In short: Trump told his son-in-law to find him an economic advisor, Jared went on Amazon and started looking for economic books on Amazon with titles that sounded badass. Jared found “Death by China” by a random nut job named Peter Navarro. In it, Peter Navarro extensively quoted an economics expert named Ron Vara who explained in detail how good an idea tariffs were.
Now, think about this: If this were a bad fantasy novel with a mysterious villain, who would Ron Vara during one particular big reveal turn out to be?
I cheated and looked up the answer:
“The economics expert that Peter Navarro has long cited to explain why he’s so gung-ho on tariffs, this person, Ron Vara, is a made-up person. He is a fictional person. Peter Navarro invented Ron Vara as his expert source, so he could quote this expert source over and over and over again in his crackpot books.”
And he even made the fake economist an anagram of his own last name.
Reality is so fucking dumb. Ughhhh
John Barron and Ron Vara are friends.
They’re best friends!
https://youtu.be/QGu0m08Etm8
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"But that really is how the Trump administration crafted its tariff policy. That’s where Trump came up with the tariff idea.
Circulating a fake memo - from a fake person - with a fake email address - in order to make it look like this was a serious issue being debated by real experts.
That is the intellectual basis on which Donald Trump today wiped $6 trillion of wealth out of existence and crashed America’s markets and brought America and the world to the brink of a self-inflicted, on-purpose, global Great Depression along the lines of what we had in 2008 and what the pandemic inflicted upon us in 2020.
This time the global disaster is Donald Trump’s big brain."
Ron Vara should form a consulting firm with John Barron, John Miller, and David Dennison. They would be the hit of K Street.
With Adrian Dittman
I was waiting for someone to bring up Dittman.
Ron Vera being Navarro reminds me of Trump posing as John Miller
Game recognize game.
In seriousness, that is what’s going on, just in a little more complex fashion.
Both Trump and Musk are incapable of interacting with someone who knows what they’re talking about and also has the integrity to speak up about it. Because at some point they will disagree with some of the total bullshit that Trump/Musk is emitting. And so, over time, they become surrounded by people they’re comfortable with: Total morons, or shameless hucksters, or both at once.
Musk started out running a company that could produce the Tesla Roadster. Trump started out with John Kelly, Jim Mattis, those kinds of people. Over time, natural selection weeds those people out, because they make Trump/Musk incredibly uncomfortable and they have to get rid of them. That’s why they are both surrounded by people like Big Balls and Navarro: Because that’s what they want. People they feel comfortable with because they never disagree. And Trump and Musk are both so incredibly unqualified that people have to get really incompetent – like to a grade-school level – to reach a level that they’ll never push back against the horrible ideas that emit from them.
Why would Republicans care about average stock owners? He can cause a huge dip and cash in.
And that’s how America collapsed…
These people are so fucking stupid, that they believe their own propaganda.
