Reminds me so much of the Very Serious & Rational Men reassuring everyone during his Twitter purchase that Musk was 1) a business person with sane business reasons & also somehow 2) just a dumb-dumb.
One thing it DEFINITELY WASN'T - you paranoid & hysterical ladies - a non-economic move to achieve his right wing political goals.
Anyhoo.
I think the "Trump is just a dummy who knows nothing about the market" takes are lazy & encourage us to be lazy & let further harms pass by without action.
There are massive apparatuses with many people in them, that drive these market moves by the GOP who run the US govt now. It's not all being run by Trump. It's very naive to approach this with One Big Man theory.
Like, congrats Jon Favreau, you wrote a snarky post that reads well with your liberal readership.
“Art of the Deal: 1) Impose massive tariffs on nearly every country that crash the markets and create the conditions for global economic collapse 2) Make zero deals with zero countries 3) Pause tariffs 4) VICTORY!!”
Great, you can all clap each other on the back about how GOP idiots are being dumb.
It's true as far as it goes, but also shows you completely unprepared to do counter it.
But what do I know, I'm just a Paranoid Hysterical Lady with advanced degrees in the history of fascism, and a record of seeing all the flags that mattered, way before the Very Serious Men with Very Serious Reps and Very Serious Think Tank Paychecks.
I am glad some Very Serious Men are finally ringing alarm bells and honestly, the more the merrier, but I just can't believe they think they're still the best people to be in charge of this battle, given past performance.
Never tired of failing up. I'm just dumbfounded most of the time now.
