What's interesting about this is that Ghislaine Maxwell just got a transfer to a cushy facility in exchange for what is likely to be heavily coached testimony about how Donald Trump totally didn't rape children.

It’s fucking tariff roulette again. And so it will be for the next 3.5 years. Stupid cunts. Remember to kick a republican in the nuts.

All the dangers they tell us about being over weight and eating like shit, and this mother fucker is still clinging to life like an 80s action hero clings to the underside of a helicopter at the climax of the movie. Come on clogged arteries, do something!

Where are the Trump-Epstein files?

What do you mean "likely pushing up cost of electronics". That is the literal point of a tariff, to push the prices up and make competing goods more appealing to consumers. The only way it doesnt raise prices is if importers just eat the cost, which they will almost certainly not do and, frankly, shouldn't do.

Narrator: He won’t

Release the Epstein files.

Wouldn't this only affect goods manufactured in the USA? If a finished product containing chips from say, Europe, were to land on USA shores it would only have a 15% tariff right?

Why does trump hate American manufacturing?

Conservatives are 100% onboard with a felon rapist pedo skyrocketing our cost of living while destroying our global reputation.

If anyone is still unsure if conservatives are traitors to our nation, now is the time to pinch yourself and wake up.

he really is the dumbest motherfucker on the planet

Release the Epstein files

Americans won‘t own anything and they‘ll be happy.

In lighter news he’s 78 with congestive heart failure, obvious mental decline, incontinence and obesity

From the bleachers, we watch the Trump shitshow daily. The topic of the show is: "What can Donald Trump still do today to appear even dumber than the day before?"

And he is not disappointing. What's next? Tariffs for interstate trading? One must admit, this would be a really dumb idea, but it is not outside Trumps grasp.

Oh boy, another distraction

anything to not discuss the epstein files, it seems like the effectiveness of tariffs isnt have as much effect as distraction as it should.

Fuck, I'm going to have to go back to doing math in my head again, aren't I?

A bit of chip history: Taiwan Semiconductor (the current pseudo-monoply in cutting edge processor making) rose as Taiwan the country transitioned from a dictatorship to democracy.

They got state funding, and support for thier business as trade opened up. To simplify, it was like a mix of hyper free-trade capitalism and technocratic command economy/socialism no one on either end of political spectrum would like. And it worked! It's still working.

The CHIPS act in the US was a baby step in that direction, which (even with Intel's incredible corporate dysfunction) got me excited.

...And that is basically the opposite of what Trump is proposing.

Basically, take away Intel/Micron/IBM subsidies and tax the shit out of their existing overseas business. And deregulate them instead of directing them.

In other words, drain their capital, and give them free reign to think short term as their manufacturing circles the drain.

To be fair to Trump, most business people do not grasp how indescribably capital/research intense processor manufacturing is. Investment is in the many billions, planning takes decades and is extremely technical, and dependent on economic and research forecasts. They have to be forced to think long term, given truckloads of cash to do it, and not get derailed by quarterly earnings targets and cutting long-term projects on the vine for quick cash.

But still... this is like the worst thing he could have done, IMO.

get that AI bubble a-poppin

I watched part of this announcement and he said something I normally don't pick up on

"If they have started to build or have plans to build they don't have to pay the tariff."

Sounds like.jobs.

But what I heard was it was a discount for the oligarchy. Why do you only get a discount if you are in the position to at least pretend to be building a factory?

And then since prices are now double, you get to import and sell at an easy profit.

I like that! It always sucked that everything is more expensive here in EU, Trump's trying to help us by making it even more expensive in the US.

Looks like books are back on the menu, boys.

1000%, 2500%, 600%, 1500%

"...likely pushing up..."

"...likely..."

Of course it will! What kind of reporting is this? "...forcing the price up..." Is the phrase they were looking for.

It’s simultaneously a grift and a way to impose a flat sales tax all in one package.

1. Republicans have been creaming their pants for years at the thought of imposing a regressive flat tax on all sales while doing away with income based taxation. This would forever shift the majority of the tax burden to the poor and middle class. Which is why we see Trump cutting taxes on the wealthy with his Big Ugly Bill and imposing a tariff as a way to tax the unwashed masses while simultaneously claiming he isn’t. Hopefully the courts strike down his power grab and force Congress to vote on Tariffs. The weasels will probably give it to them but at least we get to see Republicans go on record as voting for a tax increase.

2. Trump has announced or will announce tariff exemptions that benefit large companies that have donated to him. Sometime later if he feels he needs more money he will announce a higher random tariff on the exempted goods and shake these corps down for more money/favors. All the while he can claim he is doing our industry a favor.

Never forget Trump is a grifting piece of shit who will always stick it to the little guy.

What a piece of human shit Trump is.