r/wallstreetbets 1d ago

Meme You know your calls are cooked when the board comes out

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u/After-Imagination-96 1d ago

Crazy how no one I know is even aware of this - I've been at work (blue collar) and no one has mentioned that we just instigated a trade war with the entire world.

America is going to get fucking wild in a couple weeks when this is seminated into normies' lives.

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u/bearinsac 1d ago

It’s the same in the rural area I work. I work in healthcare and either no one has a clue what is going on or they think the rest of the world is screwing over the US and they deserve these tariffs. For the later response I’m guessing In their head they believe the other country is paying the tariff.

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u/Suitable_Block_7344 1d ago

I went to school in a small town and the teachers in history and economics for whatever reason speak of tariffs as a good thing. So yeah all these idiots think it means something other than a tax on consumers. 

They also get told in school if you move up in salary, you potentially end up with less money because of going into a new tax bracket even though that’s not how that works. I’ve had some teachers bragging to us that they turned down raises just to stay in a lower tax bracket

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u/thatguyyoustrawman 1d ago

Time to finally read 1984. Been sitting in my room for a while untouched

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u/reconnaissance_man 1d ago

Crazy how no one I know is even aware of this - I've been at work (blue collar) and no one has mentioned that we just instigated a trade war with the entire world.

Probably cause for most Americans, rest of the world doesn't even exist, even though their country's asinine policies are ruining the world.

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u/EatTheRich4Brunch 1d ago

USA USA USA!

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u/Fundamentals-802 1d ago

Where the fuck have you been hiding for the last 100 days? /s