You didn’t miss anything, you’re just getting what you voted for.
Did I miss something?
Jesus fucking Christ yes
Nooo, not the fascist i’m voting for… There must be something else i’m missing
Yes you did miss something you missed voting for someone that did not champagne on Tariffs.
did not champagne on Tariffs.
Best I can do is Miller High Life.
The campaign of beers!
😂🍻
This went full circle very efficiently. Well done.
It’s only just begun. Wait until there are empty shelves at Wal-Mart. MAGA is going to have to work overtime to blame it on Biden.
walmart, the magats go-to for stores.
The local shipping port was empty yesterday. The last time I saw it that empty was during covid. It is genuinely frightening.
Hehe but there’s no freight.
It’s not hard work. They just blame Biden. When you’re lying, and everyone knows you’re lying, then there’s no reason to put effort into the lie.
Blame Canada you say? Oh my god…South Park Movie predicted this…
“We must blame them and cause a fuss before somebody thinks of blaming us”
“it’s not even a real country anywaaayyy.”
“Shut your fucking face, uncle fucker”
Hunter Biden’s laptop and Hillary Clinton’s emails
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!
The working overtime part is just so they can continue to feed themselves while they blame Biden.
Doesn’t matter who they blame… blame won’t fill the shelves.
Others were posting about possible workarounds, including the idea that perhaps Americans could get things shipped to a third country with lower tariffs as a go-between so that the goods didn’t appear like they were actually coming from China.
Truly maximizing global shipping efficiency…
Sadly and logically, this is transshipment and if done to evade taxes by obfuscating place of origin, it is illegal. From what I heard, US customs does investigate that too, so it’s not just an “illegal in theory but nobody enforces it” kind of thing.
The US really likes to shit on the trans community eh?
Considering all of the other agencies that have had funding and staff cut, how equipped is customs right now?
If it means collecting more taxes and finding new excuses to send minorities to the El Salvador concentration camp, it will magically find funding before next week.
I’m pretty sure that the jackbooted thugs are the one part of the government that isn’t getting cut.
dint the trump admin said something about that already, trying to bypass and they will know where its come from.
I guess Democracy is allowing voters to shoot themselves in the foot an then letting them wonder what happened.
“I haven’t been keeping up with news or what’s going on!!! I have been ordering a lot this past month for my daughters wedding… did I miss something???”
I mean Jesus TapDancing Christ. You’ve not been aware of who the president is and what he is doing??? It’s not like tariffs haven’t been in the news at all. They (along with illegal renditions and other attacks on civil liberties) have been dominating the news cycles since January. I have never been one to ignore news, so even if quite busy with something in life I read headlines at the very least. It confounds me to know some folks ignore news willfully. Some even think of it like it’s some twisted badge of honor.
I know head-in-sand people exist, but I am dismayed, baffled and extremely disappointed that they still behave the same when the house is burning down around them. Especially when this ignorance is obviously present in a large block of people in the US.
Please wake the hell up everyone, the house is on fire! (I know I am preaching [venting] to the choir in this venue.)I’ve tried to severely limit my intake since the election and just taken in enough info to have a foundation for context, I don’t need to see 400 alliterations of some doom and gloom headline, but yes, even in this fairly limited scope I’m WELL aware of the tariffs. It’s absolutely willful to be this tuned out
Completely understandable to limit info for mental health reasons and I sometimes feel the same. This isn’t that obviously.
“Oh I don’t pay attention to politics.”
Guess what, politics pays fucking attention to you
politics pays fucking attention to you
What was that bullshit propaganda catch-phrase the right-wingers were spewing a while back, to bitch and moan that their abhorrent “values” of bigotry and hate were “under attack?” Oh yeah: “You Will Be Made to Care.”
As always, yet fucking again, it was pure projection.
i hope every fucking 3rd party voter has to choose between rent and eating along with all the pridefully ignorant bumblefuck maga knuckledraggers
“I know I support the murder of you and your people. But I’m still going to need you to vote for me, so that I can preserve democracy and the economy. You may not live to see it, but the rest of us will really appreciate it.”
Gonna be honest with you. I care way more about the nation I live in and its democracy and my human rights and the human rights of the ones I love than I do about two nations on the other side of the planet continuing a fucking holy war that’s been going on all my life.
Apparently you do not.
P.S. Gaza is worse off under Trump. And he made it clear that would be the case before the election.
I know some choices are hard, but my parents aren’t around to make them for me anymore, and voting takes so much effort. It doesn’t really matter anyway, both sides are exactly the same. I’ll just not vote and whomever wins, wins. This is America, I’ve got inalienable rights, so it won’t get that bad.
I learned inalienable rights weren’t inalienable when I got my first history lesson in 1st grade.
LOL i love how the “vOtE 3rD pArTy!!!” chuds have literally nothing to say anymore–can only downvote.
It’s equal parts hilarious and crushingly depressing. Every time I call out dipshit losers who didn’t vote or voted 3rd party, I get a slew of downvotes from said losers, but never a reply. They know they’re world class idiots, so all they can really do is downvote you.
