What a weird timeline that we are rooting for China on this.
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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I am rooting for free trade. It's stupid and inefficient for every country to try to manufacture the same goods.
What are americans going to do? Stop buying Chinese crap?
Once amazon warehouses are empty the tariffs are gonna be „paused”. In trumps own words „he has no cards”.
There's two ways this works out.
- Trump's regime doubles down, never backs out and holds firm.
Basically, you're fucked. Chinese goods stop flowing, medical devices and equipment stop coming, tools and utilities stop being restocked. You're on your own. Welcome to Thunderdome.
- Trump's regime keeps this going until the backlash forces them to give it up.
Then we capitulate to China, end up paying more overall but not an impossibly high figure for our items and life goes on... only a little less swimmingly.
My bet is on #1. Stock up on ammo and food, road warrior.
... and TP. don't forget to stock up on TP
Those who don't will have to take brown-town to the shower nozzle.
This is completely unrelated but what's with the subscript opening quotation marks? Is that a standard in a specific language? I don't think I've ever seen that.
Iphones do it by default. At least for my polish-english mixed keyboard (which sucks fat cocks)
German, for example, uses them
Thank you
No we are just gonna keep buying the cheap crap at the new tariff price because we have no financial literacy in this country and easy access to credit.
Not at %245.....
Trump has already lost this war. The war he started because he's stupid as fuck. He's going to die before he sees the results of the chaos he reigns.
Have you seen him recently? Sometimes he neglects the orange deck stain, and his skin is grey and ghoulish. I swear if he didn't have some necromancer keeping him alive, he'd have died 20 years ago.
Lmao. Could be 2400% and it still wouldn't matter. China already has the pipelines to circumvent all retaliatory measures including Chumps tariffs.
Remember how China exposed all the luxury brands? It's that. Send the products to Vietnam or Brazil or somewhere. Get a domestic label sewn on and bingo.
Xi is playing chess. Chump is playing with his own feces.
Once again I miss competence. Just - plain old competence. Knowing a goddamned thing.
Unfuckingbelievable we're here again. The fucker almost wiped out the planet last time with a virus. Gotta give him another at-bat eh? Fucking idiots.
In Trump's defense, its easier to shove a turd through the round hole than a square peg. Especially if it's liquid McD's turds.
"That's right, the turd goes in the SQUARE hole."
Wafflestomping all the way down
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Trump is going to loose this trade war in 6 months or less.
We at about to have Covid level disruptions to our supply chain. Over 80 cargo vessels have canceled sailings. Think about the amount of goods we are not going to get in 3 weeks time. Yeah China will loose money and will be hurt by the trade war but they can find other markets.
The USA is going to have epic supply chain disruptions. We wont have consumer goods or components for manufacturing within 6 weeks. It’s going to be a shit show unless Trump backs down.
https://www.asiafinancial.com/transpacific-cargo-trade-decimated-by-trumps-tariff-war
It happened in his first term when he pull this tariff crap. All of our projects came to a stand still because we couldn't get gear. The same thing is about to happen again.
lose*
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The AI slop machine got Trump’s name right, but whiffed entirely on the author of the book.
Oh, I thought that was just the ghostwriter. Although I suppose I should be surprised that he'd share credit on anything with anyone.
Wait you mean Tow Glhvartz didn't write it? Next you're going to tell me it isn't "Domale's inside look at his lime of fomim sun thant the om curayer"
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China can live without us. We can't live without them. Go into a Chinese house and remove all the items made in the USA. Now try that in an American house and tell me what's left.
If Americans see one empty shelf, there will be weeping and panicking in the streets.
There will also be shooting and looting
...how anyone in the US sees this as positive is beyond my ability for faith and reason...
That elected a 34 times convicted felon. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised anymore.
...they shouldn't be, this has been plotted and planned and WRITTEN down in project 2025...
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the trump voters largely do not want positive, they want big negatives for everyone else and are willing to accept negatives for themselves to get it
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I can only picture Xi Jinping swimming through a pile of rare earth minerals like Scrooge McDuck, while a call from Trump rings, unanswered.
They know he’s full of shit and even if he foolishly proceeds he will destroy the Republican Party’s electoral prospects for decades, lol. The only question is whether they do a military coup to retain power.
he will destroy the Republican Party’s electoral prospects for decades
Nonsense. Go spend some time on The Federalist, or the New York Post,or r/Conservative, or their pitiful “satire” site The Babylon Bee. They don’t live in reality. The real world is completely irrelevant to them. They could lose everything because of Trump and still think that their woes are the fault of woke Marxist liberals (an oxymoron, I know, but they don’t).
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he will destroy the Republican Party’s electoral prospects for decades
That's what they said about Nixon. Look at how that's turned out.
Trump is an unserious president
I hope Trump holds long enough for the release of the next iphone
Trade Wars Are Good And Easy To Win
~ Sun Tzu, War of the Art of the Deal
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There is functionally no difference between a 145% and a 245% tariff.
The cost of going through a black market rather than a clear or grey one is likely already below 145% and the grey one is likely to fill most gaps in the long run anyways.
Grey market tariff skirting might be Canadian or UK companies slapping their logos and "made in X" marker after making a tiny change to the product. The barrier to entry on this is quite low as is the risk. If your profit is capped at 145% you still have a lot of room to make money.
Generally any tariff over 50% eats into profit margins sufficiently to end trade altogether.
Any escalation in tariffs above that is essentially just a symbolic dick measuring contest. China is being the adult in this situation by not engaging.
So now we see whether Trump gives in or makes up bigger and bigger numbers. "900%! 1,776%! A BILLION PERCENT!"
If you raise the tariffs to a billion percent then the US will get a billion dollars revenue for every $100 TV that comes from China! There will be so many millions of billions!!!!!! Why wasn't anyone smart enough to do this before?!?!?
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