Tariffs Catch-All

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heelslegup said:
Given the influence of agricultuarla states in R party and the dependence of US agriculture on China importing key products, Trump will either have to cave to china or bail out US farmers (as he did last time)
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Trump is already taking about how Xi is a “smart guy” and he wants to make a deal. Trump will come off the Chinese tariffs, declare victory, and get back to suppressing citizens’ rights before you know it.
 
1moretimeagain said:
I feel a little bad for people in hollowed out towns that genuinely believed Trump was bringing their factories back, only to have him cater to the elites once again.
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I don't. FAFO they're the one's that voted him into office. Maybe they should have moved or retooled which putting Drumph back in office was a form retooling I suppose.
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Trump has spent every day for the past week bragging that he wasn't going to back down, instead it was (literally) the rest of the world who would back down. It's the whole "I'm the biggest bully on the block" bullshit that he always does. Once he realized that stock markets were really tanking (shocking, I know) and that even some Congressional Republicans and members of his own base were starting to turn on him he chickened out and backed down like he's done numerous times before. But he had to save face somehow so he kept the tariffs on China, at least for now. Others in his administration may have a plan, but he never does - it's all done on childish impulse and anger and resentment and whatever else is crossing his mind at the moment. And he's continuing to cause long-term damage to our reputation, no matter how this ends. And what's also worth remembering is that these tariffs are only one horrible thing out of a hundred or more that he's done since taking office. We'll now just move on to the next shitshow.
 
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1moretimeagain said:
I feel a little bad for people in hollowed out towns that genuinely believed Trump was bringing their factories back, only to have him cater to the elites once again.
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CNBC had an interview with the staunchly pro-Trump head of Apollo Global this morning. At one ppint he said: "Whatever you think of Inflational Recuction Act an CHIPS. plants are already umder construction." Oops :-) That is the way to create manuf jobs or just make those manuf indisties part of DOD and subsizized like defense firms are. Pentagao funding steel plannts, car assembly, and steeel plants!! Take some of the 4.5 trillion tax cut and do these or low interest loans..
 
SmilingJack said:
I don't. FAFO they're the one's that voted him into office. Maybe they should have moved or retooled which putting Drumph back in office was a form retooling I suppose.
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Not long after Trump was elected for the first time in 2016 there was an article by a reporter - I think it was on Politico - which went to a dying former steel and coal town in PA and interviewed people there about why they voted for Trump, or if they didn't support him why they thought people in their town did.

And one story that has always stuck with me came from a guy they interviewed who was the director of a federal program set up under Obama to help "displaced workers" whose industries had either moved overseas or become mostly obsolete receive training for another career. What the guy said was that relatively few people in town had taken advantage of the program, because they just wanted their old jobs in the factories or mines back and didn't want to learn anything new or start another career. And I think that accounts for much of his base's support of these tariffs - they are convinced that this is the gold ticket that will bring all of their old jobs back and revive their towns. And that's not going to happen for various reasons that have been mentioned here, but these people are simply fooling themselves, and all that's going to happen is that the prices they pay for the cheap crap they buy and live on at Walmart and Dollar General and similar places is likely to go up, maybe way up.
 
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You'd think that if 75 countries (or any countries, really) had reached out then Trump, given his passion for publicity and bragging, would shout the names of those countries from the rooftops. It's almost like his claim that 75 countries have reached out is fake and that no one is buckling under his demands. Nah, surely Dear Leader and his minions couldn't be lying through their teeth. It's not like they've ever lied about anything else, amiright?
 
Mulberry Heel said:
You'd think that if 75 countries (or any countries, really) had reached out then Trump, given his passion for publicity and bragging, would shout the names of those countries from the rooftops. It's almost like his claim that 75 countries have reached out is fake and that no one is buckling under his demands. Nah, surely Dear Leader and his minions couldn't be lying through their teeth. It's not like they've ever lied about anything else, amiright?
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nycfan said:


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“… After his reversal on social media, Mr. Trump’s team was put in the unenviable position of trying to spin the media that this was the plan all along, a brilliant strategy straight out of the pages of the president’s best-selling book, “The Art of the Deal.” Mr. Bessent went so far as to deny that the bond market had driven the change.

When Mr. Trump came out to explain his decision on Wednesday, however, he undercut both Mr. Bessent and Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, citing the jittery market and saying he was acting “instinctively, more than anything else.”

Many of Mr. Trump’s most senior advisers and officials were unaware of this major shift in policy until the last minute, because as recently as Wednesday morning Mr. Trump was still indicating he was sticking to his previous plan.

Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, only learned of Mr. Trump’s decision while defending the original tariffs before a House committee, a person familiar with the situation said. …”
 
nycfan said:
“… After his reversal on social media, Mr. Trump’s team was put in the unenviable position of trying to spin the media that this was the plan all along, a brilliant strategy straight out of the pages of the president’s best-selling book, “The Art of the Deal.” Mr. Bessent went so far as to deny that the bond market had driven the change.

When Mr. Trump came out to explain his decision on Wednesday, however, he undercut both Mr. Bessent and Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, citing the jittery market and saying he was acting “instinctively, more than anything else.”

Many of Mr. Trump’s most senior advisers and officials were unaware of this major shift in policy until the last minute, because as recently as Wednesday morning Mr. Trump was still indicating he was sticking to his previous plan.

Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, only learned of Mr. Trump’s decision while defending the original tariffs before a House committee, a person familiar with the situation said. …”
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“… But the real credit, Mr. Trump’s advisers admit privately, should go to the bond markets. Mr. Trump’s decision was driven by fear that his tariffs gamble could quickly turn into a financial crisis. And unlike the two previous crashes of the past 20 years — the global financial crisis of 2008 and the pandemic of 2020 — this crisis would have been directly attributable to only one man. …
 
Silence Dogood said:


And right on cue, many on this board were wrong. People were saying Trump is alienating our trade partners. Now our trade partners are looking to negotiate with us and China is the bad actor here, not Trump.
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NOPE. It was a BANK ROBBERY.

The FTC Chair stepped down in January and the Dem commissioners fired recently. How convenient.

Jr. got the message. Do you think Eric did? lol

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...tic-commissioners-ftc-sources-say-2025-03-18/

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5001864-fcc-chair-to-step-down-on-trumps-inauguration/

 
Healing said:
Just blatant. Teapot dome looks like tiddlywinks in comparison. But, alas, maga has decided it’s GREAT when billionaires and their patrons steal from the rest of us.
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Harding looks like a choirboy in comparison.

We elected a convicted felon and known crime family chief. This time without the Adults in the Room. What did we think was going to happen? lol
 
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