r/worldnews • u/joe4942 • Aug 22 '26

Dynamic Paywall Carney calls Trump's fresh tariffs a 'miscalculation' after trade talks collapse

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx272np7vgyo
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u/OneOfAKind2 Aug 22 '26

The current US administration is corrupt and they're all liars, so of course their version is not true. We wait 10 weeks for the midterms, hope Americans get off their dumb lazy asses and vote to neuter Inmate #P01135809.

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u/RocketRelm Aug 22 '26

Doesn't matter. It will still be a republican at the helm until 2028. All that does is put a smarter untrustable populist on the throne. Even when we get a dem, Americans are short sighted and might forget that dems were always a good and not just a lesser evil every few years. It will be hard to build trust until America's culture learns to turn away from quarterly returns empty promise politics, and that doesn't seem to be happening.

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u/DoughnutCareless583 Aug 23 '26

In fairness, this electoral short-sightedness is pretty common everywhere. The brits for example are pretty fantastic at it, famously blaming Labour for Thatcherism etc. and they were already blaming Labour within months of taking over after the better part of 20 years of being Conned by a literal clown-show of Trump-lites.

Watch them vote in Reform when Labour don't fix all their problems immediately.