The mean girls oligarch shunning is actually kind of hilarious
But these tariff costs are going to be paid by China just like you promised, right Don ? RIGHT ???
Just like how Mexico paid for that wall the first time. Zzzzzz
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Try realistic
would be a great add-on for firefox, though
Incredibly hard to source that data from the outside. Even if you can identify the suppliers, different parts of an assembly may be classified differently, even between different importers who may have partial exemptions.
either way it would be free speech if an add-on or a website did it.
but those days are over.
I bet, yes, good point
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“Tariff GUESStimator for Amazon | Firefox”
Not that they’ll do this, but Amazon should maliciously comply and hide the tariff metadata in the HTML for the browser extensions.
Yes, keep making enemies of the billionaires that got this administration into office and spent millions of dollars to do so. I’d very much love that for you.
In the article, Amazon already back peddled and said it was just in the idea phase and they never really planned on implementing it.
The billionaires have thus far been too cheap to amass private armies to directly enforce their own will. Why, when you can lobby Congress for the price of a used Hyundai Sonata to get the Army to do what you want?
The government holds the power of violence and Trump holds the power of the government. The billionaires will be reminded of that if they get out of line. Coincidentally, this is the arrangement of modern Russia.
they have been too cheap thus far.
I’m pretty sure that Bezos had enough money to bribe moderate chunks of the army.
Personnel is one thing.
Modern warfighting is outrageously expensive. Guided munitions can cost hundreds of thousands each. Armored vehicles cost millions. Combat aircraft, tens of millions. And it continues to cost tons of money just to keep them in a bunker ready to go.
They will balk at the cost of owning/operating even a single Arleigh-Burke destroyer.
There is a reason they’re all too happy to keep letting you and me indirectly fund their military aspirations through taxes.
They will balk at the cost of owning/operating even a single Arleigh-Burke destroyer.
They don’t need one. They need a sniper.
this is part of why it’s important for everyone to pay attention to the asymmetric warfare being conducted in Ukraine. for one, it’s a genocide, don’t look away and speak for their liberation just like i hope everyone is speaking up for all colonized peoples, like Mayans, Darfurians, Congolese, Palestinians, and Uyghers. for another the skills demostrated may become necessary in the near future
You can have all the expensive equipment you want. They don’t have the numbers. When your enemies are all around you and this military historically fucking sucks at combating insurgency, you’re going to lose.
The military would be smart to tell this dude to pound sand before they, and a bunch of people die in a new civil war that they can’t win against the most armed civilian population on the planet.
Tell that to the Vietnamese 50 years ago, who defeated a technologically superior foe.
You are in agreement with the person you responded to.
I’m aware, I was stating my agreement…
He’s brought down Tesla (bankrupt in 2 years, MMW), and now Amazon. We shpuld start a betting pool for who-s next. META? Google? Microsoft?
None of those Mega Corps are going anywhere.
They have virtually unlimited wealth. Amazon makes most of it’s money off of their server business.
Tesla, on the other hand, has always been smoke and mirrors. Good riddance. If you have their stock, sell now.
He’s trying to kill all those US companies.
Wouldn’t that be wonderful? Those corporations are what helped this “voting” travesty into power.
Corporations don’t have peoples’ well being in their sights except as target practice.
Power to the people, not corporations.
Good thing this isn’t a country that came about because a bunch of rich white dudes got tired of being taxed and started a revolution.
That possibly reframing “no taxation without representation” a bit but I don’t entirely disagree with the sentiment.
They thought funding Trump would get them representation. They were wrong. Trump cares about no one but himself.
Why would they care about “Representation?”
They have more wealth than 1,000 people could ever spend in 1,000 lifetimes.
He backed down to keep profits from MAGA Cult Members flowing in.
Because being that greedy is a mental illness.
How are billionaires being taxed unfairly, and without “Representation,” when they own our politicians?
I don’t know, I don’t see anyone saying that here.
Yeah, you’re full of shit.
I really don’t understand the aggression, I was talking about the old rich dead people propaganda concerning no taxation without representation 200 years ago, I never said anything about the fuckwads we have today.
If you think I’m saying something different, explain what you read and allow me the opportunity to clarify my intent.
Saying I’m full of shit at this point is just asinine.
