The FAFO Trade War

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[Insipid]

2 hours ago, tsar4 said:

 

This is old news; they've been doing this for two months now, since the first round of tariffs.

[Sieg67]

18 minutes ago, Insipid said:

This is old news; they've been doing this for two months now, since the first round of tariffs.

Trump has done it.  He has unified a nation.
Not us, though.

[Insipid]

Warren Buffett has lost significantly less money than other billionaires after the liberation day tariffs were imposed. Before the tariffs, he had increased his stakes in several Japanese companies that were once zaibatsu, old school powerful clans, the most well-known being Mitsubishi.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/17/buffett-hikes-stakes-in-five-japanese-trading-houses-to-almost-10percent-each.html

He also liquidated much of his assets to prepare for this retarded tariff moment. This man is the financial genius, not fucking Trump.

[Raptorpat]

 

[1pooh4u]

Breaks for the rich. That’s what this is all about. It’s time to start considering burning shit down to the ground.  Trump is doubling down on his tariffs saying “it’s a beautiful thing to behold”  

[Jman]

58 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said:

Breaks for the rich. That’s what this is all about. It’s time to start considering burning shit down to the ground.  Trump is doubling down on his tariffs saying “it’s a beautiful thing to behold”  

He’s a fucking narcissist, he will never admit he was wrong.

[Raptorpat]

 

[tsar4]

Pat beat me to it

Edited Monday at 03:48 AM by tsar4

[Jman]

 

 

[Raptorpat]

only $3,200?

[SwimOdin]

Time to take more medicine 

[1pooh4u]

And the people basically support Trump still. Biden they wanted to hang for being a brain dead president.  everything is collapsing but we’re all just too stupid to understand Trump’s vision or something 🙄

these are comments on an article about the continuing tumbling of markets 

[Insipid]

Another 50 percent tariffs on China

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/04/07/trump-tariffs-live-updates-stock-market-crypto.html

I hope rednecks enjoy the sticker shock at Wally Mart. RIP dollar stores too.

[1pooh4u]

I need a new phone and it’s gonna cost me $300 more because of these tariffs unless I make time I don’t have to get a phone already in stock 🫠

#firstworldproblems

we’re still the 1st world, right? 😬

[Jman]

The head of JP Morgan again wins the “Too late now asshole!” award for speaking out against the tariffs with other banks following.

[Raptorpat]

2 hours ago, 1pooh4u said:

I need a new phone and it’s gonna cost me $300 more because of these tariffs unless I make time I don’t have to get a phone already in stock 🫠

#firstworldproblems

we’re still the 1st world, right? 😬

I been putting off upgrading my phone for literal years and it's getting to that point I can't really put if off longer, joke's on me I guess

[Insipid]

[Dark_Cloud_Overhead]

How messed up has this world become for the Chinese government to be throwing Reagan at us now.

[1pooh4u]

5 hours ago, Raptorpat said:

I been putting off upgrading my phone for literal years and it's getting to that point I can't really put if off longer, joke's on me I guess

Exactly what’s happening to me 🫠

[katt_goddess]

20 hours ago, Raptorpat said:

only $3,200?

He's been saving up since 1994 damnit!

He's going to have to start digging up those emergency milk cartons full of penny rolls for his beer runs soon. 

[Insipid]

Rural MAGAts really don't understand how fucked they are if this trade war with China doesn't swiftly end. Walmart would definitely choose to shut down stores serving sparsely populated areas first.

And I will be absolutely callous to their suffering. Fuck all of them.

[discolé monade]

3 minutes ago, Insipid said:

Rural MAGAts really don't understand how fucked they are if this trade war with China doesn't swiftly end. Walmart would definitely choose to shut down stores serving sparsely populated areas first.

And I will be absolutely callous to their suffering. Fuck all of them.

and i was right there with you on this. 

until i wasn't. until i realized that most of 47's base is ignorant, and greatly uneducated. more than likely get their 'news' from community 'leaders and pillars' at the local diner, parroting faux news that morning, and believing absolutely everything of facebook, the only other source of news in rural america. 

