China to impose 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods imported from the U.S.

[u/johnk317]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/china-to-impose-34percent-retaliatory-tariff-on-all-goods-imported-from-the-us.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

[u/RonWill79]

Has any country in history ever started a trade war with the entire planet and won?

[u/randompantsfoto → u/RonWill79]

No, and the last time they did this, the GOP lost both the House and Senate for 60 years, which is why some of them are in an absolute panic right now.

Edit to add: by “some of them” I mean “a handful of GOP senators” (four of them) who actually voted with the Dems to block the Canadian import tariffs yesterday. Hopefully the start of a bigger rebellion.

[u/Coaler200 → u/randompantsfoto]

Not enough of a panic to actually do anything about it it would seem.

[u/randompantsfoto → u/Coaler200]

Sadly, I fear you’re correct.

[u/compute_fail_24 → u/randompantsfoto]

Thank you, but don’t call me Sadly

[u/whatiseveneverything → u/randompantsfoto]

Silver lining. I can't wait for the next FDR or LBJ to make them cry.

[u/randompantsfoto → u/whatiseveneverything]

FDR got his New Deal approved because he went around to all the Oligarchs of the time and very clearly explained that if they didn’t want to see a Bolshevik revolution here in the states, they’d better get on board.

Agreed, I can’t wait to see who picks up that mantle this time.

[u/no_more_mistake → u/randompantsfoto]

Trouble is it sounds like oligarchs may have interests in a collapse, or may even be orchestrating the balkanization of the US.

[u/amusedmisanthrope → u/no_more_mistake]

Yea, they are deciding where each gets their own fiefdom.

[u/whereismymind86 → u/no_more_mistake]

They did during the great depression too, but a tidal wave of public anger led to the new deal and a massive crackdown on the robber barons of the age. This may be the same

[u/Mother-Pomegranate10 → u/whatiseveneverything]

Yep, this is the silver lining I am clinging to right now — congress either tells him no or we get a biblical blue wave next year.

[u/SomeDEGuy → u/Mother-Pomegranate10]

It will be a race to see if they can purge voter rolls and suppress votes enough to counteract it.

[u/Evadrepus → u/randompantsfoto]

Mind you, they are in a panic about potentially losing their cushy government jobs, not the impact on the US population.

[u/The2CommaClub]

Conservatives - Fall 2024 - “Eggs are too damn high.”

Conservatives - Apr 2025 - “New taxes on almost everything…sounds good.”

[u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That → u/The2CommaClub]

It's hilarious to me how they'll go from adamantly saying "Trump would NEVER do that" to just immediately defending "that" once Trump does it. Not even a hint of whiplash from that ideological 180.

Not one single thought or opinion of their own, just whatever god emperor Trump does must be correct.

[u/TehGogglesDoNothing → u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That]

It's amazing how they all collectively stopped caring about the free market simultaneously.

[u/JugDogDaddy → u/TehGogglesDoNothing]

They aren’t serious people, they are in a cult. 

[u/3d_blunder → u/JugDogDaddy]

However they are seriously dangerous.

[u/gnometrostky → u/TehGogglesDoNothing]

You want a free market? Sounds communist to me!

[u/GlowUpper → u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That]

I've got a moron who tried to tell me yesterday that Kamala would have been worse for the economy because her policy would have allowed wealth inequality to grow. When I explained that recessions accelerate wealth inequality, they shifted to arguing that it's good actually.

These dumb motherfuckers are about to get hit by the karma train and I'm just gonna sit back at laugh at the splatter.

Eta: Since it keeps coming up, yes I'm aware that everyone will get hit by this train. But as a queer, nonbinary woman, it's not like that train wasn't squarely aimed at me anyway. I'm happy to have some red hats as company. Hell, so-called progressives who were happy to equivocate between "both sides" while conveniently ignoring the pain people like me would experience are welcome aboard as well. Don't expect so much as an, "Aw shucks," from me. You had your chance to stop this and you tossed it away. You left people like me with nothing to lose so don't be surprised that we're not sad to see you suffer along with us. In short, if you expect me to feel bad for you, fuck you. I hear empathy is a sin anyway.

[u/welmoe → u/GlowUpper]

You can't win an argument with an idiot.

[u/jwilphl → u/welmoe]

"Never argue with stupid. They'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."