When elections are fraudulent, its the same as no representation. Besides, pretty soon they’ll be suspending elections altogether. It doesn’t get more “no representation” than that.
In the most literal sense we have representation, but it sure as hell doesn’t seem like it in practice… :(
Not anymore.
Watch the Republican Town Halls of the few who still have the courage, or narcissism, to hold, and even though they’re being booed down, they still have the arrogance to try the lecture their constituents.
I think they’re trying to instigate riots so they can declare Martial Law via The Insurrection Act.
Literal only in the terminological sense. We elect “representatives” but they don’t actually represent us in any meaningful way.
Don’t they? Look around you.
1/3 of us. 1/3 are in opposition. 1/3 is apathetic, thinking it doesn’t matter.
didn’t washington own like the western 2/3 of Pennsylvania?
And Ohio. He was by far the wealthiest man in the Colonies during his lifetime.
He was one of the richest Americans who ever lived. I don’t if that is still true, but it was at one time.
So, he could have paid other guys to fight the war and stayed home? Instead of being in the middle of the battles, and going cold and hungry in Valley Forge?
There’s a lot of bad things you can say about Washington but enough good to at least make him complicated. He chose to limit his own Presidency, the opposite of our wannabe Führer. for one.
Yes, he was filthy rich, not in liquidity, but in assets.
But yes, he was approached with the offer to be King of The Colonies, and he refused. We can admire that.
The modern technology of satelites, phones and such werent around back then, so any general wouldn’t be an effective one if they werent on the front lines with their soldiers.
Yes, he chose to join the battle and become a General rather than sit out the war at Monticello. It’s not like he was ambitious to become the leader of the new country. He felt a sense of responsibility.
Well, his wealth wasn’t exactly liquid, it was mostly tied up in wilderness land.
Fortunes in those days weren’t in bank accounts, or stocks, or index funds, etc. They tended to be tied up in assets like land, slaves, crops, etc., and cold hard cash/gold, stored in a box somewhere, like under the floor.
That’s the thing that was always gonna happen. They were always gonna bring themselves and subsequently society down. It’s just the crit multi of Donald Trump a lot of people seemed not prepared for.
Insane that the rich hate taxes so much, that they’re willing to put literal narcissist criminal idiots in charge thinking “I can definitely control and predict this guy’s behavior and surely that will be good for my business rather than just not having a 37th yacht and paying taxes and making the world an objectively better place not only for the other 7 billion inhabitants but probably more stable for my own interests as well.”
If we weren’t all being tossed into the furnace with them, it would be something I’d never stop laughing at.
That’s the crazy part, unless they’re “outlawed” billionaires should try and improve people’s lives since it means they would have more money to spend on the crap those billionaires are selling! It’s hard to sell stuff on Amazon if everyone is struggling to afford housing and food.
UPS just laid off 20K workers on the expectation that Amazon deliveries will be way down.
Container ships are down 60%. More than any month during the pandemic.
Trump is imploding the entire economy.
They truly believe in the Social Darwinist belief that no one is truly compassionate, empathetic, or altruistic. It’s just an act to gain attention, or an advantage.
They literally can’t understand it, and think it’s a stupid delusion. Their narcissism can’t comprehend that anyone would do anything without wanting something in return. And those who don’t believe that are stupid, and deserve to be exploited.
Because winners are winners, and losers and losers. It’s the natural order. EVERYONE is looking to take what’s yours, and will abuse, rob, and kill you if they can. Because that’s what they would do.
And then there’s the competition with other psychopaths in their peer group…
Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.
They could work to remove the destitution and desperation of working people. But if their workers weren’t in such dire straits, then they wouldn’t have so much power over them. Workers with good pay and a healthy work-life balance also have more time to pursue unionization and other political activities. Even if improving the lives of the people would objectively increase the wealth of the ultra-rich, it would still decrease their power. And ultimately, the only reason people ever obtain that level of wealth is because they desire power more than anything else. People who aren’t power-hungry monsters cash out and retire early long before they reach billionaire status.
Workers with good pay and a healthy work-life balance are unlikely to pursue unions. That’s the stuff unions are trying to achieve.
That level of greed is mental illness. A perpetual state of fear of losing what you have.
You have more than you can ever spend, ever, and you’re in constant fear that someone will take it from you. Because that’s would you do.
That’ll get the people grumbling.
