So here's the deal, the point is honesty, but we can play their game too and we need to start passing the truth around our own echo chambers.
For example: NYT: Trump’s Secret Foreign Aid Program - He’s giving away billions to overseas investors.
When Trump brags about how well he's done with the economy, point out the deficit. But also this:
I have a bunch more I'll be adding. By all means if you have any talking points add them to the thread. Discussion about the issues can go in other threads. This thread is for collecting the talking points we are going to need in the next year and a half to counter the massive propaganda effort that has already begun.
For example: NYT: Trump’s Secret Foreign Aid Program - He’s giving away billions to overseas investors.
When Trump brags about how well he's done with the economy, point out the deficit. But also this:
Please check out additional details in the article. Krugman has multiple salient talking points.Donald Trump often complains that the media don’t give him credit for his achievements. And I can think of at least one case where that’s true. As far I can tell, almost nobody is reporting that he has presided over a huge — but hidden — increase in foreign aid, the money America gives to foreigners. In fact, the hidden Trump program, currently running at around $40 billion a year, is probably the biggest giveaway to other nations since the Marshall Plan.
Unfortunately, the aid isn’t going either to poor countries or to America’s allies. Instead, it’s going to wealthy foreign investors....
Tariffs are normally paid by consumers in the importing country, not exporters. And we can confirm that this is what’s happening with the Trump tariffs: Prices of goods subject to those tariffs have risen sharply, roughly in line with the tariff increases, while prices of goods not subject to the new tariffs haven’t gone up.
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So Trump’s tariffs aren’t a tax on foreigners, whatever he may think. On the other hand, his other policies have given selective foreigners a huge tax break.
I have a bunch more I'll be adding. By all means if you have any talking points add them to the thread. Discussion about the issues can go in other threads. This thread is for collecting the talking points we are going to need in the next year and a half to counter the massive propaganda effort that has already begun.
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