Lmao putting a tariff on Taiwan. Truly being an ally to America is deadly
trump has singlehandedly ensured a future reunification of China
I am not unconvinced that, at some point, Trump was the victim of an "Inception" heist that placed the idea of tariffs at the center of his mind-palace.
Can you imagine? It's probably like the inside of Vincent D'Onofrio's mind in The Cell.
I understand that reference.
JDPON Don proves he's real by posting his first leftist meme
CIA and bougie pricks in general have gotten really complacent
Man needlessly smashed up some of the US' ability to project soft power, he's still talking about slashing the military budget, and now this and they haven't whacked him yet
Soft
Why does it look like the weed menu in an Amsterdam coffee shop?
The coffee shop I used to go to changed their weed menu to be digital and slick looking now, and it looks exactly like that. 
Very interesting they're letting him actually do this. I would think the bourgeoisie would not like this kind of hit. He still has time to do "incredible deals" whereby these countries agree to buy $100 of US goods and he drops the tarrifs while tooting his horn but things do kind of look like the bourgeoisie (those near levers of power anyways) are serious about forcibly decoupling and reshoring pronto to be able to fully enact the plan of isolating, blockading, sanctioning, and trying to turn up the pressure on and destroy China or at least prevent their rise and displacement of US power.
I mean it's either fail children running the show which I still can't buy because they'd love their enemies to think them more foolish and incapable than they are and we don't have that luxury OR the whole plan for drawing back, child labor, small yard, high fence, using the sword of empire to attempt to force the world to buy more US stuff to displace competitors OR they're on some sort of dark enlightenment trip and think capitalism is over and the only way to avoid socialism is turning the barbarism machine way up and trying to create some sort of techno-feudalism or something else at home.
Why does it matter? Well if they're just incompetent then indeed the fall of the US is in order in the near future 
but options 2 and 3 spell very, very, very dire times for those in the imperial core as it's a very orderly managed decline that's liable to be able to potentially draw it out many more decades into the future and inflict incredible amounts of suffering on those of us stuck here in the mean-time (beyond just treats being more expensive).
It's the national bourgoisie ascendent against the international bourgoisie. Trump's favoured businessmen will be given special exemptions while the economy gets gutted and they can pick up the remnants at a steal. meanwhile their international rivals get shafted.
Also they are definitely on a neoreaction trip, it's just that all they've done is reinvented fascism and mixed it with older patronage networks that won't work for a modern economy.
Just like how the proletariat is divided thanks to class unconsciousness, I wonder if the same sometimes dogs the bourgeoisie. Wars are a key example where even a united bourgeois class can enter conflict with itself.
There are growing divisions within the capitalists about how to navigate the latest wave of imperial crises, and with that has come a cold war of political influences and the conflict within a usually-united class. Whilst this will threaten global capital, and with it many capitalists, there will be others who take the spoils of the coming disruption for their own gain.
Reshoring will never happen outside of the rest of the world imposing a Cuba-style blockade on the US (inshallah). Offshoring and de-industrialization was the only way the US was able to push off the spectre of the declining rate of profit and the corresponding class consciousness that comes with it.
The only way this made sense to me was as a way to push through a tax cut bill through reconciliation that would essentially relieve the wealthy and corporations of paying any taxes at all. A massive and permanent transfer of wealth (because of course the dems would never repeal it). Trump’s GAO would massively inflate the expected revenues from tariffs in order to 1-for-1 cut taxes on the rich. But the I saw Scott Bessent say that tariffs aren’t factored into reconciliation so assuming he was telling the true (big if) then who knows…
The return of old empire and the dumping of “inclusivity” rainbow capitalism is evident that the bourgeois factions are in fact okay with trump.
Think you're pretty spot on on the incoming techno-feudalism side of things. They think AI & robotics is gonna mean they don't need workers anymore and so they're setting up for their fiefdoms.
