Trump's Treasury Secretary Admits Tariffs Are Paid by Americans

[heathrowinneo]

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I hate this.

They got what they wanted now live with your decisions and stop asking for handouts.

 

[heathrowinneo]

Donnie continues to indulge in his tariff fetish …

• 100% tariff on pharmaceuticals
• 50% on kitchen cabinets (targeting IKEA)
• 30% on upholstered furniture
• 25% on trucks

So Donnie is imposing tariffs to help the truck manufacturers that were hurt by … earlier TrumpTariffs.

Stable geniuses!

Protectionism will contract the overall size of the economy. Donnie is just picking winners and losers now.

There will be more to come. Chaos seems to be plan rather than work with congress, who are MIA, and allowing to use the powers that the court has abdicated to him. Enjoy the tariff tax and the payments to those who voted for this mess. One big beautiful mess.

 

[coati]

The point was: Individuals like those ranchers and that guy I mentioned are basically con artists who exploit the perception they give off:

Present a certain way, and you can get away with just about anything (See also: DonOld Trump, etc). It’s a well constructed and well executed bluff by those individuals.

And some people will even admire those individuals: The guy I mentioned in my other post was generally well respected and even admired by a fairly sizable number of people in that workplace, but he and I knew exactly what he was - and he had no qualms about admitting it to me for some reason - probably because we had different bosses and his boss was a bit of a slacker as well (for all I know, his boss was the one who coached him on how to get away with his bluff / con).

As my career in forensic psyche progressed (a completely different career / workplace) I noticed that the presentation of the guy I mentioned was a pretty consistent presentation among sociopaths / psychopaths - and other individuals seemed to either follow them or learn / mimic their behaviors / presentation and try to present that way as well to gain some edge / advantage.

Ultimately:

Those ranchers still bitch about the government, despite getting all those government perks / handouts you mentioned, because they’re maintaining the con / bluff by presenting as anti-government "rugged individualists".

Bottom line: They’re sociopaths. (The fact that they are often the ones labeling others as "socialists" only strengthens that assessment).

The fascist segment of the ranching community is not about being "slackers" or bluffing. They work extremely hard at gaining and maintaining power. Ammon Bundy has lots of followers within this community of control freaks.

Right-wing fascism has gone mainstream within cattle growers' associations, to the extent that in some parts of the West, moderate ranchers have been forced to disassociate. Even at Natural Resource Conservation District meetings, which are subsidized by taxpayers, some ranchers openly talk about using violent Bundy tactics to get what they want. This is not a situation that you characterized as being a "con / bluff".

The Bundy segment of the ranching community is obsessed with the militaristic use of guns. They support Trump because he endorsed their militia tactics, promotes hate against the same minorities they hate, and wants to keep women "in their place".

Many city people and politicians from both parties are far removed and oblivious to what is taking place at these rural meetings. Most city people have been brainwashed by old Hollywood stereotypes of the "noble cowboy".

 

[Lazaran]

The fascist segment of the ranching community is not about being "slackers" or bluffing. They work extremely hard at gaining and maintaining power. Ammon Bundy has lots of followers within this community of control freaks.

Right-wing fascism has gone mainstream within cattle growers' associations, to the extent that in some parts of the West, moderate ranchers have been forced to disassociate. Even at Natural Resource Conservation District meetings, which are subsidized by taxpayers, some ranchers openly talk about using violent Bundy tactics to get what they want. This is not a situation that you characterized as being a "con / bluff".

The Bundy segment of the ranching community is obsessed with the militaristic use of guns. They support Trump because he endorsed their militia tactics, promotes hate against the same minorities they hate, and wants to keep women "in their place".

Many city people and politicians from both parties are far removed and oblivious to what is taking place at these rural meetings. Most city people have been brainwashed by old Hollywood stereotypes of the "noble cowboy".

That guy I mentioned WAS a bully who also "worked hard" at his con / bluff (he was so over the top about being belligerent despite not having anything legitimate to bitch about that I felt the need to call him out on it).

Also:

I was mainly pointing to the similarities between those ranchers’ taking lavish government handouts then engaging in over the top bitching / belligerence about the government, and that guy doing the same thing in the context of that workplace.

Also:

The Hollywood cowboy myth the ranchers are trying to perpetuate ties in nicely with my point, actually: Those ranchers are playing off (exploiting) a myth (a colonizers’ myth at that) to advantage themselves.

Bottom line:

Those ranchers are self-serving sociopathic / psychopathic con artists (they’re beyond hypocrites) who need to be called out and stood up to by the rest of society (See also: DonOld Trump, etc).





