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alex51324 · 2 months ago
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Another good one from Vox about the upcoming Trump Tariffs, and what they might mean for your near-future spending.
The first thing to understand is that tariffs absolutely do not do what Trump thinks they do. Trump has pitched tariffs as a way to lower prices, which is simply...wrong. He also seems to be under the impression that tariffs are a way to make foreign companies pay taxes to the United States. That is also wrong.
A tariff is a tax on imported goods. The usual reason for imposing a tariff is to protect domestic production from being undercut by cheaper imported goods--if Domestic Company A can produce widgets for $10 a dozen, but Foreign Company B can do it for $8 a dozen, you impose a 20% widget tariff, and Company A and Company B's widgets both end up on the domestic market at the same price. That way, Company A has no particular reason to move their widget factory to another country where it might be cheaper to operate, thus keeping jobs, wages, and prices at the current level.
Economists debate whether tariffs are actually a good way to achieve these goals; however, even if we assume it does, you can probably see a few problems. First, and most obviously, lowering prices is nowhere in the definition of what people who really like tariffs say that they do. On the contrary, they are intended to prevent prices from dropping due to cheaper imports, and they do that because the tariff is paid not by the foreign manufacturer, but by the domestic distributor, who typically passes that cost directly to the consumer.
Second, if we were going to use tariffs to support American manufacturing, it would have been a good idea to do that back when there was some American manufacturing left to protect. Like around the time Trump was in kindergarten, would have been a great time to start. Even 1980 might not have been too late.
If--and this is a big if--heavy tariffs on imported goods are maintained for a long time, it could happen that tariffs eventually slowly start to bring manufacturing, and manufacturing jobs, back to the US. It could happen.
But if it did, it would take a lot longer than four years. And what happens in the meantime, is that prices on everything we import will skyrocket. And what we import includes most of our clothing, electronics, household items, large appliances, small appliances, cars, children's toys--just about anything you can name. And a fair bit of our food. (We also export a lot of food, so unless climate change wallops us real hard in the next few years, we don't have to worry a whole lot about actual food shortages, but it will not be surprising if we see higher prices and less selection as a result of tariffs, let alone other policies that Trump has discussed.) While Trump has been (of course) light on policy specifics, some numbers he's floated are 10-20% tariffs on imported goods in general, rising to 60% on Chinese goods, and 100% on imports from Mexico.
Some sources are suggesting that, since tariffs are such a completely boneheaded idea that will not do any of the things Trump claims to believe* they will do, surely someone will manage to explain this in a way that he can understand, before he actually imposes them. The author of the Vox article above thinks that's unlikely, and that having made such a big deal about tariffs on the campaign trail, Trump will charge ahead with them anyway. I don't know.
However, the point is, if you're thinking about a major purchase, you might want to do that before January 20. Especially if it's something where the manufacturing is concentrated in China, like laptops, phones, that kind of thing. According to the article, the Consumer Technology Association is saying prices in that category could go up as much as 40%, if Trump follows through on what he's floated.
And he might not! We simply do not know. However, my laptop has started doing that thing where you have to wiggle the charging cable to get it to connect; in the before-times, I'd figure I have a few months before I really have to worry about it, but as things are, I'm keeping an eye on the Black Friday sales.
(*There's some speculation that what Trump actually wants to do is weaken China's economy, which happens to be something that Putin would like to see. Another possibility is that he has some idea about reducing America's reliance on/relationships with other countries, as a way of furthering some goal of his. Or maybe he just wants to start selling Trump-branded phones, IDK.)
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alex51324 · 2 months ago
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Yeah, this is actually helpful.
We've heard a lot, in the run-up to the election, about how a second Trump presidency will be worse than the first, because this time he's coming in with a plan and experience.
But experience cuts both ways, and people like the ACLU--and, we should hope, the outgoing administration, and the Democrats in Congress and state governorships, and judges who still remember their duty to the rule of law--are also coming in with a plan and experience they didn't have in 2016.
Last time, in 2016, I remember this period--between the election and the inauguration--being dominated by a sense of confusion and disbelief that he'd actually been elected. And the early phase of his presidency we spent a lot of time looking at each other and going, "Did that actually just happen? Did the president of the United States do/say that batshit thing we just saw him do/say?" The first response to his every piece of norm-breaking and outright overreach was to say, "Can he do that?" and then explain how either he technically could or technically couldn't, but was doing it anyway.
Now we know that those are all the wrong questions; the right question is, "He just did, so what are we going to do about it?"
A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU
***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***
Blacked out part is my name.
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I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too
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I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.
And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.
A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am
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lady-hibiscus · 28 days ago
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i don't think we're living in the best timeline anymore but at least its the funniest one
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angel-cryptid · 2 months ago
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"Why do you care? you're not American" You wouldn't care? Your morals are so fucking weak you don't care about all the people whose life and rights are in danger cause (you think) it doesn't affect you? Are you that selfish? Are you that simple minded?
