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surfered

(6,209 posts)
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 09:47 PM Apr 11

Um, the tariffs are not being collected at nations ports.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193930/ports-not-collecting-trump-tariffs-glitch

It’s hard to keep up with this on again off again tariff policy, but Custom officials blame it on a glitch.

This administration is incompetent and they prove it every day,

They lay off people and discover their jobs were critical and have to rehire them, but lost their contact info.

They admit their administrative error mistakenly sent a man to a prison in El Salvador, but can’t find him to return him home.

They destroyed a good economy with tariffs promoted by an economic adviser who created a fictitious economist to quote in his book, which its title alone got him hired as an economic adviser.

This administration hired kooks, cranks, conspiracy theorists, vaccine deniers, and drunks not for their competence, but for their sycophancy.

And we’ve got 3 years and 9 months of this chaos to go. God help us.
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Ocelot II

(124,252 posts)
1. Which is exactly why I've been calling it the Dunning-Kruger Administration.
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 09:50 PM
Apr 11

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.

Tadpole Raisin

(1,745 posts)
4. Maybe talking about their incompetence is a good strategy.
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 10:01 PM
Apr 11

If journalists keep stating the administration is so incompetent they can’t do basic things every other WH did with ease it will piss him off.

Girard442

(6,617 posts)
7. "But the whole mess is just further evidence..."
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 11:22 PM
Apr 11

"...of a complete lack of strategy, planning, or direction..."

I mean, who could possibly have expected this sort of thing from a life-long rage-driven nepo baby con artist descending into dementia? After all, people like that are usually so diligent, professional, and trustworthy.

Fuck the people who put him into power. Just fuck 'em. I hope their every remaining waking moment is filled with guilt, shame, and fear.

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