you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead
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also he just decimated every single regulatory body that could possibly have oversight of said factories. businesses will NEVER choose to spend more to build safe, well-maintained facilities when there is no one to force them to do so
Most of the world already thought US regulations were too lax.
I wouldn't have used US makeup unless I could research its ingredients first. And god knows what's going to get in it now.
Trust in quality is going to drop like a stone.
a new recycling plant that had been in the works for years in my little city canceled their plans yesterday, 100% because of this. 300 potential new jobs (not to mention the work that would have come with the construction itself), gone.
I had a realization like this in the 1990s when the GOP implemented the Blue Skies Act (or some similarly titled thing) claiming to be a way to clean up pollution when it actually eliminated legislation mandating air scrubbers, filters, etc from factories.
Fun fact: The brothers who owned the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory got more money from their insurance policy than they paid to dead and injured workers.
Not to mention even if they do they will not pay a living wage or allow unions. They'd need to make the work force completely desperate for work and insurance somehow 🤔
“An old fashioned term that we use -- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. It says a horrific industrial accident.”
Tax cuts in the 80's gave them the cash to shutter plants and communities and invest in China. They built the Chinese economy because by refusing to pay living wages to American families.
They might just build - but it’ll take 7-10 years to be fully operational and profitable. And, manufacturing is not what it was back in that day. Guys won’t be marching in with their lunch pails…it’s almost all robots. This is not 1955.
We have known for some time he's brain dead. The real question is when did Republican congressman and senators become brain dead? It is obvious they either don't care or don't know what they're doing to people
People don’t want to work on a line manufacturing aluminum toothpaste tubes for $20/day, yet they want this industry and its outputs to exist in America.
By the time a company would be able to move and get manufacturing up and running the next election will be upon us. Companies are not doing that, they are going to wait out this administration. The pain on the 99% will be real
These days, the biggest impact to manufacturing employment is robotic production. We're not going back to WWII levels of manufacturing employment. That's a problem we should be talking about.
There's that, but it even more stupid to imagine that American manufactures can fill the vacuum instantly. It's going to take 1-3 years to attempt to get there.
In the mean time, we either go broke or go without.
Even if they agreed to build new factories, which is frankly ludicrous & not happening, how long would that take? How many people will have to be laid off while they’re building a new factory? Building new plants & factories ain’t cheap so who is going to pay for that elusive factory being built?
Depending on the machinery needed for that factory to produce its goods, 2-5 years at a minimum, and that's assuming normal economic times. If they manufacture tried to install domestic capacity at the same time, guess what happens?
It is insane that some people are actually trying to use this narrative to support the disaster in progress. There is no way that it works out for any American worker. But guess they’ll find out about this too 🤦🏽♀️
Here in Norway, were not so surpised of taxes imposed, but how he completely got almost all the numbers wrong, like newsanchors actually scratching their heads, saying is he that stupid? US must stop this bufoon right now. Great to see yall out in great numbers.
There’s no supply chain infrastructure to support on the fly moving your supply chain to the US. Not to mention that we don’t have the labor to support the prices we would need to pay for making shit at home.
Well, first you crash the economy. Then you convince the Feds and states to drop the minimum wage back to, say, $2.50/hr. Then, companies will rush to build factories here. Of course, we'll all be sharing 3-bedroom apartments with 2 other families, but you know, the tech bros need more stuff!!!
They still wouldn’t rush here, largely because of how long it would take to spin up the infrastructure given a government that’s not gonna help pay for it.
Also even at $2.50 hr we wouldn’t be outcompeting the lowest wages in Asia and the savings there alone would probably cancel out the tariffs.
They may bring back factories but no mass employment just the production line of robotic machines. They will not pay a living wage in the US it's about $25 an hour if I am wrong let me know.
Also, someone was saying, "who wants a factory job?" I am sure a lot of folks don't want to work repetitive factory jobs. They prefer office jobs. I am not talking about high tech manufacturing. I am talking about menial Modern Times with Charlie Chaplin factory jobs
tariffs are a last resort AFTER infrastructure bills that encourage american companies to rebuild in the US and they refuse. just slapping on universal tariffs, it's almost like this is being done unilaterally by a senile madman that no one in office is trying to stop or slow down
The Republicans legislated to change the definition of two weeks to annul the power of Congress to remove Trump's declaration of an "emergency" which he is using to implement the tariffs. THE REPUBLICANS ALL VOTED FOR THIS TO HAPPEN. https://youtu.be/xKDPrsMaZU8?si=oy50_ZapjXbi73c3
He also just ruined every active quote for building new factories and equipment already in work, anything not already scoped two years ago is last in line. Oh, and everyone has just laid off their admin and pm support. We are so fucked.
disregarding the ableism in this post, because I do understand you are a kind woman cait, trump and The Gang are completely huffed up on copium ideology, even their advisors in the shadows don't have any plans based in material reality
We spent decades pushing kids into STEM fields just so we could do what? Funnel them onto the factory floor? You’re an engineer, a scientist? Congratulations you get to assemble sneakers for Nike.
