Summary
A video of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins praising Trump’s new tariffs while standing beside a screen showing the Dow Jones down 1,200+ points has gone viral with 1.1 million views.
Trump’s tariffs target over 180 countries, with a 10% baseline on all imports and higher rates on key partners, including China (34%) and the EU (20%).
The administration claims the policy will boost U.S. manufacturing, but analysts warn of economic risks.
Rollins also faced questions over rising egg prices and unclear tariff impacts on food imports.
Let’s be real. We have people like my mother that will watch Fox News, totally ignore the window with stock prices and agree these will help farmers. There won’t be any ah, ha moment for her. 25 years of propaganda will not break her from the cult.
ignore the window with stock prices
The best part is she won’t even have to. Apparently, as of yesterday, it’s no longer even there.
I know this is petty, but I don’t care. Why is it that these people always have the most generic, first-gen AI created names and the most fucked up faces? I know fascism doesn’t inherently attract the best, brightest, and most interesting but come on. It’s like they just hit random on the Oblivion character creator and said “Brooke Rollins with the fivehead? Looks good to me!”
Bahahaah, I think some folk are sad about this article
Edit: Commenter was correct, darn. Replaced image where the needle was off the left side. It changes after voting.
Ground News (source rating)
I thought that was the meter’s default position before casting a vote, because that’s where I see the needle in every article of theirs.
It’s a terribly biased design and makes me question their reporting skills. Anyone knows if you have to show a default value it should be placed in a neutral position, otherwise you bias the poll/study/etc.
The default being all the way to the left isn’t good.
Probably more like right-wing astroturfing hitting every article with bots voting “unfair left leaning” the second an article publishes.
You’re right, damn I feel silly
This is a sale for them. While the upper and middle class has to sell, they’re making money on it by buying up companies for dirt cheap.
it was almost painful to watch the shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle
It was subtle, but the stock ticker listing of currency/USD to get a bunch of green triangles in there, and then the price of eggs using the red triangle to really throw the green=good/red=bad paradigm off was inspired, in a malicious and slimy sorta way.
CBC had similar graphics during the first round of response from Trudeau too and it was great
Context?
