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2 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Trump says the other countries are going to pay the tariff.  Smooth brain MAGAT out front should’ve told you.

It would actually be pretty awesome if he did make the other countries pay the tariffs, besides the fact that it's not possible it would still be great. 

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Just now, immamac said:

It would actually be pretty awesome if he did make the other countries pay the tariffs, besides the fact that it's not possible it would still be great. 

I’m pretty sure that one day Bill Gates will leave all his money to me and announce it while I’m at a party for Victoria’s Secret models. Besides the fact that it’s not possible, it would still be great.

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2 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Booming Hot or hottest economies are often accompanied by a lack of demand.  That’s what many people are saying.

Fify.  Cuz we're the hottest country in the world right now, dontchaknow.

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3 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

I’m pretty sure that one day Bill Gates will leave all his money to me and announce it while I’m at a party for Victoria’s Secret models. Besides the fact that it’s not possible, it would still be great.

Exactly my point. 

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4 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Booming economies are often accompanied by a lack of demand.  That’s what many people are saying.

Once the new BLS statistician takes over and un-rigs the false Biden new job stats for May, June, and July, demand is going to soar!

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it's crazy how more and more soviet the exec branch is becoming. Just wait until they have to deal with a real disaster and no one wants to speak the truth about it.

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7 minutes ago, Pasken said:

it's crazy how more and more soviet the exec branch is becoming. Just wait until they have to deal with a real disaster and no one wants to speak the truth about it.

We just a disaster 30 days ago and they held press conferences to suck each other off.

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1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

Once the new BLS statistician takes over and un-rigs the false Biden new job stats for May, June, and July, demand is going to soar!

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You may be joking, but you shouldn’t be.  I would almost guarantee this is exactly what is going to happen. 

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As these small business owners are discovering, it’s almost like you want economic professionals negotiating trade deals to create the fewest negatives impacts while improving the wider economic situation for Americans and Americans importers. Instead we get the opposite with 2am tweets in deciding the tariff percentages.

and how would you feel if you bite the bullet and pay that 50% tariff on that $500k grinding machine for that Montana knife company, and then Trump decides to eliminate the tariff AFTER you pay. TACO teaches us to halt purchases but that’s a problem for the Montana guy who expanded his facility and presumably wants to crank up his output.

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So the interviewer is the Black Rifle Coffee guy?  I am aware, peripherally, of the Montana Knife guy.  That is a surprisingly nuanced discussion from them.
And this underscores something.  In addition to a goodly number of manufacturing-type jobs we really don't want back because they're menial and hazardous, there are certain industries/manufacturers where it just doesn't make any sense to try to compete domestically with them.  Germans and Swiss, for example, have always been good at precision specialty machine tools.  Like the blade-grinding machine where they make a dozen a year in Germany.  Neither the world nor the US needs another blade grinding machine manufacturer. 
Those things are kind of like coffee and bananas: it don't make no sense to have a domestic industry.  I'm relatively certain there are dozens upon dozens of examples of this that are being tariffed for no good reason at all.
ETA:  that derek guy makes these points, especially the garment industry.  I had to find a thread reader to read the thread.
I'm sorry, in MAGAnistan, the only people that get to have their cake and eat it too are those who have invested the minimum amount in Trump's crypto. I'm sure the Black Rifle guy has given his fair share to the kleptocracy, but it's just not quite enough.
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1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

You may be joking, but you shouldn’t be.  I would almost guarantee this is exactly what is going to happen. 

Yup.  And it is not unreasonable to predict that other countries will stop investing in United States bonds and equities and/or the US dollar once they realize Trump sits on his shitter at night and decides what all the job and inflation numbers will be.   The combination of constantly threatening J Pow - and now essentially trying to create a path to falsify economic data that the Fed will utilize to govern US financial policy, I’m pretty sure the money people in other countries who of necessity must have accurate empirical data in order to form their own competent financial policy will go…

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Eventually, investing in the United States with Trump as president (with a bunch of people acting as guard rails, preventing him from doing his stupid, worst instincts)  will now be analyzed as investing in an unstable country with an unstable president who pulls tariff numbers out of his ass, has no idea how trade networks work, and more importantly who has no guard rails from continuing his five-year-old petulant child, who is dumber than shit demanding that everything goes his way.

