EDIT: Trump and Columbia seems to have come to an agreement where the Tariffs have now been canceled.
I’m leaving this post up for posterity’s sake. We just need to wait for the next opportunity to push. I’m still confident that Trump and co will dramatically misstep soon and leave an obvious opening. But for now, we should get our meme-skills up and ready. I’m still supportive of large-scale real-world messages, be they stickers or chalk messages or even simple notifications that point out Trump’s political missteps.
First off: condolences to any Colombian who is harmed by these events. We have a Colombian in our family and I certainly fear for her safety and her way of life. She’s the nanny to my nephew, and there’s a solid chance this shit won’t be fixed in time for her Visa renewals, so she’ll be effectively deported due to these events. I understand that Trump’s latest actions today are frightening, but we need to focus on the political messaging needed to swing the tides back into our favor.
As Donald J. Trump tariffs the USA’s #2 trade partner in Coffee (remember, Coffee CANNOT grow in the USA outside of like Hawaii), we can all expect coffee prices to shoot up by 25% in the near future. This is the inflation event we need to begin rubbing shitty marketplace inflation into the MAGAT’s faces.
Coffee is one of the most essential of luxury goods consumed in the USA. Everyone drinks it, and we need to be ready to pin the coffee price hikes on Trump’s shitty policy.
So, what’s the plan people? What’s the best meme we can make a sticker and print en masse. Coffee Shops seem like a liberal safe-haven, it shouldn’t be too hard to ask Baristas to post up signs (or little protests) indicating that coffee shops are against the Columbian Tariffs.
Like I really think this has real action available. Even a sign that says “Due to recent Tariffs, we have been forced to increase the price of our coffee by 25%”, and that’s it. We don’t need to make it incredibly related to Trump, its implicit in Trump’s actions. We need the public to know how Trump is affecting them, but without necessarily rubbing it into their faces.
USA has a worker shortage, especially in child care and health workers. There aren’t enough American workers in these industries.
Importing pro-American elites from Columbia (or wherever) serves us far more advantage than not.
EDIT: In any case, if you know of any infant-trained live-in nannies with strong English skills, I’m all ears. But uhhh… they’re pretty rare dude. The fact that you’re effectively deporting them is going to fuck our economy.
Here is a thought how about the parents raising the child. You know sacrifice work or charity events for awhile. Or maybe they shouldn’t have made the choice to bring a human life into this world? Oh no somebody think of our economy? Fuck the economy fuck hypernormalization.
Cool. You try taking time off of being a Doctor in her early stages of career development.
We all know being a Doctor sucks so we are helping her out where we can. But an au pair / nanny is the obvious solution here. Bonus points as this au pair we found has such high credentials, is nice and etc. etc. Worthy addition to our family.
If America in general doesn’t like that then fuck America for the loss. But you ain’t messing with us on this issue.
A big salty tear. Tell it to someone can’t take work off or pay someone else to raise the kid. Next you’ll tell me how it’s stressful it is you don’t know whether to drive the bmw or the Mercedes because your Audi is in the repair shop.