Walmart should also do this.
Grocery stores too.
Well, it’s never going to happen in the first place
«Amazon moved to distance itself from the report, saying the idea had been considered by Amazon Haul, the company’s recently launched low-cost shopping hub, but had been rejected.
“The team that runs our ultra-low-cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products. This was never approved and is not going to happen,” said Tim Doyle, Amazon spokesperson."
Thoughts on how to make this happen:
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Ask your local cashiers and other store clerks how come the prices rose, and whether that really is all tariffs. Again and again. And ideally so that other shoppers overhear it.
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Make angry social media posts explicitly asking the same, explicitly tagging your local store and/or the chain to which they belong, and muse about looking into their competitors.
I get that you want to aggrieve the owners but that last • tactic feeds into Reichwingers absolving Trump. Asking in person, where they have a chance to say, “yes, see this here is the tariffs amount” puts the blame where it belongs (and can also bring price-gouging into the light, because for sure some will happen).
Gouging will happen in every industry, by every corporation. The only ones that might not are locally owned, which has been dwindling since at least the 90s.
It happened with covid, it happened with bird flu, and it’s about to happen the biggest ever with tariffs as the excuse.
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Wonder if Bezos will ask for his money back
I’m sure there is a newer version available; probably an Amazon off-brand even.
It seems he’s amping up his language. I think he recently said a former associate was guilty of treason.
Scary how that’s plausible, drowned out in the noise, and totally accepted as normal (or even cheered) by the public.
MAGAts are the ones that are hostile to our pocketbooks.
Bezos is to Trump as Trump is to Putin. IOW they each grovel and obey in the hopes their master will give even a slight positive acknowledgement, but it never happens.
“How dare you offer clarity about what we’ve done!”
Amazon .com denied a report on Tuesday that it planned to disclose the cost that U.S. tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump were adding to its products, after the White House blasted the initial story.
Seemingly because their stock price started to fall due to the Trump admin’s reaction. Which, what? Why would that negatively impact their stock?
You see Jeff, once you start groveling to the autocrat you are not allowed to stop.
“but all I wanted was an even more negative tax rate and to be able to fire workers for getting hurt on the job! I didn’t want the dictator to threaten me with the window treatment”
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say:–
"We invaded you last night–we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:–
"Though we know we should defeat you,
we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:–"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"- Rudyard Kipling
Bezos is a sniveling coward.
Maybe this will show him that you can’t buy Trumps loyalty because he has no loyalty. However, I have my doubts that even Trump going from going from “My good buddy Bezos” to “Amazon is the enemy” in the course of a day will be enough of a object lesson for Bozos.
He’s already backtracking.
I know, but but even so the whiplash move from “best buddy” to “enemies list” (and probably back again after this capitulation) should tell anyone who wants to ally with Trump what a futile of a move that is. It doesn’t matter how much you schmooze him, how give him, or how much he owes you; the moment you’re not useful to him Trump will throw you under the bus.
The dude looks like he keeps a half billion in cash on him at all times to try and buy his way out of the angry mob(s) that will eventually come for him… Because he’s that much of a doucher.
What’s really insane is that even with all his money, the best he can do for a wife is some kind of plastic surgery experiment that looks like it came out of the Tool Prison Sex music video.
Just so afraid of losing a small amount of the fortune he can’t spend in his lifetime, that he’s given up the true power that comes with that type of wealth. The power to help
Hey, talk for yourself, there are a lot of us who would love to be married to anything from a Tool video, and we don’t like being insulted
I would call this move by Amazon honest.
I thought the same but apparently Amazon back-tracked like the wimps they are. It would have been the right thing to do but the fact they gave up on it makes a lot more sense.
Nah, it’s pragmatic. This way Amazon can go, ‘see we didn’t raise OUR prices, the extra cost is from the tarrifs’.
If they wanted to be honest they would also mention that Bezos and Amazon donated millions (that we know of) to Trump’s campaign AND inauguration fund, and Trump is why we have the tariffs in the first place.
If you literally GIVE someone a gun, and bullets, knowing full well that they aren’t mentally stable, and they kill someone, you ARE responsible. At the very least, an accessory. In this case, co-conspirator is the more appropriate term.
“free speech”
Never ever take fascists at their word, they’re all bullshitting you always.
