Wait till corporate greed and shrinkflation hit, again. Corp America is slobbering to hit us, again. Prices didn't go down after the Trump induced Pandemic, packaging didn't go back to normal either.
seen a number of reporters interviewing big & small farmers. some grow veggies for school lunch programs & food banks…all Govt subsidized, but now suspended. some multi-million operations producing corn & soybeans for export. they all are
💩ing bricks. wish reporters would ask how they voted!
Seriously people will be paying far more than that in extra costs. I’m completely serious. EVERYTHING will go up and there will be cascading effects. Think of just car and home insurance as but ONE example.
Chris, 10% to a working family is not just a tax hike. It means they can’t pay rent, medical bill, purchase food, pay for heating or car registration to go to work. It’s literal tax on poverty, increasing likelihood of becoming homeless tenfold. It’s a life threatening situation.
US buys $440bln from Chinese.
At 100% tariff that’s $440bln EXTRA money taken from US citizens and companies.
Who can afford that? Noone.
Trade will stop almost instantly and Americans will be shopping to spend $440bln elsewhere. But where?
This situation may increase social inequality, leading to an uneven economic burden and affecting the quality of life of low-income families.Trump is persecuting the underclass.What do you think?
If he doesn’t walk back from the 10% tariff, we’ll give back the gains quickly. The market assumed the entire trade war will go away except for China. That is not what they are reading today.
I was disappointed by your segment last night w/Alex Wagner. When will liberals stop giving MAGA farmers the benefit of the doubt?I live in NC& travel all over the state. Those people are SOCIALLY CONSERVATIVE—that is their actual motivation not business-
they know Trump will give them gov’t welfare (more hypocrisy from them).
Farmer cried about environmental regulations, well he gets bailed out there too! Biden & other Dem programs have given them billions to save their land from their own destructive farming practices. Sustainability is a problem?
Because Republicans are great at propaganda, and everybody is susceptible to propaganda. Especially people who don't bother to fully care about politics.
No they don’t! They think America is supposed to be a Theocracy. That’s why they want to compel everyone to abide by their religious beliefs because they are ignorant of what America is supposed to stand for & also the Gospel. Jesus didn’t say to compel everyone to abide by their beliefs even/
Let's not forget the ripple effects as people start deciding what to do with their money. Less meals outside the home, less entertainment, overall less discretionary spending.
If you're making federal minimum wage, that's 16.5% of your income. Average US apartment rent is $1751 per month.
Here’s a little reminder: “food prices reversed last month's easing, with the index rising 0.4% last month after a 0.2% uptick in February. [Eggs] also continued to surge — up another 5.6% MoM to reach an all-time high… On a yearly basis, egg prices have climbed 60.4%.”
Ah, but the greatness of Great Leader is to start tariffs out really high then lower them, making the 10% seem more reasonable. Then collect all the revenue from average Americans & give it to big multinational corporations & billionaires as tax cuts. In addition to insider trading market gains.
So many different numbers have been thrown out there, as to how much more it will cost per year for we, the consumer. I've seen $2400.-$7400. more a year. Let's just say, the orange cheeto is raping all of us, repeatedly. Are we, the people, going to hold him accountable...THIS time?
I'm in the UK and amazed how quickly the 10% tariffs have been normalised
But $2500 implies that each US household spends $25,000 on *imported* goods - at import value not retail value (so considerably more at retail)
This seems implausible
Some companies may absorb some margin but they will be investing more in product inventory so ROI will drop for investors which doesn't usually go over well!
Yeah, I was listening to the 4th Reichswine suckasses all praising Hair Furor FatFuck's supposed "art of the deal" when the reality is that it's still at least a 10% tax hike and now 125% on China. It's like saying "okay, I'm still murdering you but I'm backing off sodomizing your corpse".
Yeah, anything that isn’t hit by these will have their makers be like “hmm…our competitors prices all went up by (random number) $10. We’ll increase our prices by $9.”
They’ll undercut, but just *barely*, to maximize profit.
