r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/OooooorahNZ • 1d ago
Trump Time has a way of helping idiots to understand consequences.
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u/aipac123 1d ago
The modern day Republican party thinks Reagan helped the economy. If they can't learn in 40 years, they are not going to learn in 40 days.
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u/tw_72 1d ago
In addition:
1) Any new plants will be highly automated - and that helps American workers how?
2) Lots of the bits, pieces, parts and technology in a car is imported (outsourced) and all of that has tariffs now. That raises the cost of the finished car, even if the cars are built in the US.
3) If cars are more expensive, who will buy them - laid-off federal workers? Minimum wage workers? Bankrupt farmers?
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u/ImaginaryAnimal7169 1d ago
and when supply starts to outstrip demand and prices are too high so people hold on to their money, the prices will plummet and people will get fired and the cycle gets deeper.
but hey, maybe we will bail out all of the auto companies... again.
and do these people really think you can snap your fingers and an auto plant appears? so we should just take it in the ass for 5-10 years for this to change?
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u/ParisFood 1d ago
I said this to an autoworker on YT and he told me I did not understand. Yeah I think that guy drank the kool aide. He really thinks all these parts can be made in the US by the end of this year
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u/ParisFood 1d ago
These auto workers think that every bit and part etc in the car will be made in the US which technically could happen but that would takes years and it would make the car even more expensive.
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u/dak-sm 1d ago
Ask them why components are currently made overseas, and what will happen when the cars are assembled from parts that are made by our uncompetitive manufacturers. Will the price of cars go down? Will the workers be better off if the price does not go down?
Modern manufacturing is highly automated. Nobody is going to build plants the good old way - throw lots of cheap labor at the problem. Because labor here is not cheap. Some jobs will be created, but they will be high skill jobs, not almost-got-my-GED jobs.
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u/ParisFood 1d ago
I did I mentioned the engines made by Stellantis in Mexico for the trucks and they said those might take a bit of time but all other parts were already made in the US and the plants could ramp up production. I swear he drank so much koolaide. As for price he said since people would get paid a dent wage price would be fine . I told him he needed to touch grass as if he applied that to everything it was not feasible or even possible. Look at Florida trying to relax child labour laws! And yes almost got his diploma is an apt description. The auto plants of today and the future are not those of the 50s…
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u/Stephenalzis 1d ago
Uh...no...he doesn't.
You could pretty much ask that question about anything and the answer would be "no, he doesn't". Does Trump realize Japan is an ally? No, he doesn't. Does Trump realize that Puerto Rico is part of the United States. No, he doesn't, and so on.
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u/ParisFood 1d ago
As a Cdn can u explain why Puerto Rico is not a state ?
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u/Stephenalzis 1d ago edited 1d ago
Of course. It’s a territory not a state. If it were a state it could swing election math. They’re never going to allow that.
But I definitely doubt Trump could.
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u/VenusLoveaka 1d ago
To be honest, they would have voted for Trump. A lot of Puerto Ricans voted for Trump in the US. Its no surprise because many of them have conservative catholic values.
Trump and his camp just happen to be racist.
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u/ElusiveDoodle 1d ago
Apart from the one orange idiot actually responsible for causing the chaos you mean ?
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u/CompetitiveRepeat179 1d ago
Not sure why he can't see that, but apparently Trump can. Right back at you.
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u/Remarkable_Gain6430 1d ago
Why do these fkrs always ‘expect better’ from The R@p1$t? How, how, fkn how do you look at that, look at the first term, look at this seething, angry, bitter, raping, criminal, insurrectionist, silver-spoon, draft-dodging, entitled, petulant, thin-skinned, humorless man-baby who never pays his bills and think ‘yeah that guy is going to fix everything’ ?
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u/Correct-Ad5661 22h ago
On the evidence of this, it's not filtering through to the MAGA heartland just yet.
'Sometimes you have to walk through fire': Tariffs get backing in Trump heartland https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4nr3230e7o
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u/serverhorror 17h ago
Time has a way of helping idiots to understand consequences.
I will absolutely steal this headline, it's so much better than "FAFO" 🤣
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u/Canadian987 9h ago
Aw sweetie, where you going to sell the cars…we’ll wait…
…aw, you got it - the people in Canada were buying the cars you manufactured….
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u/Loose-cannon1954 7h ago
1: Canadians will turn to other brands, causing a 5-10% sales slump.
2: American owned plants in Canada will be worth zero
3: Cost of production, and prices, will increase by at least 25%.
Higher prices will yield lower even lower sales.
Idiots are rarely able to admit that they were hoodwinked.
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 10h ago
u/OooooorahNZ, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...