'Did I Miss Something?': Online Shoppers Shocked as Trump Tariffs Jack Up Prices 145%
'Did I Miss Something?': Online Shoppers Shocked as Trump Tariffs Jack Up Prices 145%
I wish I was in a place were I had no idea what was going on. I'm just twitching when I think about Republicans sending people to concentration camps with out charges or trial. That just means everyone is just sheep to be plucked. We are now just living on luck.
federal despotism
No aggro. I'm lost. Is that hyperbole or actually happening? From what I've seen so far they're just:
You can't possibly be this naive.
This is a very brief, very incomplete list but from what has been reported so far they are
This is without mentioning what they are doing to infringe on voting rights, redistribute more wealth to the very richest, reduce protections for minorities and strengthen systematic discrimination, and otherwise dismantling democracy at large.
sending MS13 gang members to a prison in El Salvador.
Sending people they have claimed without evidence are MS13 gang members to a “prison” (torture murder facility - you look at the Google earth images of what looks like a puddle of blood by the facility and the fact that they’ve confirmed something like 100 people died there last year, that there is no release, and that they’re cramming people into such small living spaces the EU would consider it unethical for transporting livestock and tell me what you think)
145% isn't even accurate because that's just on the cost of the good. You then have to figure in retailer margin, seller margin etc. Most MSRPs will be 300% of what they were to keep those the same as before.
Oh no! I guess they'll have to get their cheap Chinese knock-off crap from Good American Sources.
Seriously though, even if the tariffs were reduced pre-loony-President levels tomorrow, no-one's gonna trust that being permanent.
Did I miss something?
Jesus fucking Christ yes
Nooo, not the fascist i'm voting for... There must be something else i'm missing
A Lemmy post about an article about a Reddit post. The internet feels more and more incestuous every day.
I responded to a question on Reddit that I am knowledgeable of to make an educated guess. Then, it turns out OP is a journalist and asked me if he could quote me. But I declined because even though I know the topic well enough, I am not an expert and don't have the credentials to show for. I mean, I could have allowed OP to quote me and feed my ego, but I don't want to sow misinformation if I am wrong. And besides, being quoted with my then strange username will make the article strange.
Yeah, journalism is getting lazier and lazier.
Journalism is dead because Sinclair has been gobbling up local news.
Check to see who your local news outlet is - several of mine are owned by like Missouri’s retirement fund or something.
I realized journalism was truly dead a few years back when I noticed that most news articles online are just a bunch of Twitter posts talking about the headline. I fantasize about writing a movie where Edward R. Murrow comes back from the dead as a demon and just goes around slaughtering lazy journalists, which forces other journalists to actually do their fucking jobs.
Wait until you see the price of groceries in a few short weeks because no one is around to do the processing. Fuck toilet paper shortages and being locked in your home all day because complete incompetence, we had to go for round two of how Trump is going to tap dance around super hard stuff.
Okay Republicans. Do something other than screaming about it's all unfair. Do something other than pointing at people and screaming hate. Do something or this thing you have complete control of isn't going to have food in about three months.
Now the stupid ones can 'figure' it out.
Or do their own research to figure out why everything is so expensive.
I guess Democracy is allowing voters to shoot themselves in the foot an then letting them wonder what happened.
This is how it ends.
You didn't miss anything, you're just getting what you voted for.
Yes. They missed the part where they specifically and repeatedly said they were going to do this. Because American voters evidently have the cognitive skills of a fucking sea sponge.
My sister voted for Trump, only learned after the fact, because of "the inflation" so I asked her how she tough the tariffs would help on that. Her answer? "What do you mean, what are tariffs?" A little too late I send her a youtube video about Tariffs and Trump and she was like wtf. She lives in California, so it's not like she helped him win, but I'm going to keep a tab on her before elections.
Ah, because of the famous inflation dial in the US president's office which Biden kept cranked up for shits and giggles. Well known fact.
She sounds like a single issue voter.
Thats really the biggest problem. People not looking at the whole candidate.
its low information voters that mostly voted for him besides the incels/joe roegan people.
How do these people function in daily life? It’s baffling.
A sea sponge at least absorbs something.
It also doesn't fuck up life for everyone else on the planet, which is a boon.
Hey, man, don't insult the sea sponge.
SpongeBob.
"Did I miss something?"
No, you intentionally avoided listening to what we were telling you.
I’m not totally convinced that a huge swath of trump voters ever heard any alternatives to the propaganda that lead them to believe tariffs=good. Like i imagine a ton of them are structurally isolated from hearing alternatives the way social media and television works
One mistake Temu is making is showing it as "Import fees". That's correct of course, but they should label it specifically as "Import tariffs" or "Tariffs", so that it's clear what this is. From the comments in the linked reddit threads, a lot of people just think they're extra fees Temu is voluntarily putting on as retaliation, their brains still aren't making the link between "import fees" and "trump's tariffs on China".
There are some brave businesses around here that have started posting signs.
"Due to tariffs, we've had to raise our prices."
I'm in the Deep South, I bet by end of week I see a place charging "Fuck China" surcharges.
Digikey an electronics parts site has it listed on their stuff now.
import tax
"Trump Tariff"
Donald J Trump is a liar, rapist, cheat and a lousy business man that has failed every single business, and Americans voted in this useless excuse for a human being to enforce facism, racism, and colonialism. Well done America.
He bankrupted a casino.
A FUCKING CASINO!
That's like bankrupting a money printer.
