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by Zamaamiro 408 days ago
This is quite a display of mental gymnastics and historical revisionism.

The last couple of years have seen a massive post-COVID backlash to incumbent parties all over the world—Democrats were just caught in the wave.

Why on Earth would anyone not call them anything but Trump Tariffs when he is the one who imposed them and when they’re uniquely his idea?
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paulcole 408 days ago
I gave my reason. That it's stupid to think blaming the person matters at all.

Fix the problem which is electing people like this.

If my toddler scribbles on the wall I better put the markers away next time not put up a little sign that says, "Junior's Doodles."

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Terr_ 408 days ago
> If my toddler scribbles on the wall I better put the markers away next time not put up a little sign that says, "Junior's Doodles."

The point of "Trump Tariffs" is not to make the Trump the scribbler face that wall and feel shame for his output--everybody knows he's too damaged for that.

The point is to ensure everybody else (i.e. voters) recognize that the government is taking their money and understand how it came to occur.

To return to your analogy, it's some message that tells other adults to stop giving Junior their markers, from a source that is beyond your direct control.

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paulcole 407 days ago
> The point of "Trump Tariffs" is not to make the Trump the scribbler face that wall and feel shame for his output--everybody knows he's too damaged for that.

Why do you believe that is the point of “Juniors Doodles”?

> The point is to ensure everybody else (i.e. voters) recognize that the government is taking their money and understand how it came to occur.

If you put “Trump’s Tariffs” there then you are fundamentally ignoring how it came to occur by blaming the person who enacted the tariffs.

You don’t blame the bomb for exploding, you blame the person who lit the fuse.

> To return to your analogy, it's some message that tells other adults to stop giving Junior their markers, from a source that is beyond your direct control.

Sorry, either this makes no sense or I’m too stupid to understand it.

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