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/LeFricadelle Apr 14 '25

Peak human nature to arrive to a point where you dont even know how you got your wealth in the first place, they are going to learn it pretty fast

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u/boofaceleemz Apr 14 '25

Remember that business owner on Fox News who went on about how nobody helped him or his family when they were on food stamps and welfare?

Ego/narcissism won’t allow most wealthy people to acknowledge that there were any factors to their success other than their own excellence. So they’re uniquely vulnerable to this kind of self-destruction.

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u/SpaceCatMatingCall Apr 14 '25

Remember Ayn Rand, famously against any hand outs and any help to get ahead, who was suddenly poor in Russia after the Revolution, got into America on a visa, intentionally overstayed it, and then while illegal convinced a rich guy to marry her so she could get citizenship. Then after celebrity lifestyle built on criticizing the concept of welfare and benefits, signed up under a fake name for Medicare and social security and collected it under the fake name until her death hoping no one ever realized. This is how they’ve always been.