Yup, and when the tariffs go away, they’ll keep the higher prices and pocket the difference.
Wouldn’t it be more news worthy if they were not?
Unfortunately, a lot of people actually believe the Chomo-In-Chief’s bullshit and truly thought that other countries were paying the tariffs.
The very same rocket surgeons thought that Project 2025 was a “Democratic hoax” or a “blue maga conspiracy theory”, too…not the sharpest bulbs, as Taco would say.
why hasn’t anyone told about this???
Retailers wanted to put a line item on the receipts calling out the tariff costs and Trump threatened to sue them.
same story with Amazon too, initially there was a note detailing the extra cost of tariffs. needless to say Trump started hurling threats, flailing his arms, crying and shouting.
Shocked Pikachu meme
It’s going to be super frustrating when a court suddenly decides in a couple of years that actually these tariffs were illegal all along and the federal government has to give the money back to the businesses and they just pocket all this money
when a court suddenly decides in a couple of years
Good start
that actually these tariffs were illegal all along
We hope
and the federal government has to give the money back
I don’t think that can happen, but it would be nice down the line to-
to the businesses and they just pocket all this money
GOD DAMN IT
You know it’s true. Why would trump push them if it wasn’t some scam? Guys birthday was sponsored by a Bitcoin scammer
Who could ever have foreseen something like this happening? Certainly, not I.
Is this not C/leopardatemyface?
I want to say “no shit” but then I remember the average American.
And somehow, they’re still making record profits!
This is why you don’t fuck around and abstain from voting or shit on your vote and throw it in the trash with a non-viable 3rd party.
Because then conservatives gain control and trash our economy (again) and, oh yeah, bring fascism to America.
Or maybe we should blame the Republicans for electing republicans? You know, the ones who caused this?
Why not both? Republicans lock the fuck in when it comes to voting in just enough locations to flip seats. They turn out to vote in the necessary areas, where democrats don’t.
I might not be able to change any republican’s mind by telling them they are stupid as hell for voting the way they do (or give them facts that they would just ignore), but I can show up and encourage all my friends and family to vote against a fascist in our red district.
Because @DarkFuture@lemmy.world argues in bad faith and never blames both.
Question.
Are you fucking stupid?
How do I “never” blame both?
I’m anti-conservative as fuck and you can see that in my comments.
There are no conservatives on Lemmy. Even the conservative sub is anti-conservative because we ran them out of that sub. And if there were, they’re fucking cultists. Me calling them out isn’t going to do anything. There’s no point in directing any blame towards any specific conservative, because they don’t fucking care.
So I’m going to continue calling out the fools that didn’t vote or voted 3rd party because they’re potentially redeemable.
Yes, I am the one who looks “fucking stupid” here.
You are, really. At least to me. How did Trump fucking running for president again not motivate Democrats to vote? Fucking stupid. Republicans are morons but damn, what a fuck up.
Yeah. Sure. Blame them. They’re felon rapist pedo supporters. I guarantee they don’t care. They’re lost causes. They’re traitors to our nation. They have no shame, so blaming them doesn’t do anything. You’re literally just shouting into the wind.
So I’m going to speak to the people who aren’t lost causes.
NO 3rd PARTY IS VIABLE AND NO 3rd PARTY IS TRYING TO BE
Our nation just got a crystal clear lesson in what happens when you don’t vote or vote for a non-viable 3rd party.
Fascism. Fascism happens.
None of this crazy ass wild shit was happening when Dems were in control before January.
If you want to vote 3rd party, do it in local elections, not federal elections. It makes literally no sense to do so in federal elections. No 3rd party is putting in the work to become viable. The most popular 3rd party candidate shows up right before every election, loses, then disappears again. And she only got half of a single percent of the total votes cast.
A 3rd party president is not happening anytime soon, and probably not in our lifetimes.
So if you don’t particularly like Dems either, how about you just vote AGAINST fascism?
I don’t care about your feelings. I don’t care about your ideals. Those don’t mean anything when fascists take control. Do the intelligent thing and vote for a party that isn’t bringing fascism to America and then reform it by voting out the members of that party that won’t get onboard with progressive policies. Conservatives just reformed their party (into a fascist party) over the last decade or so. It’s proof that parties can be reformed. And it’s not the first time in American history.
