With the full impact of neo-fascist demagogue and bungler Donald "Rump" Trump's trade war yet to be felt, we can judge from his finger-pointing tweets reacting to Harley-Davidson's move to more overseas production that Rump has no clue about, well, anything besides grifts. He must have slept through the international trade course at
Even the right-wing, Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal sees the disaster unfolding in Rump's moronic tariffs, which will fortuitously impact his cult most of all:
"Donald Trump’s trade war has been an abstraction for most Americans so far, but the retaliation has now begun in earnest and the casualties are starting to mount...But the biggest losers Monday were the American workers who make Harley-Davidson motorcycles whose jobs will soon be headed overseas thanks to the Trump tariffs. [snip]
Harley hasn’t provided details about how its American workforce will be affected. But Harley employs more than a thousand unionized U.S. steelworkers—the very folks the President claims he’s protecting."As Rethuglican Sen. Ben Sasse noted in the above-linked NPR story,
"This will go over like a Vespa at Sturgis. The problem isn't that Harley is unpatriotic — it's that tariffs are stupid. They're tax increases on Americans, they don't work, and apparently we're going to see more of this."(photo: Very Stable Genius shoots Harley-Davidson in the middle of Fifth Avenue....)
2 comments:
My husband and I sped up our decision to buy a new car because we were worried about the possibility of cost increases. I wouldn't wish ill on American workers, but if you voted for this idiot, you deserve an economic backlash for your actions. Too bad you didn't consider the across-the-board consequences of your actions. Too bad you misjudged the business acumen of your fearless leader. But what's really too bad is that you're the reason for your own failing businesses if you voted for him, and for the livelihoods of others, directly and indirectly.
Shortsightedness will cost us jobs and paychecks everywhere. Trump has cost us in many ways: jobs lost, treaties lost, decades-old friendships lost, our sense of national pride lost. There is nothing he and the Republicans won't ruin for us. I just hope it isn t too late to reclaim our losses.
donnah -- Well said. You and your husband made a good decision on a car. If Trump goes full bore on tariffs this year, he'll drive up consumer prices and tank the economy. The wiseguys on Wall Street are starting to sweat as they see this unfolding.
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