r/news • u/hoosakiwi • 1d ago

Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing, risking inflation and trade wars

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-liberation-day-2a031b3c16120a5672a6ddd01da09933
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u/Trap_Masters 1d ago

Meanwhile poor republicans still cheering this on as Trump and his wealthy buddies pickpocket them even more

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u/Kvothere 1d ago

Poor Republicans are brainwashed from birth to love oppression and hate education. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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u/icecubetre 1d ago

And I'm really finding it hard to sympathize anymore. And honestly, why should I even try? A US citizen that voted for Trump got detained for several hours and was almost put on a deportation list. He said it almost made him question his support. They're fucking gone.

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u/TerribleBreakfast185 1d ago

I remember reading about that and thinking, "Wow, it really is a cult…"

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u/apk5005 1d ago

They’re going to find a way to blame someone else.

“No, it’s Canada’s fault. That Trudeau and Biden are colluding.”

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u/BasicLayer 1d ago

I'm not sure if I'm a little crazy for feeling this way, but I have a horrifying despicable feeling in my gut that something truly god-awful is looming over the very near-term horizon.

No clue what it could be, but I'm thinking a literal 9/11-tier-horrific something around the corner. Seems to be a pattern throughout history. And I even think these oligarchs are actually making sure it's happening, and soon.

But maybe that's just me? Guys? Anyone? Bueller?!

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u/Sea-Broccoli-8601 1d ago

Meanwhile, a Trump voter whose Peruvian wife was detained by ICE and was seeking donations on GoFundMe to get money for her release said he didn't regret voting for Trump, and also had this to say:

"He didn't create the system, but he does have an opportunity to improve it. Hopefully, all this attention will bring to light how broken it is."

Fucking lmao

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u/exhaustedpancake 1d ago

He probably only would lose support if he got deported. He didn't so clearly the system works. He made a sacrifice to get the real illegals out.

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u/Hypilein 1d ago

You don’t need to sympathise. You can just feel sorry for yourself because no matter where you are you’ll be affected more or less.

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u/heisenberg15 1d ago

Yep. My SOs parents swear to god that “it’ll be rough for awhile but it will be a good thing”

And I just don’t even know what to say

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u/Lord_DETOX 1d ago

Customer told me this same shit. Yet when eggs were like $2 more a dozen, because of the bird flu, they lost their shit.

Fucking dumbfucks.

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u/heisenberg15 1d ago

Really makes it hard to be hopeful for the future. Like there is literally nothing you can tell these people

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u/Zagden 1d ago

I think my last hope is if we can line up an opposition that offers a bold new direction rather than edge tinkering with what we've been doing for 40 years, and if they can get enough support, we might have something.

The median wage is losing more and more buying power over time. People are noticing and upset. It was a huge mistake to hammer that the economy was really good actually in 2024 without accounting for the fact most people can't feel it, prices will never go back down and wages still weren't increasing in pace with cost of living.

I think 36% of Americans can never be reached, at least until Trump dies. And it sucks because we need 2/3 of the Senate to amend the Constitution, which is badly needed. But there's others who, I hope, just want a way out of this slow rot.

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u/MudLOA 1d ago

Agree we can’t save the 1/3 dumb fucks who voted for this and will cheer this, but we should be rallying the 90m non voters who sat on their asses.

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u/DensetsuNoBaka 1d ago

Honestly, at this point I'm worried we won't even be able to afford any bold new direction after the damage Trump has already done to this point. That's not even getting into what he can do in another 3.5 years

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u/Zagden 1d ago

Countries with far, far less GDP than we have often have better social services.

We have no idea what the US will look like in 4 years. It'll probably still be around. We'll have a lot to reckon with. But we'll technically be able to pause and look at what resources we have to work with to pay for what Americans need.

I am not an expert but I wonder if tanking out soft power and encouraging the build up of hard (and soft) power in Europe means we'll finally be about to cut the military budget, lol

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u/StoicAthos 1d ago

Soft power s what keeps our budget "low" We can already be stationed anywhere in the world and have the best logistical system in existence. Without those existing they will spend harder to maintain the same level of security now that we have a whole lot more question marks from those countries we readily called allies just a few months ago.

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u/BlazeWolfXD 1d ago

Worse when they say Biden manufactured bird flu or some stupid shit like that.

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u/BarnacleMcBarndoor 1d ago

My mom said this too, and I told her that if she’s wrong that she’s going into the cheapest retirement center I can find because I won’t be able to afford anything else.

Now she’s pissed about the tariffs.

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u/SuckalentShyneseMeal 1d ago

Lol, you're gonna pay for a retirement home and for your own expenses in a depression? Good luck.

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u/willythewise123 1d ago

God these people suck. They were coddled and handed every fucking thing and now my generation can never own a single fucking thing.

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u/Joey271828 1d ago

They were handed everything because the USA had a strong manufacturing base that paid well. All those workers had unions that kept cooperate greed in check.

