• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    17 hours ago

    Can someone please explain to me why he STILL doesn’t have any understanding of how tarrifs work?

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      15 hours ago

      You’re making the mistake in that his intention is to improve things.

      He doesn’t have to make things better, he just has to say he has made them better. That’s all he’s ever done and it’s worked.

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      14 hours ago

      A candidate that expressed nuanced understanding of economic principles would have been less likely to win the election.

      A candidate that instead promises answers that intuitively sound right. If imports are expensive, then obviously the big business owners will build domestic and give us more money. If you get rid of immigrants, then the business owners will have to pay more for citizen workers. Simple answers that are easier for people to believe in.

      Attempts to explain nuance? That ranges from nerds overcomplicating things and/or those darned liberal elites trying to truck them.

      This cuts both ways. In 2020 Biden won not due to a more sophisticated understanding of things, but simply because things were bad, and the other guy therefore was the obvious choice. So to overcome an incumbent, you just have to have people believe stuff is bad, and provide some believable explanation that you could fix it.

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      16 hours ago

      he STILL doesn’t have any understanding of how tarrifs work?

      How do you STILL think this isn’t all intentional? They know what they’re doing. They don’t care if we can afford it or not. This is about the conservatives’ bottom line, lol. They don’t care about you, America, China or whether any of it works.

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        16 hours ago

        It doesn’t do anything for their bottom life because the tariff is something we pay TO CHINA

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          A tariff is what you pay to the government of the port of call to get the item you shipped.

          When you pay $1000 for a DJI drone and it get’s to Seattle the US government says “pay us $600 or it goes back on the boat.”

          The Chinese company sees literally zero impact other than possibly less orders and probably a wave of refused merch. Which they might keep some or all of the purchase price of anyway.

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          10 hours ago

          Russia wants to pit the US and China against each other to distract and destabilize them both. So all of this is great for Russia’s bottom line.

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          15 hours ago

          The tariffs got them elected. The fallout of them is a write-off and not their problem. They were the means to an end for votes and swaying opinions and they did their job.

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      17 hours ago

      I believe that he does, and he knows shit will cost more, but he ALSO knows that his followers have no clue whatsoever. So prices will increase, and he’ll blame it on one of their many “others”. Keeping them scared and mad is the key to their control over them

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      16 hours ago

      Some people want more expensive shit as long as its made in america or with american goods. Thats the point of a tariff.

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        5 hours ago

        But not the idiots that said inflation was their main issue. Trump told them 3 ways he’s going to economically hurt them 1. Tariffs 2. Raising taxes (unless you are 1%) and 3. Mass Deportation.