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Just when you think the idiocy couldn’t get worse.
Good luck America! It’s not a dust bowl this time. It’s an orange turd that’s gonna ruin you.
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Let’s just call it what it is: An embargo. It’s been an embargo for the last 200%.
I mean at some point the number doesn’t matter anymore as most trade will just stop.
Which is exactly what China said when they stopped at 125% and said they’re done playing stupid chicken and we can knock ourselves out raising them to eleventy bazillion percent.
The Chinese government has their own sins, behaving like petulant children isn’t one of them.
Make no mistake that China does act like a petulant child. Just not about this issue
China already said they wouldn’t raise tariffs anymore since they’re so high already it wouldn’t matter. That means the next step might be dumping US bonds now, which is a nuclear option.
In response to that, Trump, who is incapable of thinking of anything else just does this moronic tariff raise.
I’m an Australian who’s terrified of Trump giving us an “them or us” ultimatum.
I’m starting to think it’s likely, and soon.
Giving in to bullies just leads to more bullying.
Doesn’t seem to be a difficult choice. The US is preying on its closest allies, threatening to annex Canada, and Greenland. China is not.
Taiwan would like a word.
At least you will finally be free from the US yoke.
This week, China imposed more export controls on rare earths, which include materials used in high-tech products, aerospace manufacturing, and the defense sector.
And then Trump,
executive order signed by President Donald Trump that launched an investigation into the “national security risks posed by U.S. reliance on imported processed critical minerals and their derivative products.”
“There is no winner in tariff wars and trade wars, and China does not want to fight, but it is by no means afraid to fight.”
It’s not “China faces 245% tariff.”
It is, “America faces 245% tax increase.”
Tariffs aren’t paid by China. They are a tax on Americans.
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Or an American man married to a Chinese woman whose father is a shipping magnate.
Looking at you, Yertle.
His father in law is still alive?
According to wiki, yes.
Why don’t they just ban imports from China? Then China can ban imports from the U.S. Then the trade imbalance “problem” will be solved.
Master Negotiator at work, folks.
Trump’s and the Republicans are financial dumbasses and well American who voted for trump and didn’t vote because of reasons, well have the day you voted for you bunch of dicks.
Is there anyone brave enough to debate where they are for these tariffs against me?
Wut?
Just want to see someone defend them or try to defend them is all.
Man, you’re not gonna find many people defending Trump on Lemmy. Try Twitter if you’re looking for an argument.
There might be a few, but the best scenario is people can even see valid points they can use against real life Trump supporters or supporters on other platforms.
I’m your Huckleberry. What are we debating though?
Trumps tariffs
Okay, you start.
Well I had declared me being against them but I feel like you have waded into something that you might not have realised, so I am happy for you to take the position of against and I for if you prefer?
Sounds good. I am strongly against the United States issuing tariffs against it’s greatest trade partners, namely Canada and Mexico. Making trade more difficult with the nations closest neighbors will likely create long lasting distrust and may ultimately be damaging to average Americans, regardless of which way the economy swings.
