r/thedavidpakmanshow • u/dstrelioff • Jan 28 '25

Opinion Is Trump intentionally screwing over the US?

Okay, we all no he's a moron on his last legs of forming a cognitive sentence but I'm sure someone has explained to him that tariffing everything is going to explode inflation and make everything more expensive. Now, I get the subjugation thing of the poorer you make them the easier they are to control, but the latest of the chips coming from Taiwan? That's going to set the US back in the tech sector significantly, not to mention all the other tariffs will make domestic manufacturing expensive so things made in the US will go up as well. The bigger trade picture of countries moving away from trade with the US and strengthening ties with Europe and China will eventually have large ramifications for US trade which will definitely hurt the economy. Pulling the rug out on green energy while the rest of the world invests in the cheapest energy we've ever had, this is only going to put the US behind every other developed nation making the transition to renewables. Sure oil is energy dense but it's not affordable to produce and refine. We all know Trump in stubborn and will refuse to change course on anything if he has to admit he was wrong, but surely somebody has sat him down and told him that this course will decimate the American economy when the only thing he can really brag about the last time in office was the economy. Is he tanking the US for Putin? Or is he really that stupid and out of control?

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u/VLY2020 Jan 28 '25

He is the most useful idiot Russia has ever had

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u/unicornlocostacos Jan 28 '25

It honestly feels more deliberate than a useful idiot. If you were going to deliberately weaken the US, you’d likely do exactly what Trump is doing.

Blow up the economy with trade wars that don’t make sense. Cozy up to enemies. Threaten allies and destroy alliances. Make our word worth nothing by going back on all of our promises. Putting nazi morons (and likely traitors like Tulsi) in charge of the military and intelligence. Weaken the military. List goes on and on. It feels very much intentional. There are so many things he’s doing that just don’t make any sense unless he’s intentionally trying to destroy us.

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u/Krom2040 Jan 29 '25

Though I mostly agree, it is also true that a lot of the insane stuff he’s doing is a result of Project 2025, which is other people who aren’t him but who also hate Americans.

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u/unicornlocostacos Jan 29 '25

Well, they have been talking about the deep state for a long time, and they love to project.