Just how the market works. Impact is to adjacent products as well. Price of imported canola goes up? US sourced margerine goes up and so does locally made butter.
That’s what happened last time - no tariffed items increased comparably in price, as did adjacent items for no reason other than corporate greed (eg. Washing machines tariffed, but dryers also increased in price)
Pretty much going to repurpose or make any needed item household item, buy very little, grow and preserve food, park money out of reach, pay off debt, stockpile. How much more proof, does anyone need that he really DOES NOT CARE about anyone else, but self & his rich friends?
Vote against this tax hike. Tell your reps in DC we don't need it.don't want it. Resist. It only takes a few minutes and best of all..it doesn’t cost any money.
We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate. https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
but Chris, some people are saying with tears in their eyes that it is a big beautiful tax hike of which we have never seen before...and we are doing so much winning, so much winning...
Add to that: 25% tariffs on auto imports, steel, aluminum and some goods from Canada and Mexico. Additional tariffs on pharmaceuticals, lumber, semiconductors and copper coming soon.
Yes, yes, yes…. But how about these massive tax cuts coming up fore for his billionaire buddies? That will for sure help the ordinary Americans! You all get so rich 🤑
Hear me out, we all just go back to pre-consumer days with chickens+pigs in the yard and victory gardens and making our own soap and candles and getting our patent medicines from the traveling circus ... simplify. Die in droves like in the good old days.
Fight me if that's not the actual plan.
WHO???????
Foolish voters left Dems without majorities in the House and Senate. Dems worked for the people for the last 4 years only to not be rewarded at the ballot box.
I think the democrats took the middle class workers for granted. Their entire message was lost on regular everyday people that just want to go to a decent job and make a living. We have to change the platform and get back to being democrats for all the people.
No. Not only is that is not true, but it is a Repub. talking point. Dems brought us almost every single policy that benefits the working class.
It was ALWAYS Dems who stood in the way of this happening. Republicans were seething for this for decades & were able to achieve it through Donald.
If Republicans ever did 10% of what Dems, particularly the Biden Admin., did for middle/ & lower America, they'd be praised for decades.
It's never enough for people. They want perfect,even while up against Republicans who do not want us to have a day of peace/prosperity.
Example: Current policies
My sentiments exactly! These tariffs are a true indication of ‘let’s screw up the market. We can all buy low and sell high!’ Let the rich get richer. I started smelling a rat last yesterday evening, after the post “now is the time to buy“🥹🧐
In a world of hyper-connected markets and algorithmic trading, a single presidential tweet can shift billions. When the one causing shocks also controls policy—not just influences it—the potential for intentional, profitable destabilization becomes dangerously real.
What's your problem Chris? You're talking like you don't want Trump to create the largest pool of impoverished young men since oh, I don't know... World War 2. Can't imagine what his plan is for all those young men. A massive war with China maybe?
In a world of hyper-connected markets and algorithmic trading, a single presidential tweet can shift billions. When the one causing shocks also controls policy—not just influences it—the potential for intentional, profitable destabilization becomes dangerously real.
Pelosi on a government salary $174,000 a year. They set her net worth at $200 million. The criminals aren't in charge anymore. A lot of them are going to go to jail.
You're worrying about a Millionaire when we have a Billionaire with ~200% more net worth usurping already awarded government contracts to make himself richer? I also want reps held accountable for abusing the system but letting mobsters run the country is not a solution. It's worse. Much worse.
Old political vendettas because Pelosi knew how to get bills passed whereas these maga asses can’t get bills passes even though they control both chambers. Just like racists hate is easy to detect, success envy is easy to spot.
Exactly—prioritizing accountability means focusing on the biggest abuses. Ignoring billion-dollar corruption to nitpick smaller infractions is like locking your door while your roof is on fire.
This is some bull. Im not being funny, I got a teenage daughter that I keep extra busy with dance, sports, music and volunteering. Do you know how much that shit costs? A lot!
