Trump spares his paymasters
Notice who *didn't* get hit by his "Liberation Day" tariffs yesterday.
Consider this (and make sure you read all the way to the end):
You’ve been an expansionist, imperialist power for nearly your entire existence.
You consider yourself culturally and even genetically superior to those whose lands you occupy.
You have a chokehold over much of American business, media and government.
You even has the President of the United States himself doing your bidding.
You continue to humiliate the American President and yet he’s still too cowed to stand up for his own country.
You are involved in a genocidal war of conquest against your long put-upon neighbour.
You consider yourself a military superpower but you actually coast on past glories while struggling in recent wars despite having a much stronger army on paper.
You wallow in your ancestors’ suffering at the hands of the Nazis, despite evidence that you collaborated with them, and use that as an excuse for everything you do.
You are paranoid and assume everyone else is out to get you just because of who you are, not …
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