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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28194139

Donald Trump and White House officials walked back a Friday announcement that there would be tariff exemptions on imported electronics.

In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump directly denied the tariff exemption announcement.

“This is really mind-boggling. If this was serious industrial policy, the main thing you want is certainty: ‘Here’s the tariff, it will be in place for the indefinite future, and you should plan accordingly,’” Dean Baker, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a left-leaning think tank, said, according to The Washington Post. “Here, it’s basically: ‘Come back next week and see what we’ve got.’ That’s no way to run an economy.”

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[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 168 points 1 week ago

The good thing is that there’s a steady hand on the wheel exercising unprecedented levels of power. He clearly has a plan to do things, undo them, redo them, undo them again, etc. according to a clearly defined plan.

Imagine if the guy claiming dictatorial powers was just winging it from one moment to the next. What a nightmare scenario that would be.

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 56 points 1 week ago

The fart of the seal 🦭💨

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

We should make this emoji combo a thing, it's beautiful in it's simplicity. I, for one, will be using it more often.

[-] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago
[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Everytime I see Donald Trump's picture, I make farts noises like he shitting his pants on purpose.

MOAR PLEASE

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[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

a clearly defined plan

I believe it was a concept of a plan

[-] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I'd be okay with going back to a concept of a plan.

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[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 88 points 1 week ago

He puts the "if" in tariff.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 53 points 1 week ago
[-] DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Maybe the con in panopticon?

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago

Feels like the trade policy of the United States is entirely made up by four guys in a room. That's the wrong way to do politics.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 31 points 1 week ago

One of whom is inside-trading prior to each announcement.

[-] breakingcups@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago
[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

That's far too generous. It's one guy on a toilet with a phone.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

It isn't the work of one man or even five or six .... it's an entire political party and all their wealthy backers and supporters who are financing this circus that are either working at this, supporting it, enabling it or just standing aside and doing nothing to stop it.

Stop thinking that this is the work of one powerful person .... it's all enabled by an entire community of idiots that want all of this.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I didn't say that it wasn't. I said what it feels like. I don't want any politics to feel that way. It should feel like there's an entire organized plan behind it, but it feels like it's just some people throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks, which in itself is pretty shit.

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago

Now I understand what trump meant that tariffs would make child daycare easier. Because if everyone is unemployed then they have more time to watch their kids

[-] uuldika@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

we're so past 5D chess that we've hit the Curse of Dimensionality..

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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 week ago

At this rate, by next week Howard Lutnick will be reading Reddit's Wallstreetbets sub for advice on how to run the economy. The utter stupidity and incompetence are off the charts this month.

[-] carrion0409@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago

There's been rumblings of an impeachment attempt possibly happening because of these tariffs but I don't trust the rumors. If Trump actually manages to get impeached over this or something else then I will eat my shoes. Feel free to screen shot to hold me accountable.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 28 points 1 week ago

He's already been impeached twice. A conviction from this Senate will never happen. They'd need every Democrat, the two independents, and would need to get 20 Republican senators to vote to convict. One or two I can see happening, but 20? Never.

[-] carrion0409@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

That's why I said I'll eat my shoes if it happens. Because I don't think it's gonna happen.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

Or maybe you just want an excuse to eat shoes.

[-] carrion0409@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago
[-] Lifekraft@jlai.lu 6 points 1 week ago

Realistically how you would do ? You have leather one ? Would you boil them and add some gravy or seasonning ? Or just raw dog it and whatever ? It would be probably extra toxic in general with the amount of plastic.

[-] carrion0409@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I'm just gonna raw dog it ngl. I'm built different

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[-] gothic_lemons@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

What type of shoe? If you're not gonna eat it can I have it as a birthday present to my dog?

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[-] trogon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

The GOP will never vote to impeach him. They're cowards who are terrified of MAGAts.

[-] carrion0409@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah that's why I dont trust it. Our realistic best bet at getting rid of him would be when he collapses the economy and chaos erupts. Hopefully whoever our FDR 2 ends up being (if we get one ) could rally the troops and we could have a disturbed land of confusion moment lol. That song and video has been in my head alot lately.

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[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago

We have always had a tarrif on ~~eurasia~~ electronics

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 1 week ago

No! It's Eastasia. I mean smartphones!

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 week ago

Once again there are choosing the course of action that sabotages their power the most.

If they want to move investors, they have to change the rules once in a consistent way that looks stable, and convince them that an investment will have time to pay off in the new environment. By changing the environment constantly and in contradictory ways they make that impossible.

Instability is the plan

[-] besselj@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago
[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago
[-] GargledBalls@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The opposite of the infinity chancla

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

Yeah.thisnisnboth incompetence and public Insider trading. They're not even trying to hide it

[-] kubica@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago

Apparently they are using the unplug "technique" that musk used at twitter.

[-] carrion0409@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Bonds are gonna crash and we'll do this all again tomorrow.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I bet all those manufacturers that decided in the 3 days that the tariffs were active on electronics to move all their operations and build new factories to America are happy that their decision was the right one after all.

The rules will surely not be changed again.

[-] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Apple supposedly flew 500 tons of new phones from China to import them before the tariffs came in last tuesday lol

I honestly can't get enough of it. All these shitty business owners are finally getting fucked over by their special baby and he's breaking their backs lmaoo

we'll beat the tariffs, I'll bring my inventory over before they go into effect

spends exorbitant fees filling planes full of phones

tariffs are suspended

(ノ゜ο゜)ノ

tariffs are suspended

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Tariffs came in last Tuesday, were removed on Friday, came back on Sunday. I expect Tim Apple is loving the daily surprises.

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[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

No take backs on a triple dog dare. Everybody knows that.

[-] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Snip snap snip snap snip snap!

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

That bit has been stuck in my head for a minute now, with all these re-reversals.

Do you have any idea the toll this takes on the economy?

[-] AizawaC47@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Did Muck and Zuckidiot had a meeting with the orange men begging him to not put tariffs? What about Cook? Oh my oh my, smells like market manipulation and Bribery 1 on 1. Very incentive indeed.

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

MAGAt mayhem that is what they do best.

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