Thing is, they’ll do the same thing again next time around because they’re not very smart and honestly believe “voting with their conscience” is more intelligent than voting for the candidate CLOSEST to their ideals that can ACTUALLY win, and, in some cases, prevent a MOTHERFUCKING AUTHORITARIAN from assuming power and crashing our economy and shitting on our Constitution, among other things.
Fun Fact: The 3rd party candidate with the most votes was magician Jill Stein, who magically appears right before every election, then magically disappears again afterward. She managed to nab a whole HALF OF A SINGLE PERCENT of the total votes cast. So there’s your proof that anyone voting 3rd party is a goddamn idiot.
I’ll say this once for those in the back. A 3rd party candidate cannot win, because no 3rd party has put in the work to get representatives elected in local/state elections, so they could eventually have ANY PRESENCE AT ALL in the House and Senate, so they’d actually have a chance to win a presidency. Lol, even if they somehow magically got a president in office, they would have NO ALLIES in either chamber of Congress to help them achieve their agenda.
Downvote me. They usually hurt my feelings, but the ones I get from dipshit loser non-voters and 3rd party voters enhance my libido.
10 years ago i was a lot dumber. i’m the first to admit: i voted jill stein because i didn’t care for hillary, but she was going to win. trump was a laughingstock joke even back then, and the polls and the hype around hillary bamboozled me. not that my vote would have changed it, but clearly a lot of people thought the same
that’s when i learned my fucking lesson about voting 3rd party. never. again.
Last week, Trump went so far as to claim that Chinese President Xi Jinping had called the White House to negotiate a deal, another claim that Chinese officials deny.
How hard would it be to prank him by spoofing caller ID and pretending to be Xi?
You don’t have to spoof it. The fucking idiot answers unknown numbers.
“We’ve been trying to reach you about your clown-cars extended warranty”
A Lemmy post about an article about a Reddit post. The internet feels more and more incestuous every day.
I responded to a question on Reddit that I am knowledgeable of to make an educated guess. Then, it turns out OP is a journalist and asked me if he could quote me. But I declined because even though I know the topic well enough, I am not an expert and don’t have the credentials to show for. I mean, I could have allowed OP to quote me and feed my ego, but I don’t want to sow misinformation if I am wrong. And besides, being quoted with my then strange username will make the article strange.
Yeah, journalism is getting lazier and lazier.
I realized journalism was truly dead a few years back when I noticed that most news articles online are just a bunch of Twitter posts talking about the headline. I fantasize about writing a movie where Edward R. Murrow comes back from the dead as a demon and just goes around slaughtering lazy journalists, which forces other journalists to actually do their fucking jobs.
BREAKING! Doctor_Satan says he wants to go around slaughtering journalists because quote: They actually don’t do their (censored) jobs.
just a bunch of Twitter posts talking about the headline
Combine that with the dead internet theory and you’ve got yourself a corporate owned propaganda machine on all fronts
Yeah now it’s all written by AI, sourcing their info from Twitter and Reddit posts that were also written by AI.
Make it into a comic. It could be the next “V for Vendetta” or “Akumetsu”, but for journalism.
Journalism is dead because Sinclair has been gobbling up local news.
Check to see who your local news outlet is - several of mine are owned by like Missouri’s retirement fund or something.
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Thanks for that, really interesting article.
100% guaranteed these people are of two kinds: Trump voters and Conservative Libertarians
One mistake Temu is making is showing it as “Import fees”. That’s correct of course, but they should label it specifically as “Import tariffs” or “Tariffs”, so that it’s clear what this is. From the comments in the linked reddit threads, a lot of people just think they’re extra fees Temu is voluntarily putting on as retaliation, their brains still aren’t making the link between “import fees” and “trump’s tariffs on China”.
There are some brave businesses around here that have started posting signs.
“Due to tariffs, we’ve had to raise our prices.”
I’m in the Deep South, I bet by end of week I see a place charging “Fuck China” surcharges.
Definitely needs to be “Trump’s tariff” to be clear.
Trump Tariff Tax would be even better.
This has abbreviation potential. “Have you paid the TTT on this?”.
Did you stutter?
Yeah maybe when spoken aloud we can use “triple T” instead haha.
Digikey an electronics parts site has it listed on their stuff now.
import tax
“Trump Tariff”
Wait until you see the price of groceries in a few short weeks because no one is around to do the processing. Fuck toilet paper shortages and being locked in your home all day because complete incompetence, we had to go for round two of how Trump is going to tap dance around super hard stuff.
Okay Republicans. Do something other than screaming about it’s all unfair. Do something other than pointing at people and screaming hate. Do something or this thing you have complete control of isn’t going to have food in about three months.
Every time Republicans have had control in my lifetime they have fucked up the economy and made life harder for Americans.
The fact that Americans keep electing them is proof that this country is in steep decline and will continue to be so.
“we’ve shut down the entire mechanism of government and it’s still not working and we’re all out of ideas!”
“ok, time to blame our shocking lack of incompetence on a vulnerable group we can stoke xenophobia against!”
Yeah chief, there was an election last November. Should have been paying attention.
