Luckily USA imports very little from China, so most people won’t even notice.
/s104%?
Is this the fucking Onion?!
It’s crazy,
But Trump is probably stupider than what the Onion was able to imagine!I read today that one of his secretaries said that China had miscalculated, because China exports roughly four times as much to the U.S. as the U.S. imports to China, and he said that that makes the U.S. a lot stronger than China, that it would give the U.S. a better bargaining position.
That’s like a wealthy family in a small town saying they can outlast the grocery store if the grocery store decides to stop selling food to you.
I mean, good luck with that…
The 4% is what really sends me. I understand it’s just coming from their new nonsensical 34% tariffs but just…you’re already doubling the cost wtf is the point of the extra 4%? Just go for a flashy round 100%, they can’t even be evil right!
Chat gpt said 104%, you’re gone get 104%
It should be on !nottheonion@lemmy.world
“haha take that” - donald trump, slamming his dick in the car door
according to stormy, its not long enough
“Masterful gambit sir!” — MAGAts
love this take
Mushroom
slamming his dick in the…
Burning deplorian truck’s “safety trunk door” on the Whitehouse lawn.
I thlammed my penith in the car door
Trump needs to go. How does this fast food and amphetamine monster keep limping along?
When the UK had a Prime Minister stupid enough to tank the economy like this, she was gone before you could eat a lettuce. But she only hurt her own country’s economy, while Trump is doing worldwide damage. The USA needs to step up and get rid of this hopeless leader.
The U.K.'s democracy is, unfortunately, several times more competently constructed than the U.S. democracy. Lizz Truss could be removed because there were avenues put in place to legally remove her from her position, there are no such avenues in the U.S. Here, the only way a sitting president can retire is via gunshot.
Sounds like America needs forced to have some democracy
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A fresh steaming cup or liber-tea!
Yeah, our “checks and balances” were designed poorly. The religious reverence placed on the constitution stopped it from evolving to be better. It needs a revamp on a major scale.
Our vote of no confidence is impeachment. Same problem in regards to the party selecting the party leader in the UK. You actually have to have MPs/senators that actually agree.
Until I see an impeachment actually result in the removal of a president, I don’t seriously believe it is a viable method. Trump has been impeached twice so far with no consequences, so forgive me for having zero confidence in the third time being the charm.
At this point the only way it’d be possible is if one party controlled both chambers of congress. The current MAGA bunch would impeach and convict the next dem president for putting ketchup on their hotdog before mustard.
Also Fox News was a direct response to Nixon so it would never happen again to a GOP president. They won.
Yeah the problem isn’t in our government structure, in this case, but in the republican cult of personality.
It sucks but the Republicans won a very narrow victory in the house senate and president. No matter what system you have, if it’s at all democratic that party makes all the decisions. The problem is there making the decision to standby and watch as a demented oaf flushes the country down the toilet
And what exactly are the consequences of impeachment?
It removes a sitting president without a gunshot?
Trump was already impeached twice. He was not removed from office. Try again.
I figured it was pretty obvious that I was talking about being convicted but don’t let me get in your way of being a smug pendant on the Internet, hoss.
there are other more unconventional methods. a sharp metal sword, a rope,etc.
I have a theory that evil people tend to live longer because they aren’t weighed down by empathy.
That’s a bingo. Empathy causes stress.
Republican support. That’s how.
I meant his heart, his liver, his physical health.
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Those maga hats are going to be expensive
So will those blasphemous grift-bibles. (I’m gonna guess they’re still sold?)
OK. So China is going to retaliate. Because they can. It’s kind of watching a 5 card stud game, and Trump is bluffing. And everyone knows it 🤣
I don’t know if americans themselves realise that their whole life revoles about shit they buy from china. But they will soon. When the garbage from temu is suddenly expensive garbage.
At this point I don’t think the Chinese need to retaliate. They could just say that they will and just wait for the US to put another bullet in their foot.
This is Trumps America shooting themselves in the foot with a cruise missile.
Nah, he’s run out of feet to shoot - next shot is aimed for the groin.
I do wish we could fast forward to the part where he Hitlers himself in a bunker.
All Trump understands is “winning” or “losing”. He doesn’t understand negotiations. He doesn’t understand politics. It’s WIN or nothing.
If you ain’t first you’re last
Sounds like his casinos. I would like to bet against the house.
104%?? Seriously? What’s next? 175% tariffs. Trump, you fucking idiot. The rest of the world doesn’t need you.
He’s going have the biggest, the greatest, the best tariffs.
they’re already screaming for 400% tariffs on china because republicans don’t give a fuck about the american people and the hurt they cause.
How does this work from an implementation perspective? Is there a field on whatever software that does import taxes that they can tweak? Or is it just backdated from the date of import, based on the invoice?
With that question alone you’ve already put more thought into this than the person declaring these brain-dead tariffs.
It’s not hard to put more thought into anything than most people.
Ain’t that the sad truth.
The sadder truth is that most of us are all most people.
Most people didn’t need to think about this that much. It’s the ones who do need to but don’t that are the problem.
I believe it’s paid as part of clearing customs. Since everything is in some capacity inspected (even if that just means checking the weight, container seals, and serial numbers in the freight container), that means there’s some record of what’s coming in and from where. At that point the importer pays customs the various fees and taxes before customs let’s them take the goods out of the port of entry.
The importer would mark it down as part of the taxes that they paid on their purchase, but it would largely only matter so that they can appropriately indicate what portion of the purchase price was taxes that have already been paid so they don’t double pay later.
Ngl, I did NOT have “rooting for the CCP” on my bingo card
Crazy, right? I mean, Xi is a massive piece of shit, but at least he has the ability to think and consider before acting.
One of the vanishingly few benefits of not being a democracy, is that the people just can’t just vote in an idiot. Of course, there are other avenues for an idiot to take over an authoritarian government (historically, usually by war or inheritance).
They’ll throw in a little Taiwan invasion for shits and giggles and fuck us on semiconductors too. And they’ll succeed, because Trump won’t lift a finger to defend Taiwan
At some point, prolonged US tariffs against Taiwan make rule by China and expulsion of US military assets there politically acceptable. Same argument applies to Japan and the Philippines.
Say bye bye to Nintendo switch 2 pre-order. I wonder what the gamers will do? This is gonna end very bad!
I think it’s mainly Vietnam tariffs that will hit the Switch 2 (Nintendo moved manufacturing their to minimise tariffs in the first place). But they are harsh enough in their own right.
But is the product being shipped from Vietnam to the US, or just built there?
Why not a 1000% felon 47?
What? I had a nap and Trump decided he liked tariffs and all but that he wasn’t tariffing hard enough so now he’s gonna double the price of all Chinese goods. Oh lawd. Guess I’m waiting a few years to build my next PC.
No way. You’ll totally be able to afford to get one tariff free from those new factories that are absolutely bigly being built right now in the great state of America.
Everything should be up and running in a week or so. They just fast tracked all the tool and die makers needed to help develop the machines needed to build your next generation silicon and mother boards, and those ram chip thingies. To avoid all the tariffs from China they’re mining rare earth on mars and conveyor belted back on to America in the frunk of the swastitrucks.
It’s everything computer.
Believe in Trump, he believes in you. Or not.
Most likely not. He doesn’t care about you. He only cares about charging the government insane amounts to his golf course so he can golf while messing up his presidential diapers and getting rich off your tax dollars while wearing pants pulled up to his orange cheetos nip nips.
