TBH I am starting to wonder if Trump is an economic hit job by the Russian government

@tonnerre it’s plausible, akin to the operation chaos shit they’ve been sowing across europe by making nice with fascists. putin and his gang have been playing with wet dynamite for years now, and it’s about to blow up in everyone’s faces. they may have literally helped the next hitler attain power while trying to fuck with rivals, assert dominance, and stomp on marginalized people.

nice legacy, vlad.

@auditorydamage maybe; my question is more specific: is it conceivable that Putin actually planned for Trump to shoot tariffs left and right and to crash the US economy in order to 1) reduce the economic influence the US has in the world, and 2) make it harder for the US to make adversarial policies towards Russia in the future
@tonnerre Possible, though I’m not sure they planned that far ahead at first. I think they merely expected him to sow social division and chaos after he narrowly lost to HRC, building up to a second run at the big chair. The bizarre upside-down victory was an unexpected bonus upon which they quickly capitalized.