Note the remnants of denial and continued support for trump as evidenced by the phrase near the end, “it’s bittersweet” as if all this is normal and acceptable. Fool still doesn’t think the leopard will really eat his face.
They won't. They don't have good ideas of their own. We need stronger leaders on the Left leading instead of letting Trump pretend to be pro-worker. The corporatist Dems allowed that space for Republicans.
Republicans are going to have to choose if their businesses, jobs, homes and comfort are more important than their racism, bigotry and made up culture wars
How the fuck is that bittersweet!? That's just bitter! Even after suffering from the policy first hand he's STILL softballing it!
My god MAGA aren't just idiots they're a bunch of fucking cucks!
A coupla things. First he's just wrong on the facts… but then so is his "leader" so that's not surprising. They're both conflating trade deficits and tariffs. And second, he's just another MAGAt who only cares about the negative impact of what they voted for in relation to themselves and not others.
Let's deprogram the corporate Dems who prevent us from having actually worker supporting government. We need education, not more culture war BS. We need leadership, not deprogramming of voters.
How it started vs. how it’s going in only a single day. That’s quite impressive. Did he not know what this would mean for his company the day before? 😬
Smoke salmon in the US! It's a food tradition from the first peoples in what Americans like to call Pacific North West. Obviously you COULD smoke salmon 'here' - But, you just run a business that is rooted in economic theft from Chile instead of stewardship of US rivers. Normal MAGA hypocrisy.
Most of smoked salmon sold in the US today is now farm-raised, not wild-caught. The US has salmon farms in Maine and Alaska. arm-Fraised salmon from Chile is cheaper than the US farm-raised salmon tho, so his small company has EXACTLY the same issue every other small American company has.
I guess I'm a little spoiled living on the wet coast, we have a lot of wild salmon available. Also I'm in Canada, and the immigrants who didn't come from Europe (mostly Asia or Hawaii) and Indigenous people setup good fisheries a long long time ago for that here.
Dude explain exactly how we’re being ripped off? I’m so sick of maga victims. Trumps entire mentality is living as a victim while he fucks everyone he possibly can. Supposedly the strongest military in the world but “poor US.”
You’ve never even seen real poverty.
I'm China, you're MAGA. You contact me to produce say $500,000 worth of MAGA merchandise because I do it cheaply. I fill you're order. You resell all for $1.5 Million. You make a very good profit. As I don't need anything you have, I spend your $500,000 elsewhere in the world. We both ein..why whine
Being in a cult is like being in an emotionally abusive relationship. The way everyone can see how bad it is, but you. Whenever the person does something wrong to you, you justify it. When we get out of this mess, we have got to spend more time raising the next gen to avoid stuff like this.
Complaining about unfairness of trade deficits when we have the greatest wealth and highest consumption is bizarre. It's like Elon Musk complaining average Americans have unfair advantages over his economic power. Crap, they believe that too.
That's absurd, no?Democrats how's that so hard to say?
Where is this narrative coming from, the "United States has been ripped off for decades" talk? I don't know of any country other than Vietnam that's more than 10% charge tariffing us. Most of them are under 5%. why do we think that everybody's ripping us off, or is that just far right echo chamber?
It is unfortunate for a great many people, but a lot of those people are also MAGA and thought that electing Trump would make them rich. Greedy. They were wrong and now Trump is going to prove it.
Is this guy for real? He didn’t understand any of this until the Chilean exporters told him about it? My god, I hope the only thing this guy is running at this company is a broom across a dirty work floor.
What happened here? Did a co-worker follow him on X & saw his post?
Co-worker: Lemme explain how this works.
Anthony: What? WTF! Daddy didn’t tell me this could happen. I’d better put up another post (typing madly)
Co-worker: Nah, not bittersweet, just messed up & take that red cap off, dimwit.
OMG!! Sorry, you are CORRECT. But "Tony MAGA-got" suddenly had a brain fart and like all his type..."I will suffer, lose my home, job, family...but I will follow Dumpy to the cliff and jump off at his direction" WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEIR BRAINS???
"Getting ripped off" is exactly what these tariffs are all about! They are a grossly outsized sales tax on the proletariat who need to spend every dollar we make. Why are they "necessary"? To replace the trillions of our dollars that President Musk and Assistant President Trump are stealing.
The "reciprocal tariffs" lie needs to be challenged harder. Chile had no tariffs on the US at all, so why are they getting a 10% tariff? Nobody should ever want to do a trade deal with the US again if their head of state can just ignore it all previous deals and ruin their businesses.
