• randon31415@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    There are two bright sides to this (and dark sides as well):

    -This will decrease demand of Chinese goods in the U.S., hurting a country that is … problematic to say the least. (Anyone remember the Uyghurs? The O.G. Gazens?) It probably won’t shift demand back to the U.S. factories, but maybe it is time for another country to become the slave-labor-ish manufacturing capital of the world.

    -When the prices skyrocket, along with food from all the missing immigrant farm hands, Trump will get blamed. I just hope this wasn’t the plan all along and those “fake” inflation hikes back after covid weren’t to cover for the real ones down the road.

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      19 days ago

      When the prices skyrocket, along with food from all the missing immigrant farm hands, Trump will get blamed.

      i really hope you’re right, but i think that will most likely get blamed on biden “ruining the economy” in his last term, or something in that vein. a lot of trump voters get their news from fox news or directly from donald trump, and i can’t imagine either of those sources criticizing trumps economic policies.

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      18 days ago

      Trump will get blamed

      Ha, ha, ha, he will blame Biden, or immigrants, and his moron supporters will believe him just like they have when he lied the other thousands of times.

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      19 days ago

      When the prices skyrocket, along with food from all the missing immigrant farm hands, Trump will get blamed.

      In all likelihood, only a small percentage of his voters will actually blame him for the predictable consequences of his tariffs. The rest of them will believe Trump when he blames it on Biden’s economic policies that were put in place before Trump’s second term. Our egos have a funny way of making us do mental gymnastics to avoid having to accept the idea of oneself being wrong.

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      18 days ago

      Trump will get blamed

      Like they blamed him for his COVID-19 response?

      If that didn’t get through… honestly, I have no idea what would. Americans are just stuck in their feeds and divorced from reality now.