4 ms·
Something this administration considers a 'hostile and political move'? If you're small enough I guess you might get a way with it, if you're big enough you'll
by grey-area 1y ago
Something this administration considers a 'hostile and political move'?
If you're small enough I guess you might get a way with it, if you're big enough you'll be threatened into compliance.
Either way the US customers and the rest of the world lose, everyone is a little poorer because of these tariffs.
- tantalor 1y agoI don't understand how they can say its hostile to list tariffs when plenty of merchants will advertise "made in America" as a selling point. It's the same thing!
- duxup 1y agoThe current administration considers "I don't like it" to be hostile, it's really that simple.
- dylan604 1y agoYeah, it really feels like a strained lack of understanding. If you challenge the orange man, you're immediately deemed hostile.
- jacobyoder 1y agoMore to the point, if high tariffs are GOOD, we should be embracing them and the WH should be working to promote 'pride in tariffs!' messaging. Show how much you love your country and leader by how much in tariffs you pay! It'll be great, because you won't have to pay $3k income tax, just... an extra $5k in cost of living every year. Forever. Even when you stop working.
- mlinhares 1y agoThe people running the government are making bank with shitcoins so some people are winning.
- QuercusMax 1y agoYou'd think these big companies would want to stand up against this nonsense. Microsoft fired their law firm who sucked up to Trump's threats. Why doesn't Wal-Mart or whoever make a loud pronouncement that they'll fund primary campaigns against any congressperson who supports these tariffs? These companies got Citizens United passed so they can spend unlimited amounts of political money, so why don't they use this power when their business is threatened like this?
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoWell, there's ~1,461 days in a presidential term and only just over a hundred have gone by so far. I think companies are concerned about focused and crippling reprisal.
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoThey only have to get enough folks elected to push him out of office after the midterms. So half that.
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoTo push him out of office would require impeachment, and that's basically an impossibility, even if there's a significant shift blue. At best there'd be some checks on his power, but he's ultimately still going to be POTUS with all the rights and (denied) responsibilities therein.
- vkou 1y agoBecause anyone making public moves against this will be punished further by the regime. That's how autocracies work, my friend, you can't rules lawyer your way out of one, because the rules can always be changed to fuck you over some more.
- seunosewa 1y agoTrump is willing and able to ruin any business. He doesn't respect democratic norms.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]