Once again I miss competence. Just - plain old competence. Knowing a goddamned thing.

Unfuckingbelievable we're here again. The fucker almost wiped out the planet last time with a virus. Gotta give him another at-bat eh? Fucking idiots.

In Trump's defense, its easier to shove a turd through the round hole than a square peg. Especially if it's liquid McD's turds.

I mean, that's still a lot of extra cost and red tape, and the guys sewing labels will eventually start sewing everything else.

It rarely adds 200%, though. At 125% the talking head were already saying the US was in effective embargo territory, so it is kind of meaningless.

The AI slop machine got Trump’s name right, but whiffed entirely on the author of the book.

That elected a 34 times convicted felon. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised anymore.

the trump voters largely do not want positive, they want big negatives for everyone else and are willing to accept negatives for themselves to get it

What makes you think that they do? I imagine the biggest beneficiaries of this whole thing is a somewhat longer runway until Russian and Chinese demographic collapse.

Have you seen him recently? Sometimes he neglects the orange deck stain, and his skin is grey and ghoulish. I swear if he didn't have some necromancer keeping him alive, he'd have died 20 years ago.

lose*

If Americans see one empty shelf, there will be weeping and panicking in the streets.

There's two ways this works out.

1. Trump's regime doubles down, never backs out and holds firm.

Basically, you're fucked. Chinese goods stop flowing, medical devices and equipment stop coming, tools and utilities stop being restocked. You're on your own. Welcome to Thunderdome.

2. Trump's regime keeps this going until the backlash forces them to give it up.

Then we capitulate to China, end up paying more overall but not an impossibly high figure for our items and life goes on... only a little less swimmingly.

My bet is on #1. Stock up on ammo and food, road warrior.

I am rooting for free trade. It's stupid and inefficient for every country to try to manufacture the same goods.

he will destroy the Republican Party’s electoral prospects for decades

Nonsense. Go spend some time on The Federalist, or the New York Post,or r/Conservative, or their pitiful “satire” site The Babylon Bee. They don’t live in reality. The real world is completely irrelevant to them. They could lose everything because of Trump and still think that their woes are the fault of woke Marxist liberals (an oxymoron, I know, but they don’t).

They're not good, but they are easy to win...if you have all the manufacturing facilities and are okay with plunging your country into depression for the sake of absolutely no benefit whatsoever.

Wait, what's the definition of "win" again?

If you raise the tariffs to a billion percent then the US will get a billion dollars revenue for every $100 TV that comes from China! There will be so many millions of billions!!!!!! Why wasn't anyone smart enough to do this before?!?!?

AFAIKk project 2025 calls doesn't call for tariffs; that's a Trump original.

Edit: brainfarted.