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~32% of Americans voted for Trump. ~31% for Kamala, and the remaining ~37% voted third party or not at all.

Republicans are taking these actions, not Americans. And Democrats should have captured more of the 67% instead of going after the ~32%.

That being said, Americans are dumbbbb

Edit: 37% didn't vote, not 67%. Thanks Lemming

America was killed, by Americans, in a democratic election. And so many are still fondling the corpse, writhing with carrion bugs, and pretending it's still alive.

Oh...

I can guaran-fucking-tee you my opinion of so-called "Americans" will never recover...

I'm more concerned if the country is ever able to recover.

FUCK!! IT'S ONLY BEEN A COUPLE MONTHS!!

Much worse is yet to be realized.

And, yes, I'm a suitably embarrassed US'ian.

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Twice. They did it twice.

You can almost (but not quite) forgive the first time. You could -maybe- write it off as an experiment, or that they were giving the 'real politicians' a scare to get them back in line. However that's a lot of 'almost' and 'maybe'.

But the second time, that's fucking unforgivable.

Lol I wish we were a country. Orange man dreaming big ;)

Theoretically, they encourage Americans to buy American-made alternatives to tariffed goods. In some case that will work, but the tariffs need to be targeted for that to happen. For example, putting a tariff on fishing rods might make people buy locally-made fishing rods rather than imported ones (this is an example of a retaliatory tariff Canada placed on the US btw).

This doesn't work when the tariffs are on things that aren't made locally. If you put a tariff on things that aren't made locally you just make things more expensive. If the government is sane and stable, businesses might invest in a factory to produce something that isn't made locally to take advantage of the tariffs, but that kind of thing takes time. And if you think the government might change its tariff plans before you can finish your factory, it's not worth the investment.

He thinks our economy is strong enough to stand on its own and that's absolutely ridiculous.

America is the largest consumer state on planet earth. A huge amount of foreign economies rely heavily on export to the United States and tariffs can do a LOT of damage. Trump knows these tariffs are a huge bargaining chip, but it’s the type of chip you can only use to this degree once. And he’s cashing it in for… his own political clout. The natural response to this that we’re already seeing the beginning of, is countries restructuring their industry to be less reliant on the U.S. which will ultimately do far more damage to the U.S. than the U.S. can do to other countries. And once they’ve all done that, there won’t be a good reason to ramp that trade up again.

As an American this is going to suck a lot for us, but right now everything Trump is doing sucks for us. The shame of it is that no matter how bad it gets, I can’t realistically be mad at Canada, Mexico, or all of Europe over it. What other option have they been given?

Products get expensive, US consumers don't buy as many products, countries which export those products see reduction in exports and thus taxes.

Theoretically.

He's a socially stunted bully (wait is that repeating myself?, not sure up to a certain age anyways) so yes, I think one of most satisfying wishes to make these days would be to give Trump self awareness and empathy.

Quick edit, like in the 90s Bedazzled movie with Hurley and Fraser where he asks to be sensitive.

Potash. They could stop selling us potash and the entire breadbasket of the US would collapse.

It is not risking 30% of anything. 3% maybe.