Owning everything's no fun if the peasants won't dance for your entertainment.
lol
https://nitter.net/Karl_Was_Right/status/1907603432795681271
They calculated “tariffs charged to the USA” by literally just dividing the trade deficit with imports. And then slapped 10% on everyone we have a surplus with
We’re ngmi
Genuinely think the intent is to make conditions so unbearable within the empire so he can round up the coming storm to push forward the most violent shit possible.
manufacturing bad conditions to manipulate the backlash is certainly an idea, i'm not sure it works when you scream from the rooftops that it's your project and what ever happens will be your fault.
there's no fallguy, there's no possible fallguy, he's branded the tarriffs as his idea from here to kingdom come. how could even the historically unintellectual yankee people possibly misdirect their ire?
"Transgender" stole our "tariff wealth" is literally what he already said.
~1% of the population, yet they're able to bring America to its knees. Hand the world to the Trans Illuminati, they've earned it.
to be fair, theres another 0.01% bringing the planet to its knees
It's me, transgender. I can confirm, I've been spending all the tariff wealth I stole on some good quality dope.
He'll just keep blaming the wokes and the transgenders and the illegal immigrants, and the hogs will keep eating it up.
I guess he could always try stabbed in the back? Say the tarrifs would have worked if geatures vaguely "they" hadn't interfered or refused to play ball or whatever with "they" being some group, a portion of corporations or a group of controlling interests in them slated for sidelining or just you know trans people and poc and stuff.
I was going to say maybe they have some trade that's done by people that live in a separate territory but no, they have zero imports or exports, they are mostly barren Antarctic islands.
I knew that globalised neoliberal oligopolistic capital was dead, I didn't know that it was this dead... There's no going back to the past, the powers that be tried to restore the neoliberal order after the 2008 financial crash, and ultimately failed. This is the end result.
to sum up: cooked
"Neoliberalism is finished, we are not going to go back to it, it's historically impossible..."
Then he goes onto explain why social democracy and Keynesism revival failed before it even happened (the failure of Sanders and Corbyn in 2016/2017). Working class was in a position of defeat, not victory, thus it was not on the agenda. Then the destruction of nations, particularly in Eastern Europe (happened with Ukraine).
Its hilarious to me that México and Canada dodged the tariffs but not the EU and Japan
Funniest one is that Mexico avoided it but JDPONDON hit the Zionist entity.
JDPON Don continues his Long March through the institutions of the imperialist beast, in service to the heroic global working classes!
SPY did a 3.5% drop in after hours trading, who's ready for Black Thursday?
We have to complete the interwar period part 2: US leadership is a bunch of dumbfucks. We already have global warming to replicate the Dust Bowl and runaway inflation with analogs to the Spanish Civil War. A stock market crash would be perfect! (งツ)ว
I'm seeing a lot of 10% countries there. Does anyone know what the 10% countries have in common that the others don't? I strongly doubt the "Tariffs Charged to the USA (including Currency Manipulation and Trade Barriers" is a real number. It seems more like an arbitrary number they've invented to justify going after some countries but not others. There must be a difference between the 10% countries and these other ones that they're focused on beyond this made up number they've invented.
Madagascar at 93% made up number, what's that about? Cambodia at 97% made up number, what's that about? Laos at 95% made up number...
Reads like a priority target list.
Can't wait until Trump dies choking on a fish filet and all the allied countries he alienated immediately come back into the fold as though nothing had ever happened.
Stuff like this makes me wonder if there's going to be a Business Plot to replace him with Vance.
reciprocal tariffs
So is the party line here that these are just a reaction to other countries' tariffs and that if those tariffs are removed the US ones will be too? I have no doubt that they're lying and calling things "tariffs" that really aren't that, but if that's the logic then this move makes marginally more sense.
edit: okay I saw the thing where they decided tariffs are when you have a trade deficit and that is fucking hilarious. Does Don really expect other countries to start buying American shit? Our stuff is obscenely overpriced at the global level! The only way that happens is if he intentionally weakens the dollar, and if he does that we can't import anything anymore.
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