Just to be clear: Snopes is not trustworthy, they lie with clear political motivation.

They’re not even trying to hide it, as they said “The available evidence is too scant to draw a solid conclusion.” about Elons saluting.

It’s not about shortages, it’s about labor. They’re bringing back the “company store”, they’ll get import excemptions and similar and force people to them and lock them into a system they can’t escape.

It makes it so people can’t save money, can’t move, can’t rise in the class system, etc… They can only work.

Edit for clarification: Around the 1900s and earlier, some companies would pay salaries in company credit, not cash. The credits could only be used in the company store, not the general store, or other company stores. So they were literally unable to save up any money or do anything but keep working for the same company until they died. And this would be easily implemented now, by giving company stores special benefits in terms of tariffs and regulations. Forcing less fortunate people into was if effectively servitude.

Him, RFK, the other heads of departments and agencies they’ve instated, etc. are mostly just morons put there to take the blame.

And media(social and traditional) is eating it up, constantly mocking their stupid statements while ignoring the real scary stuff being pushed by the people behind them with the money.

It’s just back to projection about “the swamp” and billionaires controlling politicians.

That’s the thing, they know that. Trump just thinks he’s “winning” as a master negotiator.

There are a bunch of smart people who know what they’re doing, but they’re pinning all the blame on the useful idiots like Trump, RFK Jr., Leavitt, Bondi, etc.

Is it morally wrong for an entire nation to bait their despot into increasingly deranged ego trips?

Nope.

The more deranged you can make him a appear, the more people are willing to distance themselves from him.

The second once, since the attorney general is a fascist.

There’s a very high chance that most of them no longer work. Although if even just 5% of the ones deployed are working, that’s still over 80. Which is more than enough to start WW3.

And it’s almost unthinkable that they haven’t kept strict maintenance on at least a few.

At this point it’s basically just propaganda to give the illusion that something is being done.

They’re not shocked that he lied, they’re shocked that he lied to them. As long as his lies only impact other people, they literally cheer and praise the lying.

He talked about it publically, and there was a business delegation sent there, but no formal dialogue was initiated. So no actual offers made.

You have to remember that they are incompetent. They didn’t know they had to reach out and start making offers, drawing up paperwork, etc. Although they will probably try to save face by proudly claiming they were never really interested in the first place. And the sheep will cheer on his genius business strategy of not getting anything.

Most people have absolutely zero idea about the access they had and what they could have copied.

It goes far beyond conspiracy theories at this point: Most major media outlets and centralized social media platforms in the world are sanewashing the entire conservative bloc in America.

They’re literally copying Germany in the 1930s, with secret police, sending people to camp based on ethnicity(For all those who seem to not know: Dachau concentration camp was opened in 1933, thousands held there by 1934), etc. Elon Musk did a full blow, Hitler style Nazi salute on stage during the inaugration celebration, twice. And all the media, including pages like Snopes, are acting like “It’s impossible to tell what he actually meant”.

In reality we all know it wont do shit.

In Trump’s mind it will show the world what a glorious and powerful leader he is, and everyone will just do what he demands.

To be fair, Ben & Jerry’s is owned by Unilever. And if one of those leaders showed up it might have been different, but they’re mostly British and don’t care.

(For reference, there’s more than a 50% chance you have some of their products in your home, as they “serve” over 3bill people a day. With brands like Knorr, Jif, Hellman’s, Lipton, Axe, Q-Tips, Dove, Vaseline, and many, many more. They are the world largest ice cream manufacturer.If you look at your local brands, at least one probably has the “heartbrand” logo, indicating it’s owned by them. )

Well they want to almost destroy America, that way the rich can buy up everything for cheap and become even more pwoerful. They’re literally trying to recreate the situation that caused the rise of oligarchs in Russia.

And the idiots vote for it because they’ve been brainwashed by propaganda to think they’ll be part of the elite once it’s over.

Which is how a country like Iceland is able to make more than the US despite having a total population of 400k people: They have tons of access to renewable energy through geothermal vents.

Norway makes around twice as much as the US with their 5.5m people, again because of renewables.

Stop bringing up facts and figures, I have wordly experience!

-The average conservative voter

Don’t you remember learning about Germany in school? According to history disabled people are going to the camps as well. And RFK has already annonced that they’re going on a list. Then it’s non-straight people. And then they came for…

At this point, if a news outlet or politician refuse to call it what it is, I assume they actually approve.

So far it’s most of them across the world.