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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 100 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

They can move to the U.S. and then pay tariffs to import the parts, and have a smaller international demand for the product do to retaliatory tariffs and just straight avoidance of U.S. products while making their product in a higher cost to operate area. OR they can build a mine, pay higher lifting costs, higher wages, produce a much more expensive product of shitty quality to keep the price hopefully low enough that they can still have a demand for the product abroad, but everyone will coorelate their American products as shit because they cut corners to try to keep the costs low enough while having higher expenses. So no one wants their product. Or they could not cut corners and make a great product that costs so much that their market shrinks down to inoperable levels and go out of business.

[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 70 points 9 months ago

You’re not getting it. He said it in ALL CAPS, so the globally-connected economy doesn’t actually exist. Tariffs punish BAD GUYS and have no effect on GOOD GUYS. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 87 points 9 months ago (1 children)

“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.”

Professor William T. Kelley, who taught marketing at the Wharton School of Business and Finance when the orange one was a student there (source)

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago (4 children)

He also doesn't read. Ever. The only book he is known to possess (a gift) is one with speeches by Hitler. He probably hasn't even read that one. He had also real trouble reading the teleprompter during the campaign trail and seemingly ignored it most of the time.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I read that too. Not the president the US needed, as he is simply unsuitable for this office due to his lack of education alone, but apparently the one the country deserves, as he was elected despite everything everyone can and should know about him.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Over half of US citizens can't read over a sixth grade level. So he really does represent a majority of US Americans in that regard.

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[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 49 points 9 months ago

Yeah they need to move their forests and mines to the USA!

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

his audience wouldn't notice the issue with this claim

[–] maplebar@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Mainly because they are SO SO SO fucking dumb.

[–] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh, so immigrants are ok if they're companies?

[–] keyez@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Immigrants are okay if they're rich.

And white

Preferably Russian and and oligarch.

Or South African

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[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Trump always talks like a dummy who is fed half baked ideas by someone only slightly smarter than he is.

[–] Shapillon@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Isn't that exactly what's happening?

He sounds like a toddler who learnt a new word explained to them by their slightly older cousin.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

Lol... that's insanely hilarious.... or is it hilariously insane? I can't keep track with this nut job

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh, sure. Spend billions on moving factories to a xenophobic, undereducated, and burgeoning fascist society instead of expanding into more stable, emerging markets without an unstable fuckwit for a leader.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So he wants me to migrate to the US and start a business?

[–] hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Only if your complexion allows you to use mayonnaise as foundation.

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[–] sasquatch7704@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

When your president failed ~~law school~~ kindergarden.

Here, corrected that for you

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well naturally, if all the companies move to the US, there won't be tariffs because there won't be trade. With the way the US is going these days, I'm wondering if the US might come to the companies instead

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 7 points 9 months ago

Dude, they did, under Biden's IRA. The one you just tore up.

Jesus, dude. This guy is too old, stupid and evil to lead.

[–] Kimmy@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Failed law school? He failed elementary school

[–] bunnyjenkins@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

If the tariffs work, then how are tariffs going to fund the government? Seems like a lie

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago (10 children)

I thought he was against immigration.

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[–] skeptomatic@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

If the rest of the western powers divest amd braindrain from the US, can they afford to upkeep their nuclear arsenal?

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

IF US COMPANIES HAVE NO MATERIALS, THERE ARE NO JOBS.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is his idea of a school in the first place.

[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Or they can just stop providing products and services to america and expand in Asia, Europe and Australia

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Walking advertisement for Wharton.

[–] thefrozenorth@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The problem are the shit-talkers. There are so many advisers talking shit to Trump and he's just repeating it. There's more shit coming out of his mouth than there is in his diaper - and there's alot of shit in his diaper. Trump may be dumb, but he's still the best politician in america. He reads a room and gets his message across better than anyone. Too bad he's a rapist, misogynistic, convicted criminal. And so easily influenced by Putin and the Evangelicals. If you want to know what Trump is doing an why, look at the goals and methods of these two.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

He's not a good politician, he's a good opportunity. A lot over overlap with politics, but very different things.

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