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Trump becomes so verklempt he cannot answer Bloomberg interviewer's question!
By Curt_Anderson
October 15, 2024 8:47 pm
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In the interview, Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait mentioned the US Justice Department’s proposal to possibly break up Google and asked Trump if Google should be broken up.

Trump didn’t address Google at all, instead he deeply sighed, "I just haven't gotten over something the Justice Department did yesterday..." and launched into a rant about a recent DOJ lawsuit against Virginia election officials. Finally Micklethwait reminds Trump that the question is about Google. When Trump did get back onto the subject of Google it was mostly to complain how their algorithm is "very bad" to him. The video below is queued up to the exchange.



I suspect the real reason Trump went off on tangents is because he hadn't thought about the Google anti-trust case and quite possibly wasn't aware of it.

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Comments on "Trump becomes so verklempt he cannot answer Bloomberg interviewer's question!":

  1. by HatetheSwamp on October 16, 2024 3:50 am

    But Curt, but Curt, that's classic Trump.
    He did that sort of thing several times in the CNN debate. You know, the debate where he ended the political career of the candidate you were supporting...

    ... the one where the candidate you were supporting claimed that women are being raped by their in-laws and brothers and sisters...

    ...the candidate who still makes more sense than the one you are currently supporting.

  2. by Ponderer on October 16, 2024 7:14 am

    Can you imagine? Telling the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News that he doesn't know what he's talking about regarding how tariffs work. essentially all economists say the same thing that John Micklethwait is saying, but no. Donald Trump is the Bringer of Truth to the situation by simply denying that his tariffs are going to do what everyone says they are going to do.

    The man is literally a demented, delusional moron.

  3. by HatetheSwamp on October 16, 2024 7:37 am

    "Can you imagine? Telling the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News that he doesn't know what he's talking about regarding how tariffs work."

    And, I thought Trump did a nice job splaining his position... THE HISTORIC POSITION OF YOUR DEM PARTY.

    "essentially all economists say the same thing that John Micklethwait is saying, but no."

    You are so full of $#¡t, po!

    Economists have been divided on tariffs since before FDR!

    Knowing stuff about economics as I do, it chortles me to read your posts which, so vehemently... and brainlessly... scream in support of Project 2025's Heritage Foundation.

    Please don't ever leave SS. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE PLEEEEEEEASE!!!!!

  4. by Indy! on October 16, 2024 9:18 am

    Peebs doesn't know how tariffs work either. All they do is raise the price on consumers. The idea is not to punish the country in question by making them pay more - the idea is to make their products more expensive so less consumers buy them. So who's paying for tariffs? Consumers - no on else. The country in question might be losing sales - but they still make the same amount of money off each sale. So essentially tariffs do two things...

    1) Make products we want to buy more expensive (and reducing our choices of what we can afford to buy)

    2) Piss off our trade partners

  5. by Curt_Anderson on October 16, 2024 9:26 am
    3) Our trading partners will retaliate with their own tariffs on American products.
    4) USA sells less abroad. Americans lose jobs.
    5) Because imported goods cost more, domestic manufacturers raise their prices, consumers pay more.

  6. by Indy! on October 16, 2024 9:28 am

    It's a vicious cycle and it takes more than 2 minutes to explain so Trump and MAGAts will never get it.

  7. by HatetheSwamp on October 16, 2024 10:07 am

    "Peebs doesn't know how tariffs work either. All they do is raise the price on consumers."

    OY FREAKIN FRIGGIN EFFINVEY!

    Since po began bringing up the tariff issue, out of po's excess of deranged TrumpHate, pb's been clear.

    pb IS NOT A BIG FAN OF TARIFFS!!!!!

    However, pb has indicated, at every turn, his kneeslapping, gutbusting amusement that po's deranged TrumpHate has po, at the very least, expressing sympathy for Project 2025's Heritage Foundation. The very, very least!

    Keehee hoo ha, ahhhhhhhhhhh

  8. by Ponderer on October 16, 2024 10:29 am

    The fact remains that Trump's intention of widespread tariffs is an economically disastrous and pig-ignorantly asinine idea.

    All reputable economists agree that Trump's concepts of how tariffs work are preposterously disconnected from reality. He does not know what the hell he's even talking about.


    Trump is as much of an idiot as Hate is for supporting and defending him.