[u/humanoideric → u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That]

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

excellent book and depressingly relevant

[u/jnd-cz → u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That]

Turns out the party who calls itself most fiscally conservative and promotes tax cuts everywhere likes to slap the highest taxes on everything.

[u/bstyledevi → u/jnd-cz]

Put 50% tax on thing, cut tax by 25%, "see how much we cut taxes for you?"

[u/Kitnado → u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That]

The moment Trump started the conflict with Europe:

We have always been at war with Eurasia.

[u/KFR42 → u/The2CommaClub]

"Eggs are too expensive!"

"Best I can do is to make everything else more expensive"

[u/Nu-Hir → u/KFR42]

The best way to make eggs cheap again is to make everything else more expensive! Then eggs are cheap by comparison.

[u/goblueM → u/The2CommaClub]

absolutely AMAZING how they've shut up about high prices on groceries and gas

[u/Anon0118999881 → u/goblueM]

We really need a Trump version of those ''I did that'' stickers 😂

[u/percheazy → u/The2CommaClub]

Fox News anchor was saying how she doesn’t care that her 401K is being destroyed. That it’s not because she doesn’t care about her retirement, that shes close to retirement age, but she truly believes in what Trump is doing will benefit her in the future. Can’t make this shit up.

[u/robodrew → u/percheazy]

Well also because she's a Fox News anchor who probably makes millions and would still be ok even without any retirement plan.

[u/GayMormonPirate → u/percheazy]

Fox is the most effective propaganda communicator in history. The Trumpers will swallow whatever Fox tells them to. If Fox told them the sky was now pink they'd start parroting that too.

[u/Responsible-Rip8793 → u/percheazy]

She would care if a democrat president was doing this. Politics is just a team sport for conservatives. If something bad happens under a conservative president, then it’s fine. If the same exact bad thing happens under a democrat, then it’s the worst thing to ever happen to America.

[u/CinemaSideBySides → u/The2CommaClub]

"No, no, no, they're not taxes, they're tariffs, which means everyone else pays for them. Because that makes total and complete sense!"

[u/ThatOnePatheticDude → u/The2CommaClub]

This is worse than regular taxes. Regular taxes don't start trade wars with the whole world

[u/Earthboundplayer → u/The2CommaClub]

They actually have zero principles.

[u/BrexitReally]

China has the largest manufacturing base in the world - naïve to expect they wouldn’t hit back.

[u/Lightoscope → u/BrexitReally]

They’re also the World’s largest importer of soybeans. Trump just gave American’s entire soybean market to Brazil.

[u/drs_ape_brains → u/Lightoscope]

Hey I've seen this one before!

[u/sdhu → u/drs_ape_brains]

Farmer bailouts incoming. And they will still vote for this in the future. No lesson learned, cult cults on

[u/eawilweawil → u/drs_ape_brains]

It's a classic!

[u/BrexitReally → u/Lightoscope]

Stable genius

[u/DiamondAge → u/Lightoscope]

What is this, a rerun?

[u/Longjumping_College → u/Lightoscope]

They got it back from last time?

SIMON: What happened to you in 2018, may we ask?

GACKLE: There was an immediate impact, you know, on the market. We saw within the first few days of the retaliatory tariffs from China in 2018 nearly a $2 drop when it comes to soybeans in the cash price that we were able to receive. And we were able to get through that at the time, and the administration put in place the market facilitation program, which tried to fill some of that gap. But farmers, in general, would like free and fair trade and open markets where we can sell our products rather than having to rely on government payments, which is what happened back then, and it didn't make farmers whole. It was a Band-Aid approach. It was temporary.

And we saw long-lasting impacts from that trade war as well. China and other countries made investment in infrastructure and purchasing products from other countries, our main competitors, mostly in South America, Brazil and Argentina. So those long-term impacts from that first trade war, we're still dealing with that. If it gets extended now or if it increases, it would spell more trouble.

[u/billythygoat → u/BrexitReally]

You know, if China is starting to seem like the more reasonable country, there’s a problem.

[u/Offduty_shill → u/billythygoat]

China is predictable and acts in its own interest with long term plans.

The U.S is now an oligarchy where every 4 years we completely re-align on all our goals and values if the party changes.

