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[-] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 72 points 1 month ago

"In 2024, China was the top supplier of goods to the United States, accounting for 16.5 percent of total goods imports. U.S. goods imports from China totaled $438.9 billion."

lol that would be hilarious to see. If he manages to piss Mexico and Canada too (same numbers), the USA will import nothing in the next few years.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago

Yeah, our economy will collapse and we'll all be waiting in bread lines. Can't wait.

[-] yagurlreese@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

gotta love every one in the world laughing at us as we suffer at the hands of lunatics.

doi they understand WE didn't vote for this shit. big because of the stupid ass electorial college here we are.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

well, there was that 40% of shitheads who didn't bother at all.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

"I couldn't vote for genocide"

[-] coyootje@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Let's be real, Israel was gonna do whatever the fuck it wanted anyway. The ceasefire was bullshit and now people are so focused on the orange clowns bullshit that soon there won't be any Palestinians left.

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[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

doi they understand WE didn’t vote for this shit.

No, but you're the ones that have to fix it. We can't do it for you.

[-] ThisSeriesIsFalse@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

On the one hand, I want to have sympathy for the suffering of my American neighbours.

On the other hand, you dumbfucks let THAT guy get into power... TWICE! I'd be disappointed if it was just the once, but TWICE!? You people saw how bad it was the first time, and voted for another round. Hearts out to the people who are suffering, but clearly this is what the majority of you want, so I can't feel much sympathy anymore.

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[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

2/3 of the voting populace saw Trump next to Kamala and considered Kamala a bigger threat

So yeah, fuck it. Let the US feel pain.

[-] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

Nearly 90 million people didn’t vote in the 2024 USA election. If you don’t want to become an American, don’t act like one.

🇨🇦 ✊ 🇨🇦 GET OUT AND VOTE 🇨🇦 ✊ 🇨🇦

no excuses: https://www.elections.ca/home.aspx/

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

With "we didn't vote for it", do you mean you voted for Kamala Harris, or did you vote third party, or didn't you vote at all?

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

What would you have the rest of the world do? Thoughts and prayers?

[-] random_character_a@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Fat orange fuck will still be golfing and calling you a sad loser.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

There won't be much bread to wait for. The billionaires won't finance it, and the government won't have the resources anymore.

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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

the USA will import nothing in the next few years.

I don't think its going to take very long for tariffs to bite American consumers. A month ago I bought a $1000 technology item that is manufactured in China. I see that same item's price has raised to $1200 in the last week or so. This was an item ordered from online, so its possible they didn't have a large inventory onshore in the USA.

There are bricks and mortar retailers that have weeks or months of inventory warehoused in the USA just as part of their normal supply chain. However without replenishment, popular items will sell out and simply not be stocked again because the tariff affected margins will price out consumers for many of those goods. I'd say if these tariffs stay as they are (or get worse) our retailers are going to have lots of empty shelves in 3 months.

[-] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

We saw what happened with toilet paper in 2020 and said “wouldn’t it be great if everything could be like this? At least we wouldn’t have a black lady as President!”.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

We are so racist and sexist as a country that we couldn't stomach voting for a black woman to be president.

[-] Surp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Can you link the item I just wanna see it for myself so I can show idiot trumpers proof

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[-] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

He’s already pissed off Mexico and Canada. He’s pissed off most of the world.

[-] Tinks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's about to get absolutely stupid. Like I know everyone thinks things are bonkers now, but up until this week vendors I work with, that supply electronic equipment either partially or entirely manufactured in China, were still honoring quotes created weeks ago. This week we're being told that quotes we've had in the works for weeks or months are now likely going to be pulled and not honored, and that was BEFORE this additional increase. We're talking large spend that's likely going to be delayed indefinitely, which will almost certainly shrink the entire GDP and cause mass layoffs, and we'll be in a depression before we know it. I wish I was being hyperbolic, but I'm watching multi million dollar spends planned for the better part of a year evaporate because quotes won't be honored.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] shawn1122@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

USA turning itself into Cuba.

It takes a next level pants on head stupid to do this to yourself unprompted.

[-] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

It's not impossible though. It's like every country opened their eyes and said fuck it because Trump makes no exception in hating everyone.

I only know the USA from movies and TV, and the USA always got a free pass because they ruled the world, they are number 1, they have the best quality of life, and a lot of other lies that we kept telling ourselves because they were the good big brother that was, until recently, relatively "smart."

But Trump pissed every country on earth at the same time, and it's like we realized we were wrong since the 80s about everything that happened in and out of the USA.

It's good for me because we will be more self reliant without this erratic big brother. It's very bad because Russia won't be affected, Americans will be poorer, and China seems now to be the most "reliable" super power that can still make and sell everything. But countries getting back some of their Independence is always a nice thing. Millions will suffer though.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Personally i see this as a good thing for everyone else than the USA. Every other country can now explore other markets, buy and sell their products to countries that actually want their products and make money from deals they did not have previously.

The USA on the other hand, has shut the door to all markets, and lost any credibility that it may have had. Not only this, but the stability that it has lost will be tough to undo

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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 43 points 1 month ago

He doesn't realize that this is a war that can't win, right?

Maybe all China has to do is to threaten to kick out Tesla and give their gigafactory to byd. The real president is going to be really angry with the sockpuppet

[-] coyootje@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

I hope China claps back with an even higher percentage. See who folds first: the orange trash bag with a country full of people whining that they can't get their cheap Shein and Teemu slop anymore or the country that trade in mass volumes with the entire world and can probably easily trade anything bound for the US to other countries instead.

[-] Nighed@feddit.uk 13 points 1 month ago

They stop being effective. At 50% if there is another supplier they will be cheaper and get picked. If you set it to 100% or 200% it doesn't make much of a difference. Trade just stops between the countries unless there is only a single supplier for what you need.

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[-] shawn1122@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

Americans don't just buy Chinese products from Shein and Temu. They buy those products from Walmart, Target, Amazon and essentially every major US retailer.

The US is speedrunning ending their empire on the current trajectory. The world needs to call their bluff to put them in their place.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

He doesn’t realize that this is a war that can’t win, right?

He was never smart enough for that.

[-] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

Let's all unite together as one and put 1000% on America. This is the guy most Americans found best suited to steer the country!

[-] yagurlreese@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

no we didn't. they used anti voter legislation strategically planned over decades to eliminate voters. they are still doing this, just look into the SAVE act which will require people to now have their birth certificate or passport to vote... these if course are not common documents here as you have to pay for both, they can be pricey and time consuming to get.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

There’s no way this could go wrong twice, so what the heck, put it all on the green 00.

[-] Lembot_0001@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

Popcorn-time! Oh, no, that shit is American. Beer and sausages time!

I am ready to watch a disaster movie.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Nah, we have popcorn corn in Europe, too.

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 16 points 1 month ago

Trump really doesn't get it does he?

Like powerful people have been assassinated for less

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[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

That doomsday clock is a lot more quiet than I expected it to be.

[-] commander@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Hopefully they slap back with and then the EU responds is quick to respond to this recent April tariffs. Slap tariffs on US services

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

$2B/day huh?

So $7T wiped out of Americans savings will only take 3500 days to pay back. I guess they'll be writing cheques then?

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