for years from China, and this money will be a product of much of that. Investors need a stable place to put their money, and our country is exactly that, and never more so than now.

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2. The American imperialism you glorify IS globalism you fucking fucktarded

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   • To be crystal clear, I don’t support American imperialism in Eurasia or Africa, but North America, Latin America and the eastern Pacific is a different story. There is a far more compelling case for Hawaii which is a floating aircraft carrier in the middle of the Pacific than Afghanistan or Ukraine

     If we hadn’t taken Hawaii under McKinley, Japan would have certainly done so. Japan would have launched its attack on Los Angeles from Pearl Harbor. The people who ran the country back them weren’t dumb and saw the storm clouds on the horizon

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