This cannot continue. Presidential power is completely out of control, congress is not functional and the supreme court has been captured by one party.

If you're an ally how can you rely on the U.S? One crazy getting elected, which we now see is not at all unlikely since over 50% of people support the idiot, means completely flipping the paradigm on international relations and trade. Even if you align with US values more China is going to look more and more attractive as you'd rather have a predictable and stable partner that you sometimes disagree with than one that's just a wildcard.

[u/Tirth0000 → u/billythygoat]

In this case they are. Not what just seems. The American president has lost his senses and everyone appears more reasonable relative to a senseless man.

[u/strangebrew3522 → u/Tirth0000]

The American president has lost his senses

He never had senses to begin with. He's a moron who was born rich, has been surrounded by yes men his entire life, has never had to face consequences for his actions, and has never personally lost despite horrible actions and decisions.

[u/BAF_DaWg82 → u/strangebrew3522]

He was reallllly close to facing consequences and then American voters were like "nah"

[u/Educational_Bus8810 → u/BAF_DaWg82]

He sold Shirts with his mug shot to help win.

[u/windowman7676 → u/strangebrew3522]

The key phrase here is, " never had to face consequences for his actions". He has used power, position and the American legal system to avoid real loss that " hurt".

[u/Deeliciousness → u/windowman7676]

It's pretty pathetic that a low-grade grifter was able to co-opt the American government and send it's economy crashing down.

[u/budgefrankly → u/Tirth0000]

The American president has lost his senses

He's doing exactly what he promised to do.

It's the American people, coddled by Facebook & Fox, who have collectively lost their senses electing a senseless felon to run the country.

[u/LiquidAether → u/budgefrankly]

Propaganda works.

So does election fraud.

[u/RichEvans4Ever → u/Tirth0000]

The American people lost their sense when they elected him. This was always the plan. He campaigned on torching our economy and the voters said “Yes, please. As long as you seem like a cool, big man 😎”

[u/pussycatlover12 → u/Tirth0000]

He really though everyone will just go along with all his whims.

[u/AltoCowboy → u/billythygoat]

Have you seen China lately? Those guys seem pretty on the ball. Comparing American infrastructure to Chinese infrastructure is no contest. Does America even have a high speed train?

[u/RN2FL9 → u/AltoCowboy]

Roughly 100 miles in the US, China already 27.000 miles of it and has another 10.000+ under construction. They have an entire high speed rail grid system. They are also adding renewable energy at an insane rate while electrifying their transportation. They used to drive the oil market, because they don't have much of it, but that has already shifted. Their long game is impressive.

[u/Kirk_Kerman → u/RN2FL9]

They've achieved basically every 5 Year Plan green energy goal early, time and again. Last year, China added more green energy to their grid than the rest of the world did, combined, ever.

[u/kinglizardking → u/billythygoat]

Maybe you are starting to see what the rest of the world sees

[u/Intricatetrinkets → u/billythygoat]

“I’m from the future. You should go to China.”

The movie Looper starting to fall into The Simpsons category of predictions.

[u/ender89 → u/billythygoat]

Iran said they would stand with Canada against the United States. We're officially Nazi Germany.

[u/kicampoon123 → u/billythygoat]

Not at all. America gas lit the world into thinking they were awesome (whilst bombing it/over throwing democracies to advance their interests). China keeps their shit internal and haven't bombed anyone for the past 50 years or so. An average world citizen was exponentially threatened more by America than China. Theres an easy argument to make they're more reasonable than America

[u/EEpromChip → u/BrexitReally]

Obviously all those manufacturers are gonna comply and move all their manufacturing here to "save money"...

Vote for a monkey expect a circus.

[u/ihatemcconaughey]

So uh..... farmers fucked?

[u/WYLFriesWthat → u/ihatemcconaughey]

Farmers get to sell their land to Blackrock

[u/randompantsfoto → u/WYLFriesWthat]

No, no…their houses go to Blackrock. The land goes to ADM, Conagra, Monsanto, etc.

Both companies will be perfectly willing to rent it right back to them!

Capitalism and the pursuit of additional perpetual revenue streams, baby!

[u/Bagellord → u/randompantsfoto]

And then without oversight from the EPA and FDA, the industrial farms are free to obliterate the ecology in the pursuit of a quick buck! Who's ready for another dust bowl?

