

… Okay. If you don’t think there is enough evidence and don’t like the explanation already given (the entire stock market is REALLY volatile right now because of the constant threat and enacting and repealing of tariffs) then… sure. I guess you can choose to make up whatever shit you want because it makes you happy?
That is totally not an incredibly problematic mindset and one of the root causes of the hellscape we live in.
It isn’t quite that easy.
The US is a MASSIVE part of basically every luxury industry and isn’t insignificant in many others. So while alternate trading partners can be found to handle stuff like lumber, plenty of industries are going to be hit real hard and not have alternative customers. And they aren’t going to just want to lower their profits for national pride.
But yeah. I REALLY hope trump is just actively destroying the US either in the name of putin or just out of anger and spite over not winning in 2020. Because the alternative is that we are all going to suffer so fucking much because that piece of shit doesn’t understand what tariffs are.