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Should be a wild four years.

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quaawaa said:
Yes they do. They have infinite tariffs on American beef and chicken, for example.

Just because they say that their regulations are for “safety” instead of for trade reasons doesn’t make that true.
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Case in point is "chlorinated chicken" even though the European Food Safety Authority concluded the chicken was safe.

The term is just used to scaremonger as if you have had milk in Europe, it's simply called milk not "irradiated milk".

The whole issue around chicken is to prop up European farmers inefficiency as they cannot compete with US prices.
 
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I'm gonna oust myself: I am a tendie. Not a flaming pants-shitting tendie, but a tendie all the same.

I like their games, what can I say. I don't think the pre-order delay is going to amount to anything other than immense seething. If anything its a huge point of leverage for the US. Nintendo is literally Japans biggest company, they're not going to allow Tariffs to impact their revenue. They can sway things politically.

EDIT: Correction, they are the richest company by net cash holdings, nothing to do with size. Still, I think they will have some pretty big influence over Japanese politics
 
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Nol 2 said:
I mean, the eggs had more to do with the fact of a bird flu happening and a large number of flocks had to be culled. Inflation doesn't target just one specific product. And furthermore, egg prices went up because it primarily affected US flocks and we don't import eggs in from other places.

Inflation or not, egg prices would have spiked, the supply was cut to begin with.
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Yeah the egg prices have more to do with the bird flu culling, but they are held up rhetorically by both sides as a symbol of inflation. Politics is kabuki theater. The ground truth is that immeasurable damage was done to the economy under Biden, and three months of Trump is not enough time to even call anything an outcome we can judge.
 
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Recessions are a myth and only happen if you choose to believe in them

Its like the Velociraptors, if we react to it then it strikes, if we just keep eating ramen and working stupid long hours like we already have been for decades and not complain to much, in less than 10 years we might have a country worth leaving to a new generation
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
In alternate timeline of Harris in office, I imagine the "woke" cult" would be moving to ban the GOP sooner or later, if not already.

Just like the "woke" in power are trying to do in the EU with parties deemed "extremist" over there, such as the AfD over in Germany.
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That New York judge would've sentenced Trump to 70 years in prison for his 34 "felonies" and they would've likely opened up cases to imprison Trump's whole family. Banning the GOP as "extremist" would likely come after they finished containing the MAGA "threat".

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Most companies don't have 4+ years of revenue saved to just sit around and do nothing in order to wait out the administration.
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It's also a gamble because if Trump's term proves successful by 2028, even if they do wait it out, they could have to deal with President Vance, and he could continue using Trump's same carrot/stick approach.

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I'm a Southern union member and most union members are for the most part socially conservative. The sole reason a lot of them vote Democrat is for that union support. They have the impression that Republicans want to bust unions or destroy unions. If the Republican party would swallow its pride and dial back its anti-union sentiment, maybe potentially endorse some pro-union policies, it would absorb a sizeable chunk of the Democrats voterbase, further pushing them down. It only takes one small step to absorb an entire group of voters.

Speaking of which, I've noticed since Trump got back in office there are more union jobs, especially in locals that are normally dead and have no work. I wonder why that is...
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This is what Trump has been angling for; at the RNC, he invited Sean O'Brien (head of the Teamsters) to speak. Shortly before the election, the Teamsters revealed that 60% of their members were supporting Trump. During his Liberation Day speech, he also had several union workers there supporting him. Most manufacturing unions on principle, should be supportive of the Republicans right now because of Trump's economic policy.

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He went all in on Egg futures.
He's ruined. It's all over.
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He should've invested in burger suit production

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Recessions are a myth and only happen if you choose to believe in them

Its like the Velociraptors, if we react to it then it strikes, if we just keep eating ramen and working stupid long hours like we already have been for decades and not complain to much, in less than 10 years we might have a country worth leaving to a new generation
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Based and stonkspilled
 
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StudMccool said:
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Recessions are a myth and only happen if you choose to believe in them

Its like the Velociraptors, if we react to it then it strikes, if we just keep eating ramen and working stupid long hours like we already have been for decades and not complain to much, in less than 10 years we might have a country worth leaving to a new generation
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Recessions are real, but it's like a hangover. You better just go through it because putting it off makes it worse. We've been putting it off for a long, long time.
 
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Oh no, my Bing Bing wahoo box won’t have preorders, better blame tariffs that wouldn’t actually effect any of this

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Honestly what a sleazy way to try and get your politically motivated move across.

To all the Nintendo babies mad about not being able to preorder so soon, Nintendo can easily afford to eat any tariff cost and still profit, especially with charging $90 fucking dollars for Mario Kart, a 1080p game. Nintendo also knew to expect these tariffs and didn’t care. They can also easily afford to build factories in America and Japan, and can do so with extreme speed, this is the same company that built an entire factory and distribution center that was entirely machine operated within 1 year in the 1980’s in Washington only to dismantle it for cheaper Chinese labor.
This ain’t a Trump issue, it’s a stop using Chinese sweat shops issue
 
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Nintendo (~$80 billion market cap) is literally less than 1/3 the size of Toyota (~$250 billion market cap).
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Yeah you're right, I should have said Japans largest media company, though I'm not even sure if that's accurate. I remember reading it somewhere but who knows. I'm a misinformation spreader, get the reddit jannies on my ass

EDIT: They're the richest company in Japan by net cash assets, nothing to do with actual size or market cap. Still, I think they will have some pretty significant political sway over all of this.
 
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Atlas Sneezed said:
Hopefully this doesn't piss off the mods and get me threadbanned but I talked to a bunch of my eurocuck friends about the tarrifs. No surprise that over here the general consensus is "tarrifs bad, amerimutts are shooting themselves in the foot, I'm gonna get rich off of shorting their stocks"

So I ask them - if the tariffs are so bad, then why do we have EVEN HIGHER tarrifs. What's good for the goose is SURELY good for the gander, RIGHT? The way they spin around would break a snake's spine when they try to explain this shit. "That's different! USA took profits from being world leader! They print their own money!" And my personal favorite answer: "I like my tarrifs, they're normal to me"

Once I point out that we could just lower the bad tarrifs and all of this goes away, everyone wins, they move the goalpost so far it's not even worth it

If it wasn't the disdain I gained for my kind over the past couple of months I'd believe this whole shit is astroturfed by the fucking EU so that people don't start asking dangerous questions like "So our government is robbing is fucking blind and we can change that?". But no, there isn't a rainbow reaction big enough to convince me that's the case. Most europoors are brainwashed so much that you people wouldn't believe.
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Just had to pay €34 import duty on a €60 item I had delivered to Ireland from Canada and this has been normal for decades but the TV didnt tell me it was bad so I couldnt tell
 
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