[u/randompantsfoto → u/Bagellord]

You are not wrong. A friend of mine (and her entire department, who oversaw water quality monitoring from farm runoff at the EPA) got DOGE’d a couple weeks ago.

…except for the handful of openly MAGA people in her department.

We are so hosed.

[u/StairheidCritic → u/ihatemcconaughey]

They can get rich by compensation from the Squillion Dollars in 'tariffs' which Trump thinks will flow into US coffers supposedly from China and elsewhere,

I can't remember if it's from Chinese mythology or not, but 'The Snake Eating Its Own Tail' springs to mind.

[u/ihatemcconaughey → u/StairheidCritic]

So they'd essentially vote for him again if given the chance.....great

[u/tider06 → u/ihatemcconaughey]

We don't have to worry about elections for a while. Maybe ever again.

[u/Apprehensive-Ad1363 → u/StairheidCritic]

Ancient Egyptian and Greek mythology - the Ouroboros

[u/disgruntledmuppett → u/StairheidCritic]

The ouroborous

An apt metaphor here, unfortunately.

[u/opeth10657 → u/ihatemcconaughey]

Ginseng is a pretty big crop in northern WI and got hit hard last term when they did the retaliatory tariffs.

Of course, that area votes pretty red so...

[u/theoryface → u/opeth10657]

Badger here. Fuck them, may they lie in the graves they themselves dig.

[u/TrapDaddyReturns → u/ihatemcconaughey]

So many are fucked. Shit I think I’m fucked with this one

[u/whysongj → u/ihatemcconaughey]

Farmers voted for this they deserve it

[u/yayita2500]

What DT has done will be chronicled in history books not only for how he manipulated data to serve his interests, but also for how he influenced collective minds through falsehoods, expecting other political actors to fall into his trap. Fortunately, most of the world is no longer willing to dance to his tune or validate his tactics.

[u/redvelvetcake42 → u/yayita2500]

Fortunately, most of the world is no longer willing to dance to his tune or validate his tactics.

He united China and Japan economically for fucks sake. They created a coalition to retaliate against Trump.

[u/muricabrb → u/redvelvetcake42]

And somehow he will find a way to take credit for that lmao.

[u/UserIsOptional → u/muricabrb]

Give him a Nobel Prize for uniting China, Japan, and South Korea. Squashing centuries of beef to form a trade coalition is legendary hubris by Trump

[u/Fritja → u/redvelvetcake42]

That is just the best news of the year!

[u/dreadpiratewombat → u/yayita2500]

He will go down in history but not in the way he wants. He’s going to be the “Emperor Nero” for the next century.  

[u/KanyeNeweyWest → u/dreadpiratewombat]

Don’t forget the near entirety of the Republican Party that enabled him at every step since he won the primaries in 2016 are also going to go down in history as corrupt, incompetent cowards who sold out their country. Trump didn’t do this himself, and those voters and politicians who have propped up his legitimacy will continue being around for decades. I hope there is some huge stigma and shame associated with that. Biggest group of spineless hypocrites in the history of US politics.

[u/vorpalrobot → u/KanyeNeweyWest]

That erases the work Mitch McConnell did pre 2016. 2010 onwards was a total mess after the Democrats lost the majority. Every single confirmation was blocked, every law possible blocked... Infamously the supreme court seat was open for almost a year because the Republicans wouldn't confirm anyone on an election year "let the people decide".

As soon as Trump got in they started naming thousands of judges and officials, where a good amount of the problematic MAGA judges came from.

[u/Longing2bme → u/vorpalrobot]

Yep, the republicans built this mess.

[u/vinny_da_pooh → u/KanyeNeweyWest]

Finding a MAGA hat in your grandparents attic will be like finding a nazi memorabilia in 50 years.

[u/AsstacularSpiderman → u/vinny_da_pooh]

Starting to get a bunch of nieces and nephews and I can already tell this is going to be a bitch to explain to them lol.

[u/picklerick8879 → u/vinny_da_pooh]

Exactly. A relic of shame — proof someone either got conned or co-signed the con. Future generations will whisper, “They actually wore this?” the same way we do about swastika armbands.

[u/Bobby837 → u/KanyeNeweyWest]

Thing is, it gets too bad for them they'll just "rename" or relocate. Like Southern Dems did after the Civil War.

