• BlackSheep@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    OK. So China is going to retaliate. Because they can. It’s kind of watching a 5 card stud game, and Trump is bluffing. And everyone knows it 🤣

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      I don’t know if americans themselves realise that their whole life revoles about shit they buy from china. But they will soon. When the garbage from temu is suddenly expensive garbage.

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        I’m expert level at reusing, recycling, repurposing. I could take someone on a 2-hour tour of my house or camp, either one, two hours without repeating myself, and show them all the shit I didn’t buy new.

        Some y’all about the learn how to scavenge. Or not.

        BuT VidEo gAmE prIceS!!

        While you’re at it, you’ll learn a whole new diet called, “Grow Your Own Calories.”

        “But I can’t do that in my dense city center!”

        I know. One of a hundred reasons I refused to live like that.

        And fuck me. Tomorrow is my last day off for a minute and I gotta build and farm. FML.

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      At this point I don’t think the Chinese need to retaliate. They could just say that they will and just wait for the US to put another bullet in their foot.

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    All Trump understands is “winning” or “losing”. He doesn’t understand negotiations. He doesn’t understand politics. It’s WIN or nothing.

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    104%?? Seriously? What’s next? 175% tariffs. Trump, you fucking idiot. The rest of the world doesn’t need you.

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      they’re already screaming for 400% tariffs on china because republicans don’t give a fuck about the american people and the hurt they cause.

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    Say bye bye to Nintendo switch 2 pre-order. I wonder what the gamers will do? This is gonna end very bad!

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      I think it’s mainly Vietnam tariffs that will hit the Switch 2 (Nintendo moved manufacturing their to minimise tariffs in the first place). But they are harsh enough in their own right.

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    What? I had a nap and Trump decided he liked tariffs and all but that he wasn’t tariffing hard enough so now he’s gonna double the price of all Chinese goods. Oh lawd. Guess I’m waiting a few years to build my next PC.

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      No way. You’ll totally be able to afford to get one tariff free from those new factories that are absolutely bigly being built right now in the great state of America.

      Everything should be up and running in a week or so. They just fast tracked all the tool and die makers needed to help develop the machines needed to build your next generation silicon and mother boards, and those ram chip thingies. To avoid all the tariffs from China they’re mining rare earth on mars and conveyor belted back on to America in the frunk of the swastitrucks.

      It’s everything computer.

      Believe in Trump, he believes in you. Or not.

      Most likely not. He doesn’t care about you. He only cares about charging the government insane amounts to his golf course so he can golf while messing up his presidential diapers and getting rich off your tax dollars while wearing pants pulled up to his orange cheetos nip nips.

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    About time for republicans to start voting with their wallets. In what universe does Trump think he can win waging trade war against the whole world? Plus the US economy is mostly driven by their service sector, so I think it is about time for the rest of the world to start tariffing their services and see how their economy collapses.

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    Luckily USA imports very little from China, so most people won’t even notice.
    /s

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      The 4% is what really sends me. I understand it’s just coming from their new nonsensical 34% tariffs but just…you’re already doubling the cost wtf is the point of the extra 4%? Just go for a flashy round 100%, they can’t even be evil right!

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        I read today that one of his secretaries said that China had miscalculated, because China exports roughly four times as much to the U.S. as the U.S. imports to China, and he said that that makes the U.S. a lot stronger than China, that it would give the U.S. a better bargaining position.

        That’s like a wealthy family in a small town saying they can outlast the grocery store if the grocery store decides to stop selling food to you.

        I mean, good luck with that

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      When the UK had a Prime Minister stupid enough to tank the economy like this, she was gone before you could eat a lettuce. But she only hurt her own country’s economy, while Trump is doing worldwide damage. The USA needs to step up and get rid of this hopeless leader.

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        The U.K.'s democracy is, unfortunately, several times more competently constructed than the U.S. democracy. Lizz Truss could be removed because there were avenues put in place to legally remove her from her position, there are no such avenues in the U.S. Here, the only way a sitting president can retire is via gunshot.

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          Yeah, our “checks and balances” were designed poorly. The religious reverence placed on the constitution stopped it from evolving to be better. It needs a revamp on a major scale.

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          Our vote of no confidence is impeachment. Same problem in regards to the party selecting the party leader in the UK. You actually have to have MPs/senators that actually agree.

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            Until I see an impeachment actually result in the removal of a president, I don’t seriously believe it is a viable method. Trump has been impeached twice so far with no consequences, so forgive me for having zero confidence in the third time being the charm.

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              He “learned his lesson” so he was allowed to stay in office. He learned his lesson alright. He learned he can do whatever he wants because the federal government is overrun with traitors.

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              At this point the only way it’d be possible is if one party controlled both chambers of congress. The current MAGA bunch would impeach and convict the next dem president for putting ketchup on their hotdog before mustard.

              Also Fox News was a direct response to Nixon so it would never happen again to a GOP president. They won.

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            Yeah the problem isn’t in our government structure, in this case, but in the republican cult of personality.

            It sucks but the Republicans won a very narrow victory in the house senate and president. No matter what system you have, if it’s at all democratic that party makes all the decisions. The problem is there making the decision to standby and watch as a demented oaf flushes the country down the toilet

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      He has to be fueled by hate and spite and maybe drugs. I can say a thousand bad things about him but he sure does have a lot of energy.