First: consolidate the military so they won’t rise against you and so you can use them as your internal police force.

Second: tumble the economy causing fear and uncertainty in the population. It won’t affect the leaders - only the lower classes. The military will be used to keep order.

(the first two entries in “how to topple governments” by vlad putin)

And people thought Trump would be good for the economy 🤦‍♀️

Why we throwing shade on fat legs?

Why must it be balanced?

Americans import more than we export. They use the word “deficit” to make it scary.

These other countries would prefer having our money and financial instruments rather than the actual goods and services they are providing to us.

They are giving us actual things for the money the fed creates ex nihilo.

This is not the same thing as pointing out we should have local manufacturing and reduce reliance on global supply chains.

I’m not defending the Orange Doofus, just tired of seeing these debates being fought through the wrong lens.

I mean the logical explanation is that companies are filling up their warehouses as much as possible before the tarrifs hit. It’s not like the US has suddenly tripled the amount of foreign goods it buys.

*Edit: weird typo.

Bound to happen when you voted in a man who’s a convicted rapist, twice.

Part of it was a massive influx of gold and copper imported in Q1.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

just beautifull