Trump - Unforeseen Consequences

[Sherlock Holmes]

A global economy of which we are currently the engine that drives it.

That's false, the US is just a cog in the larger machine, it is heavily dependent on imports.

Feel free to fuck around and find out.

I sure you'll find a terrific market for your BMWs in Paupal New Guinea and Micronesia.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Tariffs - like disinfectant - is a tool that Trump does not understand, his ideas and his ability to generate intelligent, creative ideas is exemplified by the debacle of injecting disinfectant, anyway you turds elected him, lets see your lives materially improve as a result.

 

[Missourian]

That's false, the US is just a cog in the larger machine, it is heavily dependent on imports.

Let's change that.

 

[big deluxe]

Are people still gullible enough to believe politician "promises?" Should we get a high school promise ring from them?

 

[Rawley]

Maybe you'd better stick to Arab hating and leave economics well alone.

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Source PBS

Woosh

 

[Rawley]

Why did Trump raise tariffs?

His previous tariffs that Biden and Harris kept? To mirror the tariffs others placed on US mfgr'ed goods. If you actually listened to him speak rather than the nonsense fed to you by your cult's media, you might have a bit more understanding.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Let's change that.

What? tell me what your envisaging here?

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

His previous tariffs that Biden and Harris kept? To mirror the tariffs others placed on US mfgr'ed goods. If you actually listened to him speak rather than the nonsense fed to you by your cult's media, you might have a bit more understanding.

Yawn...and why did he want to "mirror the tariffs others placed on US mfgr'ed goods"? what ultimate goal did he have?

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Now, Trump has said he plans to impose a 60% tax on goods from China and a 10% to 20% levy on all of the $3 trillion in foreign goods the U.S. imports annually. Such sweeping tariffs would reignite inflation, as they would mostly be paid by U.S. consumers, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned, offering a general view widely shared by other economists on both sides of the political aisle.

"A consistent theoretical and empirical finding in economics is that domestic consumers and domestic firms bear the burden of a tariff, not the foreign country," the nonpartisan Budget Lab at Yale University stated in an analysis published in mid-October.

Source: CBS News

The whole magic tariff potion is like disinfectant, Trump's snake oil, gets the gullible uneducated Neanderthals' all excited but not anyone with an IQ above that of a tortoise.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

As I said all along, if I was not living in the USA, I'd have been kind of hoping to see Trump win because it would be entertaining to watch him start to crack under pressure he was never exposed to while in office previously, other than Covid and while that was joke it only impacted us domestically.

The world he's coming into this time is very different and he has no skills to control things. As Ritter explains playing the tough guy won't do anything, Iran will not give a shit about Trump's wishes and nor will Putin.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

I have a recently dead car battery from my Jeep. I'm going to paste a print of an image of Trump fat face and take into the Tonto National Forest.

Then I'm going to load up my S&W Model 27 .357 Mag with some heavy hitting ammo and shoot the fuck out of the thing.

Might even film it and post for you dingbats.

 

[cnm]

We can just make it here.

Pay Americans to produce it.

And that's the point.

The point is you're not prepared to pay Americans to make it there. Note that just about all Trump's schlocky merch is made in China.

 

[initforme]

The point is you're not prepared to pay Americans to make it their. Note that just about all Trump's schlocky merch is made in China.

If it's made here the lowest wage here should double the German wage.

 

[Missourian]

The point is you're not prepared to pay Americans to make it their. Note that just about all Trump's schlocky merch is made in China.

We can pay now, or pay later in a declining standard of living.

We're already seeing the effects.

 

[initforme]

We can pay now, or pay later in a declining standard of living.

We're already seeing the effects.

If companies want to hedge on paying higher wages and benefits then by all means leave our shores.

 

[DonGlock26]

Trump has promised many things, all kinds of odd promises as if he had infinite power to do whatever he wants. That unrealistic attitude that excites the naive supporters (likely 99.99% of them) is what will lead to unforeseen consequences. It's too late now to do anything about this, it is just going to happen and unfold and have all sorts of complex ramifications, here's one:

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So anyone planning on buying a BMW after Trump does this, is going to be paying rather a lot more for it.

Futures Rise; Trump Bump Start Of Bull Run?

The major indexes jumped to highs as many stocks flash buys. Start of a new bull run?

www.investors.com

 

[cnm]

We can pay now, or pay later in a declining standard of living.

We're already seeing the effects.

Yeah. And Trump is still getting all his schlocky merch made in China.

 

[initforme]

We have to get away from the notion that paying workers here alot more than overseas workers is a bad thing. We don't need auto workers being paid $25 or something insulting like that.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Futures Rise; Trump Bump Start Of Bull Run?

The major indexes jumped to highs as many stocks flash buys. Start of a new bull run?

www.investors.com

Trump wants more tariffs (he's like a kid with a new toolbox) but that raises prices for consumers, any idea what they call that?

Yup, good boy, it's called inflation.

 

[OKTexas]

Trump has promised many things, all kinds of odd promises as if he had infinite power to do whatever he wants. That unrealistic attitude that excites the naive supporters (likely 99.99% of them) is what will lead to unforeseen consequences. It's too late now to do anything about this, it is just going to happen and unfold and have all sorts of complex ramifications, here's one:

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So anyone planning on buying a BMW after Trump does this, is going to be paying rather a lot more for it.

Poor thing, most of those companies have US assembly plants so they face no tariffs on the cars produced in those plants. In addition to the companies in the link provided, BMW has a plant in NC and Toyota has one plant in TX that I'm aware of.

https://www.cars.com/articles/which-foreign-owned-carmakers-build-the-most-in-america-1420663120583/

Plant Spartanburg

www.bmwgroup-werke.com

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