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Escurumbele

(3,769 posts)
3. No, of all his bad qualities as a, sort of, human being is his lack of understanding that actions have
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 10:48 AM
Apr 14

consequences.

Tadpole Raisin

(1,757 posts)
4. Exactly! I'm tired of hearing commentators say he doesn't understand xyz and get zero pushback.
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 10:57 AM
Apr 14

HE. DOESN’T. CARE!

Nothing else matters. He hasn’t cared about anything but himself his entire life.

Any democrat on a show who hears those words should dress down the commentator immediately. NEVER accept that phrase! It reduces both his responsibility and the callousness of his actions.

Warpy

(113,252 posts)
7. He's blinded by his self perceived brilliance
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 12:07 PM
Apr 14

in economic matters, just like he was blinded by his brilliance in medicine during the Covid pandemic. He never stopped clinging to the jydroxychloroquine fiction then and he won't stop clinging ti tge fuctuib abiyt giw tariffs work and don't work now. Ideologues are dangerous. Narcissistic ideologues are the absolute worst of them all. They are viscerally unable to let go of bad ideas, no matter how badly they blow up in their faces.

I'm a little shocked that the blow-up of the bond market and the cratering pf po; [roces forced him to stay the implementation of his tariffs quite so quickly. The stay will likely be extended but the threat of implementation used instead.

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