He will probably manage to that too soon.
The Feds were on the trail of the Russian dirty money being laundered through it.
Twice.
You forgot sexism. There's a non-zero amount of people who simply will never vote for a woman.
and actively worked with russia since the 80s to undermine the USA.
6 times bankruptcy! He’s so bad that after the last one, no western bank would work with him at all. That’s when he went to Russian oligarchs for cashflow, and the rest is history…
6 times bankrupt, bankrupt casinos, 34 felony convictions, WWE Superstar, known Russian agent, coup leader, the list is extensive...but he was on TV a lot. He's perfect. I want him.
if trump had invested in a index fund of his inheritence he would be close to 100bn richer. now hes just prostituting to whoever is richer to give him some money.
It's only just begun. Wait until there are empty shelves at Wal-Mart. MAGA is going to have to work overtime to blame it on Biden.
It's not hard work. They just blame Biden. When you're lying, and everyone knows you're lying, then there's no reason to put effort into the lie. If that doesn't catch on, they'll blame someone else. Zelensky or Xi, or they can always Blame Canada.
The local shipping port was empty yesterday. The last time I saw it that empty was during covid. It is genuinely frightening.
Hehe but there's no freight.
walmart, the magats go-to for stores.
Doesn't matter who they blame.. blame won't fill the shelves.
Can confirm - I track grocery prices every week and the cumulative "Biden inflation" was about 17% over 4 years, or about 4% per year average. Last week was already a 15% yoy increase, and some stuff is legitimately 100% yoy already.
and some stuff is legitimately 100% yoy already.
It's 100% day over day -- or rather, 145% or even 170% day over day -- because that's what happens when you apply a 145 or 170% tariff to it!
“I haven’t been keeping up with news or what’s going on?!?! I have been ordering a lot this past month for my daughters wedding.. did I miss something???”
I mean Jesus TapDancing Christ. You've not been aware of who the president is and what he is doing??? It's not like tariffs haven't been in the news at all. They (along with illegal renditions and other attacks on civil liberties) have been dominating the news cycles since January. I have never been one to ignore news, so even if quite busy with something in life I read headlines at the very least. It confounds me to know some folks ignore news willfully. Some even think of it like it's some twisted badge of honor.
I know head-in-sand people exist, but I am dismayed, baffled and extremely disappointed that they still behave the same when the house is burning down around them. Especially when this ignorance is obviously present in a large block of people in the US.
Please wake the hell up everyone, the house is on fire! (I know I am preaching [venting] to the choir in this venue.)
"Oh I don't pay attention to politics."
Guess what, politics pays fucking attention to you
politics pays fucking attention to you
What was that bullshit propaganda catch-phrase the right-wingers were spewing a while back, to bitch and moan that their abhorrent "values" of bigotry and hate were "under attack?" Oh yeah: "You Will Be Made to Care."
As always, yet fucking again, it was pure projection.
I’ve tried to severely limit my intake since the election and just taken in enough info to have a foundation for context, I don’t need to see 400 alliterations of some doom and gloom headline, but yes, even in this fairly limited scope I’m WELL aware of the tariffs. It’s absolutely willful to be this tuned out
Completely understandable to limit info for mental health reasons and I sometimes feel the same. This isn't that obviously.
Others were posting about possible workarounds, including the idea that perhaps Americans could get things shipped to a third country with lower tariffs as a go-between so that the goods didn’t appear like they were actually coming from China.
Truly maximizing global shipping efficiency...
Sadly and logically, this is transshipment and if done to evade taxes by obfuscating place of origin, it is illegal. From what I heard, US customs does investigate that too, so it's not just an "illegal in theory but nobody enforces it" kind of thing.
dint the trump admin said something about that already, trying to bypass and they will know where its come from.
Sup bitches this is that MAGA you ordered.
Last week, Trump went so far as to claim that Chinese President Xi Jinping had called the White House to negotiate a deal, another claim that Chinese officials deny.
How hard would it be to prank him by spoofing caller ID and pretending to be Xi?
You don't have to spoof it. The fucking idiot answers unknown numbers.
"We've been trying to reach you about your clown-cars extended warranty"
Yeah chief, there was an election last November. Should have been paying attention.
I will never tire of reading articles like this. It's like the nectar of the gods to me.
i hope every fucking 3rd party voter has to choose between rent and eating along with all the pridefully ignorant bumblefuck maga knuckledraggers
edit: LOL i love how the "vOtE 3rD pArTy!!!!" chuds have literally nothing to say anymore--can only downvote.
"i DoNt WaNnA vOtE fOr GeNoCiDe!!!!"
great job, fucko. now we have genocide in gaza AND in america
enjoy your fucking tariffs. and if you're less than 100% white/male/straight/evangelical/republican, then enjoy all the things that go along with being "other" in a fascist state (hint: fucking genocide)
"I know I support the murder of you and your people. But I'm still going to need you to vote for me, so that I can preserve democracy and the economy. You may not live to see it, but the rest of us will really appreciate it."
I know some choices are hard, but my parents aren't around to make them for me anymore, and voting takes so much effort. It doesn't really matter anyway, both sides are exactly the same. I'll just not vote and whomever wins, wins. This is America, I've got inalienable rights, so it won't get that bad.
100% guaranteed these people are of two kinds: Trump voters and Conservative Libertarians
There are many articles on this, and even a book or two. Anyway, I thought you'd get a kick out of it. True fucking story man. Fucking libertarians. 🤦🏻♀️