None of This Is Going to End Well

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2025/03/11/none-of-this-is-going-to-end-well/

None of This Is Going to End Well
March 11, 2025 at 4:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

Bret Stephens: “It used to be common knowledge — not just among policymakers and economists but also high school students with a grasp of history — that tariffs are a terrible idea. The phrase ‘beggar thy neighbor’ meant something to regular people, as did the names of Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis Hawley. Americans broadly understood how much their 1930 tariff, along with other protectionist and isolationist measures, did to turn a global economic crisis into another world war. Thirteen successive presidents all but vowed never to repeat those mistakes.”

“Until Donald Trump. Until him, no U.S. president has been so ignorant of the lessons of history. Until him, no U.S. president has been so incompetent in putting his own ideas into practice.”

[marybourg]

1. When your enemy is digging his own grave, don't interrupt him.

[Wednesdays]

9. Almost identical to

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
-- Napoleon

[returnee]

33. Napoleon had his downfall, too.

Sorry, but I am in favor of interrupting and correcting mistakes asap.

[North Coast Lawyer]

17. Dragging us all into that grave

While it's generally not wise to interrupt an enemy who is digging his own grave an exception needs to be made for enemies whose self-destructive acts imperil the general population. Not just MAGA folks are going to suffer.

[slightlv]

20. Yeah... I agree.

Thing is, *we're* his enemies!

[Kid Berwyn]

30. Excellent observation.

Sometimes we do not have enough light to see we handed the grave diggers of democracy the shovels.

[moonshinegnomie]

2. he;s digging all our graves

and we're letting him

[calimary]

15. "...TRYING to dig all our graves."

Not all of us are willing to give him the satisfaction.

[YoshidaYui]

4. The cult following of TRUMP are loving this

They are saying who needs eggs anyway??? The price of eggs are going up so it will effect restaurants , like Denny's who will probably jack up their prices on all kinds of egg orders, and the price of CAKES will go up, you won''t be able to afford a birthday cake for little Johnny.. ...

stupid is as STUPID does.... baka baka baka ,....

[Cosmocat]

7. Completely delusional

Some going on about how it's just haterade for the orange man, some saying it's all his master negotiating, that he will get them to fold, not realizing he's fighting w most of the world, and not understanding out true power was collaborative in nature, and we no longer have the support of our trusted allies, and now are keeping the company of the most ruthless and w it mostly weaker economies.

[FirstLight]

5. THIS! And they thought we weren't paying attention

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😂
While the clip is funny, it is no laughing matter.

[Xavier Breath]

10. Ferris Buehler's Day Off had so much to teach us if we would only choose to listen.

[Solly Mack]

6. Sure won't.

[FakeNoose]

8. While I agree with the OP in principle, I think he's giving too much credit

... to Reagan, Bush #1 and Bush #2.

[Wednesdays]

11. Although, with all his faults, Ray-gun wasn't dumb enough to start a trade war

He and the Bushes were all about Free Trade.

[DENVERPOPS]

18. Reagan was merely a front man

for HWBush and his CABAL........it worked so well, that Cheney and his CABAL did it again by putting a drug and alcohol addled WBush out front as a pawn.......while all of them carried on from the shadows.....

[not fooled]

29. Shhhh!

W was such a lovable cowboy*. Everyone just wanted to go have a beer with him.




*except for the "horses" part

[slightlv]

22. Yes, Free Trade.

And none of them were about FAIR Trade.

[617Blue]

12. It's not a matter of execution Bret. "Ideas" LOL.

[Paladin]

13. I'm in no mood for a way-too-late whine from Bret Stephens.

He and his fellow douchebag scribes from the NY Times did nothing but trash Harris and Biden during the campaign, while cutting trump a mile of slack. Same for the rest of the mainstream media.

And now he wants to tell us how awful trump is? Fuck that shit.

[DallasNE]

14. One Huge Difference This Time

Smoot-Hawley was the name of a bill that passed both houses of Congress and was signed by Hoover. This time Congress has not been involved. It is a dictatorial decision by one man, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. No checks and balances.

[bronxiteforever]

21. Good points.

[Hassler]

16. Americans avoided electing a treasonous fool

Until now.

[NoMoreRepugs]

19. The problem is VonSchitzInPants tripled down very early and often on how

TARIFFS were going to be the GREATEST thing ever for America. He had to follow through once all other nations called his bluff. Now the planet can suffer because the ManBaby can never ever admit he made a mistake.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

23. MAGARepublicans are out for blood.

They got a taste of it in 2021. Now I don't think it matters if it's a civil war or another world war. We will be the bad guys regardless of where these insane men are driving us.

[elocs]

24. Trump is proud of his ignorance and incompetence, but millions voted for him anyways. n/t

[Johonny]

25. It hasn't even begun well.

[Bev54]

26. I don't often agree with Bret Stephens but in this case......

[CaptainTruth]

27. When will the shooting start?

I ask myself that every day.

[Bayard]

28. Bookmarking for future factoid

[Emile]

31. He seems to be copying Hoover's presidency.

Hopefully our party will run another FDR.

[Gum Logger]

37. Repugs are always out to rediscover Herbert Hoover's shovel.

[Escurumbele]

32. "Until him, no U.S. president has been so incompetent in putting his own ideas into practice."

Lets start by admitting that all of his "ideas" were bad to begin with, and they were LIES, anyone who thinks he was serious or truthful about anything has not been paying attention.

Its a mistake to think they are incompetent. I have posted about this many, many times.

We think these people are incompetent because everything they do destroys, everything they do is counter to what must be done in order to help the country become better, to assure that those of us who needed the most are protected, etc., etc.

But these thugs ARE NOT INCOMPETENT, that is their goal, to create chaos, to destroy, to increase the anxiety of the people they are supposed to represent, its all by design, their high competence is being evil, and they are very good at that. We make the mistake to think they are incompetent and they are going to fall on their own swords, but it doesn't happen that way, we the people, and our representatives have to fight hard to get them out of office because once they cement their place in power, it is very difficult to bring them down, and as I have said before which is my biggest fear in all of this, if the military is an accomplice to these thugs that will make it almost impossible to bring them down, and there will be bloodshed if and when the people decide to come out to protest.

Just watch countries like Russia, Venezuela, and the many countries that have dictatorial regimes. This has to end this year, four years of this destruction are very hard to recover from. One thing is the economic destruction that G. W. Bush left behind, that one took close to eight years to fix, another is the massive destruction trump/musk are doing, and have done in one month, this is really insane.

But be convinced, THEY ARE NOT INCOMPETENT, and they are being led by Putin, he has been there, he knows what to do.

[ProfessorGAC]

36. Well Thought Out

Well written.
I just happen to disagree with the premise.
Being convinced of one's own plans to succeed by causing chaos, when the elements of the plan are doomed to failure, doesn't dissuade me applying from the incompetence tag.

[Dem4life1234]

34. Hope or doesn't end well for him!

[Taraman]

35. Trump's goal is the destruction of the United States

He is in bed with our enemies.