If Trump's lips are moving, he's lying. He has no interest or concern about getting AMERICANS back to sewing jeans or hammering out auto parts. His only motivation now and always is to make himself richer. https://trueman-triola.stories.email/
Exactly. Yes, I’m going to immediately respond to an increase in the cost of building materials by buying building materials for a manufacturing plant 🙄
To get anywhere near making it financially feasible they'd have to gut labor and environmental protections, including getting rid of the minimum wage. Vietnam pays textile workers about $.50 an hour, so you're going to have to make up that difference somehow. And then we wouldn't have enough labor.
A few companies will undoubtedly announce plans to build a factory or add capacity in the US, though to announce now, those plans had to have been in the works before Trump ever returned to office. Then the Trump admin will take undue credit and plaster the news all over the place. Too predictable!
Not to mention even if they wanted to, how fucking long do they think it’s going to take? A day or two?! Meanwhile Senator Warren has legislation ready to go that would bring back some vital manufacturing like our medications & shit!
Exactly. And if a manufacturing firm is not already in the planning stages… it’ll be at least two years out. Allotting the CapEx, procuring land, build out, setting up logistics, raw material supply chains.
Aside from the complete implausibility of returning factories to the US, higher wages here would increase the cost of goods to beyond the tariff increased cost.
Read these books by Dr. Bandy X. Lee: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump and her follow up book: The More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. Psychiatrists discuss his severe mental illness. He is unhinged and can’t function in the real world. What Trump is doing is madness. Please tell people!
This is what happens when most America voters stay home in elections. Being so fucking racist and hateful and being so uneducated and stupid and gullible you believe everything a rapist tells you, just because of a fragile ego and bigotry elect a person who hates veterans how does that feel now
Don't bother trying to justify his actions. He wants a recession and depression.
When everything reaches its lowest, he and all the 1%ers will use their largely unimpacted wealth to buy up as much as possible. They're likely "shorting" the market on the way down too. Happened before.
Imagine if US companies actually DID spend the billons in CAPEX to build new factories only for trump to change his mind again and all that investment is worthless.
There is so much wrong with the idea of this… how long is it going to take the factories to be built, much less producing? Even assuming they weasel out of property taxes and such, land costs are higher and will just be passed on to the consumer, right? How is that any different from tariffs?…
Where do they find enough skilled labor in a country this full of dipshits?how are they going to get all the workers there? Traffic is already terrible. What countries will be willing to take products that meet low American safety/quality standards? UK wont even take our shitty bleach chicken.
Also, fuck any company that moves back here. I don’t want to patronize any company that knuckles under to that moronic creep. I’d almost rather pay the tariff
I was running out of characters and didn’t want to split the skeet so “bleach chicken” is my snarky term for chlorinated chicken, a food practice somewhat common in the USA, but banned for sale in the UK.
It’s contentious. And in addition to stated concerns about how safe the process is, it also can be used to wallpaper over other bad practices, apparently.
Plus the fact that he’s swiftly moved us into political retribution and no due process. If you don’t have to put your money & freedom on the line to run a successful business elsewhere in the world, I can’t imagine deciding it’s worth it to start a factory in the US when Trump could Jack Ma you.
They cannot do this and there’s no reason for them to do this. The entire idea that they would rests on the principle that the US is such a consumerist powerhouse that it would be worthwhile, but that just simply isn’t true if the US walls themselves off and sets off an economic nuke inside
Oh boy let’s spend a fuck ton of money to build factories so we can only sell our product to a population with cratering financial prospects, and let’s do that while we ourselves are hemorrhaging cash and the cost of capital investment is skyrocketing!
Some companies will probably swear fealty and tithe to the state in order to be propped up (see: all prior instances of fascism). But that’s different from resurrecting dead industries, that’s a complete fantasy.
I suspect that it’s going to be sold as, “But you *must* elect Trump’s “heir!” That’s the only way those “emergency” tariffs encouraging domestic manufacturing will stay in place!”
