The Trump Tariffs thread

[Fanatical Meat]

"We're not talking, but I feel like we're close to closing the deal"

I’ve heard words like that at sales meetings:
“I have a feeling….”
“I think…”
“I hope…”

These are not words leaders should ever use

 

[BoomerD]

I’ve heard words like that at sales meetings:
“I have a feeling….”
“I think…”
“I hope…”

These are not words leaders should ever use

I have a concept of a deal.

 

[Heartbreaker]

“Grandpa lit the house on fire and we’re all trapped inside.”

"And he's shooting out the window at the fire fighters."

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

This one is not about money or the economy. Trump wants media made in the US where he can use the power of the federal government to control the content. He is upset about how much of the media is putting out anti-authoritarian stories.

Which is hilarious since America's media heroes are almost exclusively anti-fascist, anti-government, anti-authoritarian, and in some cases overtly anarchist.

 

[KMFJD]

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)

Is this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.

bsky.app

sounds bad to me

 

[cytg111]

It's not like the US didnt have cards to play.. You did, you had. Its just that Trump threw away the deck and pushed all in. In a game with no rules, you have to be an idiot sit down at the table in the first place. The USA will punch itself out with no involvement from anyone else at all.

Brilliant #WINNING.

 

[Indus]

It's not like the US didnt have cards to play.. You did, you had. Its just that Trump threw away the deck and pushed all in. In a game with no rules, you have to be an idiot sit down at the table in the first place. The USA will punch itself out with no involvement from anyone else at all.

Brilliant #WINNING.

China doesn't have to sell us cheap stuff.. we're 300 million people in a planet with 8.3 billion people. So China will be able to find other buyers.

We're going to be the ones that aren't going to be able to buy cheap stuff anymore!

What MAGA has done is the equivalent of an own goal in the 3rd period of game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals.

Or well something like this..

There's no way China could score against America unless Trump helped em out and he did..

 

[biostud]

China doesn't have to sell us cheap stuff.. we're 300 million people in a planet with 8.3 billion people. So China will be able to find other buyers.

We're going to be the ones that aren't going to be able to buy cheap stuff anymore!

What MAGA has done is the equivalent of an own goal in the 3rd period of game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals.

Or well something like this..

There's no way China could score against America unless Trump helped em out and he did..

Yeah, but you still have most money to spend...

 

[Indus]

Yeah, but you still have most money to spend...

Do we??

No one is talking about the US Dollar is being devalued as we speak.. gold is up nearly 45% over the last year.

 

[KMFJD]

Yeah, but you still have most money to spend...

yeah but that's not gonna last long with the way the US spends money

 

[biostud]

So these are some tariffs which actually has some sense (They didn't originate from Trump)

US senators back “bone-crushing” sanctions on Russia, 500% tariffs for its allies

At least 72 US senators are prepared to support a bipartisan bill imposing severe sanctions on Russia and steep tariffs

georgiatoday.ge

It would actually show the hypocrisy in Europe, financing the Russian war in Ukraine by buying gas from Russia, and also make other countries not wanting to trade with Russia.

And it would probably work a lot better if it didn't have to compete with Trumps Tariff show.

 

[biostud]

Do we??

No one is talking about the US Dollar is being devalued as we speak.. gold is up nearly 45% over the last year.

Or are willing to borrow until you crash hard

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I have a concept of a deal.

Exactly

It’s all the same thing I am too lazy to have a plan or track a plan to goal or modify a plan when it’s not working as expected.
Literally it is always this when vague words are used.

 

[Roger Wilco]

“The president is severely demented and the joke is on you for asking an idiot to like me what he’s gonna fuck up next.”

 

[Sonikku]

It's not like the US didnt have cards to play.. You did, you had. Its just that Trump threw away the deck and pushed all in. In a game with no rules, you have to be an idiot sit down at the table in the first place. The USA will punch itself out with no involvement from anyone else at all.

Brilliant #WINNING.

What's so infuriating was that even Biden was actually doing something to bring manufacturing back and Trump put the kibosh to it...

 

[Indus]

What's so infuriating was that even Biden was actually doing something to bring manufacturing back and Trump put the kibosh to it...

I think the country soured on dems when Carrier laid off those workers and it went viral and we've been in Trump's world ever since even when he was out of office.

For a revolution to truly grab hold in America again.. we need a viral moment that sears itself into American pysche of how Trump lost Americans something that they can't get back.. like American manufacturing thanks to Trump..

And Trump hanging out with billionaires, giving them tax cuts is seemingly priming the fuse. The country is just about ripe and a spark could just set it all off.

