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Smartphones, computers, and other electronics will be exempt from President Donald Trump’s steep China tariffs, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed late on Friday night.
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Jesus fucking Christ. At this point I want him to go all in on tariffs and actually hold on so at least I know what’s coming. The fucking indecisiveness and Randomness is literally driving me insane.
I think that’s the point.
Welcome to government brought to you by fascism, chaos is how they consolidate power. You create enough chaos to exhaust and scare people, blaming the chaos on a scapegoat. You then say, well I could totally get rid of all this chaos if you give me the power to do so. The courts, and the legislators are obviously not equipped to stop this mess, we just need one person with supreme power to cut through the bureaucracy…
Oh man, inside of what!?
Inside a car, Silly. He wrote “literally”, and he’s not an idiot, so it’s got to be a car or truck or abattoir he’s being driven inside.
You are not alone. The whole world has lost confidence and trust to anything the US does or says
They were estupido for having confidence and trust for this long.
With all the interdependence we built up that’s hard to remove and would take decades, it’s kinda sensible to hope it can weather a few years of stupidity. It’s not entirely unreasonable to hope that after people seeing the first shitshow, it wouldn’t happen again.
The issue is, that this is not just this one president. It is a population that has chosen him for their president not once, but twice!
I mean yeah, that’s who I meant with “people”
You mean like electing Trump a second time?
The randomness is the point. He wants the markets to yo-yo so those with insider knowledge can make a bunch of money.
Expect this to continue until Trump gets bored of it.
The funny thing is that it’s supposed to stimulate US manufacturing. Like companies are going to invest years of time and billions of dollars building factories and moving production to the US, because of a tariff system that changes every 2 days.
He doesn’t care about American manufacturing. That has always been a flimsy cover.
Sure, it’s just a way to raise taxes on the public without calling it that. Upside is they bring in a lot of money quickly. Downside is they do a fuckton of irreparable damage to the US economy, the standard of living of people in the USA, and a fair bit of collateral damage to the rest of the world. But at least Elon gets his tax breaks for another couple of years so yay!
In short, Trump admitted defeat without admitting it. The goods that matter will be allowed to pass. China will probably also reduce something on their side.
To save face, Trump will continue to hinder trade of bamboo mats and sex toys until they work out a formal way of de-escalating.
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Just nuke your account and treat reddit as a read-only website. I use an alternative frontend so I can still follow the few niche communities that aren’t available on Lemmy without giving reddit any of my data.
Your right sorry I deleted the comment before I saw your reply because I realised I was being a whiner about reddits censorship on lemmy. I do visit reddit but I use a revanced patched infinity app.
I would love to see China put an export tax on those products equal to Trump’s dropped tariffs.
Export tax cant hurt you, export tax isnt real!
Everything from China now has Raspberry pi pico taped to it.
Nah, too expensive.
They have 1 led.
There will be a steep increase in demand in China for the $5 highly integrated 2G modules that were becoming useless because of 2G phase-out, due to everything being exported to the US having one attached to be classified as a mobile phone for Tariff purposes.
Both trump and doge is just the open-the-gates meme
– Tarrifs for everyone/no government empoyees – but sir, people enjoy computers/functional government – stop most tarrifs/bring back the personel!
He’s back peddaling now that he got his stock money so that the horde of angry republicans he was making calms down and doesnt whoop his ass.
What will all those American workers that were supposed to build iphones do then? Unemployed?
Straight to the woodchipper.
We are putting tarrifs on stuff we buy from you, because you make too much money on us. But we are going to remove tarrifs from the stuff that we buy from you, because we need them.
We are putting tarrifs on stuff we buy from you, because you make too much money on us. But we are going to remove tarrifs from the stuff that we buy from you,
because we need them.Because their CEOs attended his dinner and bribed him.
Nintendo ninjas got to him. This man is completely compromised by the Mushroom Kingdom.
Don’t listen to this idiot, he’s a bigot, ignore his comments.
Even when he happens to make a correct decision, the decision-making process is pure chaos.
Just think about how chaotic things were during COVID. People weren’t allowed to leave their homes. Restaurants were laying off all their staff. Many tourist attractions were completely shut down. Airlines were flying empty planes around just so they didn’t lose their airport slots. People switched from spending locally to buying things online, but China was also dealing with COVID, so that made manufacturing and shipping chaotic too. The ports were completely screwed, with completely full ships sitting in the port waiting weeks to unload.
Despite all that, economic uncertainty in Trump’s 2nd term is twice as bad. It’s literally off the charts.
Nobody can make any reasonable long-term plans because everything might change depending on the mad king’s whims.
And, last time things went back to normal because this was a worldwide pandemic and there wasn’t anybody to blame for it. This time, everyone knows that this is Trump’s fault, and that he was elected with widespread support from the American people. I don’t think things are going back to normal after this.
He destroyed the trust we had in th USA. Europa countryand business are looking for alternatives, and sure something will go back. But fx in IT USA will lose bigtime, once turned away from Microsoft and Google, they are not going back.
Howard Lutnick’s iPhone little screw assembly plant plans in shambles rn 😔
I…don’t care. I look forward to a time when we’re having Nuremberg trials for the Trump admin. This too shall pass.
I envy your optimism
I mean , that means we still have a holocaust to survive .
You saw what’s going on at Gitmo and El Salvador right?
I’m commenting in the world news server. My comment needed a /s.
There’s a nomzero chance we’re already in that part. Has anyone actually heard from any of the people sent to the El Salvador prison?
…so we’re sending brown folks to what are basically concentration camps and we’re not sure if they’re alive or not. We’re…basically there.
The real reason?
Apple, Intel, and other execs bribed him during an overpriced dinner.
This whole tariff thing has nothing to do with the country or international relations or manufacturing or whatever.
It’s just his latest personal grift. He just now has the power to say “every CEO in the world must personally give me a bribe or I’ll continue doing some really stupid shit.”
and MAGA was like, “HOORAY TRUMP IS SO AWESOME! see. i told you tariffs would only be temporary”
fuck joke of stock manipulation
Inbreeding is a hell of a drug.