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thashining · 2 months ago
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Women with no security around, having to defend themselves against known sociopaths. People who will attack you over a felon. Not only should women be allowed to run the country, they should Defend it to.
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batattack409 · 6 months ago
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Kamala Harris will not save us
We are descending into a fascist police state, regardless of who wins, it is simply a matter of speed. Pushing the idea that we should “vote blue no matter who” (which, come on, clearly ignores valid issues people have with democratic candidates, like blind allegiance is never good) is dangerous. Voting is simply damage control, which is important, but will not stop what is going to happen. I don’t mean this in a doomerist way, because things will get better, but first they need to get worse.
Harris is still a genocidal white supremacist and just like Biden. After this election, if she wins, we won’t “go back to normal” because we can no longer go back, we can only go forward (besides, back wasn’t really as good as people think it is, just ask the global south). And that is fine. But holding onto the idea that democrats are good and will save us is foolish and dangerous.
The (majority) people who won’t vote for Harris aren’t gonna do it because they think politics doesn’t effect them or they are neutral, they won’t vote for her because she, while being the lesser evil between the two, is still evil, and will still uphold the systems that are driving us into the ground with the rest of the world. So please think a bit more critically and understand that while voting for her may slow down our spiral (or at least not fasten it like trump) we still heading for the same place, and need to prepare as such
Stay safe, build community, fight fascism.
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moodstabilizr · 2 months ago
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ive realized fighting with trump supporters is pointless so ive just started saying “she just servesssss cuntttt” when they ask me why im voting for harris
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dmytro-oreo · 1 month ago
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YO! New blog post! I honestly think this one might be my favorite yet. It is for Thanksgiving, and it was inspired by an old political cartoon I came across. Check it out! I put a lot of effort into it. Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate!!!!
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trumpdump · 27 days ago
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Who’s this gonna piss off today? The right or the left? Lol
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miiiwu · 2 months ago
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transgender American mutuals i am holding ur hand. not *just* to reassure YOU, but because *I* am so fucking scared and i need to hold someone’s hand 😭
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alex51324 · 3 months ago
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One thing I haven't seen mentioned nearly enough here on Tumblr is that the other day, at a townhall-style campaign event here in Pennsylvania, Trump decided halfway through to just...stop taking questions, and put on some tunes instead.
According to the Washington Post, his handlers tried to get him back on task, even sending the message, "Please do two more questions before music" to his teleprompter screen, but it did not work, and Trump ended up requesting songs and swaying to them for over half an hour.
His selections reportedly included two versions of "Ave Maria," "YMCA" by the Village People, and Rufus Wainwright's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."
(Wainwright has objected, calling the unauthorized use of the song "blasphemous." I concur; one of my vivid memories of Trump's election in 2016 was how Cohen's death--the day before US election day, but announced after--added to the sense of profound hopelessness. So for Trump to take his dick out and piss on that song--after Cohen's estate objected to its use at this year's RNC--just really bugs the shit out of me.
Or, as Wainwright said, "the good in me hopes that perhaps in inhabiting and really listening to the lyrics of Cohen’s masterpiece, Donald Trump just might experience a hint of remorse over what he’s caused. I’m not holding my breath.”
A cease-and-desist has been served to the Trump campaign.)
But anyway, the main point is that this is a deeply bizarre, unhinged thing to do at a campaign stop.
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howtostartarevolution · 2 months ago
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There is a blueprint on how to become a dictator out there in the world.
There is also a blueprint of how to get rid of dictators out there in the world.
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tomorrowusa · 7 months ago
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RFK Jr. is taking the side of Confederate statue worshipers. He really doesn't like the removal of monuments to a treasonous and pro-slavery entity called the Confederate States of America.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denounced the removal of hundreds of Confederate statues and other monuments across the United States after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. In a podcast interview that aired live on Friday from the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, Mr. Kennedy, an independent candidate for president, portrayed the removal of statues honoring the Confederacy as “destroying history,” echoing similar comments made by former President Donald J. Trump in support of the monuments. [ ... ] Statues and other monuments glorifying the Confederacy were erected — most at the height of the Jim Crow era — as part of a movement to advance the Lost Cause myth, which in various iterations depicted the Confederacy’s rebellion as a noble defense of Southern values or falsely asserted that the Civil War was fought over “states’ rights,” not slavery. Many of the monuments also distort history by portraying Black Americans as loyal to white Southerners in their enslavement.
This puts RFK Jr. on the same side as Donald Trump.
Trump equated their removal to “changing history” when he defended some participants of a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, who had gathered to protect the statue of Lee that was later removed. Mr. Trump later resisted efforts to rename nine southern Army bases that had been named for treasonous Confederate generals who fought against the U.S. Army.
President Biden has taken the opposite view, saying that such monuments have no place in 21st century America. Biden is the only candidate who stands against traitorous racists.
As a candidate in 2020, President Biden supported the removal of Confederate statues, as well as the renaming of the Army bases, which was ultimately carried out during his administration.
