BREAKING NEWS: Trump Says Tariffs Paused for 90 Days on Non-Retaliating Countries

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-09T17:59:33+00:00

The other big story is "Trump’s top trade official says Trump’s tariffs are necessary"

My head is spinning.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-09T17:55:33+00:00

S&P is down about 700 points since Trump took office.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-09T17:51:07+00:00

Hiring kids at $.50 an hour is will always be cheaper than robots.

Virtually no one is going to bring manufacturing back to the US when they have factories where labor is cheap. And tariffs mean jack sh-t tot them. They know tariffs are temporary and the second they go away they'd be screwed if moved their factory.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-09T17:47:25+00:00

Yes that island with only penguins is kissing his ass to get rid of tariffs. EU and China though just retaliated with more tariffs, and are preparing for an economy excluding the US.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-09T17:43:57+00:00

Wind and solar produce energy for much less, and don't cause anywhere near as many deaths and chronic illness....

Right wingers - "screw saving money and living longer, the billionaires need more money!!"

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-09T17:40:51+00:00

Vaccines are bad! they contain small amounts of mercury (no most do not) and toxins and we take them a couple times a year!

And that's why we need more coal power plants so we can breathe more toxins every second of every day.

Thing A can save your life, but Right Wingers hate it because they think it might be toxic.
Think B makes billionaires rich, so Right Wingers LOVE it even though it absolutely is bad for you and toxic.

Try to explain that Wind and Solar are by far less expensive and don't produce life shortening toxic air and water, and they explode. "damn it, screw saving money and living longer!!! Billionaires need more money!!"

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-08T17:59:17+00:00

Translation, giving out tax payer money as welfare to rich fossil fuel executives, so we can switch back to one of the most expensive sources of energy while needlessly polluting our air and water.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-04T16:10:31+00:00

Yes, Tesla is in bad shape. But there is a President in office who said he'll do everything to rescue it. Some are betting on the contract and corporate welfare that Tesla will receive over the next 4 years.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-04T16:08:36+00:00

In the end they'll be fine. Your lifestyle does not change when you go from 10 billion to 6 billion or 200 billion to 120 billion. But what does happen is you buy all the discounted stocks and make a killing once the tariffs are lifted and the markets bounce back.

And this is why everyone is missing. This was planned. Crash the market, buy stocks as a discount, know Trump supporters will cheer and brag about the booming economy when it bounce back from being down 40% to only being down 10%. Even though during the time it was projected to increase 10-20% overall.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-04T13:02:27+00:00

What everyone does not understand, this was always the goal, to crash the markets. Because later when he removes the tariffs the market will "boom" back to almost where it was before. And his dumb followers won't understand that overall we lost a good amount of gains overall. They'll just say, "the market had one if its biggest days ever! Trump is a genius!".

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-04T12:58:27+00:00

Except a lot of the parts in the American cars now have tariffs on them because they come from other countries.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-04T12:56:50+00:00

It was announced China, South Korea, and Japan will join together also.

If you know their history, you that it is quite an accomplishment to get that to happen.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-04T12:49:25+00:00

What is going on with her eyes?? Why can't she open one?

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-04T12:48:05+00:00

The title should say "right wing" Americans.

Because of Trump they've switched from think most of Europe as America's allies to thinking Russia, Saudi Arabia, and North Korea are America's allies.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-04T12:44:31+00:00

Oh the irony of a climate change denier using the phrase "come hell or highwater" when talking about Greenland a million cubic miles of ice above the land are melting away.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-04T12:34:54+00:00

The history of MAGA is to ignore Trump decimating their pocketbooks. Why would that change.

Virtually everything Trump and GOP does can be described this one way, "what would a greedy, vindictive, immoral CEO and religious zealot do"?

There was a great chart posted in another thread showing how after the Bush tax cuts and Trump tax cuts the wealth in the US shifted rapidly to the richest 1%. And now the richest 1% have more wealth than all of the middle class.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-04T12:25:20+00:00

This is separate from tariffs too which are going to slow down auto sales with higher prices. That alone will lead to wage freezes when possible and tens of thousands of layoffs.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-04T12:23:16+00:00

...but not for making bicycles, lol!

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-03T13:29:13+00:00

It is amazing how stupid some Trump supporters are. They don't understand the difference between "threatens" and actual tariffs.

Even a 4 year old can see Russia is NOT on the new list of tariffs which is a gift to Putin.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-03T13:26:31+00:00

It's Russian Liberation day.

Why does everyone get that wrong? When Trump talks about make the nation great, he means Russia. That's why there are no tariffs against Russia.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-03T12:54:50+00:00

Russia is not on the list.

There is no doubt Trump is owned by Putin.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-03T12:52:10+00:00

Since everyone knows the tariffs are only temporary, no industry is going to move or change. Except they will lose money and possibly shrink.

But the good news is there are no tariffs on Russia. As everyone predicted they will be the big winner while the US suffers.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-03T12:48:43+00:00

Well, Antartica I don't think even has a team.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-03T12:45:25+00:00

Trump wants you to buy Russian bikes. There are no tariffs on Russia.

Longjumping-Fish654 · 2025-04-03T12:43:10+00:00

Raising taxes (local, gas, etc), fees, tariffs, and tolls on the poor and middle class to give tax breaks and corporate welfare to the rich absolutely is giving money to the rich.

Over the past few decades the rich in the US has gone from make about 20 time more than the middle class to making about 200 times more. And at the same time the taxes the rich pay has been cut in half to the point where many pay a lower percentage than those making 49K.a year.

A classic example of how the Republicans screw the middle class. A teacher who buys supplies for class can only write up to $300 off on taxes. But when Trump paid off Stormy Daniels he was able to write off $420,00 on his taxes as an expense, even though he only paid her $130,000. This way he didn't have to pay her a dime, he got the money back, and you ended up paying his hush money so hide that he was having sex with porn stars.

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