The worst part is that according to his social media post, Trump’s reasoning for these tariffs isn’t to bring back American manufacturing, it’s to stop illegal immigration and drug trafficking from Canada and Mexico.

Not real sure how the logic shakes out that connects tariffs to solving those issues.

You just hire migrant workers who... ohhhhhhhh nooooooo

They teach it as business school, sure. Where they don’t teach it is Robert E. Lee highschool in Bumfucksville N. Carolina, which provided the highest level of education most of the voters for these politicians received. So it will indeed be shocking to them when there aren’t suddenly millions more jobs available.

During the Covid shortages of 2020, Schneider Electric(Square D for you old heads) started building new capacity for US production.  They’re still not finished four years later.  This isn’t instantaneous.

Why do these idiots believe there is just open capacity waiting to be utilized? No car plant in the U.S. can just start making 50% more cars. Also Ford, GM, etc, dont make cars, they assemble them. Almost all the parts are made by suppliers. These suppliers also do not have open capacity to make 50% more parts that…

The other thing that the idiots/liars don’t understand is that the infrastructure necessary to start making those things again is likely gone. There aren’t a bunch of pristine, modern factories sitting around just waiting for somebody to turn the lights back on. We saw this when American steel started to die. We could…

Trump is envisaging a world where, to bypass the tariffs, automakers bring jobs and manufacturing flooding back to American soil. Maybe they will, but the millions of dollars that have been invested in Mexican and Canadian manufacturing over recent years suggest that maybe they won’t.

It’s not a real Cadillac if they don’t put the ducks back on the crest!

Mexico exports roughly 85,000 different products into the US (1.5% of total imports).

Holy shit.....guac going to become unavailable at Mexican restaurants...Chipotle’s going to have to add a zero behind whatever they currently upcharge for it. Quality tequila prices about to double/triple....Bizzaro-pricing world quickly approaching.

People are stupid.  This is already well established.  Tariffs are paid by the importer, not the manufacturer or the country.  All the banana heads that are screaming that these are good things are under the impression that it’s “hurting” those countries.  All it does is limit markets, but nary a penny comes from…

All imports. 

They fucked around, now they’re about to find out.

Anybody who has seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off should know that Smoot-Hawley made things worse.

Whatever their abuser tells them is real, is real to them. They are so deep in their bullshit that they would have a complete ego death meltdown if they actually realized what’s going on.

The bottom line - not that many people understand how tariff works. Or care to.

I hope — HOPE — that when Trump expires some sanity will return to many members of the GOP and they’ll realize that they have to answer to their constutients if they want to stay in office. I don’t think JD has the magnetism to hold the movement together -- there will be a lot of infighting when DJT is gone.

I’m already making plans to drop a cup or two discretely as there will definitely be surveillance form all of the other people making similar attempts.

All true. What I also got out of his statement is “it would be real real cool if the government gave us money to invest in renewables because even though we have a LOT of fucking money, and we’re going to invest in them anyway because that’s how we’re going to stay viable in 40 years, we really like it when the…

You know what CEO’s and by proxy, stockbrokers enjoy? Stability. Having laws, mandates, and policies stay consistent allows you to more accurately predict cash layouts for large projects. Doing a complete 180 every 4 years makes it really hard to figure out where to spend money on long term investments.  You don’t…