But that’s based on people continuing to drink the Kool Aid.
I mean they might, just need to use forced labor and bring back slavery, just call it something else…
Even if that were the case, it would take at least a decade to rebuild it all… by then the rest of the world would have moved on, leaving us isolated into medieval time…
Americans can live up to their true potentials, mass under-educated citizens flourishing in squalor, eating fast food trash and hate posting the civilized world. USA, USA!!!
Wait, are you saying that you don’t believe Americans who are getting wiped out in 2025 will pay $200 for the thing we used to get from China for like $10? /s
Also, what about companies or industries that aren’t primarily U.S. based? Suddenly competitors are just going to crop up? This whole concept is unbelievably stupid.
The Big Lie of the tariff stuff: that US manufacturing has gone. Not true. Only China does more manufacturing than the US, by about 2:1 or less (there are different measures of it). But that's because China has a 3 or 4 to 1 population advantage, not because US manufacturing is gone.
What has largely gone from the US (and Canada) is low value-added manufacturing. That's why stores are full of cheaper foreign clothing, appliances and consumer electronics. But the US produces a lot of high value-added goods, like Germany, BTW, which pays well, but doesn't use unskilled labour.
And there's a Big Lie of omission: ignoring that USA has huge surpluses in trade in services: software, patent licences, copyright stuff like films, consulting services. When those are taken into account, the US deficits shrink to a few percent on average. But Trump won't tell you that.
Corporations stopped reinvesting in their businesses decades ago. Their margins are squeeking and their shareholders demand more and the brain trust that they all claim to be decided to just liquidate it. That’s the only value they see now.
Well if we keep cutting all of our scientific research funding, probably from China. The trillionaires will find a way. Also there wonʻt be much manufacturing returned here anyway. Itʻs not the 1950s any more.
And like the reason that it would be bizarre wishcasting to assume "businesses will invest heavily in U.S. manufacturing infrastructure" is that congress can rescind the tariffs at any point, and it would be a bad bet to assume they won't (at least after an election.)
Particularly given how many companies were working on it because of the Biden's EV pipeline incentives that just got pulled out from under them while factories were being built. Foll them once, but fool them twice.
Shit infrastructure, government cutting infrastructure spending, incoherent and unpredictable economic policy, government denying basic services to people. I dunno, seems like a healthy business ecosystem to invest in.
Even if they were it would take years to build up the infrastructure, you gotta reindustrialize first THEN do tariffs for this idea to even come close to working (which it still wouldn't like you said but that's the only way it could even imaginably!).
The arrogance of his inner circle & "economic advisors" who think the entire world is a business that will hear the US "roar" and then will have to negotiate with us, is what makes them underestimate other powerful countries impacted that also have their own version of Harvards & CIAs.
Let’s just pretend that they would, do people not realize how long it would take to find a site, build the factory and employ people? Materials to build and outfit the factory are all going to be expensive. This is a 3-4 year endeavor and cannot happen overnight. It’s so unbelievably stupid.
Not to mention that all the materials that someone would need to build a factory are going to be tariffed: steel, aluminum, microchips, industrial machinery, etc.
These Tariffs are not about bringing jobs back, but to bring industry to their knees in front of Trump and pledge allegiance to get tariffs off produces from other country they need .
the only way we bring back manufacturing is MASSIVE unprecedented New Deal era public infrastructure investment with mass public projects alongside subsidies for private companies and collective bargaining for employees.
I mean he did introduce social programs like childcare and the Italian version of the earned income tax credit to incentivize families into having as many children as possible. But yes, he cow-towed to the large landowners and factory owners and destroyed the labor movement.
Buddy, I was literally just talking about railroads. Mussolini didn't make them run on time, they ran on time because of all the boring quiet work done on their infrastructure before he rolled in and took credit for it.
right? like, they even said Mussolini made the trains run on time… people like Hoxha in Albania did authoritarian things but also preserved their economic and technological growth for the future.
Also The Fellowship (who is behind the National Prayer Breakfast) has insane influence in every parts of our government and it was originally formed in staunch opposition to the New Deal and labor rights
Even if he did want to do a big push to build manufacturing, most the material we would use to build them is imported. Every way you look at it you just see America losing.
they can’t even do that successfully. there’s not a single company that can retain their current profits and build domestic manufacturing at the same time. It’s an impossibility.