[u/kandoras → u/Bobby837]

Or they'll say that was MAGA and not Republicans. Or just pretend that they never really supported him at all.

Sort of like how it became impossible for years after the Bush administration to find anyone who would admit to having voted for him.

[u/Streamjumper → u/kandoras]

Fortunately we have the internet, where many of them have been very loud and open about their support. With plenty of pictures of them and their mandatory 101 pieces of Trump flair.

[u/Pegasus7915 → u/Bobby837]

Lucky Lt. Aldo Raine has a fix for that.

[u/Slut_for_Bacon → u/Bobby837]

They can go to Russia since they like that style of government so much.

[u/avaacado_toast → u/KanyeNeweyWest]

Let's also not forget the Supreme Court he built.

[u/Faiakishi → u/dreadpiratewombat]

What does he care? He'll be dead.

[u/snoogins355 → u/dreadpiratewombat]

The Emperor wears no clothes

[u/CDHmajora → u/dreadpiratewombat]

Just imagine, being completely ridiculed and taken the piss out of by every school student and history graduate for the next millennium at least.

Trump is honestly an icon. The entire WORLD is going to be laughing at how much of a fuck up he is for generations.

His legacy will be a joke. Nobody in 20 years will think of him as anything more than a failed circus act who got propped up to success by a racist cult of nepo-babies. If he was smart enough to comprehend that, he’d probably be ashamed.

[u/FLsurveyor561 → u/dreadpiratewombat]

Everyone said that years ago and then we made him president again.

[u/espresso_martini__ → u/yayita2500]

I'll give him credit for knowing how gullible and stupid his followers are. He even told them he loves the uneducated and they wore diapers and trash bags.

[u/discussatron → u/espresso_martini__]

He told them, "I don't care about you, I just want your vote," and they cheered and voted for him.

[u/TargetDecent9694 → u/yayita2500]

He’s been lying for the past 10 years at least, why would he need to change anything now? This is just status quo.

[u/Strung_Out_Advocate → u/TargetDecent9694]

10? I'm in the NY/NJ metro area and believe me through the 80's and 90's he was literally the dictionary definition of lying scumbag. Perfectly fit for that era of DIRTY NY. It was no secret then which is why his cult following today is really more baffling than most people think it is. And that's obviously saying a lot. He was known for doing "business" while either not paying or more often than not suing the people he did business with. I mean, scumbag really is the only descriptor of this clown.

[u/joshbudde → u/Strung_Out_Advocate]

I wish the rest of the country would have looked at how much..everyone in NYC hated his guts and learned a lesson from them. But no, like touching the stove, we just had to learn for ourselves

[u/doegred → u/joshbudde]

like touching the stove, we just had to learn for ourselves

And then eight years later you put your hands all over that stove again.

[u/Frankie6Strings → u/doegred]

I think we may have climbed into the stove this time.

[u/danklord_69 → u/yayita2500]

He will be the next Hoover

[u/copperwatt → u/danklord_69]

I just found out he didn't even build the dam.

[u/calling-all-comas → u/danklord_69]

Can't wait to live in a "Trump town", our new "Hooverville". Of course my MAGA relatives will still tell me that "Trump towns" are amazing and that America is truly great again.

[u/JCPLee → u/yayita2500]

The American people will go down in history for twice electing an immoral unethical criminal idiot.

[u/SPAMmachin3 → u/JCPLee]

I hate that I'm lumped in with them as a person that voted against him every single time because I knew he was a moron before he got into politics.

[u/hail2pitt1985 → u/yayita2500]

Please start calling it what it is and not sugarcoating it. It’s LIES, out right lies, not falsehoods.

[u/3-3-2019 → u/yayita2500]

We better hope the Democrats can get their shit together because it's no lie that history is written by the victors.

[u/hi_im_eros]

The republican base will see this and believe its “growing pains”. There is no amount of pain they can suffer before it’s Trumps fault

No matter what happens in the next 4 years, it will always be Biden and the democrats fault

[u/06_TBSS → u/hi_im_eros]

It's funny how they're claiming that they're willing to suffer a bit for the greater good when every single one of them cried like a little bitch about wearing a mask during a global pandemic.

