Too bad they are missing their Christmas bonuses.

They all thought the foreign company paid the tariff.

This is probably what Trump thinks, too. I can easily believe he is that stupid.

I'm also wondering just what the fuck Trump and co. are going to do with all the money obtained from these tariffs. Just, like, spend it all on hookers and blow or what? Remember how you all believed this was the party of "low taxes?" Yeah, guess what a tariff is, fuckers.

Is the owner of the company purchasing a year's worth in order to keep the price they charge down, or in order to raise prices in February when their customers expect it because of the new tariffs, and pocket the difference? While having avoided paying bonuses?

I don't know if this post is true or not. However, a lot of people don't know history, civics, & economics. (This is the result of the Reagan & Bushes dismantling of the education system.) I've told a lot of people to look up the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 and the impact it had on our and the global economy. Tariffs will start a trade war. That's what happened to our farmers the last time Trump was in office. He ended up having to bail out farmers which cost more than the tariff brought into the government. The Chinese simply bought their soy beans from other countries instead of paying for ours. There were a lot of farmers that lost their farms then.

To be honest, this kind of feels to me like the boss was just looking for an excuse to not have to pay workers.

The truly enraging thing about the voters who said they voted for trump due to economic concerns is HOW IN THE GODDAMNED FUCK do they think he's going to fix anything? To the extent that a president can change the cost of living, among the worst ideas is probably to fucking add fees to imports. This is his one idea and yet no one can explain to him the extremely simple negative effect that it would have on consumers.

This absolute fucking dope had one terrible idea for helping lower prices (which will certainly raise them) and the voters lapped it up without thinking. America is full of morons.

Trump's Tariffs are BIDENS FAULT! And they'll STILL be Biden's Fault EVERY TIME I vote for the man who LITERALLY campaigned on creating these Tariffs!

Maybe it's because I took economics as far back as high school, but even just from reading high school history books I knew what a Tariff was. How the FUCK did they not know that?

I am also willing to bet that they will eventually blame the democrats for breaking the system, as they always do.

Hold MAGA voters accountable for their choices. Every. Single. Day.

Thanks Trump.

I mean the whole point is paying a tariff so American companies make the goods instead for less.

But if paying Chinese poverty wages and tariffs is still less than paying Americans to do it, then guess what they're going to do?

Guise, I'm struggling. Part of me says...let them all burn for their "fuck around and find out".

But I know that isn't completely right. I just, am, so, angry (and sad).

Will probably choose the let them burn route.

Wow, the turn around time on that was fast.

Just read estimates his tariffs would cost the average household 7600 annually. I told my folks and they didn't understand why I thought it was funny. I told them they wanted this.

I posted a meme last week before the election about a lot of my fellow Americans being depressingly ignorant and a bunch of people got pissed off about it.

I'm just saying...

This tells me the information pipe to voters is broken, and hacked.

People live in their own social media realities. There has always been ignorance, but it's never been so widely personalized. And Trump and the GoP played it like a fiddle.

And just watch, the Dems are going to learn precisely nothing from this and campaign like it's the 1950s again, thinking policy was their problem.

And it's sooo typical of their hyper-inflated personal and national egos:
They didn't wonder for one minute why on earth foreign companies would pay up. For the honor or doing business with the greatest country on earth tm? Because they'd have no choice of other buyers, since no other countries has car / computer / whatever manufacturers who'd buy their products instead?

They. Are. So. Fucking. Insular.

Some companies have already said they're going to pass the extra cost onto consumers, so while the companies will pay more, they'll make a lot of that back from the consumers that can still afford the products.

Electronics will probably be the hardest hit, with prices of cell phones, laptops, and game consoles increasing quite a bit.

not exactly shocking, not the first time Trump has made tariffs. Last time they drove the cost of house construction up.

Most people on this planet are dumb as shit. More at 11

This is what happened in the UK with Brexit.

2025, Chinese year of the Leopard

It's sad to see that the people that do the most honest work are always being played by people doing the most dishonest one.

It’s like Brexit, but in America.

This is definitely fake, but it's tremendously funny so I choose to believe it's real

Waitaminute....since when can tariffs eat my face??

Drawbacks of living in a country where half the people are dumbshits. It's the new normal and we better get used to it. When you are out in public doing anything, look around. Roughly half the people you see are fucking idiots.

Not only do US companies pay the tariff but they pass it on to their customers and other countries put counter tarrifs on US products.

Saw an interview of Bernie Sanders in 2003. This level of ignorance was manufactured by the GOP by creating millions of single issue voters. It’s all about divide and conquer. If you look at GOP rhetoric it’s always issues meant to divide the people. Abortion, lgbtq, war. Instead of voting based on a platform, now millions of people vote based off abortion or Gaza for example. This is how they get people to vote against their own interests

If only he had sat them down and explained that on November 4th

Womp womp

Does Trump not know what a tariff is? Or does he know, and he is deliberately misleading his followers?

So they immediately left that meeting and started talking about how to unionize, right?

Right?

Ha ha ha!

This is absolutely delicious!

I know I'm going to be fucked over hard but it's still heartwarming to see those adults who put is here also get fucked even harder!

Those tariffs are going to be a bitch. On the bright side, collecting aluminum cans is going to be way more lucrative.

Sorry not sorry.

Congratulations. Ya played yaself.

this looks truthy

Does anyone know if we are paying tariffs for face eating leopards? I can foresee high demand.

Tariff = tax

Sometimes in order to learn something is bad you need to experience it.

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Thoughts and prayers for them lol.

all you need to know, really

I'm honestly elated, let the leopards feast

Roleplayers be like

fake story about how workers are dumb. Yeah.

I mean regardless I think pulling back spending is a great idea for 2025. Make those purchases now while they're still cheap. Buy your toilet paper etc

So I feel like I'm probably missing something or am not understanding how Tariffs work.

Tariffs would increase the price of foreign goods and commodities and those increases would be passed on to consumers, but isn't the goal not to get more tax money for the government but to disincentivize the purchase of those foreign goods at all thus fueling domestic manufacturing and economy?

It seems like tariffs aren't great short term but if we have the ability to manufacture domestically and are not doing so due to costs, then it may be good in the longer term. Especially because if we rely on those countries now, they have control over those goods and can end them whenever they want. At least this way we can ramp up US manufacturing without a disruption to the existing supply chain, it just costs more.