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Brenda

(2,088 posts)
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 03:12 PM Apr 2025

Exactly how many brain damaged people are "in charge" of the US now?

Sure, the 100% to 4500% tariffs are gonna immediately bring back manufacturing to America.

It's sooo easy to build an iPhone factory and supply it with ALL AMERICAN parts and people.

Oh, yehhhhhh, we gots lots of people with highly skilled fingers and aptitude to build tiny electronics.

Auto industry? It's been a global operation for decades...parts from one country, assembly in another.

I used to work for a Japanese car company in America. I'll never forget a good friend being angry with me for taking the job saying "Remember Pearl Harbor!" I told her I didn't (of course I remembered the event but I was not so damaged by it 45 years later I could accept them as an employer) and I needed the good paying job to pay off student loans and for health insurance.

US auto makers and foreign auto makers in the US get most of their parts from our (previously) friendly neighbors Canada and Mexico.

This chaos is going to lead us into some serious trouble that won't be easy to come back from.

Stop the insanity!

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Exactly how many brain damaged people are "in charge" of the US now? (Original Post) Brenda Apr 2025 OP
All of them. maveric Apr 2025 #1
lol, well, yeah. nt Brenda Apr 2025 #2
From the republican side................ Lovie777 Apr 2025 #3
Wow, I almost stand corrected. Brenda Apr 2025 #4
Easily recognized WmChris Apr 2025 #5
I like the "in charge" part Redleg Apr 2025 #6
So who exactly is "in charge" Brenda Apr 2025 #7
The career government employees who are keeping their heads down and doing the work Redleg Apr 2025 #10
"All of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years" Emrys Apr 2025 #8
More than ever before. Paladin Apr 2025 #9

Brenda

(2,088 posts)
4. Wow, I almost stand corrected.
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 03:43 PM
Apr 2025

Just saw an article that says this:

To be sure, some businesses have announced plans to build new U.S. plants or hire more workers in recent months. They include tech giant Apple, which in February said that it's committed to spending more than $500 billion on expanding its U.S. manufacturing capabilities over four years.


But we all know Tim Cook will lie about anything at this point.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tariffs-economy-trump-ceo-lawsuit-learning-resources-ceo-rick-woldenberg/

Redleg

(7,026 posts)
6. I like the "in charge" part
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 05:41 PM
Apr 2025

There really isn't any good leadership, just a fucking narcissistic clown being followed by a bunch of sycophants and ass-kissers.

Brenda

(2,088 posts)
7. So who exactly is "in charge"
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 06:08 PM
Apr 2025

that you like?

Maybe you mean the people who are keeping our government going...the long time employees who are being harassed and threatened on a daily basis?

Yeah, I like them too. Tens of thousands of them have been fired.

To me, the "in charge" people are obviously Chump, Musk's minions and all the other cult members.

Redleg

(7,026 posts)
10. The career government employees who are keeping their heads down and doing the work
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 12:29 PM
Apr 2025

as best they can under bad circumstances. True, Trump, Musk, and the bully-boys are "in charge" but they sure aren't leaders in the way that I think of leaders. They rule by dictate, are self-serving, and are disdainful of govt. employees.

Emrys

(9,205 posts)
8. "All of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years"
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 06:12 PM
Apr 2025

Yea, thus spoke the prophet Saint Sarah, like many of her ilk so maligned in her own country while alive, now sanctified in ...

... oh, so sorry, it appears she's still above ground and breathing.

What was the question again?

 

Paladin

(32,354 posts)
9. More than ever before.
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 06:13 PM
Apr 2025

Jeez, the fun that historians will have in the future, reviewing this absolute shit-stain of an administration, and the millions of clueless, evil fuckheads who put it in power. To hell with them all.

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