Why the fuck would you want to go back to Ohio?

That state sucks balls.

But wages will go up because more stuff will be made in the US! /S (Basically my father's argument)

Yes, but i don't believe trump KNOWS that. Instead he's been told to do this.

It's not just the media that loves tariffs.

Plenty of regular, stupid people have been convinced that a worse deal is better if they're making someone domestic richer instead of someone foreign.

The domestic aristocracy doesn't care about America, or else they would take a hit to their profits to provide Americans a better deal.

Exactly, clearly they'll still pay for it if it's important enough to exempt. In Canada's case we could give Alberta the extra revenue just so they won't get too cranky.

Part of me thinks this is so they have an easy way to drop prices after people get used to everything costing more

Trump is running the US the same way I ran my cities in SimCity2000

but I’m sure it’s mostly just trying to destroy the the US’s relationship with it’s most important allies.

Close, but no cigar.

As usual, it's to make the American ruling class richer. That's all. Full-stop.

Let's stop distracting ourselves from it 🙂

Part of me thinks this is so they have an easy way to drop prices after people get used to everything costing more

This is a technique commonly employed by Sisi in Egypt so while it'd be surprising that America sunk that low that quickly I can see it happening. And by the way, yes America is now being compared to Egypt out of all countries so... Uh... Good luck.

It’s already destroyed.

Not by him, his threats and tariffs are old news. By the people - The People, the royal We - who actively, unironically and with great power of democracy, chose an aggressive, compromised, and stupid fascist with ample evidence that this, hate, and war were a consequence.

Because the hate and apathy was stronger I guess. For electing a woman. For people being bullied by a juvenile government wielding adult violence for who they aren’t - a cis white right male.

They went to the dark side and joined a tri-polar world of evils to bully and rape the rest of us until we all burn to death. So yeah.

Never again.

Yes and then it can be funneled into the pockets of the person who is calling for the tariffs.

It's weird that everyone is taking the premise of making america great again with tariffs seriously. The reason it doesn't make sense is because that's just a distraction to the fact that it's for personal profit like with everything else.

I live in Texas, and it's hard to overstate how much of our produce is imported from Mexico. This would be an almost immediate 25% price hike on food that basically can't be grown at scale here because we don't have Mexico's climate. Surely he'd exempt food from whatever he's about to do. Right...?

Thank you.

Finally someone rational who understands that tariffs are horrible for the working class.

He meant everything he said when he was in those closed door meetings with his investors and sycophants.

Yes, he meant several things while campaigning. Like destroying trans peoples lives, freeing nazis, and punishing those who deigned to attempt to hold him accountable for his many crimes. Oh also for destroying climate protections, deporting brown people, shall I go on? All the things like lowering prices? No absolutely not. That would benefit regular Americans and not hurt minorities, so it doesn’t make the list

It might not matter weather or not he targets oil. We Canadians understand how important our energy supply is to the US and we're willing to cut that supply of as a bargaining tool. This is where the find out happens following the fucking around.

I'm not sure what to do though. Pitchforks at city hall? mean letters to white house interns? Protests that the news wont cover? I live in one of the bluest states there is.

We certainly cant count on the Corporatist dems doing much of anything, except if there is any pushback they will try to use it as a photo op while contributing no support to it at all.

flimsy concept of an excuse to have the tariffs in the first place.

Gotta distract people while the ruling class robs them blind.