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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUm, the tariffs are not being collected at nations ports.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193930/ports-not-collecting-trump-tariffs-glitchIts 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 cant 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 weve got 3 years and 9 months of this chaos to go. God help us.
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Um, the tariffs are not being collected at nations ports. (Original Post)
surfered
Apr 11
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Donald Trump is so incompetent he could bankrupt a lemonade stand during a heatwave.
LetMyPeopleVote
Saturday
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Ocelot II
(124,252 posts)1. Which is exactly why I've been calling it the Dunning-Kruger Administration.
The DunningKruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.
SheltieLover
(66,489 posts)3. Each one is a poster child for Dunning-Kruger

gab13by13
(27,712 posts)2. Maybe the tariffs
Are going into the Sovereign Wealth fund?
Tadpole Raisin
(1,745 posts)4. Maybe talking about their incompetence is a good strategy.
If journalists keep stating the administration is so incompetent they cant do basic things every other WH did with ease it will piss him off.
FSogol
(47,278 posts)5. Don't worry, businesses are already raising prices anyway!

BOSSHOG
(42,072 posts)6. Thank You for a Spot on to the point summary
Girard442
(6,617 posts)7. "But the whole mess is just further evidence..."
"...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.
LetMyPeopleVote
(161,698 posts)8. Donald Trump is so incompetent he could bankrupt a lemonade stand during a heatwave.