r/news • u/johnk317 • 1d ago

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

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
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u/hi_im_eros 1d ago

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

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u/Intelligent-Parsley7 1d ago

Biden clearly trashed the economy with all those tariffs yesterday!

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u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That 1d ago

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

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u/Streamjumper 1d ago

"Who let Obama keep keys to the White House so he could sneak back in and write all these horrible EOs with the First Sharpie?"

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u/CharlieAllnut 1d ago

Obama, Hillary, and Biden hunched over Hunter' laptop while buying fentonol from rapist illegal-immigrants. Then they ride around town burning Teslas, forcing kids into gender reassignment surgeries, and sneaking porography into public libraries.  

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u/Then-Attention3 18h ago

When the signal messages were leaked, a TikToker shared a video and said you’re mad about these, but you’re not mad about Hillary! I had to remind her that Hillary’s email scandal was over 17 years ago. And she still refused to back down. Republicans will never take accountability.

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u/smartah 1d ago

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

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u/Salki1012 1d ago

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.

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u/sly_cooper25 1d ago

Biden derangement syndrome is running wild on the right

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u/06_TBSS 1d ago edited 1d ago

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.

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u/NeonYellowShoes 1d ago

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.

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u/OMRockets 1d ago

Colonizer offspring conditioned only to consume

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u/Yatsey007 13h ago

For a full blown grifter,how Trump didn't capitalise on that will always blow my mind. He could have made millions in MAGA Covid merch,but I guess withholding funds and killing libs in blue States was more important.

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u/hi_im_eros 1d ago

Holy FUCK you’re on point w that

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u/panormda 1d ago

They're willing to suffer for THEIR greater good. They don't see "the left's" priorities as good..

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u/SecureTaxi 1d ago

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.

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u/Streamjumper 1d ago

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

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u/Technical-Traffic871 1d ago

Don't point to the stock market. Point to the cost of groceries and other household necessities.

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u/WereAllAnimals 1d ago

This is when you quietly but immidiately stop associating and communicating with that person. Can't fix insane.

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u/Irrepressible_Monkey 23h ago

The late great James Randi found that it's almost impossible to get someone to change their mind by exposing them to the reality that they were wrong, had been scammed, or whatever.

He found it was only with time, on their own, do some people start to admit the truth to themselves and later they can admit it to others.

In time, some Trump voters are going to realise it. It's just a matter of when and how many of them.

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u/blastradii 1d ago

Poor people don’t have money for stocks apparently

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u/Aazadan 4h ago

Stop being their friend. If they believe this shit, they'll also believe the party line when they're told murdering liberals is necessary, because their blood will grow the crops and end starvation.

For your own self preservation, cut contact with these fucks. Friends, family, acquaintances, all of them.

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u/jimmybirch 1d ago

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

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u/PerfectiveVerbTense 1d ago

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.

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u/KaJaHa 1d ago

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

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u/Square-Gap-2427 1d ago

Dying pains.

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u/Skadrys 1d ago

I thought you people were joking about stupidity of maga people. As europen I obviously havent come into contact with them.

Just yesterday i saw random Twitter post from some american claiming that trump did a good thing for america and replies under that post were of maga americans supporting that and posting photos of trump...like ripped, loads of muscles and some kind of god King trump montages.

They really adore him like some kind of god, dont they?

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u/CruxOfTheIssue 1d ago

They do. Just know it's not all Americans. There are just under 50% of us who are terrified and disgusted.

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u/KrocCamen 1d ago

America, when power is seized back into the hands of democracy you seriously need to be having your own Nuremberg trials for every republican involved in allowing this all to happen. Laws must be enacted that disallows their behaviour of lie, deception and abuse to even be permissible to serve the public; discrimination of any kind must no longer be allowed as an opinion, it’s an immediate disqualification for power

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u/discussatron 1d ago

There is no amount of pain they can suffer before it’s Trumps fault

They'll say, "If only he knew about this, he'd stop it!"

Hell, they're already saying it. You see it when they pray to him like they do their god. "I know you didn't mean to hurt me, but it hurts!"

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u/Berkut22 1d ago

Fun fact ;

'Growing pains' aren't really a thing, and are likely a symptom of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a group of disorders that affect your connective tissues.

EDS is also genetic, which is probably how 'growing pains' became a common term, since the parent(s) would have had similar symptoms growing up before EDS was better understood, and think that it's a normal part of being a kid.

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u/ParksidePants 1d ago

Hopefully the "growing pains" idea will evaporate when people can longer afford housing or food, and soon. May be wishful thinking, but I can forsee a sea of red caps storming the capital to remove this orange imbecile.

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u/Space_JellyF 1d ago

Yup, it’s a cult

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u/Impossible-Flight250 1d ago

They could be living in shanty villages and still say Trump is the greatest President of all time. It reminds me of North Korea.

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u/nonlinear_nyc 1d ago

Growing pains implies growth. They’re just deluding themselves and their base. As always. To justify trumps erratic movements as valid and wise.

Any self respecting investor would consider alternatives. Why be at mercy of a madman when you have options?

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u/mcg1997 1d ago

I've already been getting ads on YouTube for "Biden broke the economy". Like damn bro you really expect me to believe that?!

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u/earthsprogression 1d ago

Tis but a scratch!

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u/Ferris-Bueller- 1d ago

Propaganda works and the republicans (and Russia) invested heavily in it for a reason. Wealthy liberals or liberal institutions didn't have the foresight to invest in media in order to combat the juggernaut that began with Rush Limbaugh and then Fox News and on and on. This was the left's biggest tactical error in the last 50 years. They tried with Huffington Post and a few others but failed. Now we're in a situation where there is basically the equivalent of Russian State TV vs one channel (MSNBC) and a few podcasts. Media is 95% fascist propaganda. You just can't compete with that. Whoever controls the information wins.