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AlterNet / Sabrina Haake: Enough with the gaslighting
AlterNet / Sabrina Haake - Enough with the gaslighting
Sabrina Haake, Raw Story
April 05, 2025
It’s hard to decide what’s funnier: the well supported theory flying around the internet that Trump used ChatGPT to generate his simpleton’s “world tariff chart,” OR how Fox News is bending itself into a pretzel trying to put lipstick on our dipshit president’s “Liberation Day” pig.
Under Trump’s new global tariffs, American consumers will pay an additional $6 trillion in taxes-- tariffs imposed on imported goods they buy every day like shoes and avocados-- over a ten year period. This amount, along with alleged savings from DOGE’s chainsaw excision of half the government, will be used to pay for Trump’s second round of $4.5 trillion tax cuts for the rich.
It is a massive redistribution of wealth, taking from the poor to line the pockets of the wealthy donors who put Trump back in office for that express purpose. When you consider that the people who can least afford it will suffer and pay the most under Trump’s moronic tariffs, none of it is really funny.
Trump used his idiot sharpie and drew himself a tariff chart with Chatbot AI.
Trump has been teasing tariffs for months. After imposing, then withdrawing, then imposing, then withdrawing tariffs on our best friends and neighbors last month, he almost kind of had the start of a concept of a tariff policy last week. To launch it, true to his reality TV roots, Trump set the announcement to great fanfare, calling a press conference to unveil his shiny new plan. He branded the whole thing, and spent more time marketing “Liberation Day” than he spent developing any underlying substance.
It shows. The simplistic tariff chart prop he foisted on the media looked like an after thought, likely because it was. I started getting text messages from colleagues when the clownshow started. “He generated that table with ChatBot!” one guy texted. “Good one,” I reponded. “No, I’m serious,” he said. “NFW,” I wrote. Then another colleague sent me basically the same thing.
/snip
Sabrina Haake, Raw Story
April 05, 2025
It’s hard to decide what’s funnier: the well supported theory flying around the internet that Trump used ChatGPT to generate his simpleton’s “world tariff chart,” OR how Fox News is bending itself into a pretzel trying to put lipstick on our dipshit president’s “Liberation Day” pig.
Under Trump’s new global tariffs, American consumers will pay an additional $6 trillion in taxes-- tariffs imposed on imported goods they buy every day like shoes and avocados-- over a ten year period. This amount, along with alleged savings from DOGE’s chainsaw excision of half the government, will be used to pay for Trump’s second round of $4.5 trillion tax cuts for the rich.
It is a massive redistribution of wealth, taking from the poor to line the pockets of the wealthy donors who put Trump back in office for that express purpose. When you consider that the people who can least afford it will suffer and pay the most under Trump’s moronic tariffs, none of it is really funny.
Trump used his idiot sharpie and drew himself a tariff chart with Chatbot AI.
Trump has been teasing tariffs for months. After imposing, then withdrawing, then imposing, then withdrawing tariffs on our best friends and neighbors last month, he almost kind of had the start of a concept of a tariff policy last week. To launch it, true to his reality TV roots, Trump set the announcement to great fanfare, calling a press conference to unveil his shiny new plan. He branded the whole thing, and spent more time marketing “Liberation Day” than he spent developing any underlying substance.
It shows. The simplistic tariff chart prop he foisted on the media looked like an after thought, likely because it was. I started getting text messages from colleagues when the clownshow started. “He generated that table with ChatBot!” one guy texted. “Good one,” I reponded. “No, I’m serious,” he said. “NFW,” I wrote. Then another colleague sent me basically the same thing.
/snip
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