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Trump: *shoots America with tariffs*
MAGA: why didn't the liberal minority in Congress stop this?
I understand that this is sarcasm.
But you just watched Democrats hand over their best leverage by opting not to shut down Donald's government and voting with Republicans, so, they're not entirely wrong. We don't have legitimate opposition. We have a minority party performatively putting up a false pretense at opposition, sitting back, and watching their stock portfolios soar.
by opting not to shut down Donald’s government and voting with Republicans
What are you talking about? Are you talking about a specific bill? Which one? All Dems voted against the 'huge hideous bill' (budget bill). Dems don't have the power/votes to 'shut down Donald's government'.
Can't pass a regressive tax bill if the government shuts down.
Democrats aren't powerless. They're complicit. The BBB was only possible because they made it possible.
Ok. You said "But you just watched", so I thought you were talking about the most recent catastrophic legislation, which is why I asked which bill you were talking about. Schumer's a cowardly piece of shit and could have used the only chance dems had or will have, because the other cowardly pieces of shit would have followed his lead and voted against it if he would have.
"I keep punching myself in the face! Why is Joe biden not stopping me!?"
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Post Title: Trump announces 30% tariffs on Mexico, EU starting August 1st
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agk927 Moderate Conservative -189 points 17 hours ago
It'll make us some money. I see no issue here
akbuilderthrowaway Heinlein 415 points 16 hours ago
... you do realize Americans pay the tax, right? This is a consumption tax on American for foreign goods. Other nations are not paying this tax. You are. This is a tax on Americans.
agk927 Moderate Conservative -280 points 16 hours ago
He wouldn't do it if it hurt us. Keep listening to the misinformation. There's 2 sides to every story
akbuilderthrowaway Heinlein 321 points 16 hours ago
Misinformation? Dude. Seriously. Open your fucking eyes. Importers aren't going to eat 25+% taxes out of the goodness of their hearts. It's going to get passed on to consumers.
I can call a spade a spade. Trump's tariff policy is awful. You can't, on one hand, spout out rhetoric about lowering taxes and then pull shit like this.
Self aware wolf
He wouldn’t do it if it hurt us
lol
i work for an importer. My family are all college educated. I still have to explain this to people who have business degrees who should know better. The single most important thing I do at work is make sure the taxes and tariffs are paid before the shipping container gets released from the ship.
Is there any substantial decline in the imports in the last 6 months?
not the same person but i work in TLSC - variously, yes, in general people are doing feast and famine to import when tariffs get paused, and don't when they're not
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I often think the world does not need more people with MBA's.
So sick of conservatives breaking shit like children and then demanding liberals clean it up.
Too bad, unless we leave the country we will deal with it for the rest of our natural lives. Just that every cycle the average person comes out broker and broken
There's no getting rid of them now and the coming generation being any clue, it's only going to get worse over time
Imagine a world where disliking people like Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate publicly gets your family disappeared, because that's where we're heading despite a fucktonne of idiots coming after to say 'nuh uh!' like they always do.
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Im hearing: The other political party needs to stop our party, its being crazy ... this is why we did not vote for the other political party, so they can save us ... or something.
I'm hearing "holy shit, how are those dipshits so ineffectual? Why dont they use any of their power when they're the minority like mine does?".
The answer is SCOTUS is compromised. They will favour GOP every time.
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The convoluted hill these morons made for themselves has actually been really satisfying. I hate these people and it’s good to know that it’s nothing but a total fucking mess inside their dumb little heads
Letting Trump run the country into the ground is the best way to get rid of the MAGAzis.
No, because they'll immediately vote conservative the next chance they get anyway.
No amount of suffering will cure the vast majority of these people. They will be licking the boot even as it crushes their skull in their final moments.
Accelerationism has never proven to be an effective means of combatting conservatism.
Even the MAGAs are frustrated with democrats doing NOTHING. Even they know this is bullshit!
What could they realistically do, when Trump controls all branches of government from Congress to the Supreme Court? It can be argued that they should have shut down his government in March, when they had the chance to reject the spending bill - but what can they do now?
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Pretty sure he's doing tariffs specifically because they aren't a tax. They aren't collected by the IRS, they're collected by Customs and Border Protection, which is a division of the Dept. of Homeland Security (just like ICE). And because the head of the DHS is such a loyal stooge, whatever god-king shitstain says goes
I thought tariffs went directly to Treasury.
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