  9. by Indy! on October 16, 2024 11:15 am

    People like Trump - and the Bushes - are born so wealthy they never have to deal with the day-to-day problems everyone else does. So he has no idea how anything works - he's Papa Bush trying to figure out what a supermarket scanner does.

  10. by HatetheSwamp on October 16, 2024 11:43 am

    "All reputable economists agree that Trump's concepts of how tariffs work are preposterously disconnected from reality."

    That's bull$#¡t.

  11. by Indy! on October 16, 2024 12:01 pm

    Truth always smells like bullshit to liars.

  12. by HatetheSwamp on October 16, 2024 12:21 pm

    Indy...po,

    George Bernard Shaw said rightly, "If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."

    There's nuthin in the wide wide world of sports that all economists agree on. (See link)

    If you only know one thing, you know that.


     View Video

  13. by Ponderer on October 16, 2024 12:59 pm

    I would hazard to guess that all economists can at least agree that it is not the country with the tariff against it that pays the tariff. It is essentially passed down to the end user.

    Got any examples of any economists who believe otherwise there, Professor Higgins?

  14. by HatetheSwamp on October 16, 2024 1:36 pm

    "I would hazard to guess that all economists can at least agree that it is not the country with the tariff against it that pays the tariff."

    I'm not certain what you are implying buy a tariff is a tariff... always and forever.

    Are you suggesting that all economists agree on what a tariff is?

    Duh

  15. by Indy! on October 16, 2024 1:36 pm

    You're in the Fox bubble, peebs. You believe in UNreality - the rest of us reside right here in reality. So - again - for about the 1000th time...

    Turn off Fox - rejoin reality.

  16. by Curt_Anderson on October 16, 2024 1:44 pm
    HtS,
    Sheesh you are obtuse! Ponderer was quite explicit and correct. Even a non-economist can understand that end users ultimately pay for all raw costs, labor, transportation, taxes including tariffs, et cetera. All those costs are built into the final price consumers pay.

  17. by Ponderer on October 16, 2024 1:50 pm

    "I'm not certain what you are implying buy a tariff is a tariff... always and forever." -Hate

    And I'm not certain just what the hell that mish mash of an excuse for a sentence is even vaguely supposed to mean.

  18. by HatetheSwamp on October 16, 2024 1:51 pm

    Curt,

    po suggested that it's possible that not all economists agree on the definition of a tariff. What else could the point have been?

    And, bubba! Are you suggesting that ole pb supports Trump's tariff plan...

    ...because...

    ...every freakin friggin EFFINtime it's come up, I've been clear. I don't.

    What I do think is that it's a hoot that po's in bed with the Heritage Foundation..., creator of Project 2025... on tariffs.

    Deranged TrumpHate is an amusing phenomenon. Eh?

  19. by oldedude on October 16, 2024 10:59 pm
    I love when you use your little german voice to repeat your masters' points!

  20. by Ponderer on October 17, 2024 7:38 am

    "po suggested that it's possible that not all economists agree on the definition of a tariff. What else could the point have been?" -Hate

    I said, "All reputable economists agree that Trump's concepts of how tariffs work are preposterously disconnected from reality."

    I was leaving open the miniscule possibility that you could find some idiot MAGA Hat economist who Fox turned you onto who thinks that Trump's tariff plans are great, and that China will end up paying for the tariffs.


    But... now that neither you nor Fox have provided any such example, I can now say with clear conviction:

    "All economists, even any disreputable ones, agree that Trump's concepts of how tariffs work are preposterously disconnected from reality."

    Thanks! I do like to be as accurate with my posts as possible.

  21. by Donna on October 17, 2024 7:53 am

    If Trump wins and he goes through with his 60% tariff on all Chinese imports, it would probably put the company I work for out of business, because almost all of the products we merchandise are from China.

    Apparently Trump doesn't understand how tariffs work. He thinks they're a tax on the exporter, the country of origin. Actually the buyer, the importer, pays the tariff to our government. To pay for that tariff, the importer has to raise prices to consumers accordingly or the importer will go out of business.

    That means that a can opener my company sells for $7 would see a price jump as high as 60% on that can opener, causing its new Trump Tariff Price to skyrocket to over $11.

    Tariffs are only helpful when they're targeted on specific products that are also made in the US, which is the way responsible presidents of both parties have historically applied them, but tariffs can also sink an economy when you have a dunce like Trump apply them recklessly across the board as he said he plans to.

  22. by Ponderer on October 17, 2024 8:00 am

    Precisely, hon.