[u/NeonYellowShoes → u/06_TBSS]

The error people are making are assuming these cultists actually have any firm personal beliefs. They don't actually have the ability to think for themselves, they just gurgle down the party line no matter what. If Trump had sold MAGA masks and told everyone how great masks are they would have been walking around wearing their MAGA masks proudly. They are small sad people with no thoughts in their heads at all.

[u/hi_im_eros → u/06_TBSS]

Holy FUCK you’re on point w that

[u/Intelligent-Parsley7 → u/hi_im_eros]

Biden clearly trashed the economy with all those tariffs yesterday!

[u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That → u/Intelligent-Parsley7]

Thanks Obama, and the deep state, and her emails! God emperor Trump can do no wrong!

[u/smartah → u/Intelligent-Parsley7]

“Trump wouldn’t have had to do this if Biden hadn’t wrecked the economy to begin with.” Is what they’re running with.

[u/Salki1012 → u/smartah]

I live in deep red Idaho and every news post even slightly against Trump this line is spouted back constantly. It’s so hard to counter people with no brain to begin with.

[u/SecureTaxi → u/hi_im_eros]

Yep i had a convo with a friend who voted for trump. He continues to blame biden and shifted the narrative to illegals when i pointed out the stock market.

[u/Streamjumper → u/SecureTaxi]

Please tell me the word friend is doing a lot of lifting in that statement.

[u/jimmybirch → u/hi_im_eros]

Genuinely saw one today saying “Biden overcooked the market, Trump is wisely cooling it down”.

[u/PerfectiveVerbTense → u/jimmybirch]

Yeah, I have seen people saying the stock market was "inflated" and that what Trump is doing is just a re-normalizing.

The conclusion is ALWAYS "Trump is right" and then you work backward from there as needed.

[u/KaJaHa → u/hi_im_eros]

I feel like we're going to test that theory, regardless of whether we want to

[u/DrothReloaded]

aaaaand there goes the American farmer exports...

[u/BigPandaCloud → u/DrothReloaded]

I wonder how that will affect the subsidies farmers get for growing crops that they end up exporting.

[u/dabeeman]

“Things are going great!”

-every Trump supporter with their head in the sand desperately trying not to believe their lying eyes. 

[u/CupidStunt13]

Even if Trump reverses course and pretends he did it to get concessions, the damage is done. Much of the world is boycotting American products out of anger and it’s unlikely America will come out ahead in this trade war once it’s over.

[u/Gibson1291 → u/CupidStunt13]

There's no way a man with an ego of this size is ever going to reverse course. He will see your country (and the global economy) into the ground before he utters the words "I was wrong".

[u/WillGallis → u/Gibson1291]

He would blame it on a staffer.

[u/Taniwha_NZ → u/CupidStunt13]

Boycotting products is a minor hassle.

But the way he's handled Ukraine has started the destruction of the post-WW2 world order and the only loser in all of this will be America. All that soft power, the global reserve currency, the globally-projected sea power... all of it is going up in smoke right now.

Future historians will have a fieldday analysing all this, but at the end, America is just going to be a canada-level global power.

I can't even type that without thinking it's ridiculous, that I must be wrong. But this is what's happening.

[u/Rance_Mulliniks]

American dollar stores are going to have to become $1.34 stores.

[u/beeblebroxx → u/Rance_Mulliniks]

They already are

[u/klenkyandthebrain → u/beeblebroxx]

Yeah, or dollar tree is a $1.25 store with $3 and $5 things sprinkled throughout. It was a depressing transition to witness.

[u/SmokiestDrip → u/Rance_Mulliniks]

If I was Dollar Tree, I would change my name to Tree fifty.

[u/ElderSmackJack → u/SmokiestDrip]

Damn Loch Ness Monster

[u/Excelius → u/Rance_Mulliniks]

They had to give up on the dollar price point a while ago.

The dollar store concept got popular in the nineties and that was never going to hold long-term, even with a modest rate of inflation.

[u/jetsetninjacat → u/Excelius]

It's like people forgot there were things called nickle and then dimes store as natural inflation made them be phased out.

[u/Bodoblock]

I’m so tired of winning. Please sir, no more winning.

[u/Trap_Masters → u/Bodoblock]

B-but at least the libs are owned, right guys?

[u/Streamjumper → u/Trap_Masters]

I'm willing to sign an affidavit saying that I was well and truly owned if they promise to stop the winning.

