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Should be a wild four years.

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Bog-standard Poster said:
Anyone who blames anything on boomers, or uses the word boomer in any context, is a fat, ugly, loner with no friends or life or concept of time or basic intelligence to do anything but mash keys and reee.
Kill yourselves, you useless, dumb fucks.

I'm not a 'boomer'. Fucking faggot word used by faggots.
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Show hands, boomer.
 
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ThisIsGonnaBeGood said:
Crazy how all the classification experts from last week suddenly became economic experts overnight.
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Here's the scary part: It's so bad that you don't have to be an expert to know we are extremely fucked. Like, we gotta pause all the bullshit right now and collectively ask what the fuck are these retards doing? They do realize that even if they short everything, nothing will be of value... Right?
BigJoey41X said:
The process of deindustrialization in the United States was a slow, gradual process over several decades from the mid to late 20th century, you cant force it to turn back in 4 years without causing major problems, because this is the fundamental problem, you can't impose early 20th century economics in the 21st century.
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These guys are operating under 19th century Victorian era politics. 20th Century actually has safety protocols.

The people responsible made too much money and having a factory that doesn't dump directly into the local water supply was deemed too costly.
That's why these faggots are destroying the EPA. So they can haphazardly reopen prehistoric facilities and resume dumping chemicals so they can ramp up production like the Captain Planet villians they are. Fill them with kids. Don't worry. We're passing laws so teenagers and children can work nights in the factory, fuck going to school and getting an edu-ma-ma-catioans , gotta makes sum moniez tah pay fur mah sistas canca pillz she got frums drinak da water tis hard n all wit onl 8 fingaz
 
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Starved Artist said:
Don't worry. We're passing laws so teenagers and children can work nights in the factory, fuck going to school and getting an edu-ma-ma-catioans , gotta makes sum moniez tah pay fur mah sistas canca pillz she got frums drinak da water tis hard n all wit onl 8 fingaz
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Please try not to stroke out while typing. It makes figuring out what you mean a little difficult.
 
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Sweeter and Savoury said:
took steps to ensure the planes would be in the air before the hearing was completed
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oh shit they already picked up on this?
ngl I was expecting about halfway into Vance's second term given how well "Say silly thing to call attention to real problem" has worked for like ten years straight without slowing down
 
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Tariffs are a tax on the consumer. Nothing more, nothing less. Like alcohol or cigarette taxes, you are in essence monetarily punished for your behavior. Regular Americans haven't had to deal with the faggots from customs when importing goods, so they have no clue what's coming for them. "Placing a Tariff on China" sounds like you're punishing China, which seems to be enough for most.

It'll be a rough ride for the poor people that are dependent on cheap goods to get by. The baseline will get more expensive as outsourcing only moved the slave labor off-shore, and the local workforce isn't going to work under those conditions. And when the next administration goes back to business as usual, the price will stay.
If this were the 80s, I would be more optimistic. Americans could still "afford each other". Nowadays I'm not quite so sure. As long as factory work isn't close-ish to middle class, I don't think this will work. Tariffs also only make sense if you have a local industry you're trying to protect. Think Harley vs Japan in the 80s.

I can't say I like the sledgehammer approach Trump has taken. It doesn't look very well thought out. Maybe he's just trying to spook every other country at the same time into lowering their tariffs on US goods. It's a bold strategy...

Lets see how this plays out. I can't do jack shit about it either way.
 
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