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He is just using his full force on China at the moment. He senses them getting mad and he wanted to make the salt really flow. Their little squiggly lines they use to talk look funny when they are mad.
Everyone hates China but politicians get rich selling their countries out to China, so no one has done anything about them until now. Actually not bad maneuvering, the way this worked out now suddenly China is on the out and America is offering a better path forward. I can see a lot of business sectors orienting around this play .
 
All I am saying is this.

Rich people an afford to pay the tariffs, rich people can afford to buy the dip, rich people have payed for houses and won't be homeless.

The working class is the one getting eaten alive by the tarrifs.
I get the sense it's pointless replying to you but since i'm a naive newfag, or perhaps just to help any passers by, here's what happens:
-Tariffs
-Companies and manufacturers don't want to eat the cost so let's assume they raise prices to make consumers eat 100%.
-The average american who buys impulse buys chinese garbage they don't need on amazon cannot afford a price increase. We don't have disposable income. They naturally stop buying shit they can't afford and go down to the essentials like food, their child's schools, and rent, local shit. There will be much seething online about this but big deal.
-As such, the cheap plastic garbage from china doesn't get bought. It's too expensive so it rots on shelves.
-What happens when things don't sell? The price gets lowered.
-Now the price is lowered back to something affordable, but the tariffs remain in place. Who's eating the cost of the tariff now? The corpos.
-Whether this results in reshoring, massive tax revenue, or concession, it's a win for the US citizenry.

The fact is, china needs to sell a useless piece of shit to impulsive american women on amazon far more than she needs to have it.
 
Whether this results in reshoring, massive tax revenue, or concession, it's a win for the US citizenry.
Another advantage is having more business opportunities for Americans, so we can make that kind of stuff instead. It might be a little more expensive, but it will be higher quality and that money will be circulating in our economy instead of China's.

Yeah because hiding behind daddy judge's robes have stopped Trump so far.
 
Another advantage is having more business opportunities for Americans, so we can make that kind of stuff instead. It might be a little more expensive, but it will be higher quality and that money will be circulating in our economy instead of China's.
Everyone hates China but politicians get rich selling their countries out to China, so no one has done anything about them until now. Actually not bad maneuvering, the way this worked out now suddenly China is on the out and America is offering a better path forward. I can see a lot of business sectors orienting around this play .
your text is slightly smaller than everyone else's and i hate you for that.
 
yes, it is really that bad. i encourage you to go read it yourself, it's actually comical how stupid a lot of the people in that thread are. they make our regular libtards look like geniuses.
Woof you weren’t kidding… and those faggots say this thread is our hugbox. It’s sad seeing long time users on there but it is what it is I guess lol. Again I don’t see how this is some 4D Chess Stonks rugpull. Especially when the tariffs are literally still in effect but just not at the same levels as they were before and seems to be only for countries that wanted to negotiate with us. Fucking crazy, like I’m a retard but even I can see what he is doing it’s not that complicated. Also don’t see how this somehow stops returning industry to America.
 
your text is slightly smaller than everyone else's and i hate you for that.
This might blow your mind, but you have white privilege which means your text is naturally larger. As a Black man, my text is smaller because of the racial disparities I face. Maybe think about that the next time you wan to complain about how hard your lily white life is.

I apparently made it smaller at some point and didn't notice, someone pointed it out on my profile but I think it's funny so I decided not to fix it.
 
Trump is basically using the tariff play to strongarm every single country on the planet to come and renegotiate their entire trade arrangement with the US on an individual basis, allowing Trump's administration to rapidly reshape the entirety of US foreign policy from the ground up practically overnight by pressuring even the countries that would be apathetic and stubborn. Whatever happens, the effect will be dramatic and far-reaching, and it's exciting to witness.
 

That's a terrible example, Z-man's pulled out of that deal 5 times over and boldly announced maximalist demands against Russia. In return, nothing bad has happened to him yet.

It's open knowledge at this point that Zelensky is simply trying to wait out the current administration, and will do the absolute bare minimum to keep US support going and no more.
 
What intellectual property is in a purse? The Gucci logo? Who gives a shit beyond Gucci shareholders?

It's a good thing trademark and patent attorneys didn't exist back when that first caveman discovered fire or the wheel. We'd all be fucked. Human advancement couldn't have happened without humans copying shit others humans did that worked better. Evolution.
You will have your products stolen by the chinese, you will be undercut by their prices on your stolen product, and you will be happy about it or else human advancement will be at stake."

Seeing how so many people value their Chinese consoomerism trash more than anything in the world this past week has been a major black pill and ironically has me feeling like human advancement is at stake. Seeing how people have been reacting to the tariffs makes me feel like the US are a bunch of babies that cry when they don't have a smart phone or tablet in their faces at all times, we don't give a shit that we were being tariffed out the ass by every other country because we have our cheap Chinese toys to keep us happy and now Trump is threatening to give people time out from the chinese crap everyone is throwing a fit.
 
That's a terrible example, Z-man's pulled out of that deal 5 times over and boldly announced maximalist demands against Russia. In return, nothing bad has happened to him yet.

It's open knowledge at this point that Zelensky is simply trying to wait out the current administration, and will do the absolute bare minimum to keep US support going and no more.
Lmao, here have another example this time related to tariffs:
The boulder of Ontario cucked out immediately on the energy tariffs he was threatening. Canada is just not a serious country.

 
Seeing how so many people value their Chinese consoomerism trash more than anything in the world this past week has been a major black pill
It's hard to tell for sure but I think a lot of it is people who aren't worried about the trash itself but the "ripple effects" it will have for the economy. A lot of people still buy into the narrative of price goes up > people working at amazon lose their jobs > now they can't pay rent > apartment owner has less money > he can't send daughter to college etc. That's what happened in 2008, but 2008 was a very different scenario because it was all financial. Most people think things work like that, I know I did at one point.

Many interest groups, likely the chinese themselves, have for many years pushed the idea that without chinese workers keeping everything cheap the whole of society collapses. It was always bullshit but things like that are hard to deprogram.
 
Seeing how so many people value their Chinese consoomerism trash more than anything in the world this past week has been a major black pill and ironically has me feeling like human advancement is at stake. Seeing how people have been reacting to the tariffs makes me feel like the US are a bunch of babies that cry when they don't have a smart phone or tablet in their faces at all times, we don't give a shit that we were being tariffed out the ass by every other country because we have our cheap Chinese toys to keep us happy and now Trump is threatening to give people time out from the chinese crap everyone is throwing a fit.
I think that's just a very vocal subset of people. It's been unavoidable, particularly because I'm a member of a number of gaming communities, soy reddit liberals crying that orange Hitler is going to genocide the brown people and make their toys more expensive. The rest of us have to be quiet or we get accused of starting arguments, etc. but there are plenty of people who know what's up. Trump won the popular vote.
 
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