I’ve noticed a correlation between people who think the tariffs are a good idea, and people who have no clue what tariffs are.
Similar number of people think the president actually has the authority to do this.
Congress is just fucking off
While it’s true in the majority of cases, it’s not a one to one relationship.
There’s a few billionaire numpties who will eat regardless and see it as a way to reduce wages even further whilst charging more for their products … profit!
It’ll increase wages.
There’s a few billionaire numptie
Like who?
The ones running the country!
God dammit. I was trying to make a joke about the correlation between the people I see breathing oxygen, and the stupid people I see. Then I was going to say there’s also a correlation between the people I see NOT breathing oxygen, and also turning blue and falling to the floor.
Then I realized the joke made it sound like I was defending tarrifs. Which wasn’t the point I wanted to be making. So then I tried making a joke about there being a correlation between fat americans, and eating fast food. But then the joke wasn’t even funny, or random. It was just boring.
So then I saw a bird outside, and remembered I have a low attention span. So I ran outside to look at the bird. He looked back at me like “Why are you looking at me, human? I’m just sitting here being a bird. Are you trying to watch me poop? You are, aren’t you? You realize that birds have no sphincter. So if I develop the urge to poop, there is a 100% chance it will come out immediately. You are never safe around birds to not poop on you. Which really kind of erases the old thing people used to think about birds targeting their car specifically to poop on from the sky. No bitch. I’m just flying through the sky, and you’re hundreds of feet below me, freely available to poop on. What are you going to do? Chase me? I will poop on you, and get away with it. Because I’m a bird.”
Then I came back inside, and realized I never thought of a joke, or something random to say here.
Life is funny.
Wow. You’ve accurately described every one of my posts that you’ll never get to read because I just gave up and didn’t type it all out.
Fucking cloacas, amiright?
Illuminating.
Based on US history? Yes. Based on the overwhelming majority of experts? Yes. Based on basic economic theory? Also Yes.
It should lead to removal. Tariffs are a congressional power, only.
Throw it on the pile.
They gave him emergency tariff powers. Idiots.
removed by mod
No … they will lead to a depression. There is a difference.
history tells us a possible answer…
that would be American’s are FUCKED for a generation if this isn’t stopped
Millennials:
Once in a lifetime…
Four Times a Lifetime, to the tune of Three Times a Lady.
Has “once in a generation” always meant every 20 years?
Every ten years, now even less.
1990 - Oil Price Shock / End of Cold War, reduction in defense spending
2000 - Dotcom bust
2008 - Housing Market crash
2020 - COVID
2025 - Trump just being a fucking dumbshit who wants to tear down everything other people built
A recession is generally defined as two or more quarters with negative GDP growth.
Tariffs will absolutely cause that. They’re going to dampen US growth for years.
That’s only one simple definition though. Broadly I think the answer is still yes, this will cause US job losses, as you’re already seeing in the automotive industry. Job losses result in lower consumer spending, resulting in lower business revenue, and less business expansion and cost cutting, and it can become a reinforcing cycle.
Recessions can be mild or severe, so the jury is still out on whether the US will hold their tariffs, and how quickly the system adapts to the changes.
Literally already has.
Betteridge’s law of headlines, for once, is wrong.
No, they are too late for that.
They could if Trump picked another other to implement his policies.