chapotraphouse

Lmao putting a tariff on Taiwan. Truly being an ally to America is deadly

CIA and bougie pricks in general have gotten really complacent

Man needlessly smashed up some of the US' ability to project soft power, he's still talking about slashing the military budget, and now this and they haven't whacked him yet

Soft

lol
https://nitter.net/Karl_Was_Right/status/1907603432795681271

They calculated “tariffs charged to the USA” by literally just dividing the trade deficit with imports. And then slapped 10% on everyone we have a surplus with

We’re ngmi

JDPON Don fulfilling his role as undercover CPC Cadré in destroying the US Empire from within

Very interesting they're letting him actually do this. I would think the bourgeoisie would not like this kind of hit. He still has time to do "incredible deals" whereby these countries agree to buy $100 of US goods and he drops the tarrifs while tooting his horn but things do kind of look like the bourgeoisie (those near levers of power anyways) are serious about forcibly decoupling and reshoring pronto to be able to fully enact the plan of isolating, blockading, sanctioning, and trying to turn up the pressure on and destroy China or at least prevent their rise and displacement of US power.

I mean it's either fail children running the show which I still can't buy because they'd love their enemies to think them more foolish and incapable than they are and we don't have that luxury OR the whole plan for drawing back, child labor, small yard, high fence, using the sword of empire to attempt to force the world to buy more US stuff to displace competitors OR they're on some sort of dark enlightenment trip and think capitalism is over and the only way to avoid socialism is turning the barbarism machine way up and trying to create some sort of techno-feudalism or something else at home.

Why does it matter? Well if they're just incompetent then indeed the fall of the US is in order in the near future but options 2 and 3 spell very, very, very dire times for those in the imperial core as it's a very orderly managed decline that's liable to be able to potentially draw it out many more decades into the future and inflict incredible amounts of suffering on those of us stuck here in the mean-time (beyond just treats being more expensive).

Can't wait until Trump dies choking on a fish filet and all the allied countries he alienated immediately come back into the fold as though nothing had ever happened.

Why does it look like the weed menu in an Amsterdam coffee shop?

JDPON Don continues his Long March through the institutions of the imperialist beast, in service to the heroic global working classes!

reciprocal tariffs

So is the party line here that these are just a reaction to other countries' tariffs and that if those tariffs are removed the US ones will be too? I have no doubt that they're lying and calling things "tariffs" that really aren't that, but if that's the logic then this move makes marginally more sense.

edit: okay I saw the thing where they decided tariffs are when you have a trade deficit and that is fucking hilarious. Does Don really expect other countries to start buying American shit? Our stuff is obscenely overpriced at the global level! The only way that happens is if he intentionally weakens the dollar, and if he does that we can't import anything anymore.

Genuinely think the intent is to make conditions so unbearable within the empire so he can round up the coming storm to push forward the most violent shit possible.

Live Juche Reaction:

I knew that globalised neoliberal oligopolistic capital was dead, I didn't know that it was this dead... There's no going back to the past, the powers that be tried to restore the neoliberal order after the 2008 financial crash, and ultimately failed. This is the end result.

Its hilarious to me that México and Canada dodged the tariffs but not the EU and Japan