We’ll just tariff the agriculture industry to bring us food and make mexico pay for it
That’s how it works right…?
Narrator: no one cared
Let it happen.
When the shortage of labour truly impacts the most basic sector, where first worlders don’t want to work, things will hurt.
Considering it’s the US we’re talking about, resorting to enprisoned population will be the first grab but I doubt the good honest citizen will want fellons doing service at their doorstep.
This is real.
It affects more than that. A friend of mine works for a small business, with immigrants. One does have a criminal conviction in his past, 50s, left gang life 2 decades ago to clean up his act and be there for his children. Likely gone after the orange potato is sworn in.
After analyzing the 20% increase to component costs due to tariffs and possibly having her work visa staff expelled, she told my friend to get a side job, because she wasn’t sure what was going to happen. That was last week.
This week I get a furious wall of text about imminent job loss because ALL orders from this small Business were put on hold “to wait and see”. There is a paycheck to paycheck factor with small businesses pushing to get ahead. They also lost production, materials, and savings when meth heads broke into the business, stole, and started a fire. Insurance, yes, but it still cut in. So cushion is gone.
So this week, it’s I can’t pay anyone if I have no orders for the next 2 months, so find a new job, I’m filing bankruptcy at the end of the month.
Immigration IS one piece of this puzzle. And now, people are losing their jobs, one small business is going bankrupt, and the orange potato isn’t even sworn in yet. All the ripple effect of anticipation.
Also, this business owner is Conservative. Not MAGA, there’s a difference. Fiscal conservative type, voted Kamala because it was in favor of her business. Tariffs and immigration were all the talk, I’m told, pre election.
Food production business btw. No farm fields, indoor production.
Normally I like collecting stories, but in less than a week it’s been pretty depressing fare.
Lololol. I can’t wait for strawberries to cost 30 bucks. Fuuuuucccckkkkkkkkkm
“Damn democrats”
votes for mechatrump
What will they do then? Vote for Thanos?
All the edgy memelord types I used to know who were arguing “actually Thanos’ plan makes a lot of sense” when those movies were new… they’re now all unrepetant, enthusiastic Trump supporters.
Yes. They literally would vote for Thanos.
At least thanos delays the problem he’s trying to fix, arguably better.
I find myself sympathizing more and more with Thanos this last week.
I mean he kinda had a point
Not really. It would just make it easier for rats to take over. Small animals would quickly get back to the old numbers, but bigger predators in the ecosystem might not recover. So if Thanos plan was for cockroaches and rats to rule the world, well then maybe.
To be fair, he would solve any housing crisis.