I suspect many more Americans may actually start to feel feelings about Trump when they can't participate in the great American pastime of buying more shit.
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Good. Let the Trump suffering intensify.
Yay, another COVID style supply chain apocalypse. This time brought on entirely by American conservatives and their lack of brain cells.
Buy exactly ZERO gifts for your conservative family members for their bdays and Xmas and make sure to tell them it's because of the new Trump Tax.
Make it "republican tax". This is not trump tax
I don't think you'll be able to buy anything for anybody lol.
This is a Depression Train coming right for us
Glad I've already been living as frugally as possible for the past several years.
These new poors are gonna act like being poor is something new.
lol stores are gonna start getting cleaned out on the regular. And they’re gonna stay empty.
Are we winning yet?
Its also what the stores voted for. Almost every major corporation wanted Trump and heavily lobbied for him to get in. News outlets, grocery chains, retail stores, tech companies, every large corporation wanted this.
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Unfortunately, it seems this needs to happen to wake people the fuck up.
Another article today about people literally having no concept of why the websites they're shopping on is suddenly way more expensive (and explicitly showing the tariff costs).
People are surprised by this, and many of them have literally never even heard the word "tariff" before.
And the illiterate yokels in 12 months time: "Tariff?! That sounds like one of them thar a-rab names!!"
especially chinese sites that deliver to usa.
And that's just from the Tariff effects. When you count hoarders scalpers people stealing from trucks fromwarehouses and everything else it's going to get really crazy. And people are going to start hoarding things that aren't getting tariffed because they don't want to find out the hard way
i heard the shore employees are going to lose thier jobs the moment it stays empty.
lol stores are gonna start getting cleaned out on the regular
Nah. We've already seen businesses implementing digital price tags for just this occurrence.
Your stores will stay stocked. You're just going to see merch doubling and tripling in price as inventory depletes.
Eventually, you'll walk into a store, see a single pair of jeans on the rack, and read a $1000 price tag on it because it's the last pair of that style in 20 miles.
Sounds like a scalpers wet dream
the toilet paper crisis will soon be on the scene again.
Uprisings eminent.
Lean inventory and just in time supply management for the win!
I didn't vote for this.
I feel like we should have a system where the blue States get to have a different president than the red states. We sort of divide the federal government so each election you pick which one your state will be a member of this year.
Neither did I but 79 million idiots did, and 88 million didn't vote at all.
In a sense 167 million people wanted this shitshow so here we are.
Buy a gun, ammo, and canned goods. Form support groups with like minded people in your areas.
This summer is going to be a hootenanny of epic proportion.
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Excited to revisit the discourse on price gouging for the next few months.
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if you need, or might need tech in the near future, BUY IT NOW. not just because of the price hike, but because there won't be anything left to buy
Question for the class: aside from the obvious like computers and technology, what category items are we expecting to be hit hardest? Or to ask pointedly, what items that we NEED might be affected?
Literally anything imported. Which is virtually everything.
Baby care items are going to get hit hard.
The ones you don’t think of, naturally.
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