Yup. We're not going to have 50s/60s-era union manufacturing jobs where one person can comfortably support a family of 4 on their wages AND have great benefits. Automation (in the hands of the owner class) will mean 5 people can produce what it took 500 people to do.
certainly will spend billions to help out the guy who crashed the world economy and will be effectively neutered politically within 2 years at the absolute most
And! And! Even if they did bring manufacturing back here, (which they definitely won’t do,) there are tariffs on raw materials!! And a lot of what we would/could/DO manufacture is made from those raw materials!!
Let's add to that the capex necessary to even start a factory to meet demand. That would mean tariffs on Chinese goods would need to increase even more than they are now. And in the time it takes you to build a factory, you could have a brand new president who could remove the tariffs.
The manufacturing in the United States is cost prohibitive no matter what because prices controlled by the government. Why would anybody try to start a business here?
Even if they moved mfg here, it'd be limited and prices would be as high as the imports w/tariffs. I remember the days when everything was made in USA. Most was good quality, but expensive and limited and, today, it would all be bound for obsolescence anyway, so who needs things that last 100 yrs?
We have no business making plastic novelty items, cheap furniture, rugs and sporting goods. Would you like to buy a hairbrush from a company paying $15/hr if you had no way to increase your own pay other than the kindness of your employer? Mfg jobs don't mean good wages if you're making cheap stuff.
I have been tip-toeing with these people trying to explain it to them or get them to walk right into it but I really think you said it best. There's almost no sense in trying. What you said is all that needs to be said.
My family owned a furniture factory in NC for 100 years. Then it say empty for 30 years until somebody saved it and turned it into apartments. It was lucky, most factories like that were destroyed or crumbled away years ago.
Literally the same thing happened where I live in NC except it was a textile mill. Never been to the apartments but there's a lovely pizza place inside. And a history exhibit open to the public that's pretty honest about the working conditions.
Well.. unless they do something like throw lots of people in private prisons where they can be leased out for next to nothing. I mean it’s not like the 15th amendment allows that or anything right? Besides, that would mean criminalizing entire classes of people. Surely they would never.
Monopolies, Robber Barons, Jim Crow, Child Labor, Truncated public education, Adulterated food and medicines, anti union massacres, company towns and stores, dangerous working conditions.....Trump's reactionary utopia.
Yep, and if Musk thinks the stuff happening to Tesla's is bad, wait until SpaceX starts to get the attention of an angry country. If anyone thinks what's left of the USA after MAGA if fine with it is going to Mars... https://youtu.be/bdcE3VyKv5U?si=UEprFhRahvgRAP2F
I was just ranting about this somewhere else. Maybe the dems should have been calling it a sanction against American business and people since that's pretty much what it is at this point.
Even if corporations were to do that (as opposed to just waiting Trump out, which would be much less expensive), it would take a decade+ to get manufacturing plants built, staffed with skilled labor before stabilizing. High tech manufacturering is even more complicated & requires long term planning.
Any new factories built in America will rely heavily on automation.
The bottom line? These people don’t want to *pay* you. They want to extract money *from* you until you run out, die penniless, and get out of their way. You’re blocking the view.
Also companies are not willing to spend $$$ to bring back factories. They'll just increase prices and wait until a Democrat is back in the office since the tariffs can be easily reversed.
also, isn't it going to bankrupt a lot of companies to try to build here with the tariffs in effect? What am I missing that makes a lick of sense here?!?!
I work in wholesale- they CAN'T just pick up and move manufacturing here because the infrastructure isn't there. Also when they eventually do 7/10 jobs will be automated.
Right now wholesale companies are adding surcharges to their products between 7.5-35%. It's going to get bad out there quickly.
Key thing to remember, here: these tariffs will tax the working class so debilitatingly over the next few years, wealth will continue to consolidate among the ultra rich, and the vast majority of Americans will no longer have the resources or tools to fight for economic equality in the United States
No CEO is going to invest billions to build new factories and hope that economic conditions are unchanged years from now when the plants would become operational. Especially with a government that is as unstable as the present one.
I work in electronics manufacturing. We build a lot here but have stuff built in Vietnam. A MAGA coworker yesterday was like “good news. Since it’s so expensive to make boards in Vietnam they’ll bring that work back here and we will get overtime ” They are so delusional
Yup. I was like “you see that reel of capacitors? It cost $10 now, tomorrow it’s gonna be like $25 with tariffs going both ways.” He just stared blankly at me.
