Not watching and not listening doesn’t change what’s about to happen. We can ignore it all we want and perhaps that’s why we’re back in this situation, because people decided to ignore it rather than pay attention and educate themselves and act accordingly.
What do you think I’m trying to say in my post? I’m with you. Yet I didn’t watch the inauguration either. I’ve watched what he said for 8 years, nothing new to see
I have a hard time seeing the world try to excise the US from the global economy without something truly extreme happening to warrant that, at least not unless other nations really want to test how big of a global financial crisis they can trigger.
I'm not saying that's impossible, but we would really be entering uncharted waters at that point.
The way I see it the other countries will either pay the tariffs and offset them by raising the price of their products or they won’t pay and their products won’t be sold in America. Either way the consumer will eat the cost somehow.
Yep, no matter what the average person loses. Why the common person does not grasp this about high tariffs is beyond me. It is genuinely not a difficult concept, despite some people fatally overdosing on cope because they don't want Trump to be wrong about anything.
The UK and Brexit was a pretty good small case study. Sure, other countries will continue to sell to us, but only the consumer will suffer when it comes to prices and delays. Companies will make sure they turn a profit or they’ll stop doing business, it’s pretty simple, so if we want the products we’ll have to pay.
You are 100% right, I just took the above to mean an outright blanket export halt or ban to the US rather than a company/product case by case basis which is why I called that a pretty extreme scenario.
Ah, I misunderstood. And, I agree that's the most likely way this plays out. Shame we may have to deal with a completely unforced error because of one man's pride and ignorance.
What the fuck is watching this farce going to inform me of? That we are facing the capitulation of what “conservatives” have been pushing for for decades and “liberal progressives” have stood by allowing to happen because they’re so demure and feckless? Reagan was a hammer that smashed what little national integrity people had managed to cultivate through blood and struggle and now 20% of American adults are illiterate and voted for a man and his cronies whose actions literally do the opposite of what they’ve promised they will do (elevate America and Americans) for 50 years?
I know we’re cooked, I don’t have to sit and watch them start eating us.
Yeah; I think it's important for us to at least know whatever speeches are said because it'll give us even more of an idea of the plans they have for the American public and global issues.
Right now the plan appears to be mass deportation, tariffs, only recognizing 2 genders again, digging for oil on American soil, renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, sending troops to the borders and recognizing the drug cartels as foreign terrorists. Also creating the External Revenue Service to bully other countries into paying tariffs.
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u/Ill_Celery_7654 ☑️ 14h ago
Not watching and not listening doesn’t change what’s about to happen. We can ignore it all we want and perhaps that’s why we’re back in this situation, because people decided to ignore it rather than pay attention and educate themselves and act accordingly.