• crystalmerchant@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      As I keep saying: It sounds like he thinks the word “tariff” just means “payment”. Then he follows that with “[whoever he thinks should make the payment]”. Tariff by Apple, Tariff by China, etc. Honestly. I don’t know how else you can make it make sense.

      https://lemmy.world/comment/17225002

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        1 year ago

        My supposition is that he’s a complete moron following advice from someone working off a protectionism 101 primer from 1834 who had Randian bullshit physically replace his brain to the point where they don’t do the rest of the steps to make the protectionism work because that’s the government doing stuff and therefore communism

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    1 year ago

    I thought communists were bad. Or is that what liberals think? Are Republicans okay with communists now? What’s even happening? 😂😂😂

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      1 year ago

      That’s his position this week. Who knows what it’ll be next week. It only takes one errant tweet for him to turn on you.

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    1 year ago

    Hasn’t really been large engines in a decade now. All new stuff has boring ass tiny engines with turbos

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      SUVs have never really had a good engine to weight ratio.
      The first batches of Ford Explorer have a V6 that frankly cannot handle mountain highways because of the thing’s weight.

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    1 year ago

    Is he aware that us car manufacturing has been decimated by china?

    Why would they buy us suv, when china is right there and they can buy straight from the factory?

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    “Thank you for your attention to this matter” is a phrase stolen from fifth-rate middle-management corporate power wannabes. We are not his employees and do not work for him. I’d believe him more if he ended his endless emails with “…and always remember. Fuck You”.

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    1 year ago

    transshipping

    Did that MAGGOT just say the Bad Bad trans word? How the fuck are his removed followers not trying to Hang him yet?

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    1 year ago

    Why would Vietnam be paying the tariff on Vietnamese goods going into the US? I swear the definition of a tariff changes every time I see it mentioned.

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      He’s always said that tariffs are paid by the exporting country to the importing country. He’s wrong of course, but at least he’s consistent.

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        It’s not wrong, it’s a lie. He does absolutely know how tariffs work, but he also knows that most Americans don’t, I can promise you, if you ask a dozen random strangers who pays the tariffs, you will end up hearing the presidents words.

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      1 year ago

      Trumponomics makes all this tricky math and policy shit so easy to understand!

      “They pay, so they lose, which means we win.”*

      * Disclaimer: They never pay. It’s always us.

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    1 year ago

    It is my great honour to announce that I have made a trade deal with the round device on the wall. I bet the batteries, for free and it will correctly tell the time twice a day.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    “we will give you paying us taxes and in exchange we can ravage your economy”

    this is a caricature of a caricature of itself. its kind of funny that the literal president of the united states is saying shit like this.

    this just cannot be true.

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    It would be delusional for any US car company to invest in dealership/repair network for Vietnam. China is next door to them, and they have good trade relations with them. Better value cars, and they also make high end SUVs.

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    Decouple from this idiotic country’s economy. It’s going to take a while but we all have to do it. Too much risk of stupidity spreading.