re: #76 Dr Lizardo

Trump’s busy claiming that he’s winning this trade war and that it’s easy.

He’s busy claiming he’s got over 50% approval (he doesn’t). He hasn’t be above water since he took office. Majority of the nation disapproved.

There’s one group of people who support Trump: uneducated white folks (aka the know nothing Fox misinformed masses).

Meanwhile, even as the recession looms, right wingers are trying to claim that Trump’s doing everything he can to prevent a looming recession. That’s bulkshit to be sure.

Trade wars can hasten a recession because everyone looks for shelter and to reduce their exposures to added costs. They reduce expenditures, reduce inventories, or shift purchasing. Meanwhile, farmers are getting slammed again, because they don’t have easy ways to change purchasers when they focus sales to China. North Dakota is truly fucked in this manner (it’s harder for them to get food to market on the East Coast or South as most of their shipments head to Washington and then on to China and Asia).

Everything Trump’s doing is speeding up a recession, and the know nothings and sycophants advising Trump aren’t helping. Attacking Powell and trying to eliminate the independence of the Fed only destabilizes things further.

It’s as though they’re purposefully trying to sabotage the government and economy.