Surely you can complete the joke yourself.
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Any given Trump tariff is neither alive nor dead … until I open up the box each morning and look inside.
And, to take the analogy one step further, for the the un-predictable decay of an atomic nucleus, substitute the un-predictable flipping of some neuron or neurons, in Trump’s aging brain.
To be fair, maybe by flailing about, with this pain-inflicting flail marked “tariff”, he’s somehow making things better, by beating down the opposition. Or beating “them” down, more than “us”. Or something.
But then reality takes hold and you have to say, “Yeah, like beating the hell out of Canada for all the bad things they were doing to us.” Didn’t we even have a free-trade agreement with those guys, going into this? What dummy signed that?
And and and. And what does fentanyl have to do with aluminum and steel in the first place. And what does Canada have to do with our fentanyl problem? The answers are nothing, and next to it, and plenty more where those came from.. Car industry integration. Mexico. And and and.
So, no, at best I’ll have to think of these as Schrödinger’s tariffs. And as such, they are fundamentally different from the tariffs of the past.
Note that I do not say “better”. But different, for sure.
