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[PhoenixDark]

Hey guys what's going on. Remember when "what are tariffs" trended on google after the election. Fun times.

Literally any noteworthy person from either party could be president right now and the market would simply be reacting to a solid jobs report, we'd be cruising into another normal week etc. Instead we've got a guy who has been obsessed with trade for 50 years because he's too stupid to understand what "trade deficit" means.

The Democrats putting up a complete buffoon (again) is a major cause of the current situation though...

Nah. I seem to recall that candidate warning people this would happen months ago. I seem to recall Trump stating on multiple occasions he would do this while certain people said he's trolling, he's joking, he's not serious, it's a 3D chess negotiating move, etc. Nah this is who he is. Trump was a Goldwater tier candidate who Americans should have dismissed based on multiple things, but perhaps mainly this issue. He promised to crash the economy and people were too stupid to even look up what tariffs mean until after the election. 

I don't care if he was running against Jack Black, the only logical decision was to vote for whoever was promising not to crash the global economy because he doesn't understand what 'trade deficit" means.