President Donald Trump on Wednesday acknowledged that his tariffs could result in fewer and costlier products in the United States, saying American kids might “have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,” but he insisted China will suffer more from his trade war.
but wait until he can’t find a good inflatable doll any longer…
Trump has no idea how the world works at all
Hey as long as someone’s suffering right?
Cutting off your nose to spite China
I mean if this is what it takes to suppress Republicans, so be it.
China: home ownership increasing average income increasing best transportation network for a large, stratified country in the world
Wow yeah sure looks like they’re losing.
No you dont understand, affecting 12% of exports representing a total of 8% of their gdp will totally bring down chayna and make them pay for illegally seducing capitalists into removing manufacturing from the US in search of destroying socialism. It’ll be the end of chaaiiiina this time.
Well sure that’s easy to say when you exclude the lower class.
Trump singlehandedly destroying American overconsumption.
Except the kids aren’t getting 2 dolls. They’re getting dragged out into the middle of the street half naked in the middle of the night because the brownshirts can’t even read an address correctly when they’re casually disappearing whole families.
Why the fuck is this even reported on. Fuck this whole system, down to the author that thought ‘ya that’s worth making an article’
Don’t buy your kids dolls. Buy them fpv drones.
Sadly, this probably concerns the average voter more than all the Nazi shit…
“It’s One Banana, Michael. What Could It Cost, $10?”
Even the Grinch didn’t go on TV to tell peoole he was stealing Christmas.
I don’t understand the hard on the right has for China yet they benefit greatly from China’s low costs. As soon as the USSR fell and Islamic fundamentalism faded away I just knew the US would be looking for a new boogeyman to keep us distracted and justify defense spending.
The fact that they call it a defense budget and not a military budget kind of says it all too.
I’m all for actually defending your country, of course, but yeah…
The irony being that Russia would have worked fine if the Right wasn’t in their pocket.
“Kids might get two calories per day instead of 2,000. But hey, Chinese kids will suffer too!”
Even if this were true, a policy that hurts everyone isn’t sucessful just because someone else suffers more than you.
It is for Republicans
Isn’t this the whole ideology of the US. Always kick downwards?
It’s called a Russian victory.
If your suffering is negligibly small and your opponent’s – critical for him, then you can demand something.
Imagine a war where all sides are losing soldiers but one side is winning.
But in the case of China I’m not sure who will suffer more in the long run.
But in the case of China I’m not sure who will suffer more in the long run.
Consumers in both countries, as it always is with tariffs.
I doubt that Chinese customers depend much on imports from the USA. They might feel the overall slowering the economy until China finds a new destination for its goods, but that’s it.
Well, they need work in factories which produce goods for the US customers. If no one is going to buy those goods, these people will be out of a job.
Its extremely arrogant to expect china to stop production, just because USA stops trading with them
Personally, i think it’s an issue of the skill variety.
can you elaborate on what you mean with this?
until China finds a new destination for its goods
Yes, but the USA isn’t the only market. It was convenient because of its size, but nothing irreplaceable.
You realise that the companies that will no longer want to produce in China because of the tariffs will move to India or Vietnam or literally anywhere else? Kinda like Apple and Samsung are doing.
And? Some will move, others – won’t. Moving industry is a huge deal. It isn’t easy. And most companies understand that the problem is not China but Trump. Today Americans are required to pay additional taxes for Chinese stuff, tomorrow they will pay for Indian stuff.
Maybe you have some real numbers to analyze?
Hmm, good point. US consumers it is, then.
It wouldn’t even be a pyrrhic victory. It would just be mutual suffering.
If your whole policy is to own the libs, it kind of is.
When your worldview is completely transactional, and you believe that literally everything is zero-sum, then you do view that as successful.
But everybody suffering isn’t zero-sum. It’s net negative.
No, see, you start with the assumption that everything is zero-sum, then you look at the other guy to see suffering and conclude that you must therefore be winning.
Americans are basically winning because they aren’t suffering the most
Because that’s what it’s all about - someone else suffering more. The objective is to increase the amount of suffering in the world, since we clearly don’t have enough of it just yet, but making sure others suffer more than us. Because trying to make it so that everyone suffers less is communist, unamerican and bad, I guess…
“trying to make it so that everyone suffers less is communist…”
Truth has never been better said.