    The difference between the $7 and the new $11 price people would pay for that can opener, and with all goods that are made in or have components from China is the "Trump Sales Tax" that people have been talking about.

  23. by HatetheSwamp on October 17, 2024 8:22 am

    "I was leaving open the miniscule possibility that you could find some idiot MAGA Hat economist who Fox turned you onto who thinks that Trump's tariff plans are great, and that China will end up paying for the tariffs."

    po,

    Trump's position is classic Dem Party thinking since FDR.

  24. by HatetheSwamp on October 17, 2024 8:26 am

    "Apparently Trump doesn't understand how tariffs work."

    Donna,

    Trump imposed tariffs during his first term. As I understand it, that "dithering and diminished" "feckless dementia-ridden piece of crap" kept them in place.

    But. You're now siding with the Project 2025 crowd on tariffs, too?

    Special!

  25. by oldedude on October 17, 2024 8:31 am
    The worst part of this is that pedojoe never took out the tariff's trumpster had in place. A very few of the things pedojoe didn't take out of trumpsters EO's. So now the dim sheep are saying that trumpster is showing his political hand and setting his POLITICAL stance up. Yeah, they're threats. And the CCP is also watching.

    I understand that kammy's cuck is part of the CCP, and she can't spell economy, but it means a lot since the CCP was (and still is) slapped by trumpster's selective tariff's where selective companies owned by high powered CCP members were given preferential treatment by the government to sell cheaper to the US.

    These are the things the dims (especially here on SS) crow about producing here in the US. Namely solar equipment and computer chips. In China, these are made by slave labor and given breaks by the CCP. But slave labour😱 isn't something the dim's care about. So all the tariff's do in these cases is to level the playing field. I understand that if you support (literal) slave labor, you only want something cheap. Fine. Just know what your "ethics" (or lack thereof) are.

    Why would trumpster say such things? Because you keep the playing field open. You tell your advisory that you're going to put them under the ground. You keep them off balance. What other tariff's would you like to see? I dunno... maybe Insulin produced in the states to reduce prices? How about aspirin? It's pretty sad when the greatest nation on earth isn't producing it's own medical equipment, even though it could.

  26. by Ponderer on October 17, 2024 8:32 am

    "Trump's position is classic Dem Party thinking since FDR." -Hate

    That's possibly the stupidest thing you have ever said in here. Absolutely and totally idiotic. Shear and utter bullshit.


  27. by HatetheSwamp on October 17, 2024 8:51 am

    And, you're ignert.

    You really don't know that Trump is defying the traditional GOP position!!!!!?

    You really don't know that Dems and unions have ALWAYS favored tariffs?

    C'mon man. Gimme an EFFINbreak!

  28. by Donna on October 17, 2024 9:08 am

    od - The tariffs that Biden kept in place aren't the across-the-board type of tariffs Trump's saying he wants to implement in his next term, and they would have the effect I described.


  29. by HatetheSwamp on October 17, 2024 9:23 am

    Donna,

    Please show us links, not from Curt's Holy Trinity or po's metaphorical Rachel, showing that Trump would impose across the board tariffs. Right-wing media isn't reporting that, to my knowledge.

  30. by Ponderer on October 17, 2024 9:35 am

    "You really don't know that Dems and unions have ALWAYS favored tariffs?" -Hate


    Bill, this is where your blithering ignorance of this subject makes you look like the moron that you are.

    Tariffs have a been surgically used tool, like a scalpel, to accomplish specific goals in specific pinpoint areas of the economy by all administrations for decades. But no one, on either side of the aisle, has ever suggested anything like using tariffs as the sledgehammer that Trump is promising to make out of them to use against our economy. It's shear, idiotic madness what he is proposing. And every economist agrees.


    I am afraid that he may well understand how tariffs work even less than you do, Bill.

  31. by Donna on October 17, 2024 9:41 am

    Look it up yourself, Hate. I don't give a rat's ass whether or not you believe it.

  32. by HatetheSwamp on October 17, 2024 9:43 am

    "But no one, on either side of the aisle, has ever suggested anything like using tariffs as the sledgehammer that Trump is promising..."

    To my knowledge, that's not just a lie, it's a friggin freakin EFFINlie.

    But, please. If you can support that assertion... from a non Curt's Holy Trinity and not a metaphorical Rachel... source, I'd genuinely love to see it.

    I'm not for tariffs either way. I just like being freakin friggin EFFINlied to.

    So, please.

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