This totally makes sense. Trump thinks that his tariffs are a weapon to get foreign companies to invest in manufacturing in the US. But, all they really do is make procurement in the US a nightmare. Then, add a hostile environment regarding obtaining visas for employees into the mix, and foreign companies end up severely curtailing their investment in the US. Less investment means fewer jobs.
I think history will look to that immigration raid on the Hyundai plant as a turning point. Before that raid, many companies might have taken Trump seriously when he said that he was encouraging investment in the US. But that raid proved that foreigners will always be seen as “others” by this government, never as a full partner.
No reasonable company would send their citizens to work in the USA when there is every possibility that they could be indefinitely detained or “deported” to some third world gulag at the whim of the Trump administration.
German and Swiss multinationals are very reluctant to send employees to the US for meetings or conferences already, and that’s just the beginning.
Investors hate a unpredictable market. Trump’s constant changes and insane policies make the US very uncomfortable for any business.
A newly revealed memo from the Office of Management and Budget claims that federal workers forced into furlough during the ongoing shutdown may not receive back pay once the ordeal ends. In open defiance of the law, the administration argues that the 2019 Government Employee Fair Treatment Act does not automatically guarantee wages to workers sent home or ordered to labor without compensation. The government that once promised fairness has now declared that those who serve it may be discarded. This is not confusion. It is control.
Eventually people are gonna decide that working for free sucks and they just won’t come in.
Sadly, that is the point. Part of project 2025 is to remove as many workers as they can and when a position needs to be filled, make sure it’s a loyalist. This is just the means to an end for the fascist.
when a position needs to be filled, make sure it’s a loyalist
Mostly inept, incompetent, stupid loyalists.
All of this is just part of their plan to drastically shrink the government to a size where you can drown it in the bathtub.
Can we throw a toaster in there too?
i’ll get an extension cord
