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[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Gosh Tim. How is that million dollar personal contribution ~~directly into Trump’s pocket~~ to Trump’s inauguration fund working out for you?

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Trump is basically a sad fat kid in a classroom that just cries and screams when shit doesn't go his way and then ruins everything for everyone else.

[–] ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah yes. Our sworn enemy: Taiwan.

It would be comical if it wasn't so sad.

Trump is on china's side. Make no mistake he like their way of doing things.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump had to tariff someone or else he was going to look stupid for never shutting up about tarrifs.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's going, or is, senil. The tariffs are just something that got into his head that are simple to understand.

[–] FolknForage@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

he is going, or is, senile

How the hell we’ll be able to tell

Did you see the vid where he thinks Spain is the S in BRICS?!

🤡

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[–] magnus919@lemmy.brandyapple.com 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's going to impact American consumers a hell of a lot more.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Came here to say that. Americans pay the tarrifs. He's raising prices for American consumers.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] Deepus@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

There has been a lot of greatness in US, but the people fighting the good fights seem to be losing right now. Just slowly, a little year by year. Hopefully this a kick in the pants too fucking far and we wake the fuck up and see we have to actually do something about it.

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 day ago

Surely this will bring egg prices down.

[–] FolknForage@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol, I'd love to watch everyone in the US paying triple for literally anything that has electronics in it.

If Trump then wants to build chips in the US, good luck. ASML is the only one with the machines, first of all, and by the time he can buy those, something tells me they might have some extra tarifs added to them, and then paying US salaries for electronics would skyrocket prices to people having to pay four-five times the amount of what they're paying now.

Not saying that the near slavery conditions in Asia are fine, that should have changed decades ago, but the way trump is doing this is hilarious, people will want his head on a plattee

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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

lol is he even trying to hide being a Russian puppet anymore?

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Wildly bad ideas at exactly the right time in history to do the most damage.

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Trump is going to use Tariffs to try to offset making larger tax cuts for the wealthy.

It’s better that he does this now so that we have a solid recent example to point to of how this will impact what we pay for goods.

Never mind we have 100 years of data backing this up, people are idiots and won’t recognize the treat until it hurts them directly.

[–] theoretiker@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, we mostly have examples of how free trade reduces prices. But this reduction in prices usually wasn't instantaneous and perceivable by ordinary folks. Because corporations wouldn't hand out the savings to consumers until the very slow market force of competition forced them to. Tariffs will make everything more expensive and even if they are eventually culled, stuff will not become suddenly cheap again.

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I agree, I doubt very much that price savings for any reduction in Tariffs will be passed onto the consumer. However any increase in Tariffs will immediately be felt.

I’d rather see an increase in a single sector such as microchips to show the public the costs of Trump’s plan in real modern dollars to help build opposition. Than wait until he pushes an across the board Tariff. Which would likely result in a stagflation for the population at large.

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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago (2 children)

China I get, but Taiwan ? It's literally a US-proxy state

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago

I mean Puerto Rico is literally part of the US and that doesn't seem to matter for them.....

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[–] Laitinlok@lemmy.laitinlok.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It does not make any sense

[–] FolknForage@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

That’s because syphilis hasn’t mushed your brain

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