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You can say and read the word bitch if you use a dbzer0 account. Just saying.

Last Trump admin the US tariffed China, China retaliated by tariffs on US ag goods. Eventually Trump caved (or genius negotiation depending on your political colour) and China lifted the tariffs. Ask American farmers if they got those contracts back once China developed relationships with Brazilian farmers instead. Look at how many small farms folded since then and have been bought by commercial interests. Think that's a coincidence? Only megacorporations can afford to wait out the consequences of these actions.

The consequences of this idiocy will last a long time.

There are 2 things they are trying to do here IMO:

• They are using tariffs to bully weaker countries into worse deals and to interfere in our politics. Here in Colombia the media (all right wing lapdogs) keep talking how president Petro needs to bend the knee and just acept whatever Trump wants to do because it would be so bad for Colombia if we get extra tariffs. And they keep spewing propaganda making it sound like Petro is the one being crazy to kill any remaining support he has (not that he needs any help jajajaja, he has been a really mediocre president on his own and the extreme right is going to get an easy win next election anyway). They are not wrong of course, a trade war between Colombia and USA would hurt Colombia so much more than the USA just because of the relative size of our economies. And Trump and the rest of the republican assholes are using this to bully us and the rest of latin american countries.
• They want to reshape the tax collection in USA to remove taxes from rich people and collect more from poor people. At the end of the day, blanket tariffs on all products is just another regressive sales tax that will fall mostly on poor people. They want to reduce wealth taxes and income taxes which are collected mostly on rich people and instead replace them with regressive taxes like tariffs instead. I mean, his recemt tax changes shifted a huge amount of the tax burden away from the rich and to the poor and middle classes. If you want to put a conspiracy hat, they also think this will create a population boom in the USA. Research shows that people under worse economic conditions have more children, so they want to make life harder to poor people to get more and cheaper workers. At the very least the Musk rat has spoken openly about this, so it's not crazy to think this is part of their stupid plan.

Long term, the USA is royally fucked because of this. They are killing any good will the USA has with the rest of the world and they are screwing the poor people that actully generate the wealth of their country. But short term rich people will make bank with all this and the rest of us will pay for it.

He's doing the equivalent of robbing a bank while wearing a suicide bomb vest. The only difference is that he's threatening the world economy instead.

The fact that he hasn't thought through the consequence chain afterwards is just him being stupid. Akin to a robber trying to pay the stolen money into his bank account, at the branch he robbed a few days before.

Nah, for the rest of the World it will only be for things Made In America.

Time for rest of the World to trade between themselves, ignoring US.

That's correct. This is what they want. Drive stocks down, do a bunch of buybacks, scrap the tariffs, watch line go back up, profit.

Time to huddle down and stop buying shit. Maintain and repair old vehicles, download your media, go through your backlog of videogames, etc.

The only possible liberation is self liberation.

We need to cast off our chains, ourselves.

For some, the only way they'll ever learn is going nose first into a brick wall.

I only hope that trump crashes the US very quickly, but with the help of enough billionaires so that when the people rise up, they all get taken down and it becomes a better place.

There's no other way now that the institutions have fallen.

Nobody is coming to save you.

I feel like Trump voters knew exactly who and what they were voting for. Everyone told them, including Trump. Project 2025 was available for everyone to read but Trump even said, “To me the most beautiful word in the dictionary is 'tariff’.” There were no secrets this election.

.........this comment makes me uncomfortable.....like switches are some kind of an unsult! Switches are great! More variety!

Nah, pull yourselves up by your bootstraps.

The problem being that he is currently heading a superpower which is threatening economic and military force to achieve its goals, which apparently go against those partners.