Comments on: Cluelessness Abounds http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/04/08/cluelessness-abounds/ Reality-based political commentary Fri, 22 May 2026 05:45:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/04/08/cluelessness-abounds/#comment-218325 Chris Weigant Thu, 10 Apr 2025 05:43:05 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26254#comment-218325 OK, about to post a momentous comment, but going to do it on today's column... just to warn everyone. -CW OK, about to post a momentous comment, but going to do it on today's column...

just to warn everyone.

-CW

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/04/08/cluelessness-abounds/#comment-218301 MtnCaddy Wed, 09 Apr 2025 21:23:05 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26254#comment-218301 ALL the insanity makes sense IF Putin owns Krasnov/Trump. Trump is thoroughly parroting Putin’s line. Talk me down, but THIS explains EVERYTHING Trump has done. I WANT to hear a more SENSIBLE reason for all these anti-American decisions. Please! ALL the insanity makes sense IF Putin owns Krasnov/Trump. Trump is thoroughly parroting Putin’s line.

Talk me down, but THIS explains EVERYTHING Trump has done. I WANT to hear a more SENSIBLE reason for all these anti-American decisions. Please!

]]> By: John From Censornati http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/04/08/cluelessness-abounds/#comment-218298 John From Censornati Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:12:36 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26254#comment-218298 It seems like other countries will be emboldened by Fat Donny's weakness each time his bluff is called. It seems like other countries will be emboldened by Fat Donny's weakness each time his bluff is called.

]]> By: John From Censornati http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/04/08/cluelessness-abounds/#comment-218297 John From Censornati Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:08:14 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26254#comment-218297 So much winning. I'm sick of it. So much winning. I'm sick of it.

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/04/08/cluelessness-abounds/#comment-218296 MtnCaddy Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:58:49 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26254#comment-218296 JMC 1 I don’t think it’ll take months it’ll be weeks at the most. JMC
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I don’t think it’ll take months it’ll be weeks at the most.

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/04/08/cluelessness-abounds/#comment-218294 MtnCaddy Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:56:56 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26254#comment-218294 The Russian economy is close to collapse and Putin’s only hope is for Trump to trash the world economy, although I don’t think the Euros will back down because they <i>know they’re next.</i> Pretty radical idea but someone give me a better explanation for ALL of Trump’s seemingly insane decisions. The Russian economy is close to collapse and Putin’s only hope is for Trump to trash the world economy, although I don’t think the Euros will back down because they know they’re next.

Pretty radical idea but someone give me a better explanation for ALL of Trump’s seemingly insane decisions.

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/04/08/cluelessness-abounds/#comment-218293 MtnCaddy Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:51:21 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26254#comment-218293 None of this is clueless if Putin is pulling Krasnov/Trump’s strings. None of this is clueless if Putin is pulling Krasnov/Trump’s strings.

]]> By: John M from Ct. http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/04/08/cluelessness-abounds/#comment-218277 John M from Ct. Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:58:13 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26254#comment-218277 Thanks for hammering home what we've been talking about for several weeks now: the impossibility of the tariffs being negotiating tactics as well as being a strategy to restore the U.S. manufacturing sector. I am hoping that the responsible parties (Democratic leaders, respected media analysts, etc.) will find a way to cook this question down so everyday people can: 1) see the contradiction for what it is, and 2) demand clarity and consistency - clued-ness, in other words - from the Republican administration. Right now, as you report, it seems every Republican official can give his or her own version of what the 'tariff strategy' is, depending on their own constituency and beliefs, without any fear of contradiction from the center, or challenge from the opposition or the media about this fundamental contradiction of messaging. And so it will go, I guess, until the actual pain of the tariffs begins to kick in for real. Months from now, maybe, the people will begin to demand that the White House get a clue. Thanks for hammering home what we've been talking about for several weeks now: the impossibility of the tariffs being negotiating tactics as well as being a strategy to restore the U.S. manufacturing sector.

I am hoping that the responsible parties (Democratic leaders, respected media analysts, etc.) will find a way to cook this question down so everyday people can: 1) see the contradiction for what it is, and 2) demand clarity and consistency - clued-ness, in other words - from the Republican administration.

Right now, as you report, it seems every Republican official can give his or her own version of what the 'tariff strategy' is, depending on their own constituency and beliefs, without any fear of contradiction from the center, or challenge from the opposition or the media about this fundamental contradiction of messaging.

And so it will go, I guess, until the actual pain of the tariffs begins to kick in for real. Months from now, maybe, the people will begin to demand that the White House get a clue.

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