Not sure if it works in the auto industry, but for most other industries this would absolutely not work even in the short term.

I almost feel sorry for the poor bastard thats gotta try and collect the fees from uh other countries. Talk about a sisyphean effort.

I swear, if the grocery store doesn’t start buying $600/month worth of my dryer lint animal figurines, I’m gonna put a 2000% tariff on all the goods I buy from them! They are gonna be soooorrry!

He just created the concept of customs!

Sad thing: there are a LOT of Trump fans in Canada amongst the conservative voters, and the venn diagram of auto workers and conservative voters has a large overlap.

But as others have said, there will be expemptions for people who kiss his ring.

so, there are too many agencies and employees in Washington, but because he must thinkg “External” revenue service is a clever name hes going to create a new one.

A “trade deficit” is not inherently a bad thing, or a sign you’re losing money.  Everyone has a trade deficit with their grocery store.  They buy tons of food from them, but never sell them anything.  Is that a problem that needs to be fixed?

Well. Inauguration day is supposed to be bitterly cold. Perhaps we'll get a repeat of hmm... Harrison, was it? Can't remember now.

This isnt even news anymore.

We are fucking hopeless. Sorry, I gave up.

And it’s not even Monday the 20th yet . . . .

Motherfucking fascist liars. Republicans/MAGAts are a criminal, terrorist organization.

My idiot brother posted a meme about this very thing that ended with “You can’t make this up.”

Just wait until the actual POTUS is making these complete bullshit lies. Bad enough that it’s currently some rando with a (slightly) limited microphone, but in a week it’ll be the guy standing at a podium making the exact same bullshit claims in front of 3 scores of microphones. THAT’s when Team MAGA will explode in…

I quite literally had to debunk in real time when I saw a friend posted shite like this online. Like, a 2 second google search proved him wrong and he still was trying to say it happened. It’s bonkers. 

Both the ease at which these lies spread and the ferocity that the simps hold on to them (even when shown to be lies) is precisely why this country is not long for peace. The second a social media site deletes them as “false”, the RW screams “censorship!” and the site is brought in front of Congress.  Only a matter of…

You know, it shows amazing restraint that the government of California doesn’t just sue these folks for defamation. It’s a pretty airtight case, right? Typically the government as an entity can’t be defamed, but you could pretty clearly outline harm to individual employees.

“You won’t see this on the news!” they say about a story they just made up.

I really hope this BS doesn’t have a similar outcome to what the electrical workers in Houston dealt with during the last big blackout (the big lie on that was that the unions stopped work to negotiate a better contract mid-emergency). Multiple crews had to move equipment or stop work because members of the public kept…