The euphoria of yesterday that he wasn't about to blow a crater in the world economy will now be tempered with the part everyone overlooked with 125% tariffs on Chinese goods.
You buy something made here. $35. You buy something from China or the EU for 30. For $5 more you don't support China's pollution record. You don't leave a big carbon footprint for shipping it over seas. You can rest easy knowing with all the new jobs labor shortage so they have to pay us more.
For the vast majority of consumer items, there is NO made in USA equivalent. Everything from toys to electronics are all made in China and NOT in the USA. If they were made here, the price would easily be double.
Cash Patel out of ATF sound big but it isn't the real issue here. The Secretary of the Army Driscoll is now in charge of a Law Enforcement Agency. This appears like the beginning of a consolidation like the Nazi Sturmabteilungen (SA) in May 2, 1933.
I just lost 10,000$ a year when I turned 62. And that now which I hope is on the high end! I have 2 grandkids custody of. My hubs passed 1/23. I get his ss so I don’t get mine too. So no government support and living is tough. But doing ok. I’m a lucky one.
So sorry for your loss. If you can ever reach Social Security, check -- you may be eligible for extra stipends for the grandkiddos. And you should be able to get other benefits for them, including tax benefits. Try calling United Way for information.
I honestly think he just wanted a 10% tariff all along but his theatrics will cause people to not realize he snuck those in. Everyone I talk to says he paused all the tariffs, and everyone was shocked when I said… no, he paused the extra tariffs but not the universal 10%. People are so ill informed!
Even if manufacturing came back it would be due massive tax incentives, the plants would be fully automated (what JOBS?!) & their trucks would tear up our roads.
F*ck The Little People, Leona x3. The rich take care of their own.
It's never in any of the press coverage, and they never say it at rallies, but the goal is to bring manufacturing back and automate it all. Few if any jobs.
They talk about it at investor meetings.
The goals are contradictory. If jobs do come back, we won't be getting the revenue from tariffs. If the tariffs bring in more revenue, there won't be new jobs.
In any case, prices will be higher, either from the tariffs or the domestic products will be higher priced (the reason they went overseas.)
DON'T WANT EVEN ONE
DOLLAR
OF
OUR TAX DOLLARS
GOING TO ELON MUSK
if he wants to go to
MARS let him get the money from
PUTIN TO GO
Call connedgress tell them to
DEFUND AND DEPORT
un–AMERICAN America Hating
ELON MUSK NOW!
Trump is taxing the poor and the middle class to give his billionaire buddies a tax break. He also loves calling the winners and losers in companies and countries. He wants them to come groveling to him. Nobody should be allowed that much power. We fought a king once and won.
The media networks & platforms are taking the #HandsOff meaning in the wrong direction. IMO, Again they are, knowingly, complicit in helping this Administration hurt USa. #Bluecrew another reason to #Reclaim & #RiseResistRevoltRebuild
#PplUnitedWillWin #UniteTheWorldNow
#💙
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I turn off the television for not wanting to eat their revolting poop.
…there are now too many Bullshit Barbie talking heads trying to normalize that which is illegal and harmful to get ratings.
If they want to chase the backsliding MAGAts, I’m not watching or listening.
So are you saying we are getting screwed, but the admin.has to “ruffy” us before the act? We aren’t unconscious people. We don’t need to be drugged to feel F@cked. We feel the pain and know what’s occurring.
Well, this is going through.
There’s no way to stop it.
Young people will have to leave
to obtain employment or
education for 20 years,
or longer.
It’s worth noting that this exodus
reduces the number of [D]
voters, or recategorizes
the votes to absentee ballots,
easier to throw out of the tally.
Even a 10% national sales tax will hurt the very people already suffering. Red state MAGA is about to feel the consequences the very real consequences of how they voted. I hope the hate they have will sustain them because soon it's all they'll have.
