It’s a battle of political leverage. Who can use tariffs, retaliatory tariffs or sanctions to create more political pain for the other leader. Forcing them to capitulate or face undesired consequences.
How crazy would it be if China, Mexico and/or Canada initiated tariffs before Trump took office
How crazy would it be if China, Mexico and/or Canada initiated tariffs before Trump took office
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From your standpoint as a businessman and manufacturer, is there any sense behind this? Especially now that other countries are threatening tariffs of their own in retaliation. But that doesn't make sense cause it would mean raising their own taxes.
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Supplier: You want a price lower than our cost.
Walmart: Have to considered manufacturing in China.
Supplier: How do we do that?
Walmart: Don't worry we will help you move.
Trump believes he is negotiating from a position of power, and is, but he reads like a cheap novel so we will see how it goes.
Repubs will probably throw Vance at us. 🤮 And Dems will screw up picking a candidate like they usually do so who knows who’ll run on that ticket.
What is odd is that more people keep partnering with him ...
more of everything…
Elon saying that there will be two years of hardship is just him explaining that he’ll own everyone by the end.
Canada won't, China has been basically bullying them for over 20 years now. Interfered in their last 2 elections, they steal Canadian intellectual property, manipulate them economically etc
We should have been already, but I think closer ties with Europe is in order.
They raised the tariffs on Australian wines by between 116-242% (only just expired)
They banned the import of Australian coal & lobsters in 2020 to stop the support of any enquiry into the origin of Covid.
And the fact other countries are asking the Liberals for advice on how to deal with trump shows the world knows how good they are.
The US is only 350 Million out of 7 1/2 Billion people worldwide
That is a skill necessary for a good leader and it’s not a skill many politicians have anymore
The serial business failure and con artist is an imbecile.
😂😂😂
These tariffs only hurt America.
Ppl aren’t going to work at assembly plants for $7.00/ hr
US consumer of avocados may elect to buy 2 rather than 3 owing to higher prices-> lower Mexican exports -> lower profitability in Mexico.
Prices of certain goods will skyrocket.
Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
fuck off @mcuban.bsky.social lil boy
It's infuriatingly stupid.
To answer tho: it would be bad for everyone, but if they preemptively struck, and export sales get cancelled loudly, it might wake a few more up.
He sees himself as a Don— the Godfather.
He wants to be a Soprano but has the courage of a slug.
This is all about his psychopathy and feeding his narcissism.
It’s all a game to shake down everyone he can for a piece of their pie.
No. They don't. MAGA will be the ones crying the loudest.
But it's not over. Far from it.
I live in a rural area and am lucky enough to have the room to grow or raise our food.
He can do all this and more without ever adopting new tariffs
Wasn't Mark Cuban looking to by tweeter before Presidential Elections? Where as his whole net worth is about 5-6 bil 🤡 and Tweeter worth is about 44 bil.
Cry more dumb democratic btich 🤡🤣.
Canada can only affect lumber and gas. However, we are in rough shape right now. Canada is too exhausted to go through a trade war.
China is the only real threat and can cause a lot of mayhem.
When you're talking basic needs vs manufactured goods, Canada has a lot of leverage.
Not sure what negotiating tactics Canada will have but I think Trump is just trying to push a conversation about a few things that Canada needs to do.
It already worked for Mexico (for now) and I still think China is going to be the tricky one.
I don't know really. Tariffs are dumb unless another country is abusing it.
The US auto industry is weakened by the govt policy, such that the biggest domestic orgs are barely viable.
Crossing 🇨🇦>🇺🇸 with our big RV, & it goes like:
US Customs guy:””Where you headed”?
Me: “Palm Springs“
(not sure, it’s just what we say)
Guy: Bringing in any grains?”
Me: “No” 🤥
Guy: “Have a nice trip!”
Lame AF!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/secret-metal-helped-win-wwii-000000457.html
Whatever happened to “Walk softly, but carry a big stick”? We’re just as bad as Xi with blustering, unreasonable threats
Mexico has solid gun control laws, so the guns arming cartel violence mostly cross from the U.S.
But welcome to the club. Tons of liberal 2a groups out there will offer you proper training, highly recommend along with safe storage techniques.
The meaning of "militia" was quite clearly defined.
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A "market uncertainty" adjustment.
Used to be that countries would never challenge the US because they depended on our purchasing power.
