Trump exempting computers & phones from the tariffs today means that Chinese-made laptops now have lower tariffs than European Cars, Mexican Steel, & Canadian Lumber.
Also means Vietnamese-made laptops have a lower tariff than Ethiopian coffee, Indian tea, & Guatemalan bananas
Also means Vietnamese-made laptops have a lower tariff than Ethiopian coffee, Indian tea, & Guatemalan bananas
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https://bsky.app/profile/shamballa-warrior.bsky.social/post/3lmpahrmhmk26
*ruining
If Trump wanted to be sure to increase the utter rage of anyone under 35 against his admin, he couldn't do better than this. 😂
MAGA is playing a losing game.
No taxation without representation.
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff
Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.
What if you make a laptop with 500 backup batteries?
https://bsky.app/profile/rapbastardz.bsky.social/post/3lmmnnfkyhk2u
2. What we have are the fevered utterances of a man who doesn't understand economics
3. These rants are taken as gospel by the coterie of sycophants who should know better
4. They propagate this nonsense and unfortunately government departments have to comply
I present to you: our all new, one year between charges, 800 pound Vietnamese laptop.
We’ll get those ev batteries into the US tariff free.
(in French, "illuminated" would have a second meaning : has lost contact with reality)
Your 'beautiful' tariffs remind me of the line in the movie Pretty Woman when Julia Roberts' character, Vivian Ward, says "Big mistake. Big. Huge!
You better find other markets for your trade.
Plenty of creative opportunities here!
Welcome to The Idiocracy!
Now, thanks to Trump's
Daily Generation of Random Tariffs (DGenRT) Team, that's impossible!
2. As of yesterday, the CIS software for tracking shipments and duties owed had crashed. 🤪
3. Give it 3 days and the tariffs will change again. 🙃
So much more personal and bureaucracy in the US to figure out. Brilliant plan. 😂😂
Laptop, Made in Vietnam - only 10 USD! (Battery not included 🤷)
That gives Trump the room he needs to start slapping tariffs back on everything.
Something that'll never happen
Yay!
Also for everyone in CBP I guess.
Stage 2: display you don’t actually know better.
Stage 3: talk about immigrants.
Good thing the bond market has a sense of humor!
10% or 0%.
It’s like a Visa commercial, but about stupidity.
So big win for China.
Big PITA for US retailers who have to change sourcing and pay 10% factory surcharge.
unlike Ethiopian coffee.
Quantity is not quality.
Raw materials and parts used by US companies to manufacture products domestically: tariffs.
Art of the deal lmao what an amateur
That'll fix it
** As in, “Sure I’ll say ‘no’ to the machine body scan. But we both know you’d much prefer going through my rectum the old fashioned way.”
I mean it is manifestly unfair that you put like 50X more work into explaining this stuff than they do making it up in the first place.
This is Bizzarro World stable genius stuff…
https://newrepublic.com/post/193930/ports-not-collecting-trump-tariffs-glitch
And yet still could be more.
He changes the tariffs so often that no one can keep up.
China is bad, but well all but their laptops etc
Illegal immigrants are criminals, but well unless they work for farms, hotels etc etc
They so all over the place nothing is consistent but they are destroying a lot trust around the world
Take that M13!
is deportation.
(Yesterday, BTW, was a full moon.)
(Which is ok with me especially considering what we did to their country)
Did any of them get into trumps orbit without a man’s money propping them up? Including Trump’s daddy nepo millions?
Anti DEI incompetence
You signed on the work with Musk. But he never shows up to the office and has never speaker to you in person. Just via flunkies.
You haven’t been paid in four months, because you agreed to do it for free “to help make America great”.
You are making ramen in an apartment you rent with six other DIGE staffers, hot swapping beds and now China is on the phone, demanding an update on tariffs.
What would this be?
Do the #ILLEGAL just like he does.
A Chinese car with top-notch tech on board vs a Chinese top-noch PC with wheels etc in the form of a car?
Bet on Xi.
Xi is sitting on a potentially nuclear option as he turns the screws on Trump. China is the 2nd-largest holder of US debt. If it opted to dump its U.S. T-bills, the blow to the U.S. would be seismic.
But what if China sells them to Russia? 😱 #TariffWar
And so on. And so on, .....
Trump does not care about everyday people. #SCAM
Trump makes a fool of himself and ridicules the US and just wait…
Europe, Canada, Mexico: you do this for China but not for us?!
Printers will once again cost more than PCs, like in the 1980s
https://wiki.lspace.org/Tooth_Fairy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/california-rebuild-wildfires-tariffs-1.7451715
https://bsky.app/profile/davekeonscousin.bsky.social/post/3llujihzdlc27
Will they be retrained? Will the govt get them other jobs?
Howard, any tips…? We need Howard to explain to us again how things will be.
Read about it, sign the strike card, pass it on (on all your socials, word-of-mouth, everywhere!).
Follow @generalstrikeus.bsky.social for updates!
https://generalstrikeus.com
In a normal world, principals would coordinate drafts for weeks or months ahead of time to work things out.
Instead, Trump commands everything from the top. They salute. It all blows up.
Lather, rinse, repeat. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
😉
What about small businesses, farmers, fishermen, and others who can’t afford to play in the D.C. Swamp?
Can you say corruption?
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/12/us/trump-administration-news/trump-electronics-tariffs?unlocked_article_code=1._E4.UC40.E-S2Y5WcUhjG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Narcissistic authoritarian sociopathic pathological liar wannabe king is bankrupting the government by dismantling, weakening it and tanking global economy so he can have COMPLETE CONTROL. Will be sending us to concentration camps like the Jews and Japanese. Let’s nip him in the bud ASAP
Fuck Project 2025!
WE THE PEOPLE unite, organize, mobilize, fight! Protest in the millions. Together there’s nothing we can’t do! We are not going back! We will win!