A tinge more about tariFFS

Language!

I’d like to co-sign (or say an amen to) the above Bluesky post. At this point, the global economic showdown has less the feel of a who’s-gonna-blink-first kind of a thing, and more the stench of a, yes, pissing contest.

The First Felon has long maintained that the U.S.A. has been sucking hind tit in the global market because of unfair tariffs placed on U.S. goods, but that is pretty much just more of his America First/Isolationist nonsense. Economists (who know things) beg to differ but one should not expect Donald J. Trump to listen to experts. He will go his own way and drag the rest of us with him until the courts, Congress, or Father Time steps in.

(No, I don’t wish him dead. I wish him a long, long, looong life in which he gets to read how history kicks his ass from here to sundown.)

For a better explanation than I could ever give about this whole mess, go to this BBC article. It’s a good explainer about what tariffs mean (basically, taxes on the rest of us). Also from that article:

Meanwhile, the global market, the U.S. stock market, and most any investment/retirement account you had are going down a very deep hole.

Missing from the list of countries on which Trump’s imposed steeper tariffs are Russia and Belarus. The First Felon has given multiple — and conflicting — explanations for that, which makes perfect sense because it’s really hard to think when you have a grown man’s hand up your backside.

For the most part, men in their 60s, 70s, and 80s are making it their business to make sure your retirement, your middle-class income, your college savings get strafed so that…I’m not sure what. So they can win their little pissing match? That seems extreme. None of these tariffs are set to work out for the bulk of us. Is cruelty really the point?

Good luck to all of us.