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He simply cannot do anything but in the dumbest way.
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2026
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While I'm sure the end result will be worse for us in a lot of other ways, one thing i found oddly positive is how his stupid decisions are going to fuck things up:
Most absurdly, given the priorities of Trump’s AI Action Plan, that tariff approach would cost the US about $90 billion annually in GDP losses and cause about 20 percent of data center projects planned through 2030 to be delayed or canceled
Trump is literally demented but the ghouls around him are not.
The plan is plainly obvious.
The big guys will bribe him and get exceptions which means their competition who can't pay are at a detriment.
Trump gets bribes.
They both juice the market knowing the above.
Epstein class when they're raking it in:
"This is amazing".
Epstein class when you try and take a small portion of their wealth away:
"This is terrible and I hate it."
(PS. I hate Trump but this is essentially what's happening here)
I'm not sure how higher tech prices for you and I are a good thing, but sure. Because that's what is going to happen here, it's simply expanding tariffs on more items.
Where did they suggest that they thought that it was a good thing? Mind the quotation marks
Have you read the comments in the thread, everyone is suggesting this is a great thing.
That's... Not what replies are for..
higher tech prices for you and I
Not for me. You know some of us don't live in US, right?
And I wasn't passing comment on whether or not it was a good thing. I merely pointed out that the reason the tech bros were upset was the fact they were being taxed.
Not sure if you haven't noticed, but go try to by tech right now. Ask Apple how much they are raising prices regardless of where it's being sold at. Tariffs in the US absolutely will and do harm global prices, and you'd be completely out of touch to not think that. But thanks for the 'hurr hurr I am not from the US' excuse.
Donald might accidentally do something good. I don't think it will happen though.
I mean he's destroying US influence abroad, including some of the most critical military bases. That's a net positive :)
I read about a guy whos dad believes Trump was sent by god to bring death to America.
I think about that a lot, it seems its happening
I just wonder how the US will balkanise in the after times.
Nothing that can't be solved with bribes.
He thinks this is a quick way to reduce the US's $40T debt. It won't.
He doesn't give a shit about that.
This is a way to squeeze the tech oligarchs for something. If they play ball, the tariff gets an exception for data centers, and they continue their plan to take technology away from the people of the United States and hoard it all and rent it back to us and monitor everything said and done on it
If they don’t play ball he crushes America’s position in the AI race, for which he doesn’t care because his goal is the destruction of America as revenge for making him kill Epstein to keep the whole thing quiet
He doesn't give one shit about the US debt and neither do the Republicans backing him.
If the Dems ever get back in they will start screaming about it sure but why would they care about some made up number.
The Epstein class can just go hang out on their yacht they are not patriots.
He doesn't give one shit about the US debt
True., but he is an emotionally delicate diva and I think he realizes that his approval is at the lowest level ever. He wants people to think he's great. Why else would he constantly post on social media and post cringe videos on Tiktok unironically?
Has the AI industry tried bribing him more? That usually does the trick.
My bet is on exactly that being the plan. Stocks go down, tech companies pay to bribe him, next Tuesday a reversal of tariff plans, stocks go up, rich people make more money. Rinse, repeat
Trump shitting on the AI industry has a certain poetry about it
Would be great if it was just the AI industry, but it's simply expanding what tech is subject to tariffs, so its the people that pay the price. Couldn't afford that RAM already, so I guess it doesn't matter right?
Everything trump does is done in the single dumbest way imaginable.
Not necessarily - he isn't bright enough to be that consistent. Sometimes he does something okay like a blind man playing darts will occasionally hit the dartboard.
I actually take that back. Everything trump does is done in the single most evil way imaginable. It's just that evil to these extremes is also really really dumb.
Name one example?
He hasn't name the Earth into Planet America. Yet...
"All it takes is a pen."
Exactly, what did they expect?
Hes seen a lot of money and he wants it.
He must be lying awake at night furiously trying to figure out how to get a cut of anthropics $30T they definitely have.
AI industry says
I don't care.
They funded his campaign. Serves them right.
Yay I finally get to make a "both sides are awful" argument and be right
Right! It seems like a half ass attempt at improving PR too
He means potato chips.
Would ya look at the time, it's almost find out a-clock.
That's right, single dumbest thing is taxing chips...... Not starting wars, sending people to die, killing people, breaking the average American, screwing over every person on the planet. No lets call it a list e at taxing chips.
The article doesn't say this is the dumbest thing he ever did. It just says this is the dumbest way he could have done this particular thing.
If we're being technical, the article is saying someone told the writer that its the dumbest way to do this particular thing.
I'm here for the spirit, but your reading comprehension could use some work. The title doesn't say it's the dumbest thing he has done. It says he is doing this particular thing in the dumbest way.
To be fair, he probably asked AI what to do, so yeah.
It's not relevant, but you can calculate the area of its face using the square formula.
It's image makes me shudder. What a stupid big pile of pedophilia shit. DMF DMF,D.
He'll tax potato chips?
Fucken do it
I look forward to my private sector job being pretty much directly eliminated by stupid executive policy.