Unfortunately, what Trump is doing is making America irrelevant. But, I know the true believers aren’t going to open their eyes to see what is happening around them - which is why I rarely post here any longer.
I have to concentrate on making sure the wealth I have built up over a lifetime doesn’t completely disappear - which Trump is making a more difficult job by the day.
Oh so what youre saying is the only way america can stay relevant is to keep our borders open to illegals. To allow every other country to make america pay tariffs but not for us to reciprocate those tariffs back to those countries. To allow the fraud and waste to continue and make the tax payer pay for it. Thats not being relevant. Thats being taken advantage of.
You said trump is making america irrelevant. Are protected borders not relevant? Isnt americas economy not relevant? Putting america first, is that not relevant? Trump haters gotta hate i suppose.
Here’s the thing - a lot of Trump allies including Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and Bill Ackman are begging Trump to stop this nonsense because of the damage it is going to do to the economy. Ackman has gone as far as to warn of an economic nuclear winter for the nation if he continues down this road. It is that economic damage, combined with nations trying to work around us and trade with each other rather than us, that is going to make America irrelevant.
But, ironically, it will probably solve the immigrant problem as America will eventually be seen as an unattractive destination for migrants. No one wants to go to a nation with a failing economy. Immigrants would be better off staying put than going to another nation with an economy that is in the toilet like theirs.
And the saddest part of this is that none of it had to happen. I’m sitting here watching the US go up in flames in real time, and knowing my nephews, nieces, and others of future generations are not going to be able to live in the thriving country that I knew most of my life. It didn’t have to be this way.
A Toyota Tundra is the size of my F-150 4X4 crew cab. A Toyota Highlander is the size of a Ford Explorer. Comparable American cars and their Japanese, German and S Korean counterparts are the same size. It’s not the 1980’s anymore
Talk to your guy Trump. He’s the one making America last by trashing the economy. This isn’t about ideology - it’s about having a country left in 4 years. Even his allies are warning him of what these tariffs could do - and I see even Republicans in the Senate are waking up to that fact and trying to get these tariffs under control. They’ll fail because of Trump’s puppet Mike Johnson, but they are at least trying. I have to give them credit for that.