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> If my toddler scribbles on the wall I better put the markers away next time not put up a little sign that says, "Junior's Doodles."

The point of "Trump Tariffs" is not to make the Trump the scribbler face that wall and feel shame for his output--everybody knows he's too damaged for that.

The point is to ensure everybody else (i.e. voters) recognize that the government is taking their money and understand how it came to occur.

To return to your analogy, it's some message that tells other adults to stop giving Junior their markers, from a source that is beyond your direct control.



> The point of "Trump Tariffs" is not to make the Trump the scribbler face that wall and feel shame for his output--everybody knows he's too damaged for that.

Why do you believe that is the point of “Juniors Doodles”?

> The point is to ensure everybody else (i.e. voters) recognize that the government is taking their money and understand how it came to occur.

If you put “Trump’s Tariffs” there then you are fundamentally ignoring how it came to occur by blaming the person who enacted the tariffs.

You don’t blame the bomb for exploding, you blame the person who lit the fuse.

> To return to your analogy, it's some message that tells other adults to stop giving Junior their markers, from a source that is beyond your direct control.

Sorry, either this makes no sense or I’m too stupid to understand it.




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