Don’t you see the genius at work here? This is all part of his plan to lower the cost of groceries. By flooding the market with all the stuff we can’t sell elsewhere any more, prices are going to drop through the floor. Everybody wins! Yay!
Of course, when the prices drop, farmers are going to lose money on every sale because they won’t be able to recover their cost of production, but they’ll make it all up on volume.
I think it’s that by opposing Russia’s attempted annexing of Ukraine, Europe is supposedly being hypocritical because it also buys Russian oil and gas. If so it’s a simplistic gotcha point a teenager might make, but then, that’s our Tramp.
And this time he really, really means it.
And his pee pee measuring stick just shriveled up but at least his billionaire buddies can but the dip.
In the past, when farmers don’t make a profit, they just dump the produce or plow it under. Why spend money to pick it? I remember seeing a mountain of potatoes rotting because the price was too low to bring to market.
I think I need to take a break from social media for a few days.
“Get ready to go bankrupt, American farmers, thanks to me! Again!”
This is what happened last time, and it’s going to be so much worse this time, exacerbated by all the other stuff the administration is doing:
Although pretty much every Trump utterance on trade could also be translated to: “I have no idea how trade works. At all. There are small children with a better grasp of these issues. Seriously! How have you allowed me to be in this position?”
Did anybody see this live?
And please tell me all the reporting on this didn’t really miss the point.
The ghosts of 1847 weep…
This is how it went the last time they told someone to dress with more decorum;
True, but this was during covid.
Well, yeah, if you want to be all logical about it. But remember whose little fever-dream mind we’re talking about here - I suspect an idea like that would never make an appearance in the two microsecond “planning” stage of this master plan.
There are probably some MAGA types who will read this and assume it’s only bad news for New York and possibly rejoice. However, because of the way transmission grids work, it’s bad news for everywhere that’s connected to the same grid. That grid stretches from North Dakota to the Gulf (excluding Texas, which is on its own grid because Texas), and all points east. All of them.
Just for the hell of it Canada could switch to 240VAC, 50Hz to align with Europe. That would be interesting.
The idea brings the giggles
edit:
, but in real life it would have little to no impact on power transmission. The interconnectors are usually (all?) high voltage DC, because synchronizing two countries is pretty tricky.
I had a closer look, and there just aren’t that many HVDC interconnectors in the border mix. It looks like either the Canadian and US grids are mostly directly connected AC, or there are some phase-shifting transformers in the mix. In which case, yes, shifting to 50 Hz would be, um, impactful. But I wouldn’t want to be the one to explain to Canadians that they all had to buy new appliances.
