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Smartphones, computers, and other electronics will be exempt from President Donald Trump’s steep China tariffs, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed late on Friday night.
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So he’s fucking over american manufacturing of industrial machinery by tarifing raw goods but not end results? It gets dumber all the time.
I may legitimately lose my supposedly magical and highly important American manufacturing job because of this shit and these dumbasses think that this is all a genius move that will finally Make America Great Again. Everyone else I know who works in manufacturing is feeling the same way. One of my coworkers is mildly Trumpy and was talking about how he thinks it’s a negotiation tactic and was shocked when I said I think the people in charge are just legit stupid and think tariffs will magically make things better in their own right. He didn’t have anything to offer as a rebuttal he just seemed surprised that anyone would think Trump isn’t a turbo genius who is secretly making 5000 IQ negotiation moves.
For him that’s OK, he serves for the big corpos manufacturing in China, just realised how much was screwing them and fixed it… the rest can be boguht with a MAGA cap… made in China too
Jesus fucking Christ. At this point I want him to go all in on tariffs and actually hold on so at least I know what’s coming. The fucking indecisiveness and Randomness is literally driving me insane.
The funny thing is that it’s supposed to stimulate US manufacturing. Like companies are going to invest years of time and billions of dollars building factories and moving production to the US, because of a tariff system that changes every 2 days.
He doesn’t care about American manufacturing. That has always been a flimsy cover.
Sure, it’s just a way to raise taxes on the public without calling it that. Upside is they bring in a lot of money quickly. Downside is they do a fuckton of irreparable damage to the US economy, the standard of living of people in the USA, and a fair bit of collateral damage to the rest of the world. But at least Elon gets his tax breaks for another couple of years so yay!
You are not alone. The whole world has lost confidence and trust to anything the US does or says
They were estupido for having confidence and trust for this long.
I think that’s the point.
Oh man, inside of what!?
Inside a car, Silly. He wrote “literally”, and he’s not an idiot, so it’s got to be a car or truck or abattoir he’s being driven inside.
The randomness is the point. He wants the markets to yo-yo so those with insider knowledge can make a bunch of money.
Expect this to continue until Trump gets bored of it.
and MAGA was like, “HOORAY TRUMP IS SO AWESOME! see. i told you tariffs would only be temporary”
fuck joke of stock manipulation
I would love to see China put an export tax on those products equal to Trump’s dropped tariffs.
Everything from China now has Raspberry pi pico taped to it.
What’s the matter, Tannen? Chicken?
He’s folding faster than… (insert your joke)
… a tree and get outta here.
… Green snake in a sugar cane field.
Superman on laundry day
There was a Biff question on Jeopardy yesterday (I think, I’m in a weird time zone), and my first thought was the response would be “what is Trum- er Biff! I mean Biff!”
We are putting tarrifs on stuff we buy from you, because you make too much money on us. But we are going to remove tarrifs from the stuff that we buy from you, because we need them.
We are putting tarrifs on stuff we buy from you, because you make too much money on us. But we are going to remove tarrifs from the stuff that we buy from you,
because we need them.Because their CEOs attended his dinner and bribed him.
Even when he happens to make a correct decision, the decision-making process is pure chaos.
Just think about how chaotic things were during COVID. People weren’t allowed to leave their homes. Restaurants were laying off all their staff. Many tourist attractions were completely shut down. Airlines were flying empty planes around just so they didn’t lose their airport slots. People switched from spending locally to buying things online, but China was also dealing with COVID, so that made manufacturing and shipping chaotic too. The ports were completely screwed, with completely full ships sitting in the port waiting weeks to unload.
Despite all that, economic uncertainty in Trump’s 2nd term is twice as bad. It’s literally off the charts.
Nobody can make any reasonable long-term plans because everything might change depending on the mad king’s whims.
And, last time things went back to normal because this was a worldwide pandemic and there wasn’t anybody to blame for it. This time, everyone knows that this is Trump’s fault, and that he was elected with widespread support from the American people. I don’t think things are going back to normal after this.
Ahh, so that’s how this is going to go.
First you tell the world how big your dick is, then you realize you might not be all that competitive in the dick-size arena so you start walking that shit back. Pretty soon here we’ll be hearing about lil’ Donny’s third thumb in tariff form before he finally admits he was dickless all along and puts forth only the most token of efforts to attempt to retain some sense of dignity.
Well he does have tiny hands, if that helps.
Shows how unplanned this whole thing is.
How odd to be cheering for China to stick to their guns.
The real reason?
Apple, Intel, and other execs bribed him during an overpriced dinner.
This whole tariff thing has nothing to do with the country or international relations or manufacturing or whatever.
It’s just his latest personal grift. He just now has the power to say “every CEO in the world must personally give me a bribe or I’ll continue doing some really stupid shit.”
There must be a lot of lobbying going on behind the scenes at the moment!
You have 90 days to save your businesses dear Billionaires! They will soon open a bribing office to keep track of the corruption and agreements made during this period
What will all those American workers that were supposed to build iphones do then? Unemployed?
Straight to the woodchipper.
Both trump and doge is just the open-the-gates meme
– Tarrifs for everyone/no government empoyees – but sir, people enjoy computers/functional government – stop most tarrifs/bring back the personel!
