A pro-MAGA outlet with a weekday livestream on Rumble had a blunt message for its followers a day after President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs that economists warned could cost consumers: “You do NOT need the new iPad.”
“You do NOT need the new Cell Phone. You do NOT need the new video game console,” The Quartering wrote Thursday on X. “You WANT them. There is a big difference and if you look at the people whining about the tariffs I challenge you to ask them how their lives have been affected in any way.”
The sudden flip comes after The Quartering previously boasted that Trump’s new administration would usher in a “golden age” in America.
And critics immediately took notice.
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“Broke: America’s economy enters a golden age on Jan. 20 woke: you losers don’t need things,” Civil rights lawyer Joshua Erlich wrote on Bluesky.
“Hard to put into words how much the right is freaking out rn on the other site,” Bluesky user @lowrhoufo wrote on Thursday.
“Wasn’t WANTING the new iPad, Cell Phone, & video game console the whole reason you voted for Trump in the first case?” essayist and writer Sami Gold pointed out to his followers on X.
“Life comes at you fast,” Techdirt writer Mike Masnick posted on Bluesky.