 

[thilanliyan]

Correct IMO...the US "won" already...Trumps tariff actions are just undoing all that.
More than that, why become a pariah to the world?

 

[Roger Wilco]

Shocking.

Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social)

“.. Negotiations between the EU and US, which began in earnest last month, have made scant progress ..” @bloomberg.com https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/eu-targets-100-billion-of-us-goods-with-tariffs-if-talks-fail

bsky.app

 

[gothuevos]

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)

Is this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.

bsky.app

sounds bad to me

They're all laughing and smiling, how bad can it be?

 

[gothuevos]

we need a viral moment that sears itself into American pysche of how Trump lost Americans something that they can't get back

Kinda like Sandy Hook, COVID, J6, etc?

Yeah, the GOP sure paid a price for that!

Nah...this is just what people want. At least enough people electorally speaking. The "two dolls" comment will be forgotten in a week. Tariffs and higher prices just the new normal.

Wake me up when Democrats aren't more unpopular than Trump....by a wide ass margin.

 

[K1052]

Kinda like Sandy Hook, COVID, J6, etc?

Yeah, the GOP sure paid a price for that!

Nah...this is just what people want. At least enough people electorally speaking. The "two dolls" comment will be forgotten in a week. Tariffs and higher prices just the new normal.

Wake me up when Democrats aren't more unpopular than Trump....by a wide ass margin.

If America has anything close to a national religion at this point it is wide access to inexpensive consumer goods and when the prices for those increase or the products disappear entirely they are going to absolutely rage lol. We just had a whole ass election about inflation and it's clear voters fucking hate it and would literally rather have 10% unemployment. Trump promised lower prices and is going to deliver higher prices and shortages. His billionaire admin is out there suggesting people consume less and be more poor instead which is, to be generous, a doomed strategy.

 

[Heartbreaker]

Kinda like Sandy Hook, COVID, J6, etc?

Yeah, the GOP sure paid a price for that!

Nah...this is just what people want. At least enough people electorally speaking. The "two dolls" comment will be forgotten in a week. Tariffs and higher prices just the new normal.

Wake me up when Democrats aren't more unpopular than Trump....by a wide ass margin.

MAGA is under full 1984 mind control and Fox News is Minitrue.

 

[gothuevos]

If America has anything close to a national religion at this point it is wide access to inexpensive consumer goods and when the prices for those increase or the products disappear entirely they are going to absolutely rage lol. We just had a whole ass election about inflation and it's clear voters fucking hate it and would literally rather have 10% unemployment. Trump promised lower prices and is going to deliver higher prices and shortages. His billionaire admin is out there suggesting people consume less and be more poor instead which is, to be generous, a doomed strategy.

As long as Dems are polling in the 20s, it doesn't fucking matter.

You people still don't get it, even after 10 years.

 

[Josh128]

The reality is, both the Democrats and Republicans have shifted so far in their respective directions relative to center they they have both become memes. In no realistic world was Biden, who could only rarely speak an entire sentence at the end of his term without obvious signs of dimentia, which was ignored by his party until it became impossible, who allowed the Mexico border crisis to become so bad they they resorted to waiving 26 federal laws to RESUME the construction of Trumps border wall, a good centrist president. He skirted by on the minimum on some issues, like foreign policy, but failed miserably on domestic policies. His party then turned on him at the end and "installed" a very unpopular presidential candidate that bypassed all the democratic primaries. Shameful. That is the Democratic party of today, trying their best to alienate centrists and look for innovative ways to make itself irrelevant.

Trump is largely ignorant, unhinged, and shows terrible, downright horrible judgement on foreign policy, but he has seized onto stopping illegal entry and residence in the country, which needs to be done, but he is going about it, in many cases, in inhumane ways. Trump is unhinged, but not senile. Hes essentially the antithesis of Biden. His party, the Republicans, have gone so far to the right, that they outwardly appear to think that he can do no wrong, and that what is being done is completely normal and not extremely embarassing for the entire nation. Their refusal to question their god-king is extremely disturbing. Israel is pounding Gaza into dust, and Trump has publicly humiliated the president of Ukraine, who is fighting a brutal invasion of his country, while walking on egg shells to avoid publicly criticizing Putin. The Republican party has largely become Christo-fascist, which ironically, is very un-Christlike.

Im fed up with both parties and really think the US needs a true centrist party. I dont know what it would take for that to happen, but its very clear our current two party system is becoming untenable.

 

[K1052]

As long as Dems are polling in the 20s, it doesn't fucking matter.

You people still don't get it, even after 10 years.

If the GOP collapses with low info voters who just stay home next year the midterms are going to be a blood bath.