Every Cabinet member has different, contradictory talking points about supposed purpose of these tariffs.
Are they a negotiating tactic? Are they instead permanent, because we need them to raise revenue/boost US manufacturing?
Are they designed to return us to 1790s lifestyles & living standards?
Are they a negotiating tactic? Are they instead permanent, because we need them to raise revenue/boost US manufacturing?
Are they designed to return us to 1790s lifestyles & living standards?
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As price increases are passed on to Americans, quantity goes down. Everyone is worse off. So there is still reason for other countries (like consumers) to be mad!
Of course they don't know what that phrase really means.
Either way, I have no confidence whatsoever that this govt knows what it's doing other than burning down the house.
Same way you get a J.D. from Yale & Harvard and never learn about Constitutional protections, civil rights, agency law, contracts, etc. Rs seem to have a penchant for buying degrees.
https://bsky.app/profile/steveroth.bsky.social/post/3knlk5ltfec2a
Thomas Carlyle
His PhD advisor is hopefully long retired.
That they know jack and shit is a feature, not a bug.
...but that is an imaginary world where the Trump regime actually has serious people🤡🤡🤡
But not by *millions* of people.
"Skynet is under development in 2017 as an operating system known as Genisys... was designed to provide a link between all Internet devices."
(Which means they probably know that you need factual sources to make a claim or thesis AND that the underprivileged are not really untouchable.
This guy...
This is turning our kids in mass factory workers (reason why they are changing child labor laws in red states).
Make
America
Go back
Ages
To build an iphone factory in the USA and train the workforce would take 5+ years. And the phones would cost 50% more with a high wage US workforce.
That's basically just deaths at that point.
Opportunity is dead.
Plus, they'll make our kids screw in the little screws while parents screw in larger screws. We are destined to be slave labor: poorly educated, poorly paid with no chance to advance. #maga #gop
than a few tiny screws that could use some work.
https://www.action-intell.com/2021/12/16/china-labor-watch-finds-bleak-working-conditions-at-certain-chinese-cartridge-factories/
We at least know that "screwing" will be involved somehow.
But the penguins with no port get the loophole protected tariff?
these people are so unserious
which seems just perfect for anyone in this “administration”
Are American high-skill manufacturing workers willing to MAKE FUCKING TUBE SOCKS FOR LIFE.
It was Americans’ refusal to MAKE FUCKING TUBE SOCKS FOR POVERTY WAGES YOU DOLT!
WE WANT TUBE SOCKS!!
I don't want to work in a sweat shop AND pay more for socks.
I'm curious if Urban is saying $1/sock, or $1/pair, or $1/package, because context is crucial.
Oh, wait.
close to 2 out of 3 Americans own stock.
Not just rich.
They are working Americans in their savings, pensions, etc.
Gas prices down saves me $10 per fillup x 50 weeks = $500.
I lost 15% of my networth the past week.
Are we winning yet?
Have ANY of these fucks ever actually cracked open an econ textbook?
Again, oil prices are tanking b/c markets are pricing in global recession. Interest rates down because people are dumping stocks for bonds
Who were you in a past life, Mengele?
Do go screw YOURSELF.
Into an iphone or cybertruck or Trump's golden toilet (making it easy to kiss Trump's ass).
You were made for it, obviously.
You obv were NOT made for planning ANY type of govt administration.
Asshole.
Then force a return to an asset backed economic model.
The banks have started selling off gold to keep their liquidity. Leverage squeeze is starting.
April 20th- he’ll invoke the Insurrection Act.
In any case, intentionally tanking the stock market and wiping out trillions in wealth should be grounds for impeachment, conviction and removal from office.
https://nclalegal.org/press_release/ncla-sues-to-stop-trump-admin-from-imposing-emergency-tariffs-that-congress-never-authorized/
Blanche
And
Bove
Won't matter
Morons defending the indefensible CANCER who is destroying American democracy one stupid, vengeful, idiotic decision at a time!
#lies #trump
Farmer bailout is fairly low votes/$.
Test for Musk's eye for efficiency.
Or has he learned the lesson of Wisconsin?
She will destroy agriculture. She absolutely knows nothing.
Domestically, crashing the consumer economy reduces the political power of average citizens. Buying opportunities for the rich.
#stockmarket #recession #tariffs #panic
translating farts
When the hell are the Trump's going to make any of their crap in the USA? Cheap shit for me, not for thee.
But while the market was crashing last week, he was cashing in $$millions at his golf motel
Up is down
Exactly, Jake.
But, which?
They’re Schrödinger’s Tariffs.
If they had a strategy, they wouldn't enact tariffs without any attempt to negotiate, whatever it was they supposedly wanted. You warn, explain, negotiate then enact if you have to. This is cloud cuckoo land.
This a coup by the extreme wealthy paying off a con man who was already set up by Putin to destroy us. Its a win win for Trump alone.
- unconstitutional (only Congress has power to issue tariff)
- emergency EO by Trump is illegal
- can be stopped by Congress
- blackmail on countries affected
- extortion racket for Trump to profit
- federal sales taxes passed on to people
Ask factory workers during his first admin how tariffs worked for them.
Anyone who voted for this idiot after what he & GOP did first term are either stupid or ignorant, or both
And why, after the question goes unanswered, don’t they just ask it AGAIN?
The US is NOT the economic engine for the world.
Arrogant fux
This is why they can’t get their stories straight. Everything they ever say is a lie.
It's in full swing.
Have to brush up on my 18 century economics brb
Bet she host lovely parties though
They fired the cannon and then decided where to shoot it.
They could bring back manufacturing with sticks and carrots - but NO BILLIONAIRES WANT TO BRING MANUFACTURING BACK.
It’s never going to happen.
#truthovernarrative
tariffs to raise revenue and pay for tax cuts is incompatible with tariffs to lead companies to relocate here with both incompatible with a goal to lower barriers. First scenario, trade falls revenue falls deficit up. 2nd prices up inflation up rates up 3rd better growth rates up worse budget
It’s the biggest grift ever.
...sycophants being sycohantic
kissing ass as fast as they can.
AND tariffs will spark a revival of U.S. manufacturing, replacing imports.
So: no more imports means no more tariff revenue. What then? Back to the income tax?