Trump says that US having empty shipping ports is a good thing. "That means we're losing less money"

we are cutting costs guys we winning

they going to steal our precious numbers and paper in exchange for their treats and toys
we must protect those precious numbers and papers
- Look how much we paid for these goods! We're getting ripped off, we need to get all that money back! Then we could buy anything! Even goods!

Oh boy, time for Stupidest Timeline Degrowth. I love Stupidest Timeline Degrowth!

You known that marx quote about the less you enjoy your life the greater the capital you hold? Trump read that part wrong.

The treatlerites, they're no good, folks.

It's obvious that Trump has no concept of economics, it's unfortunate that most americans don't either
- Most people understand that less cargo means less treats. Trump doesn't understand this because he'll remain one of the few who retains the ability to get treats. He has never gone without.
  
  Jesus, that's the answer, isn't it? We've got to stage a hostile takeover of mcdonalds and then make all locations deny service to him.
- I’m interested how they’re gonna justify people losing their jobs, admittedly it will probably be something simple like “those jobs weren’t necessary”.
  
  Woke
  Those jobs were lost to woke.
  
  AI-caused downsizing
- But but apparently us leftists don't understand "bAsIC eCoNomIcs"
  
  You don’t understand them stealing your labor is for the good of innnnovaaaaation

At the top of the hour I sometimes watch cable news. But if they are talking about Trump's moronic trade war seriously - I have to close the tab. I can't even hate watch. "I wonder what he's hoping to accomplish."
Well...
- This morning at 10 am, Trump announced completing his first trade deal. It was with TERF Island. He spoke over the phone with Kid Starver and then he took questions from the press.
  
  I'll paraphrase a soundbite I heard yesterday on MSNBC. Emphasis mine.
  The easiest trade deal Trump can make is probably going to be with the UK... Because US-UK trade involves a lot of services... And Trump doesn't seem to care about services.
  --
  I almost started laughing. I should have expected that President Jellybean Brain might not even understand what "services" are or why they are valuable. What are they even? They aren't on ships and they aren't in shipping containers.

“A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of its people.”
Not even shiny metals anymore, just electronic numbers you yourself create.
- They should just sit Trump down at a computer open to a page labeled “America Money” and it’s just a quadrillion dollar counter continuously ticking up
  
  An old Geocities hit counter, but with a dollar sign in front of it

whose going to tell him that those same boats also take american goods and sell them to other countries
- nah they just leave empty and go back

a lot of so-called smart people aren't seeing the brilliant Art of the Deal.
here's a guide to the self-sustaining economy
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Somehow is going to be Biden’s fault
- I'm going to say this very nicely because I think Hexbear should invite new people to learn about Socialism.
  We don't support Biden here. This is a Marxist and Anarchist website.
  The US economy was headed towards collapse no matter whether Republicans or Democrats won the presidency. The US economy has been built around short term profit seeking for decades. Once China's economy outgrew the US economy, the US went into meltdown because they want to remain as the global hegemon. In September 2024, the US congress passed 25 anti-China bills in 1 week.
  Xi Jinping came to the US/California during Biden's presidency, October 2023. Even Gruesome Newsom was friendly towards China and presented Xi with gifts. Biden told the press immediately after the meeting that Xi is a "dictator" and was hostile towards China. Biden's own cabinet expressed disappointment with how Biden acted. This is as much Biden's fault as it is Trump's fault and also the fault of every previous US president going back decades.
  In September 2024, Biden's administration put a 100% tariff on Electric vehicles from China and a 50% tariff on solar panels.
  
  i think they meant that Trump will blame everything on Biden
  
  This is all true, but like Trump's tariffs definitely made this so much worse. US basically saying they will unilaterally blow up trade relations on a whim. Can't imagine a worse footgun moment for American leadership.
- Kind of an ongoing game of economic russian roulette tbh, 1 presidency = 1 chamber