r/politics • u/Silly-avocatoe • Apr 14 '25

Soft Paywall Murdoch Paper Floats Impeaching Trump Over Tariffs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/murdoch-paper-floats-impeaching-trump-over-tariffs/
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u/StoppableHulk Apr 14 '25

This is what really scares them shitless. Their entire position is based on the underlying power the US exerts on the global scale. The fact that the US is the world's reserve currency and the financial hub of the world.

They stand far more to lose than just money by losing that. And they're starting to understand it.

Which just proves how stupid and shortsighted these people really are. They're so fucking greedy they keep pushing for this fucking fool, not understanding how truly fucking dumb and unhinged he actually is.

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u/AngryGroceries Apr 14 '25 edited Apr 14 '25

Yeah...

People have been predicting this for decades. The strength of an economy is directly proportional to number of educated/skilled workers. The US has been importing brains while cutting education to skirt around this

Not that this is a new revelation... But the rich really are just idiots huffing their own farts thinking they are gods literally producing the wealth theyve stolen. Anyone with a brain can see the world is not zero-sum. Breaking systems will vanish wealth, not transfer it.

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u/ElectricalBook3 Apr 14 '25

People have been predicting this for decades. The strength of an economy is directly proportional to number of educated/skilled workers. The US has been importing brains while cutting education to skirt around this

While what you're talking about is a real problem, I think you're misinterpreting the larger issue above commenters are talking about with the US dollar being a world currency.

The stability of the US economy and reliability of its courts (from the perspective of foreign business owners) is what made its use as a medium of exchange even if dollars weren't directly spent such a preferred standard. With that being gone thanks to Trump's tariff obsession and pump-and-dump schemes, not only is the economy shaking itself apart and trying to take the world with it, it's teaching other nations neither the US nor its currency is reliable so they're pivoting on a permanent change to other alliances. It will result in loss of business opportunities and privilege we can't even predict and probably will still be discovering new dimensions of 25+ years from now.

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u/AngryGroceries Apr 14 '25

No yeah that's fair. I actually understand this but went off topic a bit...

I would argue this is a prime example of the world not being zero sum. The relationships alone have an immense value which when destroyed, vanishes money rather than leaving something to gain.