Alexander Goeres 𒀯it might be a tad too long for the trumpets, but it's a nice explanation ...<br><br>#<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=uglyTrump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">uglyTrump</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=TrumpUgly" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TrumpUgly</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=usa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">usa</a><br><br> <a href="https://beige.party/@Lana" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><span><a href="https://beige.party/@Lana" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"</a> wrote the following <a href="https://beige.party/@Lana/114276346274834290" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">post</a> <span class="">Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:17:42 +0200</span></span> Ok. I'm a teacher. So let me break this down for you into very very simple ideas and numbers. <br><br>Let's say you run a sandwich shop. You sell $10 sandwiches. It's a very good sandwich shop. You sell a lot of sandwiches. In fact, I buy a sandwich from you every single day. In a week, I have spent $70 buying sandwiches from you. <br><br>Now let's say I am selling my car. You, the owner of the sandwich shop, need a car. I decide to sell you my car for the very very reasonable price of $700. <br><br>So here's the situation at the end of a week. You have sold me $70 worth of goods. I have received $70 worth of sandwiches. In return, I have sold you $700 worth of goods, and you have received $700 worth of car. <br><br>Any reasonable, rational person would look at that situation and say "that's a fair exchange". Both parties paid an amount of money equal to the value of the goods they now own. <br><br>But Trump is not a rational person. What he has decided this means is that you have somehow cheated me out of $630, because $700-$70=$630. Does this make sense? Fuck no. If anything, I got the better part of that deal. I now have $630, plus a belly full of sandwiches.<br><br>But it gets even worse. Then, because Trump's a-brain is filled with maggots, he further declares that since $70 divided by $700 is .10, that MUST mean you, the owner of the sandwich shop, have been imposing a 10% sandwich tariff on me the whole time. Does THIS make a lick of sense either? Also fuck no. <br><br>But wait, you're going to love this. Trump's "solution" to this is to decree that going forward, all cars I sell you will be marked up a "reciprocal' 10% to $770. He says this will be good for sandwich sales. Does THIS make any goddamn sense either? Jesus fucking Christ on a pogo stick no it fucking does not. <br><br>This entire idea is complete horseshit for what I hope you can now see are a whole raft of very very obvious reasons. Among them:<br><br>1. There never was a "sandwich tariff" to reciprocate<br>2. There is no rational reason for you to buy a car from me ever again<br>3. This will not affect sandwich sales at all<br>4. That's not how numbers work <br>5. That's not how any of this works<br><br>Now replace the car seller with America, and the sandwich shop with an island inhabited only by penguins. I wish I was joking.