The dumbest thing about Trump's desire to manufacture dolls in the US is that many of the jobs would be bad ones: Connecting plastic body parts to torsos, attaching nylon hair, etc.
I talked to toy industry people who laid this all out. Striking stuff:
https://newrepublic.com/article/194938/trump-dolls-weird-tariffs-scarcity
I talked to toy industry people who laid this all out. Striking stuff:
https://newrepublic.com/article/194938/trump-dolls-weird-tariffs-scarcity
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We are in a class war.
Along with his "...beautiful 11 year old girls..."
reminded me of when he said he'd like to date Ivanka...
Weird..
As well as completely ignorant of how international trade works...
Apparently, as you point out, he wants American workers to earn $6 a day making plastic toys...
Non union???
Salmonella in every pot.
A Triangle Shirtwaist factory on every corner.
It's that billionaires fantasize about tyrannically overseeing working Americans -- white working Americans -- as they slave away for them.
"He only loves those things because he loves to see them break..."
I'm not saying he doesn't care that others will suffer. That's obvious.
I'm saying he doesn't care what his actions and decisions actually mean in the real world.
He just says things that sound good to him, & others crash & burn.
And should they become unhappy the toy industry will be replaced by robots, which will increase unemployment. Great plan, right?
If conditions are right, materials are healthy, environmental issues are watched and working conditions are according to standards, those doll-assemblers should be respected.
But could they make a living out of it? .... doubt it.
ffotus the DICTATOR has failed to comprehend
(among tons of others)
is all the support structure required to return manufacturing to the US
raw materials, build materials, power grid, transportation & the biggie
FULL AUTOMATION
not to negate decades of time
SO
Stupid, Scam, BOTH ?
And Nosferatu Jr. has a doll collection that’s cursed.
Source: https://rollcall.com/factbase/transcript/donald-trump-interview-fox-business-maria-bartiromo-may-14-2020/
To understand what Donald J. Trump is saying or doing, one has to know that he is living in an Alternate Reality of his own making.
And that is a sure sign that he has finally moved on from his advanced Dementia into the realm of truly mad.
Didn’t say boys will have fewer trucks
And all this💩 from an obese old man who is an imposition to have to look at.
*referring to the quote “beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old” o.c.
Maybe start with the trump merchandise
And his daughter's could help out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvymW83Zlbc
Anyone who is rightfully pissed off at republicans crashing the economy is now a "little girl crying about not getting 30 dolls for Christmas"
Disgusting, but clever...
That’s what he wants for our glorious new future.
Also Miller molested dolls as a little twerp.
This point is a key one: A globally integrated supply chain meant that Americans could hold the good jobs while outsourcing the shit work.
Trump's tariffs, if they work the way he says he wants, would bring the shit work back to America and destroy many good jobs.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194938/trump-dolls-weird-tariffs-scarcity
They view “the domestic workforce as a homogenous, voiceless mass happy to live in the dreary mediocrity they’re forced into”
No education
No upward mobility
Just corporate slaves
They do not give a shit about US
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
The veils fall in age…
Will there be *more* insurance denials as costs go up? Higher premiums/deductibles?
What abt uninsured?
One more pencil for you this month!
https://youtu.be/paIHksP9Ia8?si=GmtuFNQaITQR3e93
(Also higher ed is no longer needed)
I see only 2 possibilities
1. Americans making poverty wages
Or
2. Every manufactured item significantly increases in price
I would be ok with 2, but it will once again affect the poor the most.
So. Much. Winning.
A) Why is it only a GIRL toy?
B) Why are BILLIONAIRES not asked to sacrifice anything?
You fail the American people every day with this absolute rubbish
https://newrepublic.com/article/194938/trump-dolls-weird-tariffs-scarcity
The best answer is for states to regionally cooperate and redesign their tax collection/wage distribution to withhold as much as possible from federal allocation and abuse.
https://open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/p/chartbook-381-trumpite-futurism-part?r=4xnqn8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Repugnant to Establishment Cons, it has its appeal to Working Class.
The intent is to create a large pool of people desperate for a low-paying, soul-crushing, and/ or dangerous job.
Your family is so desperate to eat and survive that the people would do anything to feed their families.
It's all by design.
This has been thought out in a backroom piece by piece.
Ohh and they love the sound of our squeaky wheel!
It was expected!
https://newrepublic.com/article/194938/trump-dolls-weird-tariffs-scarcity
Hine, Lewis Wickes, photographer. Cumberland Glass Works, Bridgeton, N.J. Location: Bridgeton, New Jersey. Bridgeton United States New Jersey, 1909. November. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018674351/.