politics

you cannot really go back and forth

him pausing them for every country but china instead of just the 75 who opened dialog points to that

It's worse for everyone to go back and forth constantly, and better for the US long-term to just apply the tariffs anyway

It just makes him look like a pussy

and my hope is this isn't forgotten and just turn into a china trade war thing

I mean, I also think the "better for the US" part is overblown, because this is getting undone the second trump is out of office

I WANT the tariffs

so its not like manufacturing will come back to the US knowing it will maybe only be economically more viable for 4 years

This is why this is all retarded anyway, even if its a bad move economically it’ll be popular because people don’t want a recession. You can’t just flip a switch on this stuff

it 100% will, zero companies are going to float capital for 4 years in the hope of better market conditions

same reasn brexit wasn't immediately undone right after the next election

Yeah but I feel like there are options other than "move literally all manufacturing to the US right now" that are more likely to happen

your economic sector begins moving slowly, but very deliberately

Leg, that is the biggest cope lmao

yep

7head 9d chess moves

that account deserves to have his hands chipped off

It is clear the US governemnt is kind of just firing at the hip without super logical planning and just doing whatever they want

for typing that

hence why half of the actions taken kind of contradict the other half sometimes

I mean, at the end of the day I think the US definitely could outlast the worlds economies in a trade war but like why

They would win the trade war

but I agree, what the fuck was the point of any of this

Trump is he's doing exactly what the majority of his base wanted, and isn't avoiding any 3rd rails but what I'll give him shit for is that everything has been simplified and streamlined far too much

he's won, he doesn't have to keep selling

he can have reciprocal tariffs be more complex than just x*1/2

and target specific sectors

Targetting specific sectors would make sense, I feel like oversimplification makes the tarrif war thing retarded

It’d be funny if the reason he wants to try and get this done in his second term is he believes all his successors don’t have the balls to keep it going

I mean, like I said, for sure this gets undone the second he is out

the simplification works if you stick with it, but that coupled with 3-4 flase starts

makes it seem unserious

if the Tariffs don't have their desired effect they'll be removed by Trump in 12 months

let alone 3.5 years

idk why you think it would take up until the next president to change things

I don't

I am saying that is a hard upper limit

obviously I do not think they will last that long

if they last that long, they're working, and they'd be kept in place

Has he removed your income tax yet btw

I think tariffs in general are a good solution to a lot of things

income tax isn't one of them, that's never going away

I think he should remove income tax fully, but only once you hit a 1 million a year threshold (removing it for income before 1 million as well once you hit that, it is a shutoff switch)

you have to pay higher taxes until you hit that

but yeah, disappointed he gave into the pressure and removed tariffs for now and I ttotally see this as something that's going to be forgotten about as he pivots to just having a dick measuring contest with China again for no reason

I hope I'm wrong, and they actually do come back into play

I also think that is what happens

And I think its great that this was all for nothing

not for nothing

Loveland made 5k

True

Loveland, you are the real winner of the trade war

how does it feel

That 5k will let you buy a switch and 2 games

I feel wonderful

I’m only halfway to being back in the green :}

wait

Leg

you reported the news wrong

fuck you

he didn't drop the tariffs

there's no 90 day pause

they're all being set to 10% for 90-days, they're still there

and China is getting 125% starting today

ok I feel a LOT better about that

I've been making bank on calling bitcoin surges the past few weeks

(Although one was just spooky offhandedly saying something and me saying "fuck it")

And it just happened to be perfectly timed

he paused the weird 50% reciprocal

US Policy really is just: ensure the rest of the world declines faster than our nation does

Yeah

next trump should announce universal 100% tariffs then pull them back to 40% after a week and get another record breaking stock market surge

He should personally message loveland first though

so that loveland can go green

he did tweet out that everyone should buy stocks before announcing the pause

Yeah, I saw that

a little market manipulation