Man 2: Did you news? Fears of a bond market catastrophe convinced the U.S. president to hit the pause button.
Man 1: So the man de fear? Didn’t they do a basic assessment of the risks to their own economy? Now he hits the pause button? What kind of leadership is this?
Man 2: You can’t redesign a bicycle without assessing the risks ofnthe new design. But apparently, you can manage a $30 trillion economy without the faintest clue!
Man 1: The man is completely out of his depth!
Man 2: It’s like the snake in that epic fight with a razor blade—just realizing the blood on the ground is its own.
Man 1: Snake? Epic fight? Razor blade?
Man 2: Yeah. Picture this: A snake slithers across a rubbish dump and brushes against a discarded razor blade. Feeling a sharp pain, it turns, sees the blade, and strikes in anger—only to get cut again. Furious, the snake hisses:
“You played it wrong! You panicked. You should’ve let me bite you and moved on. You did tit, I did tat. Now you re-tit, I have to re-tat!”
And so the fight begins. The snake wraps itself around the blade like a constrictor, squeezing tighter and tighter—until the blade snaps in two… there’s a pool of blood its blood…..
Man 1: I thought we were talking about tariffs?
Man 2 (serious, measured):
We are.
No one wins.
No nation wins a tariff war against the world.
Against one or two countries? Sure. Maybe even three. You replace the supply chain from one country with another….
But against everyone?
You’ll be like that angry snake…
And the only bleeding you’ll see—
Will be the bleeding of your own economy.
Man 1 (curious, leaning in):
So… how does this end?
Man 2 (reflective, a little amused):
The world will humor him.
You remember when you were a kid?
You’d be bawling your eyes out, and your mom would say,
“Don’t cry, I’ll beat Daddy for you.”
She wasn’t actually going to beat him.
She just wanted you to calm down.
Same thing here—
They’ll throw him a bone.
Let him have his victory lap.
Man 1 (chuckling, resigned):
I rest my case!!
Man 2: Good man!
#dk
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