re: #457 Mattand

Just read up on the “Ban all German luxury cars” bullshit. I can usually tease some semblance of what this lunatic is thinking out of the ether, but this one has me stumped. I have no fucking idea how this benefits the US.

It doesn’t benefit the US: it benefits Donald Trump and his Administration. Mainly in “ratings” and press coverage, but since that’s all this clownshow of an Admin cares about, Mission Accomplished!

“German luxury cars” is nice tidy shorthand even the rubes (i.e. Joe Lunchbucket out in Rustburg, PA) can understand. “Luxury cars” as something they might want, but can’t (and will never be able to) afford: so as to play off their resentment of those (affluent America-hating libruls, mostly) who can. And “German” as shorthand for “Rich Socialist Foreign Freeloading Unfair-Trader” - and because Germans always make good political punching-bags.

Of course, this being Trump he can always reverse his policy on a dime (or Euro) - possibly excepting domestically-produced “German” cars, perhaps, in a token nod to the many billions of dollars German automakers have invested in production facilities over here. But who knows…?