[Insipid]

3 minutes ago, discolé monade said:

and i was right there with you on this. 

until i wasn't. until i realized that most of 47's base is ignorant, and greatly uneducated. more than likely get their 'news' from community 'leaders and pillars' at the local diner, parroting faux news that morning, and believing absolutely everything of facebook, the only other source of news in rural america. 

I don't fucking care. Some people in third-world countries do everything right and never get the chance to get ahead just because of where they were born. Rural Americans still had plenty of leeway for error. Now, they won't. Their pathetic ways of living that are anti-progress in the face of globalization, which they still greatly benefited from, deserve to die.

[Top Gun]

Seriously. You live in the United States and it's fucking 2025. At this point you have to consciously try to be ignorant of what's going on in the world.

[molarbear]

Me, who prematurely cashed in my 401k during covid because it was all in oil and tanking

Sure, I may nearing 40 and have zero retirement plan

100% worth it

Now I get to watch a bunch of people who knowingly elected a convicted felon watch him make their retirement evaporate

It would honestly make an amazing science fiction/fantasy novel if it wasn't happening IRL

At this point, I'm starting to buy into the bizarre conspiracy theories that billionaires love recessions because they're able to buy up more control

 

For real, I'm 38 and this like...the 3rd possible recession we're about to be entering in my lifetime? To top it off, the GOP president and vice president wear more makeup than the entire cast of the rocky horror picture show.... but people keep electing their party into positions of power. They don't have to vote Dem, they could look at the independent options (I mean, let's be fair and just agree that libertarians are generally just morons. Please, continue to tell how you're some kind of sovereign being in this country that shouldn't have to pay taxes, while enjoying all the things other peoples taxes pay for.)

*Thank you for coming to my old man rant, GTFO my lawn

*I don't hate libertarians, it's just easy to make fun of you peeps

Edited yesterday at 07:43 AM by molarbear

[discolé monade]

please don't mistake my disdain for the people that knowingly voted for him. but i'm saying is if you knew WHY. listened to some of these people. 

i guess my quesion is this: so fuck those stupid country fucks, which is over half of the population. so now what? civil war? fighting in the streets? 

what do we do now? just allow it all to crumble at the demise of those that didn't vote for 47?

are we throwing in the towel? i don't feel like throwing it in. i like a good fight. 

[Insipid]

5 hours ago, discolé monade said:

please don't mistake my disdain for the people that knowingly voted for him. but i'm saying is if you knew WHY. listened to some of these people. 

i guess my quesion is this: so fuck those stupid country fucks, which is over half of the population. so now what? civil war? fighting in the streets? 

what do we do now? just allow it all to crumble at the demise of those that didn't vote for 47?

are we throwing in the towel? i don't feel like throwing it in. i like a good fight. 

Never give up the fight, of course. I'm just saying, these people that consistently go against their best interests are a waste of time and effort, especially in an age of global competition. They don't realize it's never gonna go back to the easy days when the rest of the world was still rebuilding their industries from the damage caused by WW2. I was thinking of calling these people lumpenproletariat, but there is a far more apt term that comes from the Indian caste system: dalit. In many ways, the US is becoming like India. Poetic, considering the treatment of the "Indians" (i.e. Native Americans).

[SwimOdin]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/business/trump-china-tariff/index.html
 

just fuck it all

[tsar4]

[Raptorpat]

my phone refreshed and I got paywalled before I could copy anything 

Elon Musk told Trump that tariffs bad, maybe someone else can access story

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/07/musk-trump-tariffs/

[molarbear]

1 hour ago, Raptorpat said:

my phone refreshed and I got paywalled before I could copy anything 

Elon Musk told Trump that tariffs bad, maybe someone else can access story

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/07/musk-trump-tariffs/

https://archive.ph/0GUKM

 

^should work