Nearly 60% of Americans don't have enough savings to cover a $1,000 emergency expense, according to a 2024 survey by Bankrate
Many Americans live paycheck to paycheck, more than 70% of households report they would struggle to cover an unexpected expense without going into debt
$2500 is going to hurt
$2500 seems low, esp. factoring in services, as well as goods. Service providers costs will rise on everything from landscaping equipment to gym equipment to hair dye to ride share insurance/car maintenance to printing supplies. Tariffs will hit everywhere.
It's also worth noting that, like all sales taxes, tariffs disproportionately impact lower-income people.
And when it comes to the massive "China Tax" (whatever % it is today) - guess who buys the most from discount stores that require heavily on goods made in China?
We should also consider: In the global economy, parts/assemblies for final products may cross a national border multiple times, thus imposing a tariff repeatedly.
It seems unlikely that anyone can accurately predict the magnitude of the end result.
#USDemocracy
its still 25% on Canada and Mexico and 145% on China. The guy who is the spokesperson for shoes said on PBS News last night that 98% of all shoes are imported, and consumers should anticipate paying "double" whatever they paid for a pair of shoes last year.
#econsky no one wants to admit it but the US is just one big investment firm for the world. Luxury real estate, equities and securities, research, and lifestyle assets and expenditures This allows many to live a quality life. We need a real discussion! Export Our Labored Workers Our #1 Asset
Places such as Bali Indonesia Taiwan could use our quality industrial workforce and that type of labor could live like kings in many of these countries. That fixes the housing and affordability crisis we have. also helps spreads democratic message across the world. Our military bases are a good ex
Correct.
For Management.
Oh... you meant out on the manufacturing line?
40K.
But we have a gym.
For Management.
And assigned parking.
For Management.
We do allow 2 bathroom breaks during the day!
Economic Idiocracy...
Resist the Racist Regime. Harriet Tubman, Grandma Moses. President 47 tried to erase her from the National Park Registry. This song is a tribute to her and an affront to him. https://youtu.be/m6cAe2jF2pg?si=a0xX7Xtiw6fg33Ww
They've done exactly the same to UK households using covid PPE .. Billions and billions it was £16,300 per household increase .. it's a wealth transfer and now it's American citizens turn
Trump just wanted to make sure Congress knew what to do with their stock trades. Because we know they don't have any insider knowledge with their stock portfolio.
I can never say this enough - America voted for - Make Assholes Grift Again. Until US Treasury is flat broke.
Don't exactly know where they will all run off to - to avoid the peasants w/ pitch forks- when we all finally wake up. Since the world already despises them.
Thanks @chrislhayes.bsky.social. Probably doesn't matter to you because you are a multimillionaire, but we poor folks struggling to get by can see the writing on the wall and don't need to be reminded.
Ah, but Trump’s cronies are making millions and millions - of dollars not widgets from the new factories they are building. He said so himself. Right there in the Oval.
Trump is an evil liar. He is a felon. He is a sexual assaulter. He bankrupts his businesses. He hates veterans. He dodged the draft. He mocks disabled people. He gives rude nicknames. He breaks the law. He wants people like Hitler's generals.
I would have preferred it if Jared had beaten Trump conscious w/ the hardback. I am sure Jared has thought of this at some point - given he is absent from the 2nd term of the Make Assholes Grift Again extravaganza. Rarely see any of his family - I bet they are counting the days when he kicks it.
I just realized that I mis wrote " beaten Trump conscious" instead of unconscious- but I realize it is actually more accurate. Like beating some sense into the Mad King.
Sounds like a Perfect Storm of Idiots hatched a plan to destroy world accidentally on purpose. Perhaps, 50+ years into the future - when most of us are dead - our great great grandchildren can marvel at all our collective stupidity. Oliver Stone's great grandchild will do a Netflix series on it.
The tariffs as they stand and as of today are said to cost the average household $4700 a year or $90 a week! That's more than a day's pay for someone paid the federal minimum wage, WTF, what are we going to do about this?
That on top of a ridiculous budget that will leave poor, elderly, ill and handicapped Americans destitute and dying while forcing our children's children to pay for the huge deficit.
