Why was no one reporting these things before the election? - ThreadSky

kellyscaletta.bsky.social • 100 days ago

Why was no one reporting these things before the election?

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So, prices will rise on just about everything, consumers will not be able to, or just won’t, buy the goods, businesses will suffer and lay people off by the thousands.

What will CEOs do when their profits dwindle?

processdriven.bsky.social•100 days ago

Because this way, companies can price gouge to their hearts content and claim "but the tariffs!"
They did the same thing with Covid.

kansasgrant.bsky.social•100 days ago

I've never been a fan of the theory that "the media wants Trump to get reelected" but now that he's been reelected, it's making a lot more sense to me.

danarocksit.bsky.social•100 days ago

How are their ratings now? I haven’t watched cable news since the election.

kansasgrant.bsky.social•100 days ago

Good point. Same for me.

rodneynookey.bsky.social•100 days ago

Basically a lot of these companies wanted trump to win for corporate tax cuts. Now that he won, they don’t want tariffs.

wildflower333.bsky.social•100 days ago

Won't they be surprised when we don't buy anything over the next 4 years

rodneynookey.bsky.social•100 days ago

Unfortunately as consumers we will buy from them anyway. Majority of Americans don’t really protest companies like in the past. Also it’s not like they don’t want to raise their prices. they will just use tariffs as cover lol

helenafluterer.bsky.social•99 days ago

This is an extremely important pain point to exploit. We should minimize our discretionary spending over his term. Some people could cut back a lot more than others, but every little bit matters.

We should standardize and celebrate this by posting about the thing we didn’t buy.

forbin17.bsky.social•100 days ago

Weird. It’s almost as if people don’t understand tariffs.

mreddie8976.bsky.social•100 days ago

The short answer is that the media sold out America

All they wanted to do was sane-washing, bothsidesism, normalizing, and talking about their bullshit horserace polls, trying to juice their pathetic ratings

The media failed America

jashead.bsky.social•100 days ago

It's the old fancy two-step, let's get Mr Tax Cut elected and then we'll tell the truth about the rest of his 2025 package.

cairenntairisu.bsky.social•100 days ago

Because mainstream media wanted Trump to win. Period. Full stop. That’s the entire answer.

miaspeople.bsky.social•100 days ago

Because these companies didn't say this before the election, they wanted those sweet tax breaks.
And the media was busy with "Unemployment is at its lowest in decades, and how that's bad for Biden."

theeelady.bsky.social•100 days ago

People need to start looking for other resources for information besides the media. The Dems said this over and over and over again & obviously people didn’t take them seriously for whatever reason. But they should have been responsible to look this up themselves.

wendymck3.bsky.social•100 days ago

Because Kamala wouldn't give detailed policy answers....smh

crystllace.bsky.social•100 days ago

We told everyone but they didn't believe us and a lot of magats still don't believe it, just the other day I got called stupid for saying we pay the tariffs !!!

garrettepps.bsky.social•100 days ago

A great deal was wtitten to precisely this effect.

canadianbacon66.bsky.social•100 days ago

Add the deportations and you’ll have a recession then a depression

danarocksit.bsky.social•100 days ago

😞

aguyyouknow.bsky.social•100 days ago

A good question to ask self-important weasels like Alex Thompson, who was too busy parsing Biden's words to be bothered with the stakes for our country. Another question: can we force the MSM to do more than a day of coverage on it now?

chris-thib.bsky.social•100 days ago

The greed in people makes me wanna puke

mizanthrope01.bsky.social•100 days ago

Because the corporations want the tax breaks they will get under Trump

dougbluewahoo2.bsky.social•99 days ago

FAFO

coreymalone.bsky.social•100 days ago

Yeah it’s a real mystery 🙄

chelseyh.bsky.social•100 days ago

I work in apparel manufacturing. I was sounding the alarm bells everyday pre election, but I have a very soft voice on social media. Best advice now, take notice of how much you own comes from China and stock up. It will be much pricier post tariffs.

crazyfingerz.bsky.social•100 days ago

It wouldn’t have mattered anyway. Magats are idiots.

truth-consequences.bsky.social•100 days ago

It was covered plenty. Just like when Hillary warned about losing the Supreme Court. People were to stupid to listen.

genxbarbarella.bsky.social•100 days ago

There are a lot of things that are coming out that should have come out before the election. Companies are now speaking out and the media is saying things that should have been said 6 months ago! It's infuriating!!!