That makes me wonder what their real goal is. Market manipulation? Recreating the conditions of the collapse of the Soviet Union so they can mimic Putin's rise to power but pick their own oligarchs to buy everything up cheap? Yarvin's neo-feudalism? Who knows? There's so many crazies at the helm
The more I learn about the Yarvin stuff the more I’m convinced that’s the goal. I don’t think Trump is smart enough to know what the ultimate plan is but he seems content with letting Musk etc steer the ship. The Greenland stuff makes more sense through the “freedom city” lens. He’s also just dumb 🤷🏻♂️
Especially when you think about how Yarvin speaks of a tech monarchy or essentially having a CEO who’s not beholden to the people but rather a small “board” who steers everything from economics to culture.
Oh we manufacture sensors used in agriculture, pharmaceutical development and climate research. I have a feeling our days are numbered regardless. It’s wild though because on Tuesday they announced they were buying $2m worth of new equipment. Who knows. Thankfully China and Europe believe in science
People don't understand that American companies have no reason to pay Americans a minimum wage salary when they can pay an Asian company to make their product using cheap, foreign labor.
Also who would work at said mystery factories when unemployment is 4%, 5% of the country is collecting disability and ICE is deporting immigrant workers
Demanding that a company move to the US to manufacture, costing it billions in investment and years of planning and building the infrastructure while thinking it will happen soon is a fool's play. What an imbecile
Even if they DID it would take years to get it going, and only done by the wealthy (at that point everyone else is broke) who will only exploit us more. There’s so many better ways to “bring manufacturing back” and this is the worst way other than just straight up invading.
Just off the bat, the idea that the American labor force would be adequate to meet the needs of multiple new factories for every industry is absurd. There aren't nearly enough laborers, and most especially when/if 15 million of them are kicked out of the country.
When building a factory in America and employing Americans just to make a widget, will inevitably cost a manufacturer far more than making the same widget overseas and importing it, even with the tariff on top, you know exactly what a company will do.
Everyone needs to remember that it was Reagan in the 1980’s who negotiated NAFTA. And cut regulations to allow companies to move manufacturing jobs in the first place.
Right? Just think of how incredibly wrenching it would be to move America back to 1912, which is what Trump seems to want. Manufacturing, no income tax, massive tariffs. That simply cannot and will not happen in 2025. Companies and investors will simply go elsewhere.
But they are. They’ve never left their little bubble. I’m surrounded by a few in my area. Fox News and rush Limbaugh really started it, and Trump latched on and really organized the. Racist idiots and teaparty fanatics White nationalists and evangelicals. Jerry Springer side of America.
Indeed. I've asked people who think factories will just pop up to meet demand how those factories would get their funding, zoning rights approved, the factory built, the machinery built, the production lines mapped out and built, and then production to begin before the lack of supply kills people.
Also, if they ever had that plan, they would have started building facilities in January. There are no such plans! Companies are looking into cutting back,not investing! It’s too darn expensive & they will never pay a livable wage or provide healthcare for their workers.
The Felon is wrong again!
they had a test run of this in 2020-ish. we had a massive mask shortage and layoffs in manufacturing that required computer chips. mask manufacturing was so fucking slow they were like >shrug< tell them don't bother. did we ramp up chip manufacturing? only the potato kind. years later.
Generally you need money and materials to build things and also money to pay people to build them for you and destroying trillions of dollars in economic value for corporations for some reason does not accomplish those goals also where are we getting the steel from I think this was a bad idea halp
Even if they did, by the time they built facilities, hired and trained workers and staff, set up all the ops, it will take at least 3-4 years for any sizeable manufacturer to complete.
By then, we could all be dead broke or just plain dead. We must stop Tr***/Musk et al.
Absolutely, they have 5yr planning for a reason. Unless the building is there with the correct machines and dies, it's going to be several years to change. And that's if the workforce exists to run the machines. You don't learn to be a machinist in a month. Every part has to be reapproved by Quality
After American businesses are driven to failure, oligarchs will move in. Trump is following what happened in Russia. This is Putin’s and Thiel’s plan to destroy America.
Noooo they're gonna bring back US manufacturing that we haven't had the infrastructure for in decades and pay US workers a living wage. It's not just going to drive costs up for everyone
Right! The Chinese dump of Junk one-use items will and still are cheaper than the American made $65 an hour bolt turning plants. The crazy thing is Minimum wage is still $7.25
Exactly, not to mention what Americans do they think want to slave in textile factories? The dismantling of our education system is in line with creating a low skill low intelligence labor pool…
And the zeal w which the mass of oligarchs backed this nonsense, till the real world raised its ugly head, shows how out of touch they all really are. Media owners especially; WTF were they smoking?
