'Did I Miss Something?': Online Shoppers Shocked as Trump Tariffs Jack Up Prices 145%

Let’s talk about the moment Donald Trump blinked. It wasn’t loud. It wasn’t a tweetstorm or a rally rant. When the tariff threats that had the world on edge—125% on China, 25% on Canada’s autos, a global trade war in the making—suddenly softened. A “pause,” he called it. A complete turnaround from the chest-thumping of the past week. And the reason? Mark Carney and a slow, deliberate financial maneuver that most people didn’t even notice: the coordinated Treasury bond slow bleed. (https://lawandsocietymagazine.com/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet-bond-play-forced-trump-to-drop-tariffs/) This is Mark Carney. Thank you, fellow Canadians, for voting for the experienced Captain to man the helm in the rough waters ahead!

See. When countries rely on tariffs to protect local manufacturers - there should be way way way better social system in place and laws protecting working class. Because we are the ones in this case allowing this ineffective manufacturing to exist by paying tariffs

Yah, you missed an election

Hopefully this is a wakeup call for the folks who don't vote because they think that both parties are the same.

Americans are dumb as fuck

Cambridge Analytica is the reason we're in this mess. It's the actual Deep State the Republicans were pointing fingers about

Found the fucking idiots who couldn't be bothered to vote for Kamala.

Or that voted for donvict because "R".

Is this "nottheonion"? I cant believe that people are so oblivious.

I wish I was in a place were I had no idea what was going on. I'm just twitching when I think about Republicans sending people to concentration camps with out charges or trial. That just means everyone is just sheep to be plucked. We are now just living on luck.

"Did I miss something?"

No, you intentionally avoided listening to what we were telling you.

Yes. They missed the part where they specifically and repeatedly said they were going to do this. Because American voters evidently have the cognitive skills of a fucking sea sponge.

A Lemmy post about an article about a Reddit post. The internet feels more and more incestuous every day.

Ignorance knows no bounds 🙄

Donald J Trump is a liar, rapist, cheat and a lousy business man that has failed every single business, and Americans voted in this useless excuse for a human being to enforce facism, racism, and colonialism. Well done America.

One mistake Temu is making is showing it as "Import fees". That's correct of course, but they should label it specifically as "Import tariffs" or "Tariffs", so that it's clear what this is. From the comments in the linked reddit threads, a lot of people just think they're extra fees Temu is voluntarily putting on as retaliation, their brains still aren't making the link between "import fees" and "trump's tariffs on China".

It's only just begun. Wait until there are empty shelves at Wal-Mart. MAGA is going to have to work overtime to blame it on Biden.

Oh no! I guess they'll have to get their cheap Chinese knock-off crap from Good American Sources.

Seriously though, even if the tariffs were reduced pre-loony-President levels tomorrow, no-one's gonna trust that being permanent.

Now the stupid ones can 'figure' it out.

Wait until you see the price of groceries in a few short weeks because no one is around to do the processing. Fuck toilet paper shortages and being locked in your home all day because complete incompetence, we had to go for round two of how Trump is going to tap dance around super hard stuff.

Okay Republicans. Do something other than screaming about it's all unfair. Do something other than pointing at people and screaming hate. Do something or this thing you have complete control of isn't going to have food in about three months.

Can confirm - I track grocery prices every week and the cumulative "Biden inflation" was about 17% over 4 years, or about 4% per year average. Last week was already a 15% yoy increase, and some stuff is legitimately 100% yoy already.

You didn't miss anything, you're just getting what you voted for.

“I haven’t been keeping up with news or what’s going on?!?! I have been ordering a lot this past month for my daughters wedding.. did I miss something???”

I mean Jesus TapDancing Christ. You've not been aware of who the president is and what he is doing??? It's not like tariffs haven't been in the news at all. They (along with illegal renditions and other attacks on civil liberties) have been dominating the news cycles since January. I have never been one to ignore news, so even if quite busy with something in life I read headlines at the very least. It confounds me to know some folks ignore news willfully. Some even think of it like it's some twisted badge of honor.

I know head-in-sand people exist, but I am dismayed, baffled and extremely disappointed that they still behave the same when the house is burning down around them. Especially when this ignorance is obviously present in a large block of people in the US.
Please wake the hell up everyone, the house is on fire! (I know I am preaching [venting] to the choir in this venue.)

Yes you did miss something you missed voting for someone that did not champagne on Tariffs.

I guess Democracy is allowing voters to shoot themselves in the foot an then letting them wonder what happened.

Others were posting about possible workarounds, including the idea that perhaps Americans could get things shipped to a third country with lower tariffs as a go-between so that the goods didn’t appear like they were actually coming from China.

Truly maximizing global shipping efficiency...

i hope every fucking 3rd party voter has to choose between rent and eating along with all the pridefully ignorant bumblefuck maga knuckledraggers

edit: LOL i love how the "vOtE 3rD pArTy!!!!" chuds have literally nothing to say anymore--can only downvote.

"i DoNt WaNnA vOtE fOr GeNoCiDe!!!!"

great job, fucko. now we have genocide in gaza AND in america

enjoy your fucking tariffs. and if you're less than 100% white/male/straight/evangelical/republican, then enjoy all the things that go along with being "other" in a fascist state (hint: fucking genocide)

I will never tire of reading articles like this. It's like the nectar of the gods to me.

Sup bitches this is that MAGA you ordered.

Last week, Trump went so far as to claim that Chinese President Xi Jinping had called the White House to negotiate a deal, another claim that Chinese officials deny.

How hard would it be to prank him by spoofing caller ID and pretending to be Xi?

Yeah chief, there was an election last November. Should have been paying attention.

100% guaranteed these people are of two kinds: Trump voters and Conservative Libertarians