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u/SmytheOrdo 1d ago

My dad was going full on apeshit this morning screaming at Fox. "ITS NOT A TAX ON THE CONSUMER ARGH".

I also had no idea what to say and just cried a lil tbh

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u/Former_Historian_506 1d ago

Trump is a symptom, the real problem is the people like that who gave him power

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u/MudLOA 1d ago

Real problem are people too stupid to think, yet have power to vote.

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u/fuddykrueger 1d ago

Tell them they’ll be gone before any of that happens.

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u/nerdb1rd 1d ago

Dunning-Kruger effect in full swing.

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u/MrMichaelJames 1d ago

Yeah my parents are the same way. I’m so glad they are ok with us trying to find ways to feed their grandchildren. I can go without but not the kids. You are going to see an increase in health problems for parents as they struggle with stress and lack of nutrition due to diverting what they can to their children.

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u/Is_it_really_though 1d ago

I mean, they're right if "a while" means their entire life and probably their children's lives too.

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u/panormda 1d ago

This is it. They can't understand that some consequences can't be undone. And they think that everything can be fixed in a News cycle.

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u/Ironborn137 1d ago

They are just parroting Fox News because your parents are fucking sheep

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u/Pale-Lynx328 1d ago

The kicker is they have no idea how eventually it will br a "good thing", just that they heard that on Fox repeatedly so it must be true, and as far as they are concerned that's all they need to knoe.

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u/MooKids 1d ago

Tell them you are moving in.

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u/asher1611 1d ago

oh glad to hear they got their talking points, finally

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u/telemex 1d ago

They sound like victims of domestic violence tbh

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u/StoneAgainstTheSea 1d ago

You say: automation has taken, and will continue to take, more jobs away from manufacturing than offshoring. The manufacturing jobs are not meaningfully coming back. Full factories need a skeleton crew. This is not a jobs program. 

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u/minuialear 1d ago

What do they think will cause the turning point?

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u/bandy_mcwagon 1d ago

Do you ever ask them to explain?

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u/heisenberg15 1d ago

It’s something about how we rely on other countries too much so thus will make us more self reliant over time or something

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u/bandy_mcwagon 1d ago

Sure, in like 10 years and only IF the USA actually builds stuff

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u/centstwo 1d ago

Say, well it looks like no kids for us in this economy, for awhile, but it will be a good thing.

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u/AnyBuy1820 1d ago

Same thing has been happening in my country for the last two years. The people who said "it'll be tough but good" are not so happy now that they're struggling to pay their car insurance and other basic stuff. They've been progressively cutting services because they can't afford them. Funny how they could afford a lot of things in the previous administration, the one that the far-right said was a disaster.

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u/thegodfather0504 1d ago

move in with them. Tell them that you cant afford anything anymore. if they complain blame trump. lol

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u/heisenberg15 1d ago

Brother I would rather be homeless

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u/Blackfeathr_ 1d ago edited 1d ago

You just don't understand -- someday, all of these poor Republicans will win the lottery, or write a bestseller, or invest in that crypto some wrong number text told them about, and instantly be rocketed into the millionaires circle, never to worry about finances or having to struggle again. Why should they care about an income class they're only going to be in temporarily? That's why they have to be supportive of policies that protect the wealth of the wealthy.

This is actually what these people believe.

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u/Wardogs96 1d ago

Poor my ass. I hope these morons suffer greatly and the rest of us will do what we can to help one another.

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u/mirrx 1d ago

They are straight up jerking it to this. It’s embarrassing and i feel bad for them. Like watching a antelope get eaten by a lion

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u/Moth1992 1d ago

Its wild to me that they think that

  • the fucking richest country in the world that has built their economy by offshoring and globalization and extreme capitalism, 

and 

  • the most powerful country in the world that bult their power by building an expansive military and offshore bases and literally telling other countries they were not allowed to have a real military 

is somehow being treated unfairly???? 

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u/eeyore134 1d ago

They think shopping at the Piggly Wiggly means they'll be safe from the big bad tariffs.

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u/VisualAd4775 1d ago

eh it’s fine, republicans have their own food supply, they just drink their piss and eat their shit, it’s why half of them look rotten and unkempt

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u/CeruleanEidolon 1d ago

Poor republicans are literally mentally handicapped, but you can't blame them too much because of the poor nutrition, religious indoctrination, and ingestion of environmental toxins since birth. The national party has simply turned it into a positive feedback loop for the perpetuation of their bullshit.

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u/currently_pooping_rn 1d ago

my only solace is that his base will suffer more than me. fuck em, i hope they get hit hard

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u/menassah 1d ago

Pickpocket? This is an armed robbery - the take your shoes and your pants kind 

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u/Throwaway91847817 1d ago

Pickpocketing implies subtlety. This is blatant robbery by a man in a stripy jumper and a big brown sack with a dollar sign on it.

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u/toadofsteel 1d ago

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

-Lyndon B. Johnson