I had dinner with my ex longtime law partner Friday - and after I finished bitching about everybody seeming to bend the knee to that dip shit - she reminded me that as POTUS he is the most powerful individual in the world, coupled with a childish, vindictive personality and a substandard intelligence.    She said we were living in the twilight zone episode, “ it’s a good life”.   Billy Mummy played a six-year-old kid with psychic powers who had either destroyed the world, or moved his small town someplace else in the universe.   He had unlimited powers and could read minds, and everybody had to 100% toady to the six year-old - or he would cause them unimaginable harm.  Why? Because he was incredibly powerful.  Worse, he was immature, cruel, had zero empathy for other people, insisted on always being right, and would punish or destroy anyone who did not disagree with his every whim or opinion. 

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Fuck!!  She is right.  A perfect analogy. 

 

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1 hour ago, Pasken said:

it's crazy how more and more soviet the exec branch is becoming. Just wait until they have to deal with a real disaster and no one wants to speak the truth about it.

Again?

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3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

In my experience small business owners and entrepreneurs are a lot like lawyers- smart and usually well meaning people who are extremely adept in a focused way, but sort of blinkered by their own business conditions and easily surprised by realities outside. 

Small businesses owners are the lifeblood of any fascist movement. They always fall for the lie precisely because they think they're temporarily embarrassed oligarchs/billionaires, only to get tossed on the pyre with the rest of the rabble. 

The 1930s budding reich under Hitler enjoyed broad support from small businesses owners that got him his seat and power, only to get gutted or consumed by state-sponsored cartels ran by the old money ruling class

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7 hours ago, Mittens said:

I would imagine most in this thread are familiar w/ this account, but for those who aren't, click and read the thread.  I would argue that no one researches and crafts an argument better than he does.

 

I'm bored so I listed to the 20 minute clip and it's in my industry.  (Retail.  I know dick about knives.)

It's hard not to like the guy and he means well.  He also pointed out that yes, this is what they voted for.  (Black Rifle guy is a good guy as well.)  He gets into detail about how complicated supply chains are.  That's well and good but as someone in the knife industry, he should know that.  He should know that inputs and equipment are his imports.  He's like Ford or GM.  Yes, they might make the car here but parts are coming from everywhere.

He also brings up a point about how only "finished goods" should be tariffed but aren't the machines he needs "finished goods?"  

He also gets into detail on the money and how he's not hiring or expanding now.  (Well done, Trumpkins.)

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3 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

I'm bored so I listed to the 20 minute clip and it's in my industry.  (Retail.  I know dick about knives.)

It's hard not to like the guy and he means well.  He also pointed out that yes, this is what they voted for.  (Black Rifle guy is a good guy as well.)  He gets into detail about how complicated supply chains are.  That's well and good but as someone in the knife industry, he should know that.  He should know that inputs and equipment are his imports.  He's like Ford or GM.  Yes, they might make the car here but parts are coming from everywhere.

He also brings up a point about how only "finished goods" should be tariffed but aren't the machines he needs "finished goods?"  

He also gets into detail on the money and how he's not hiring or expanding now.  (Well done, Trumpkins.)

Not a fan of Black Rifle. Want to support a small Veteran business for coffee? Check this dude out. 

https://aerialresupplycoffee.com/

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4 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

It's wildcat I think that points out, rightly, that a lot of these people, the petit bourgeouisie, are the main Trump supporters.  

But, given how predictable the harm to businesses that rely on imported products (/Gary Oldman EVERYONE gif), it's astonishing that they're caught short by any of this.

And, it bothers me quite a lot because these are most of my clients (I am unsure how many were Trump voters, but all of them are like the MKC guy as far as having their oxen gored).

It's wild watching that podcast video. They seem like intelligent reasonable guys who work hard to run a business. Trump is all about chaos. Why did so many of these small business guys not consider how bad chaos might be for their businesses? From these lower level guys all the way up to Jamie Dimon types saying we need to get over worrying about tariffs. As a small business guy myself, it's mind blowing to me how enormous a blind spot all these guys have. FAFO indeed and we all get to pay for it. 

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2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

You may be joking, but you shouldn’t be.  I would almost guarantee this is exactly what is going to happen. 

There could be some incredible stock short selling opportunities because of this. Market zooms on fake economic numbers then individual stocks get clobbered when they report quarterly results that show the affects of tariffs and other dotard stupidity. 
 

Then again, dotard will probably tell companies to report fake results to prop up the illusion. It’s not like the SEC will go after them. 

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Not all small business folks are Trumpkins. My wife and her brother hate MAGA and run a small business (sold it in May, but still run it). They import from China, Japan, Turkey, and other places. Any small business that imports and didn’t plan for this had their head in the sand.



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