Take Apple for example. Rather than move mfg from China, a multi year proposition, they build a small US facility that affixes a label to the box "assembled in the USA". Some accounting magic and voilà, their product is 92% US content.
Some may but not enough to matter or make a difference. Most will just ship their components and products from other countries with a lower tariff rate and then pass the increase on.
Just saw some companies planning on moving production back are focusing on using robotic assembly lines as well.
The only way that will happen is if President Musktrump eliminates all governmental standards of fair labor, pay, benefits, and working conditions for workers, just like countries where the corporations sought out cheaper labor to begin with. Another possibility is full robotic manufacturing. 🤔🤷🏻♂️
Even basic manufacturing plants take around a decade to full spin-up. There's no way Trump's misguided desires will ever come to fruition under his rule.
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I wouldn't have used US makeup unless I could research its ingredients first. And god knows what's going to get in it now.
Trust in quality is going to drop like a stone.
And people believed the Republicans!
Except Volkswagen's corporate charter basically requires employee unions, so guess who didn't get a new auto plant?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz
That damn shitlicker thought 1984 was a goal, not a warning.
https://news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-news/2010-05-07/walmart-sued-for-collecting-life-insurance-on-employees
Maybe throw in a line 5 oil spill, to kick it off hard?
Come on, Enbridge, out do yourself.
It amounts to psychopathic capitalism.
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Support can look like...
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Madness.
In the mean time, we either go broke or go without.
Also even at $2.50 hr we wouldn’t be outcompeting the lowest wages in Asia and the savings there alone would probably cancel out the tariffs.
https://youtu.be/xKDPrsMaZU8?si=oy50_ZapjXbi73c3
Even if they WANTED TO, if you FORCED THEM TO the shit they need TO DO THAT now costs 50% MORE
America’s population is 4.5% of the world population!
Why would companies relocate production there exclusively? They are not going to do that.
They’ll just wait out the stupidity of Trump! If they can.
Seriously. WTF with this stupid administration?!
When everything reaches its lowest, he and all the 1%ers will use their largely unimpacted wealth to buy up as much as possible. They're likely "shorting" the market on the way down too. Happened before.
It’s probably exactly what it sounds like.
“Now with bird flu!”
Next week this asshole could just scrap the whole thing, for all we know.
not an investment opportunity, a big gamble into an alternate reality TV show.
not fiscally responsible.
Just sayin'
https://youtu.be/Uk5BdL3Kt58?feature=shared
But that’s based on people continuing to drink the Kool Aid.
lol nah, I’ll just pay the $20m or whatever
Even if that were the case, it would take at least a decade to rebuild it all… by then the rest of the world would have moved on, leaving us isolated into medieval time…
https://bsky.app/profile/shuchancellor.online/post/3llwib5zdhc2n
Yeah... sure, if they ever DO build a factory, they totally wont be fully automated or anything.
Yeah, they will pay people a living wage, 100%
Small businesses won't cope with increased costs and will fold.
Big American companies then grab more market share, and can gouge consumers.
See how this works?
It’s the only way.
Mussolini never made the trains run on time, they actually began to run worse over the course of his regime.
One of my greatest hopes for Maga to fizzle out is that the republican party is uniquely incapable of actually providing anything to their base.
Hitler built the autobahn.
It’s hilarious to see the blatant incompetence.
Further points to the stupidity of it all.
Who among us would refuse that?
like this from the orange carnival barker
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/foxconn-plant-once-touted-trump-13-000-job-juggernaut-will-n1264793
https://youtu.be/bdcE3VyKv5U?si=UEprFhRahvgRAP2F
Any new factories built in America will rely heavily on automation.
The bottom line? These people don’t want to *pay* you. They want to extract money *from* you until you run out, die penniless, and get out of their way. You’re blocking the view.
how does one bring manufacturing "back to the US" BEFORE building factories for that here?
why do ppl think they're gonna get $30/hr for work their employers pay a fraction of that for overseas, ON TOP of these insane tariffs?
am i dumb?
Right now wholesale companies are adding surcharges to their products between 7.5-35%. It's going to get bad out there quickly.
https://bsky.app/profile/mightygodking.com/post/3llwr5h5hg223
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mills_in_Fall_River,_Massachusetts
The Felon is wrong again!
By then, we could all be dead broke or just plain dead. We must stop Tr***/Musk et al.
it's going back and back and back and back and back and back and back and back and back
where will it stop? only when they're stopped
Just saw some companies planning on moving production back are focusing on using robotic assembly lines as well.