We. Told. Them. So.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Crooked Donnie continues to indulge his tariff fetish:

100% Tariff on Foreign Films

President Trump on Monday said he would impose 100% tariffs on foreign films and "substantial" duties on furniture imports, part of a revived tariff blitz in recent days.

"Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America," he posted on Truth Social.

The US movie industry is a huge (bigly) success for foreign trade. Over 70% of Hollywood’s revenue comes from international markets.

Crooked Donnie may ruin that success story with moronic trade policy.

 

[heathrowinneo]

Crooked Donnie continues to indulge his tariff fetish:

100% Tariff on Foreign Films



The US movie industry is a huge (bigly) success for foreign trade. Over 70% of Hollywood’s revenue comes from international markets.

Crooked Donnie may ruin that success story with moronic trade policy.

He is playing a dangerous game with so many, foreign and domestic.

 

[Bray123]

Fox are now boasting about how good Trump is at raising prices. It's 2025 folks!

 

[schism666]

 

[JohnEngelman]

E very one except Dunder headed MAGApublicans know that tariffs don’t work

There are too many dunderheads around theses days

Trump tends to appeal to poorly educated whites. They are unable to do their own thinking, so they believe Trump's lies.

 

[JohnEngelman]

this administration is an outhouse

Is that why Trump smells like an outhouse?

 

[JohnEngelman]

Fox are now boasting about how good Trump is at raising prices. It's 2025 folks!

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Low income FOX viewers think this means the Trump economy is working.

 

[heathrowinneo]

Fox are now boasting about how good Trump is at raising prices. It's 2025 folks!

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That's one way to look at inflation. Are the ranchers double-dipping and taking a government subsidy too?

 

[heathrowinneo]

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Hopefully one or a few of them will grow a spine and speak up

 

[icanhelp1]

Trump tends to appeal to poorly educated whites. They are unable to do their own thinking, so they believe Trump's lies.

As apposed to poorly educated blacks that continue to live in misery but still vote democrat.

 

[Pad_Foot]

Tariffs on MOVIES!
Don’t leave the US to make your movie
Film everything here in the good ol’ USA!
How do you assign a value to tarriff?
Will “Hollywood” bend a knee? Of course!

 

[JohnEngelman]

As apposed to poorly educated blacks that continue to live in misery but still vote democrat.

They would be worse off with Republlican leadership. Democrat leadership guarantees welfare checks, affirmative action, and a lenient criminal justice system.

 

[icanhelp1]

They would be worse off with Republlican leadership. Democrat leadership guarantees welfare checks, affirmative action, and a lenient criminal justice system.

I guess it comes down to choice. Start with school choice and a quality education and enforce truancy laws.

Restore discipline in schools.

 

[JohnEngelman]

I guess it comes down to choice. Start with school choice and a quality education and enforce truancy laws.

Restore discipline in schools.

I agree with your last sentence, certainly.

A friend of mine "tried to teach" as he puts it, in a black majority public school in the ghetto. He did not hate Negroes before that experience. Now he does.

 

[icanhelp1]

I agree with your last sentence, certainly.

A friend of mine "tried to teach" as he puts it, in a black majority public school in the ghetto. He did not hate Negroes before that experience. Now he does.

Then he doesn’t belong in the education system. I won’t judge his experience, I’m sure it was difficult, hate is never an answer but it’s readily available as a scapegoat for failure. Democrats have created a culture of victimhood within the black community. White guilt is destroying our black communities. All people cherish things they worked hard for. Helping people who need help is one thing, handouts are caustic.

 

[JohnEngelman]

Then he doesn’t belong in the education system. I won’t judge his experience, I’m sure it was difficult, hate is never an answer but it’s readily available as a scapegoat for failure. Democrats have created a culture of victimhood within the black community. White guilt is destroying our black communities. All people cherish things they worked hard for. Helping people who need help is one thing, handouts are caustic.

I believe that whites should not teach underclass ghetto blacks unless they are sympathetic to them. I had another friend in high school who was sympathetic to them, and who had better experiences. He is also sympathetic to my first friend's response.

No one should criticize my first friend who has not worked as a substitute teacher in inner city black majority public schools.

 

[ll74]

Tariffs are 47's way of skirting budget rules and have his separate wallet.

He fucked over farmers with his tariffs war and now he's paying them with tariffs.

China cut off soybean buying and moved them to Argentina, thanks to retaliatory tariffs. And we just bailed out Argentina.

So because we fucked farmers, we're deploying socialism AND we're rewarding countries that are directly selling spy eans to China.


Can't make this shit up

 

[JohnEngelman]

 

[great lover]

For the life of me, I am unable to understand any of the administrative decisions taken by the Federal government.