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This is not happening. What a dumb shit.
That's where all the US shit comes from for the most part, so this is Trump trying to look big and strong after a major fuck up.
The usual retelling of “Big man, strong man, he came to me, tears in his eyes…”
"These people all come to me, dicks in their hands, BEGGING to remove the tarrifs. What a beautiful word, TARIFFS, I love it. These guys are all weak, but I'm so strong. They're all stupid, I'm smart. They're literally rimming my asshole to get rid of these tarrifs..."
Meanwhile, literally every country has their own press releases saying nobody is answering the phone at the White House, or saying they've already responded with heavier tarrifs.
What an absolute fucking moron.
I said recently that this wasn't the real crash...
https://lemmy.world/post/27872765/16284527
This ain’t even the big crash yet.
That happens when Trump finally caves and removes his tarrifs, and everyone else just shrugs and leaves theirs on.
It’s obvious as fuck, but so was what happened last week. We’ll see a small bounce as he announces his are being removed, then shit gets real
We're halfway there.
I just don't understand why it's not obvious to everyone...
yeah, in almost a textbook fashion by announcing massive global economy changing economic policies on such a whim that your most senior staff that manages those things are in the dark as much as random U.S. citizens on twitter are, and then in the end retracting the tariffs on an equally bullshit whim is actually the worst case scenario for global confidence in the U.S. economy.
This is the worst case scenario where it doesn't even work out for the 1% of the U.S. because they refuse to understand that once the rest of the world loses basic confidence in you, you don't get that back by just saying "it was a prank bro". This isn't like the covid crash of the market, nor really even the 2008 financial crash which was the culminating offensive of a class war against the 99% by the 1%, this is a permanent reduction in trust, investment and willingness to work with U.S. entities on ANYTHING from LITERALLY THE ENTIRE REST OF THE WORLD.
Brexit was a massive self own for the U.K. but this is stunning especially since the U.S. is simultaneously directly facilitating, paying for, and supplying the arms and polictical backing to Genocide Palestinians on the other side of the world. Destroying my generations future isn't enough for the ruling class of the U.S., they also have to commit Genocide too in order to feel like they are accomplishing something I guess?
People in the U.S., especially "business" minded centrists really don't understand that this is a cataclysmic one way movement for the status of the U.S. and the quality of life of the people within it.
In the short term people will definitely profit off the pump and dump, but this is like stealing money out of the cash register on the titanic as it is sinking.... like good for you I guess?
Try posting a comment telling them that waving signs isn't going to work. Anything that makes it obvious is being removed. Lemmy is just as compromised as reddit.
Italy and the UK may be kissing his ass. Italy is run by fascists, and the UK is run by timid centrists who are terrified of alienating the right. Everyone else can see that appeasing Trump will not lead anywhere good.
There's almost 200 countries. Surely there are at least a few that are bending over for Trump at the expense of their people.
See South America, 1970s.
Kicking, Donald. The word is kicking, not kissing.
Just the fact that he said it indicates that it never happened. He is one of the worst liars I have ever heard.
My uncle was a trumper and a bullshit artist. The similarities between the two were terrifying. But one thing that awarded me was knowing straight away that trump is never to be taken at his word. You know when he is just saying what he thinks he wants people to hear while trying to sound like a tough guy.
When someone speaks so frequently in hyperbole, you know they are trying to fool you.
It’s just sloppy AI translation error.
It should be “smelling”.
This buffoon doesn't understand what tariffs are or what they will do. I wish they'd just call it what it is - import duty.
I work in Chlor-Alkali Electrolysis and some of our biggest customers in the US run their electrolysers for water purification. I don't know their market share but they purify the majority of US water between them.
They buy everything to maintain the electrolysers from us. Nuts, bolts, washers, every last component, as each component is tried and tested to work in our electrolysers through decades of design and testing.
One customer had an arrival today and suddenly had a bill for about 40k more than they were expecting due to the foolish tariffs and the changing of of product classifications on the USHTS. If they buy their spares elsewhere the warranty on their electrolyser becomes invalid, and - as I've seen time and again - cheaper, untested spares will usually result in a catastrophic failure somewhere down the line.
This is just one example, but old moron is messing with all kinds of key industries with his fiddling, and the only people paying are the importers and, eventually, the general public.
Our costs have not changed and we sell at the same price that we are contracted to, but now the companies that purify US water have hundreds of thousands of extra import duty each year if this comedy continues, and they can't just pull out and start again as they have invested tens of millions and there is no suitable US company who can do what we do without decades of investment and research (we've been perfecting our technology since 1970).
Maybe the Fantascist will magic this industry and others into existence, but it will cost at least twice what we can do it for when it is eventually ready, and decades is something he doesn't have. I doubt he has weeks before it all comes crumbling down.
The companies we sell to (to purify water, to make hydrogen and bleach) will undoubtedly charge more for the products they make to compensate, and the US public will foot the bill in the long run.
These tariffs undoubtedly hurt the US the most.
Also, nobody is kissing his ass outside of his cronies. The rest of the world is beginning to see a world without so much US influence, and all by the hand of the worst president in history with his tiny smooth brain and the foresight of a cabbage.
The mental image no one needs rn
Unfortunately, his dumb fuck followers, some of whom might have broken with him over everything getting way more expensive, will totally buy that it worked.
Why is your ass bleeding, then? lube was made in china? can't afford it.
“The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed”
Proof please?
Many people are saying it, believe me.
Great people. The best people.
What an insecure little tyrant.
And fuck the entire congress for sitting on their hands during this dumpsterfire.
Well I'm so glad he's feeling good about all this. I mean that's what being a president is all about after all.
Oh really? Great - show us all the new fantastic trades we'll be getting to make everything cheaper "day 1" err... any day now!
Careful fat man, they'll probably shove something long and sharp up there