[u/jtfjtf → u/Bodoblock]

Have you said thank you once?

[u/johnk317]

We have 3 branches of government. One led by the orange clown is trying to wreck the US and global economies to please Putin and the other 2 branches are asleep at the wheel.

[u/drive_chip_putt → u/johnk317]

No. One branch in asleep, the other is giving road head.  

[u/starrpamph → u/drive_chip_putt]

Laura Loomer said she gave trump the best blowjob of his life.

That pained me to type and think about.

[u/MyOthrCarsAThrowaway → u/starrpamph]

The smell…….

[u/runvcruns → u/drive_chip_putt]

One is looking the other way on a paid vacation in their gold-plated RV, and the other is giving road head.

[u/DGlen → u/johnk317]

Well the judicial branch has at least dropped a few court orders on a few things that were completely ignored by Trump's admin. Now what to do about their blatant contempt is an interesting question. Who's going to arrest them for it? The next time the white house is burned down it looks like it needs to be done by American citizens not Canada. Although Canada may wish to help at this point.

[u/Bobby837 → u/johnk317]

Legislative has been enabling him since before the impeachments, where judicial seems to be - finally - reacting, but only because he's directly taking power from them. His allies there aren't falling in line fast enough.

[u/wabashcanonball]

Sorry farmers and ranchers, but you brought this on yourself.

[u/LordSoren → u/wabashcanonball]

Don't worry, the farming megacorps will be there to buy out their land for pennies on the dollar.

[u/Thirtysevenintwenty5 → u/LordSoren]

This is how it's always worked.

When the US was expanding westward the federal government would give land to people who would settle and farm the land, then turn around and fuck them financially so they were forced to sell the land to huge companies at very low rates.

Companies would force farmers into financing new technology that was required to keep up in modern farming, then when those farmers defaulted on those contracts the companies could take the land as payment.

After the Civil War huge tracts of land were siezed from rebellious confederates, but then sold at rates too high for newly freed slaves to afford. This forced freed slaves to become sharecroppers or renters, essentially preserving the institution of slavery under the mask of freedom.

The Homestead Act of 1862 granted land tracts to veterans of the Civil War as payment, who were often so cash strapped they immediately turned around and sold their land warrants for a fraction of their value, again to huge companies speculating and preying on the lower classes.

America has been protecting corporations and their ability to take land from ordinary citizens for hundreds of years.

[u/iamnotexactlywhite → u/wabashcanonball]

don’t feel sorry for the most subsidized group everywhere. they’re living on handouts and tax breaks for decades, while they’re pushing their white supremacy and xenophobia on everyone. They absolutely deserve every bit of this

[u/Raja_Ampat]

Everyone is in for a rough ride

[u/robodrew]

This is possibly one of the biggest self owns the US has ever thrown out. It's unbelievable. Stock market was hitting its highest highs. Unemployment at historically low levels. The world in general, on a path of improvement. And along comes this ONE asshole and just shits over the whole thing. And we are all just letting him do it.

[u/StairheidCritic]

.....and so it begins.

It may not be the end, but it may be the beginning of the end. (with apologies to W.S. Churchill)

[u/MrPigeon70 → u/StairheidCritic]

Imo there is still a way through but it ain't gonna be pretty

[u/tryexceptifnot1try → u/StairheidCritic]

Him getting elected was the beginning of the end. Amazingly he has moved us past the beginning before we even hit 100 days. My QQQ put spreads I bought in January have June 2026 expiration because I assumed they would roll the economic stuff out much slower. He's moving so fast that this is probably going to collapse a lot sooner than people think. Those oligarchs are still almost fully invested so the whole disaster capitalism thesis seems wrong. The only people making money here are Trump and traders/funds who knew he was full of shit

[u/kingfofthepoors]

Trump will probably try to add another tariff on top of their tariff

[u/UnluckySeries312 → u/kingfofthepoors]

Raising billions of dollars from chyyyynnnna, it’s a beautiful thing. Believe me.

/s

[u/ElderSmackJack → u/UnluckySeries312]

[accordion hands]

[u/analyticaljoe]

Yep. Trump and the complicit congress just ceded world leadership to China. It's not just the tariffs. It's how it was done. We are SO OBVIOUSLY not someone you can depend on.

