@hacks4pancakes the new tariff regime is no longer part of any plan. Trump gambled and lost. I had multiple sources independently pointing at the canadian PM as the mastermind behind forcing trump to concede defeat by drip-selling US-bonds and causing a dilemma for trump. There is not really all that much you can do when your creditors no longer want to bankroll you

@hacks4pancakes no kidding...

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It's almost as if governance via temper tantrum, "ooh shiny!" and "oh shit" isn't really great.

@hacks4pancakes they WANT to wreck the economy. Keeping us poor keeps us desperate. Desperation is the very best wedge.

@hacks4pancakes deeply unserious. Not only are they not hiding what they're doing, they have no idea what they're doing (beyond the old insider trading/mafioso grift)

@hacks4pancakes Banana Republic. 🍌 🍌 🍌

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And now imagine you do that like the car or plane industry:
- import things
- assemble them partly
- bring them in another country for further processing
- import the a whole new part back and put everything together

@hacks4pancakes The art of the deal

@hacks4pancakes biggest most beautiful deal ever 🍔

@hacks4pancakes that was obvious when they eliminated everything in place to encourage bringing manufacturing here. "[We want to bring chip manufacturers back to the US, so we're rolling back the CHIPS Act that provided incentives for building their production facilities here.]"

Bunch of fscking idiots out to loot whatever they can while burning things down.

@hacks4pancakes They’re not nonsensical. They’re hypocritical. Tariffs are just taxes.

@hacks4pancakes This neglects that a laptop cannot be made entirely in China. Laptops inxlude components from Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, in addition to China, and likely USA. Not to mention raw materials from mines across Asia, Africa, North America, using equipment from the Netherlands and Germany.

@hacks4pancakes Heaven forbid we bring USB-C cable manufacturing back to USAnia.

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Consider how long it would take to create an entire supply chain for laptop construction inside the US.
Now ask yourself, who would invest that much money building it - knowing that the tarrifs would go away before the factories were finished.
Every region has a competitive advantage. Tarrifs don't eliminate them - they only cut us off from participating in the global economy.
Drumpf is an idiot. He does not know what he's doing.

@hacks4pancakes This is a government of fools.

@hacks4pancakes They may not be competent, but they are as serious and dangerous as a heart attack.

@hacks4pancakes So... when manufacturing returns to the US, are Americans going to be being willing to work for minimum wage at mind-numbingly tedious assembly jobs making shirts, shoes and lightbulbs?

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You expected sense from a president with dementia? Just be glad there appears to be one person with a clue who Trump listens to.

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You get a discount if you buy the model preloaded with malware.

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@hacks4pancakes The people who impose these tariffs say they are doing one thing, but they are actually doing something different.

It's an open question whether these people are incompetent or lying.

@hacks4pancakes ha ha ha

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ChatGPT would come up with more coherent and effective trade policies than this group of idiots.

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Not serious at all… but the market manipulation up to now has made them a lot of money I guess…

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Twelve-dimensional chess, baby.

Not a chance in hell, we mere mortals can hope to understand this stragedy!

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Medien: 1

@hacks4pancakes Further adjustments forthcoming, once the timing of the announcement has been worked out with Friends of Donald.

@hacks4pancakes MAGAts prefer circus and clowns over good government; entertainment over societal improvement.

@hacks4pancakes It's a very inept, loser 🤡 circus.

@hacks4pancakes Phones and computers are exempt from super-tariff for only 6mos—just enough time to create from scratch domestic parts networks that will enable production of phones and computers made 100% of Amerikan-made parts. Good luck with that!

@hacks4pancakes But it is a lead pipe serious crime syndicate.

@hacks4pancakes Are they as unserious as this?

https://soundcloud.com/liberalaus/leavinglabor

@hacks4pancakes They are serious, more so incompetent.

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😅

@hacks4pancakes they might be serious, but they also seem to be amazingly clueless.
Or: they will do whatever ist takes to help out the billionaires

@hacks4pancakes strategies are telling me that all of these orders and decisions are at the service of some kind of isolation purposes, even if the acts show the opposite of that, for example if they are claiming for fully independency. This is an insight of a non American guy who didn't watch tv or any kind of news for 4 years, met no one , and knows nothing about the political things, even his country's president. So feel free to say whatever you want and make me happy by laughing at me, 🙂🙏

@hacks4pancakes Oh, thry are serious all right. The problem being that survival of the fittest doesn't apply to the human race anymore.