Years ago, Qanon nonsense in full swing, the warnings were sent out. Gematria and other conspiracy light content was an invitation to the rabbit hole. Enter and you will be greeted by friendly commentary. Even if you are regurgitating completely batshit crazy disinformation, if you are part of the in crowd you’re a friend. But, you need to graduate to the next level to be held up as a true believer. Spread it to the potential new recruits. Seek out those who know it’s stupid and relentlessly attack them. Attack them with more made up bullshit. Combine this with a sunk cost fallacy of not wanting to give up on your time investment and maybe even a hefty financial investment you are now in the clutches of a political influencer. Now all <insert scapegoat party> here are evil. All <insert in group party> are cool. Until <in group party member> does something publicly disparaging to <in group party> and is now a <in group nickname for traitor>.
And no matter what the leaders of the party say or do, no matter how ruinous it is to the lives of others, no matter if it’s batshit crazy stupid everyone on the globe is now affected.
When tariffs were first announced as a trade war weapon, much was said about how they wouldn’t work as claimed. It was actually going to do the opposite of what was claimed. Even the WSJ went as far as calling it the dumbest trade war in history:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-25-percent-mexico-canada-trade-economy-84476fb2
But now we’re at gematria level nonsense in the trade war.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tariffs-antarctic-islands-heard-mcdonald/
That’s right. The precious exports of uninhabited Antarctic islands are being hit with a 10% tariff. If the goal is to blitz scale the destruction of the U.S. economy to deliberately crash it, we are well ahead of schedule. Further proof that each and every person in this administration hasn’t got a clue about governing. All you get is lies and sound bites to be repeated to and by the easily misguided. As global tensions increase, savings will dry up for lower class folks struggling to buy necessities. The middle class with some savings will see the rate of return drop. Our once a decade now economic downturn will be remembered in part by assessing tariffs on islands with no people as the scapegoats. Ultimately it doesn’t matter if slipping these islands on to the list was a misguided error by someone genuinely not knowing the innocuous nature of the targets or it was just trolling for a joke.
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