nancyjeanvp.bsky.social•99 days ago

It's safe to assume that earlier reports would have fallen flat on America's low-information, non-curious, frequent diners at Conservative Rant Radio voters.

naroop.bsky.social•100 days ago

Because the mega rich who own the MSM wanted Trump to win hence all the sane washing

pascabake.bsky.social•100 days ago

Deep down, these companies know they will be raising prices to increase profits, regardless of whether or not the tariffs are enacted on a particular country in a specific sector that would affect them. They will use the possibility of tariffs as an excuse.

chrisholly.bsky.social•100 days ago

The list of things journalists failed to report is staggering.

Brian Williams on Seth Meyers saying Dems need to reassess made me want to reach through the TV to slap him.

If media hadn't spent 10 years sane washing trump and holding Dems to significantly higher standards, we'd be better off.

alberto-resists.bsky.social•100 days ago

Maga cultists wouldn't have cared.

ghunkinking.bsky.social•100 days ago

Did you read the business press pre-election? I do, and they were absolutely clear that broad, almost universal tariffs would be a catastrophic idea.

stepmomcoach.bsky.social•100 days ago

One clown kept dancing and "singing" distracting the messages on this. There was reporting. People don't believe in news OR in experts anymore.

bluezonetahoe.bsky.social•100 days ago

Cowards, that’s why.

heavysigh24.bsky.social•100 days ago

Who didn’t think this would happen

randyb-lusky.bsky.social•100 days ago

Even if reported, Trump voters have no awareness of facts or news. I agree it should be reported but I'm skeptical it would've had any impact.

ayanghologram.bsky.social•100 days ago

But the real objective of protectionism is to allow domestic companies to also raise prices just to increase their profit margins. Literally, every price will go up.

missusmagoo.bsky.social•99 days ago

Recession. Incoming.

debbie156.bsky.social•99 days ago

Who did not see this coming? Oh. That’s right. The ignoramuses that are aka Trump voters…

giggle-angel.bsky.social•100 days ago

that's because all 3 of these businesses contributed to trump's campaign.
https://www.opensecrets.org/

tha-answer.bsky.social•100 days ago

You guys think this is some gotcha but they will never blame him no matter what.

richard62.bsky.social•100 days ago

Good question

rothschilling.bsky.social•99 days ago

They want a chance at tax cuts AND the ability to gouge prices like they did during the pandemic.

tomclapper.bsky.social•100 days ago

100% agreed. The media absolutely bent over for Oompa Loompa Hitler and then held Kamala to a very different standard.

gramsjc.bsky.social•100 days ago

All about the money, everything leads to money.

carlegm.bsky.social•100 days ago

because - msm wanted that man to win so they can get ratings - and now they’ve lost ratings. they caused this.

kturnerrn.bsky.social•100 days ago

I know right? This makes me so mad.

notimeforbs.bsky.social•100 days ago

Post election reporting motto.
"Bringing you the information you needed then, but now."

donnacounts.bsky.social•100 days ago

Right! 🤷🏻‍♀️

chrisldavis.bsky.social•100 days ago

Many were seeing this reported. I saw it reported in my news sources (some Canadian) but the people voting for Trump didn’t see it on X or Fox or Joe Rogan or the Brocasters. And they still won’t see it now. They won’t see it for a decade after he’s long gone. That is the problem.

planoliberal.bsky.social•100 days ago

The media is compromised

ianmost.bsky.social•100 days ago

MSM is owned by the right.

jpmuir.bsky.social•100 days ago

Of course they will. And they already profited greatly from Covid. It's small business and local restaurants that died along with millions of others who didn't make it through Trump's bullshit.

basialauwers.bsky.social•100 days ago

Billionaire self-interest?Corruption? Media consolidation? It’s kind of choose your own adventure here with this one.

fairydogma.bsky.social•100 days ago

It was inconvenient for legacy media to bring us actual news.

maralosers.bsky.social•100 days ago

Maybe we were too full of hope to notice 😭

oldsoul82.bsky.social•99 days ago

Complicit

dukebrew.bsky.social•100 days ago

These companies will raise prices more than they should and make even more money all the while blaming the tariffs. It's all a game which is why they didn't want to say anything before the election. Scare away voters

lizlemony.bsky.social•100 days ago

All fucking cowards

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