Something I’ve wanted to convince people is that the Democrats take on a very modest role: Their job is to be slightly better than the other party; while taking money from rich donors.
When so many millions of Americans are actively okay with the Republican party being many levels of hell beyond “Dogshit terrible”, then yeah, the Democrats have an extremely low bar to clear.
The ones who sat on their ass on election day have a part to play. Trump voter numbers were practically the same as 2020 but democrat votes plummeted
Not blaming anyone but Republicans but come on.
And why does that mean we shouldn’t blame all the people who did vote for him still?
Blaming them means nothing. They know what he is. Believe me, I work with a bunch of trumpers
You’ve learned nothing since the election. Fuck your grocery bill, you deserve it for being okay with the other non viable genocidal candidate.
It’s those principled citizens who don’t deserve it, and they’re the ones that will be on the front lines when it comes down to it, you’ll just continue barking at them and when you experience the effects of civil war for the first time, you’ll respond the same way: you’ll blame those who actually resisted and fought back for starting a war, instead of voting for Newsom or whoever the fuck Democrat you think will save this collapsing empire.
Read some books. Start with
Manufacturing Consentand theOrientalism, but you’ll need some capacity for empathy towards people outside your country first.Don’t worry guys, things under Kamala would be just as bad! Someone on the internet told me so!
No, you’re letting “perfect” get in the way of “not letting shit continue to backslide.” You sound like a college sophomore who just got their hands on Chomsky for the first time and thinks they’ve figured out how to fix the world for real this time, we just need people to stop being shitty towards one another in order for my new socioeconomic system to work, come on guys stop laughing I know it hasn’t worked in the past but that’s because they didn’t do it right.
We have a sinking ship. One side is eagerly and vigorously drilling more holes in the hull. The other side is trying to bale water and patch holes with the minimal tools that they have access to. And then there’s you, screeching that since the balers didn’t keep your pant hems from getting soggy, we need to hand more drills to the drillers.
There’s an old joke: Jill Stein is trapped in a room. She has a gun with three bullets loaded. Beside her stands a democrat, a fascist, an anarchist, and Karl Marx. What does she do? She hands the gun to the fascist.
Nice baseless and completely inaccurate strawman you made there.
“not letting shit continue to backslide.”
That’s Kamala? That’s promising the most lethal military to a crowd demanding the end of genocide? That’s not letting shit continue to backslide?
Jill Stein is trapped in a room. She has a gun with three bullets loaded. Beside her stands a democrat, a fascist, an anarchist, and Karl Marx. What does she do? She hands the gun to the fascist.
I didn’t vote for Jill Stein. The lack of another viable candidate isn’t reason to vote the way you did. Dice it however you want, you didn’t vote for imperfect, you voted explicitly in support of genocide.
What you should have done, what the country still fails to recognize, is demand a viable candidate, or (at this point both parties are so complicity there is no other option) revolt. But that’s too uncomfortable, and it’s still only brown people getting slaughtered and rounded up for death camps domestically, so you’ll sit on your ass watching TV until you’re tired every night instead of revolting.
When they finally come for you, they’ll be no one left to fight with you, and you’ll have complete deserved it, you spent your time blaming people who tried to fight back. Go ahead, become a Newsom cheerleader for a few more years, that’ll save the country.
Brain rot.
Downvote and run away. I bet you still have Netflix and Disney plus and Amazon prime or some other combination of life comforts you won’t give up as you complain about those who opposed genocide. You’re bad people and you should feel bad.
Well yeah. Tariffs are taxes and I told people last year I need to save up for the trump tax and most people shrugged it off or gave me a hard time.
I work with international sales, tariffs are my job. But as we know, people don’t like facts or reality.
And let’s not forget the “Look, the tariffs are adding 10% already… what’s an extra 5% on top of that?” tax.
Now they should put up signs next to the prices showing how much of the raise is due to Trumps tariffs.
Gosh, I thought they were just going to eat the costs, because Taco hereby ordered it.
No shit
But it’s fine, because Cracker Barrel changed their logo back.
That whole thing was so stupid. A bunch of folks hated it because they thought it was woke. A bunch more folks didn’t give the slightest shit but thought it was a terrible rebrand. Even more folks said “Wait, they’re still in business?”
I was definitely in the last of those three categories.
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Well yes. A logo change is very explicitly a marketing stunt to get people paying attention to you.
