I posted a meme last week before the election about a lot of my fellow Americans being depressingly ignorant and a bunch of people got pissed off about it.
I'm just saying...
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Their ignorance is equally as valuable as your knowledge. To them, anyway.
this looks truthy
Just read estimates his tariffs would cost the average household 7600 annually. I told my folks and they didn't understand why I thought it was funny. I told them they wanted this.
I'm honestly elated, let the leopards feast
Hope you don't get bit too.
Oh, we’re all gonna get bit.
Maybe it's because I took economics as far back as high school, but even just from reading high school history books I knew what a Tariff was. How the FUCK did they not know that?
I am also willing to bet that they will eventually blame the democrats for breaking the system, as they always do.
One thing that fascinates me is that Trump's definition of tariffs seems more like the definition of kickbacks.
There’s a fair portion of people 21+ that have difficulty playing blackjack because they can’t add to 21. I got asked by a grown man last night what 9+1+3 is.
You’d be surprised how incompetent some people are.
I worked in customer service for 7 years. I am aware... so very aware...
To give you an idea, when I worked for Verizon mobile, it was a few times a week that I came across a client who did not know how to hang up their cellphone calls. No joke. It took such a while to get them off the hook it wasn't funny. And if you ask me why I wouldn't hang up on them, it was because Verizon had a strict no hang-up policy. You were not allowed to hang up on a client no matter what. It was grounds for immediate termination.
Some companies have already said they're going to pass the extra cost onto consumers, so while the companies will pay more, they'll make a lot of that back from the consumers that can still afford the products.
Electronics will probably be the hardest hit, with prices of cell phones, laptops, and game consoles increasing quite a bit.
Medical devices too.
especially seeing how trump intends to treat Taiwan, home to TSMC
Low inflation statistics have been helped significantly by cheaper electronics. So everybody who voted Trump to lower inflation is in for a surprise.
They'll find a way to blame everyone else when all the Chineseium junk on amazon suddenly isn't so cheap.
Good thing I got a new computer now. They'll just blame democrats (who do have a lot to blame for not countering the bullshit of the Republicans over the past 45 years) for it and insist that the tariffs would have brought prices down if they were done without democratic interference...
This tells me the information pipe to voters is broken, and hacked.
People live in their own social media realities. There has always been ignorance, but it's never been so widely personalized. And Trump and the GoP played it like a fiddle.
And just watch, the Dems are going to learn precisely nothing from this and campaign like it's the 1950s again, thinking policy was their problem.
The sheer stupidity of the dems is kinda astonishing. The reason why Obama won is because he had a goddamn narrative. Yes we can! Change you can believe in! It's almost like they were onto something... then they did nothing.
Dems learned nothing and are all out of ideas!
It's sad to see that the people that do the most honest work are always being played by people doing the most dishonest one.
We could be getting played by some random person on tiktok showing an unsubstantiated claim from another random person.
I'm not saying it's definitely fake but don't just blindly believe this when spreading stories without evidence is the EXACT sort of shit dishonest people do. They're eating the dogs, etc.
Story of my life right there.
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