Wealthy business leaders are turning on US President Donald Trump over his plan to impose a colossal set of tariffs on America’s trading partners, as losses mount on stock markets around the world.
Yeah, because of course they are. I mean, it’s not like they could have POSSIBLY known how bad the shitgibbon would shit the bed, right? RIGHT?!
Right, of course they are. The problem is that this was always their strategy. Too many opportunities to make money and seize power, right? The chaos and lawlessness is good for that.
For example, SCOTUS threw out Chevron last year, so it’s harder to enforce environmental regulations. Easy money. The labor oversight committees, the pro-consumer committees, those have all been gutted. Easy money. Even if they’re rebuilt, that’s another chance to game the system.