Sean CastenChoosing cowardice, stupidity and lies just to stay in Donald Trump’s good graces will ALWAYS come back to bite you in the ass. A play in 3 acts:
Act 1: Scott Bessent, prior to being named Trump’s Treasury Secretary says, unambiguously, “tariffs are inflationary”. https://assets.realclear.com/files/2024/02/2353_keysquare.pdf
Act 2: Scott Bessent, fully ensconced in his role as Toady for Trump at Treasury says: “I was mistaken when I said that tariffs could be inflationary” https://youtube.com/shorts/2-TFvYKmUEU?si=VczZVphtCRLKIWw5
I Was Also Mistaken When I Said The Tariffs Could Be Inflationary: Scott Bessent | US Tariffs | N18G
Act 3: Cato Institute with the receipts. https://www.cato.org/blog/one-year-after-liberation-day-heres-what-we-know-what-we-dont
Point is, the lesson of Bessent, and Giuliani, and Bondi, and Noem, and Scaramuci and so many others is that he didn’t respect you before you debased yourself and he won’t respect you after. He only hired you because he knew you’d whore yourself out for him.
Once you’ve proven to the rest of the world what he already knew, you’ve lost your value to him. He will drop you and leave you with the mess. Vance, Rubio and so many others in the GOP haven’t figured this out yet. But they will. /fin
Flaming Cheeto@SeanCasten Well, Vance is just hoping he'll die in office right after Jan 21 , 2027 so he can run as an incumbent twice.
Thad@PizzaDemon But that's the same mistake. The mistake of thinking kissing Trump's ass will advance your career instead of torching it.