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[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 days ago (20 children)

"In 2024, China was the top supplier of goods to the United States, accounting for 16.5 percent of total goods imports. U.S. goods imports from China totaled $438.9 billion."

lol that would be hilarious to see. If he manages to piss Mexico and Canada too (same numbers), the USA will import nothing in the next few years.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Yeah, our economy will collapse and we'll all be waiting in bread lines. Can't wait.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Fat orange fuck will still be golfing and calling you a sad loser.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (7 children)

gotta love every one in the world laughing at us as we suffer at the hands of lunatics.

doi they understand WE didn't vote for this shit. big because of the stupid ass electorial college here we are.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

well, there was that 40% of shitheads who didn't bother at all.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (9 children)

"I couldn't vote for genocide"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

Let's be real, Israel was gonna do whatever the fuck it wanted anyway. The ceasefire was bullshit and now people are so focused on the orange clowns bullshit that soon there won't be any Palestinians left.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

doi they understand WE didn’t vote for this shit.

No, but you're the ones that have to fix it. We can't do it for you.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

On the one hand, I want to have sympathy for the suffering of my American neighbours.

On the other hand, you dumbfucks let THAT guy get into power... TWICE! I'd be disappointed if it was just the once, but TWICE!? You people saw how bad it was the first time, and voted for another round. Hearts out to the people who are suffering, but clearly this is what the majority of you want, so I can't feel much sympathy anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

He won the popular vote by less than one percent. That's not a majority of people. It's also less than 35% of the population.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

36% of the eligible population didn't vote and that can only mean they were fine with both Trump and Harris. That makes 71% of the population - the majority of the people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

nitpick: not everyone who wanted to vote always can vote (republican-led states tried to greatly reduce polling stations, mail-in voting, etc. ahead of elections), but it probably doesn't move that number by a ton.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Nearly 90 million people didn’t vote in the 2024 USA election. If you don’t want to become an American, don’t act like one.

🇨🇦 ✊ 🇨🇦 GET OUT AND VOTE 🇨🇦 ✊ 🇨🇦

no excuses: https://www.elections.ca/home.aspx/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

2/3 of the voting populace saw Trump next to Kamala and considered Kamala a bigger threat

So yeah, fuck it. Let the US feel pain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

With "we didn't vote for it", do you mean you voted for Kamala Harris, or did you vote third party, or didn't you vote at all?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

What would you have the rest of the world do? Thoughts and prayers?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

There won't be much bread to wait for. The billionaires won't finance it, and the government won't have the resources anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I'm growing my own food in the backyard, should be ready to eat by August!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

American made bread lines power by beautiful clean coal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

You won't starve to death. don't worry.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

the USA will import nothing in the next few years.

I don't think its going to take very long for tariffs to bite American consumers. A month ago I bought a $1000 technology item that is manufactured in China. I see that same item's price has raised to $1200 in the last week or so. This was an item ordered from online, so its possible they didn't have a large inventory onshore in the USA.

There are bricks and mortar retailers that have weeks or months of inventory warehoused in the USA just as part of their normal supply chain. However without replenishment, popular items will sell out and simply not be stocked again because the tariff affected margins will price out consumers for many of those goods. I'd say if these tariffs stay as they are (or get worse) our retailers are going to have lots of empty shelves in 3 months.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We saw what happened with toilet paper in 2020 and said “wouldn’t it be great if everything could be like this? At least we wouldn’t have a black lady as President!”.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We are so racist and sexist as a country that we couldn't stomach voting for a black woman to be president.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

America is more sexist than racist. The problem is its incredibly racist to begin with in first place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

America is sexist.

The south is so unimaginably and violently racist it almost makes their insane sexism seem petty in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

It's the other way round IMO. It's incredibly racist but the misogyny is even more. I have lived and traveled in US and the racism exists outside of major cities but misogyny is universal. Even in liberal cities you can be sexist in the open, in the hiring practices etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Can you link the item I just wanna see it for myself so I can show idiot trumpers proof

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I'm not sure it would help for your proof. It just shows the new higher price now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

He’s already pissed off Mexico and Canada. He’s pissed off most of the world.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's about to get absolutely stupid. Like I know everyone thinks things are bonkers now, but up until this week vendors I work with, that supply electronic equipment either partially or entirely manufactured in China, were still honoring quotes created weeks ago. This week we're being told that quotes we've had in the works for weeks or months are now likely going to be pulled and not honored, and that was BEFORE this additional increase. We're talking large spend that's likely going to be delayed indefinitely, which will almost certainly shrink the entire GDP and cause mass layoffs, and we'll be in a depression before we know it. I wish I was being hyperbolic, but I'm watching multi million dollar spends planned for the better part of a year evaporate because quotes won't be honored.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

USA turning itself into Cuba.

It takes a next level pants on head stupid to do this to yourself unprompted.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's not impossible though. It's like every country opened their eyes and said fuck it because Trump makes no exception in hating everyone.

I only know the USA from movies and TV, and the USA always got a free pass because they ruled the world, they are number 1, they have the best quality of life, and a lot of other lies that we kept telling ourselves because they were the good big brother that was, until recently, relatively "smart."

But Trump pissed every country on earth at the same time, and it's like we realized we were wrong since the 80s about everything that happened in and out of the USA.

It's good for me because we will be more self reliant without this erratic big brother. It's very bad because Russia won't be affected, Americans will be poorer, and China seems now to be the most "reliable" super power that can still make and sell everything. But countries getting back some of their Independence is always a nice thing. Millions will suffer though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Personally i see this as a good thing for everyone else than the USA. Every other country can now explore other markets, buy and sell their products to countries that actually want their products and make money from deals they did not have previously.

The USA on the other hand, has shut the door to all markets, and lost any credibility that it may have had. Not only this, but the stability that it has lost will be tough to undo

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