We need every last person who associates themselves with MAGA to lose their jobs, healthcare, ability to buy groceries, social security, Medicaid, homes, etc etc ad nauseum. Maybe then those hateful racist hypocritical mother fuckers will wake up and see some semblance of reality. Fuck all
Forget about it. Trump killed their grandma with his catastrophic handling of COVID. Especially in red states. And they decided they want another round of that.
Agree. I can't wait until my mother loses social security, Medicaid, and Medicare, so I can say, "Maybe when I sent you the project 2025 playbook, you should have taken it seriously!" 🤷♀️
I'll also throw it in her face that without Medicaid, I may die.
Like so many about 75% of my family are white Christian conservatives, and as awful as it sounds they all need to suffer for supporting Trump, Project 2025, and the like. Their ignorance and gullibility nay stubbornness and fear are no excuse.
If I were a betting man I wud bet the actual amount will be way north of your number. So many imported items are taxed many times prior to reaching the consumer!
And what pile of money does that $2500 end up in? Paying down debt? Medicaid? Farm subsidies? Musk owned contracts? Childhood cancer research? El Salvador prison systems?
Whose pocket?
But why don’t we households want to donate to the super rich and the corrupt republicans in charge of hurting each of us, our neighbors, and our friends?
Hell, I’d cough up
2500$ just to make Republicans go away for a hundred years
And that's sure as hell not how you make America great again.
T***p always makes a decision without ever thinking thru what repercussions it will ultimately have on everyday Americans.
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MAGA: and the penguins are gonna pay for the tariffs
#KamalaWarnedUs
💩ing bricks. wish reporters would ask how they voted!
Trump shows the horrors he can create then expects us to be thankful that it’s only a small percentage as bad as that.
At 100% tariff that’s $440bln EXTRA money taken from US citizens and companies.
Who can afford that? Noone.
Trade will stop almost instantly and Americans will be shopping to spend $440bln elsewhere. But where?
It's worth the suffering to complete the purge...right?
and it's not proportional to income level
people who make only $25K a year are now paying $2500 in tax which is huge for them
while the TWENTY-FIVE MILLION millionaires in the USA won't even notice if they lose $2500 in a year
The richest won't notice anything!
Farmer cried about environmental regulations, well he gets bailed out there too! Biden & other Dem programs have given them billions to save their land from their own destructive farming practices. Sustainability is a problem?
Gonna be very very bad, folks.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/how-china-could-crush-the-us-housing-market.html
Wouldn't have meals most days if it weren't for meals on wheels.
Survival is far more rudimentary.
If you're making federal minimum wage, that's 16.5% of your income. Average US apartment rent is $1751 per month.
slow boil
Now you know why Trump doesn't call him Governor.
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
But $2500 implies that each US household spends $25,000 on *imported* goods - at import value not retail value (so considerably more at retail)
This seems implausible
The formula is (import price + import/retail margin %) + sales tax %
I've seen 30-50% as margin & 5-8% as sales tax but all things being equal a 10% rise in import price results in a 10% rise in retail price.
🥴🙄
Apathy just implies an invalid assumption that things will be okay either way, not alignment with fascism.
Ignorance rather than evil. Complacency rather than complicity.
Voter turnout has historically been correlated with success by Dems. Pubs turn out reliably.
They wouldn't do that if your assumption was correct.
Trump scammed you with his insider trading. Get him out!
They’ll undercut, but just *barely*, to maximize profit.
We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate. https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
NO KINGS!
It hurts the middle class and working poor the most.
All to allow corporations and the wealthy to pay virtually nothing.
Fight me if that's not the actual plan.
Foolish voters left Dems without majorities in the House and Senate. Dems worked for the people for the last 4 years only to not be rewarded at the ballot box.
It was ALWAYS Dems who stood in the way of this happening. Republicans were seething for this for decades & were able to achieve it through Donald.
It's never enough for people. They want perfect,even while up against Republicans who do not want us to have a day of peace/prosperity.
Example: Current policies
Good God, do you not see how bad the democrats look right now? They're toxic
He is good at the scam and most news is good at selling it to the citizens
Walmart prices are gonna be raised exponentially.