I submit the inverse, like a river run dry
Wouldn't that be hilarious?!
Import volume of crude oil and petroleum products from Russia
And why didn’t TFG announce a “biggly” tax on Russian imports.
If Canada, Mexico and China delivered a clear and decisive statement about how they would respond, it might stop Trump and his evil minions from moving forward.
1. Food
2. Energy
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/us-food-imports-by-country/
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-u-s-oil-imports-in-2021/
Dumb move.
We cannot win, economically, societal or spiritually with this morally compromised & politically compromised person.
WAKE UP!!
And especially this president bc I think the ppl around him are much more evil.
No I don't wish him harm...but ya know, he does eat a shitload of fast foods so maybe it'll be a case of #FAFO 🤷🏾♂️
Hold their feet to the fire, yes. Return hate w/hate, no.
I believe it's called a Nine Inch Nails album.
4sure!
I'm only partially looking forward to the FAFO moment that his voters will experience.. because it's going to hit us all.
Maybe this will be what brings us together. (Doubt it).
Trump: nice imports ya got there, it'd be a shame if a tariff jacked up sales for four years. *holds out hand for proof of DJT stock purchase*
Or the guitars.
Or the shoes.
Or even the bloody Bibles.
Why it's a cornucopia of corruption! 🥰
I keep positive thoughts for a Trudeau big win going out to the Universe every day!
PP=PutinPuppet
Tariffs, if implemented, will also increase fees charged by customs brokers, and if there ends up being higher cost goods, it could potentially be even more than projected.
This will be catastrophic.
Guess what, China, Mexico and Canada’s ppl are more resilient than the Maga whiners. These are the snowflakes who couldn’t wear a mask to protect grandma or bitched about supply chain issues during the pandemic.
It used to be folks grew pot in illegal grow operations. But post-tariffs, why bother with pot, when you can grow tomato plants and make substantially more. People will have illegal tomato grows.
Your best bet would be to admit you mistimed your blatantly obvious grift (Elon lives rent free in your head btw) & ask for forgiveness. No one will give it to you but, at least, you'd salvage a tiny shred of integrity.
Honkyhonkhonk 😜
Looks like you found your peeps, cubes! You thought you were going to curry favor with the commies. Oopsie. Bad timing, huh?
Chin up. They'll love you here.
Estados Unidos, Russia and China, led by their respective Kings, will be a very very unstable system.
Political leverage used by the most powerful economy is called simply abusing bullying
Biden disease- seeing another old wyt guy as human ( cause he looks like u) when really it’s a simple
Battle of maga nazis vs decent humanity. Stop sane washing the catastrophe- just because you will still have the part of ur BB team you did t sell to maga cunt
Frankly I don’t want people to figure out how to be ok with nutty tariffs. We shouldn’t have to be! I want everyone to get mad and lose their shit about it.
If that’s not funny, not sure what is…
All because we had a black president once upon a time.
Those who pushed him into power because they hate America want to see it destabilized. It was a coup.
We're in this mess because 70+ million idiots are still butthurt that for 8 years we had a Black family living at the White House.
It's depressing to realize this, because they are also uniformly hostile to new information. Which is of course why: cult.
God bless.
Seems strange since Jesus was a medium height darker skinned man. He was not the blonde haired blue-eyed giant of the art world!
People didn't understand the ramifications of what he was saying.
We're going to find out the cost of ignorance real soon.
Not sure what part of "I don't care" needs more explanation. Tumors often just have to be cut out at the expense of healthy cells.
Cry me a river.
And as a mother, I have compassion for all children, regardless of their parents' beliefs.
I hope that we have solid 6-7% inflation for 4 years.
I hope GDP growth hits negative for 3 quarters.
After that, I would like to talk to a panel of 10 Trump jobless voters, and tell them that they can starve.
Whatever it takes.
I am a liberal-conservative. The conservative part of me says: everyone for himself.
Fck them.
Some tumors you have to cut out.
They actually voted for Trump because they don't want a black person in the White House.
Period. The fact she is a woman is just the cherry on that shit sundae.
Never mind the fact that all in all Obama was a pretty weak President overall. A good man sure but did our lives drastically change under him? Of course not.
https://jacobin.com/2024/11/kamala-harris-election-billionaires-cuban
1%ers we don’t care
https://bsky.app/profile/bdemayo.bsky.social/post/3lbstlapoy22l