i’m not convinced that the trump boys actually want to stop drugs from entering the country
That’s like rubbing shit on your face and telling a bully, “Okay tough guy! You want to punch me now?”
It’s hard to tell whether or not they truly don’t understand, or they do, and they’re just saying shit to rile up their base.
Not sure how much it matters either way, though. Consciously or not, it’s still the spread of misinformation.
Their supporters are going to be all pikachu face when they get their first sticker shock though. Bet they blame (((globalists))), Democrats, immigrants, liberals, or basically anything but what they fucking voted for.
That’s if they want to talk about it at all for very long. Because their disinformation networks are really good at keeping them distracted from stuff like this if they need to. They’ll give the incels something to be mad about besides $1000 playstations if they need to…
It’s hard to tell whether or not they truly don’t understand, or they do, and they’re just saying shit to rile up their base.
Not sure how much it matters either way, though. Consciously or not, it’s still the spread of misinformation.
Nailed it.
I’m not sure anyone in that family understands trade at all?
Donvict seems to think a trade deficit means China is ripping us off or something. They also seem to think that China is going to be paying tariffs, for example, when it is only going to mean that Americans are going to be paying for it. Not China. Slapping tariffs on goods coming from China, etc…is JUST ANOTHER TAX.
Do any of the dumbfucks in the Bircher/teabagger/maga/qanon, (whatever the fuck the crazies are calling themselves these days, it’s a constantly rotating set of labels, but it’s all basically the same set of stupid beliefs driven by feels rooted in racism) really understand that a tariff is a TAX? Again, these dipshits tried to start the “Tea party”, saying they were “taxed enough already” and I bet anything that only a very, very small percentage of them have made the connection. I bet most of the teabaggermaga dipshits think it’s gonna “make America great” or some shit because, donvict, their great white hope, is the one doing it to them. And doing it to them hard.
We are going to cost your countries, your economies, we’re going to cost your businesses billions, hundreds of billions of dollars if you think you’re going to poison Americans
They realize American manufacturers and consumers pay the tariffs, right? Not the other countries.
I don’t think they do. But daddy donvict seems to also think that China is somehow ripping us off because “trade deficit”.
So I don’t think anyone in this crime family understands much of anything at all.
Isn’t Eric the one that got rushed to the hospital because he forgot how to breathe for a while?
To this day he still hasn’t figured out the square block doesn’t fit in the triangle hole.
You want to cut my hair for cheap? No, I am going to stab myself in the eye with the scissors. Haha, you lose.
Seriously though, tariffs can help (as part of a bigger strategy) to develop and protect important industries. You probably want a surgical approach in applying them, though.
If any of this actually happened (unlikely), I’d expect the US to start a very long slide to irrelevance.
Agreed. Trade agreements probably always need updating and tuning, etc…including things like tariffs.
Having donvict do it, though? That idiot is not one I’d want to be doing surgery of any kind - on trade agreements or otherwise. He’s a blustery moron.
Shit’s gonna be hilarious and tragic when a head of lettuce costs $12.99.
We’ll all look back longingly on Lucille’s $10 banana.
Bet you anything the teabaggers never properly attribute it to their support for the kakistocracy, though.
These types seem to be determined to never learn a fucking thing.
A smart approach would be to slowly dial stuff up so that manufacturers had, ya know, time to build and train for complex manufacturing plants in US.
But they’re not going to do that. The plants are where they are, they would take years to move, and American consumers will pay the new import taxes in the interim.
That’s all assuming Trump and Co wont buy up these factories and industries, and then inject them with federal stimulus money to ‘save america’
I’m sure in 12 months every major news station will be unhinged talking about one particular niche industry like baby diapers that is too important to let fail from these tariffs and it will be a complete coincidence that musk or kushner owns 90% of the domestic production.
They won’t just pay in the meantime, the local companies have very little reason to try to undercut foreign imports by a significant margin. Not enough manufacturing will come back to generate enough competition to drive down prices on most items.
Like moronic father. Like moronic son.
Shameless question. At this point I approach this entire presidency as a cash/power grab by the incumbent administration.
So from an investment perspective how would pleb like me, with my Roth and 401k, game these tariffs? Local industry might get a boost, but for the most part we (the USA) still won’t produce a lot of the goods being tariffed. So, do you just bet high on commodities and U.S reseller/retailers as the big winners 12 months into the administration? Asking for a friend that’s totally not me trying to make the best out of a potentially disastrous 4 years. Thank you,
- hold a diversified portfolio that’s heavy on cash.
- buy equities when the market tanks.
- sit tight and hope for the best. Don’t check your port again until the fuckwits are gone.
does he think that drugs that are smuggled into the country will pay the tariffs?