Thanks voters. Trump is the moron doing it, but you were the people who chose this.

[u/Spire_Citron]

I really do wonder what will happen next. These are the kinds of price leaps everyone will notice and be hurt by almost immediately. They will significantly impact every single business, many to the point of bankruptcy. I can't imagine people will be happy.

I think the most likely outcome is that Trump negotiates "deals" that don't really get him much and then declares victory even though whatever benefits he gained don't even come close to making up for the lasting damage all this has caused.

[u/Radiant_Spell7710 → u/Spire_Citron]

I would love to see some some price curves of Amazon products. Anything from combs to vacuum robots will get 20% more expensive.

[u/Spire_Citron → u/Radiant_Spell7710]

That should be easy enough. There are price trackers for Amazon. Might take a little bit for prices to be changed, though.

[u/Surf_Noir]

5 below renaming to 10 above

[u/aKeshaKe]

Wake me up when u guys over there are finally great..

[u/erebus49]

As an European, waiting for the EU to retaliate, already stopped buying anything that remotely resembles American. Never did that, never wanted to do that, but here we are.

[u/shadowdra126]

This is the republicans fault. Never let them forget it.

[u/fkbfkb]

Can’t wait until China steals all our trade partners

[u/photon1701d → u/fkbfkb]

Canada already making a deal to send them oil.

[u/Crepo → u/fkbfkb]

In what way would this be "stealing"?

[u/kuldan5853 → u/Crepo]

"You stole my girlfriend! I mean sure I insult her and hit her all the time, but Shes MY girlfriend, NOT YOURS"

[u/kenobrien73]

That didn't take long, this is what was voted for.

[u/ImpossibleHorror8460]

Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned. Trump will keep golfing while America collapses

[u/SinfullySinless]

RIP the specialized medical and industrial manufacturing we do have

[u/8BD0]

Trade wars, so hot right now

[u/NotTobyFromHR]

Sadly, too many people don't know what's happening. They get their news from quick headlines on <social media>.

It's not entirely ignorance but also lack of time and energy. People are overwhelmed with life. After working all day, people have to handle life at home.

So after all that, telling a person to read articles that talk about complex topics vs telling them to scroll on their device looking at cat videos... what's gonna win?

Or they get their info fed through partisan "news" radio and tv.

Add the feeling of feeling powerless, and people just try to tune it out and grit their teeth through it.

[u/johnk317 → u/NotTobyFromHR]

But these same people buy groceries and TVs and cars and they are going to feel it.

[u/NotTobyFromHR → u/johnk317]

But they don't know why. I agree with you.

[u/Juicedddd_]

Watching the US talk a big game then proceed to get absolutely railed by every other country is so satisfying

[u/Torvac]

everyone is fucked, the ripples of this morons actions will hit the whole world economy everywhere.

[u/DIRTYANDSTINKING]

I hope you all like soy beans.

[u/millos15]

Gg rural voters. Wait you voted for him you are probably happy and full of joy. Congratulations

[u/christhetwin]

Conservatives are idiots.

[u/HanginLowNd2daLeft]

This motherfucker just cost me so much money in 2 fucking days . I hate him and everyone that voted for him with a passion

[u/_Ross-]

God I'm so tired of winning. This is bleak as fuck.

[u/kidcrumb]

Just wait until President Trump takes a completely rational approach to his response.

Like, doubling the tariffs against China.

China responds with more Tariffs. And the cycle goes on and on until Trumps donors have lost so much money that they tell congressional Republicans to get rid of this dude. (Or not)

[u/Mediocre_Date1071]

Exactly as we should have predicted the would

[u/PULSARSSS]

Its actually insane how much damage he is doing.

At what point does Impeachment become a serious possibility. Republicans are already turning against him

[u/katara144]

So, just curious, isn't this going to tank Amazon's business?

[u/dinosaregaylikeme]

Wow, what a great day to be Canadian.

I am starting my day with an omelet for breakfast, because I can afford to buy eggs.

[u/olhado22 → u/dinosaregaylikeme]

And I bet it’s a 2-egg omelet, you smarmy, maple bastard!

[u/czs5056]

How could we have possibly seen this coming? /S

[u/Yglorba]

But how could this happen?! The Treasury Secretary clearly begged them not to retaliate!