That’s where Donald’s dumb formula comes in. He needed a way to jump over to trade imbalance, so he can try to force countries like Chile to give us more leverage in trade deficits. They can’t buy an equal amount from the US, so his idea is to force them to give us more to make up for the deficit.
They won’t quit saying reciprocal bc Donald called them that during the rose garden roll out. It’s crazy making. But I’d guess it has something to do w the planned propaganda so we will hear more of it. He has to convince his ppl we are victims.
How can he possibly think that the countries he buys from are charging him more (which wouldn't be tariffs anyway) when it's the US government charging him more??
Because all of the republicans are saying that this is a negotiation strategy to get all of our importers to charge us 0 or we make it ourselves. It’s a pipe dream.
"My coworkers and I are about to lose our jobs and maybe our homes and could end up begging on the streets. Conversely, we did, in fact, get to own the libs, so that seems like a fair trade-off."
One *day* later. It's using the non-US date standard of dd-mm-yyyy instead of the US mm-dd-yyyy. Otherwise the date would be in the future.
But even funnier that it's 24 hours and 1 minute later, and he doesn't recognize the problem.
The schadenfreude is sweet. Especially since his business is one that should be investing in protecting rivers and oceans that do, obviously, make salmon in the US and one of the few cases where a tariff actually is somewhat justified.
Alaskan salmon is also an option, if farmed fish wouldn't work in their product line. It's almost like this company never actually gave a shit about supporting domestic industry.
I agree. It demonstrates the ultimate futility of reversing globalization. Even if tarrifs achieved their (purported) goal of increasing domestic production, the result would be largely unsustainable. We'll just end up REQUIRING imports (at an astronomical markup).
Smoked salmon was invented by the first peoples of the Pacific Northwest making salmon in rivers in the US. Not just Maine. Habitat is limited by pollution and human destruction. Also farmed salmon uses lots of drugs to keep salmon pens alive and also spreads fish disease. Super MAGA irony.
Like I said, I'm not a fish person, but I found a link from a government site I wish I could find again that said the only salmon BREEDING grounds were in Maine.
It also did note that pollution destroyed most other breeding grounds.
I'm doubting you fish the breeding grounds, so unless this guy...
Sorry I've always lived on the wet coast I have no idea what 'breeding grounds' would be - we just have rivers and streams. I see them in the salmon cycle. It's magnificent. There certainly are still rivers and streams, I don't know anything about Maine. I don't get why you can't ship West to East?
Their* it's not bittersweet dude it's horseshit you're just plugging your nose with brown nosing and can't smell past the aristocratic crap you already have up there.
But, Tony, how will your workers be able to buy your smoked salmon when their laid off? What about all the other workers that will get laid off. How much smoked salmon can an Oligarch eat, anyway?
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Unfortunately Trump made that decision for them
He already has
My god MAGA aren't just idiots they're a bunch of fucking cucks!
He probably does not even reside in the US.
You can't reeducate someone who was never educated in the first place!
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Looking at the way the date formatted, I wonder if he isn’t in US at all…
Tariffs never worked. Electing a Russian agent as president doesn't either.
Voting for Trump coz you want MAGA and get concentration camps
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648
You’ve never even seen real poverty.
Then TFG trundled into the Oval Office and things are going to hell in a handbasket.
Enjoy the ride down, buddy. YOU'RE going out of business!
I have some bad news for this man and I don't know how to communicate it to him, as his head seems to be firmly planted in the sand.
But maga is a gonna maga.
idek if he was close, i think he's just an idiot
Its just bitter for the workers, but sweet because that greedy, lazy fuck won't have to cut back on his excess spending.
That's absurd, no?Democrats how's that so hard to say?
Shame it took him so long
JFC.
I call it idiotic
Co-worker: Lemme explain how this works.
Anthony: What? WTF! Daddy didn’t tell me this could happen. I’d better put up another post (typing madly)
Co-worker: Nah, not bittersweet, just messed up & take that red cap off, dimwit.
How it's going
I would like to hear from those who run companies the details of being ripped off before tariffs. Please educate me.
There’s no doubt they’re not owning their vote. 😏
But even funnier that it's 24 hours and 1 minute later, and he doesn't recognize the problem.
Chile apparently does a ton of salmon business.
I'm not a fish person, but apparently wild caught vs. farmed is some kind of quality difference?
It also did note that pollution destroyed most other breeding grounds.
I'm doubting you fish the breeding grounds, so unless this guy...
If water flows around you you are part of the breeding ground for salmon. Our whole forest depends on their death to fertilise it.
Maybe not enough fish for hyper consumerism tho.
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And for the love of God, they need to please learn how use and to spell the word "their".
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YOU FUCKING FOOL