| ▲ | hammock 5 hours ago |
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| ▲ | oharapj 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| There was significant talk about market manipulation - he knows what he's going to tariff and how that'll affect the stock market, so he can buy low and sell high without any risk, because he is effectively the dominant market force right now |
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| ▲ | sscaryterry 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Which one is this? Can you explain? Do his family members own Vietnamese lumber farms or something? Love the see-how-ignorant-I-am type of comments. |
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| ▲ | ekabod 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Maybe US lumber producers lined his pockets. Probably not. |
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| ▲ | Avicebron 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don't cutting down our forests either but the stated goal of the whole exercise is to improve the US's businesses and self reliance on local industry... | | |
| ▲ | estearum 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | "The stated goal" is stupid as fuck, especially when it comes to our literal immediate neighbor who has been a steadfast ally for the last 100+ years. | |
| ▲ | forestrywat 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Why would anyone, even one of his supporters, care about the stated goal? The man has decades of pursuing goals other than his stated goals. You'd have to be profoundly naive. | | |
| ▲ | Avicebron 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Why would anyone, even one of hoods supporters, care about the stated goal? Because regardless of the execution, this is a forcing function around a broader topic about prosperity in a nation. Tangentially it's also about potential future conflict with China (I hope not!). Both of which I think are much more interesting of a discussion than base partisan mud-slinging. |
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| ▲ | ModernMech 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | And the stated goal of DOGE was to save money... Watch what they do, not what they say. They say a lot of things, and where they can they take all positions. | |
| ▲ | Arodex 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And the unstated goal is to satisfy a senile crook stuck in the 70s (maybe the 1870s)... |
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| ▲ | realusername 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How it seems to work from his past attempts is that the business pays a bribe to try to lift it |
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| ▲ | wat10000 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's true, not everything he does is to stuff his pockets, a lot of it is just to fluff his ego or avenge perceived slights. |
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| ▲ | qwhag17 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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