Congress is voting on HR 1526 (the “No Rogue Rulings Act”).
If it passes, courts can’t stop Trump. He’d have unchecked power.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social how would this affect us?
Note: George III only escaped execution by being on a different continent.
What was passed today?
This system worked once but how can anyone say it works when we have a dictator reworking all the laws to suit him.
Answer : None.
F*ck The Little People, Leona x3. The rich take care of their own.
They talk about it at investor meetings.
In any case, prices will be higher, either from the tariffs or the domestic products will be higher priced (the reason they went overseas.)
DOLLAR
OF
OUR TAX DOLLARS
GOING TO ELON MUSK
if he wants to go to
MARS let him get the money from
PUTIN TO GO
Call connedgress tell them to
DEFUND AND DEPORT
un–AMERICAN America Hating
ELON MUSK NOW!
202-224-3121
“This is the first time we might see inflation ease!”
Taking Stockholm syndrome to a whole new level.
#PplUnitedWillWin #UniteTheWorldNow
#💙
I turn off the television for not wanting to eat their revolting poop.
…there are now too many Bullshit Barbie talking heads trying to normalize that which is illegal and harmful to get ratings.
If they want to chase the backsliding MAGAts, I’m not watching or listening.
There’s no way to stop it.
Young people will have to leave
to obtain employment or
education for 20 years,
or longer.
It’s worth noting that this exodus
reduces the number of [D]
voters, or recategorizes
the votes to absentee ballots,
easier to throw out of the tally.
Many Americans live paycheck to paycheck, more than 70% of households report they would struggle to cover an unexpected expense without going into debt
$2500 is going to hurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlgGJUP_MI4
77 million Americans voted for
and are psychologically “identified”
with Trump’s lunatic
erratic psychotic behavior.
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Gabbard’s Pick to Run Counterterrorism Center Aided Start of a Right-Wing Paramilitary Group
*
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/joe-kent-tulsi-gabbard-national-counterterrorism-center-first-amendment-praetorian-robert-patrick-lewis/
I am struggling as well.
And when it comes to the massive "China Tax" (whatever % it is today) - guess who buys the most from discount stores that require heavily on goods made in China?
It seems unlikely that anyone can accurately predict the magnitude of the end result.
#USDemocracy
For Management.
Oh... you meant out on the manufacturing line?
40K.
But we have a gym.
For Management.
And assigned parking.
For Management.
We do allow 2 bathroom breaks during the day!
Resist the Racist Regime. Harriet Tubman, Grandma Moses. President 47 tried to erase her from the National Park Registry. This song is a tribute to her and an affront to him. https://youtu.be/m6cAe2jF2pg?si=a0xX7Xtiw6fg33Ww
Don't exactly know where they will all run off to - to avoid the peasants w/ pitch forks- when we all finally wake up. Since the world already despises them.
Epstein's Pedo Island?
🆘🇺🇸🆘
Save this tripe for your show.
This country deserves what is happening. And this is just the beginning.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTje9sx6A/
Trump is an evil liar. He is a felon. He is a sexual assaulter. He bankrupts his businesses. He hates veterans. He dodged the draft. He mocks disabled people. He gives rude nicknames. He breaks the law. He wants people like Hitler's generals.
Ignorance isn't an excuse.
More like he sent Jared to find a good tariff book on amazon
https://www.wyff4.com/article/tariffs-impact-on-consumer-costs/64445319
It was all predictable, which is why I believe that is Trump's plan.
It's not a Tariff
It IS a direct THEFT from our wallets into the wallets of the Ultra Rich who pocket all the tariff money
"Thank you Orange Daddy!"
I'll also throw it in her face that without Medicaid, I may die.
Thanks Trump.. 🤬
Whose pocket?
Hell, I’d cough up
2500$ just to make Republicans go away for a hundred years
T***p always makes a decision without ever thinking thru what repercussions it will ultimately have on everyday Americans.