By coincidence, today (May 29th) is the birthday of the late President John F. Kennedy. JFK would be ashamed of his idiotic anti-vax, pro-Confederate nephew.
In 1963 President Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard to assist in the integration of the University of Alabama – the last segregated state university in the US. Alabama's segregationist Gov. George Wallace physically stood in the door to block two black students but gave way when confronted by the federalized National Guard.
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That evening, on 11 June 1963, the president addressed the country on the topic of civil rights. Here is how historians now view the events surrounding that day.
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Gov. Wallace went on to run as a third party candidate in the 1968 presidential election. Of course he didn't win but his presence in the election helped to elect Richard Nixon who gave the US the Watergate scandal and the invasion of Cambodia.
RFK Jr. is a lot more in the tradition of George Wallace than John F. Kennedy. Don't be fooled by RFK Jr.'s family name; most of his siblings and cousins have denounced him and declared their support for the Biden-Harris ticket in 2024.
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ausetkmt · 1 year ago
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A Georgia judge on Friday denied bond for Harrison Floyd, the only one of 18 co-defendants in former President Donald Trump’s election interference case in Fulton County to stay in jail, and the former Black Voices for Trump leader has a history of politics and legal trouble.
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Floyd, a 39-year-old U.S. Marine veteran, served as the director of the political group Black Voices for Trump during the 2020 election cycle, and was charged last week in the Fulton County case with violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, for influencing a witness and conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements.
According to the indictment, Floyd pressured Ruby Freeman, an election worker in Fulton County, after she refused to change the results of the county’s vote in the 2020 election for Trump, with Freeman testifying before the House January 6 Committee last year that she was forced to leave her home for two months and quit her job after receiving threats after the election.
Floyd, a graduate of George Washington University, had become a prominent Republican in Georgia in recent years, running in 2019 for a Congressional seat.
Floyd dropped out of the race just over a month after announcing his candidacy, saying he “might be the guy doing this in the future,” while expressing his support for a GOP state representative in his place (Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux won the district in 2020).
In 2020, Floyd led the organization Black Voices for Trump, and also served as executive producer of right-wing outlet Bright News and as a partner at Washington D.C.-based Commonwealth International, according to his LinkedIn page.
Floyd had been charged in a separate case in May with second-degree assault and arrested for allegedly attacking an FBI agent who had served him a grand jury subpoena in the Department of Justice’s investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
According to a complaint in federal District Court in Maryland, Floyd refused to accept the subpoena, putting his finger to the face of one of two FBI agents who arrived at his residence, yelling: “You haven’t given me anything; I don’t know who the f**k you are.”
Later that night, Floyed called 911, accusing the agents of accosting him and saying: “They were lucky I didn’t have a gun on me, because I would have shot his fucking ass,” the Huffington Post reported.
Forbes has reached out to Floyd’s court-listed attorney in Maryland, Carlos Salvado—Floyd does not have an attorney listed in the Georgia case.
On Friday, Fulton County Judge Emily Richardson denied bond for Floyd after he determined he posed a flight risk and a risk to commit further criminal felonies if released on bail (Georgia state law requires defendants to be determined to pose no “significant risk of fleeing” and pose no “threat or danger to any person” or of committing a felony to be released on bail).
What To Watch For
Richardson said in her determination on Friday that the terms of Floyd’s bond “will be addressed,” but that the full terms fall on Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the case. Floyd, however, has contested his bond denial, telling Richardson on Friday: “There is no way I’m a flight risk. I showed up here before the president was here.”
Tangent
Trump was indicted by a grand jury in Fulton County last week on 13 felony counts, including racketeering, solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, conspiracy to commit forgery, false statements and conspiracy to impersonate a public officer.. After just over a week, Trump surrendered to authorities in a brief procedure on Thursday, posting a $200,000 bond after giving a mug shot and his fingerprints before promptly leaving Georgia. All 18 of his co-defendants also turned themselves in by Friday, with Pastor Stephen Lee becoming the last to do so before the 12 p.m. deadline, following a group of former Trump aides and attorneys, as well as so-called fake electors in Trump’s legal team’s dubious plot to overturn the results of his election loss to President Joe Biden.
Further Reading
Trump Co-Defendant Harrison Floyd Denied Bond: Why He’s Still In Jail (Forbes)
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alex51324 · 2 months ago
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Let's also note that Biden saying Trump supporters are "garbage" has been all over the news--he has (plausibly, IMO) claimed that he meant to say that the Puerto Rico "joke," and related statements at the rally, was garbage, not the people watching--but three days later, this is the first I'm hearing about this particular remark.
I know it's not an original observation, that Trump says six things before breakfast that would be major scandals for anyone else, but here's a crystal-clear example:
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Yep, Trump calling for the slaughter of his political enemies is pretty much what we expect from Trump; Biden saying that the people who cheered while he said it are garbage--which, again, probably not what he intended to say, but also true and he should say it--is a "gaffe" that could cost Harris the election.
(Personally, I wish he'd go full Trump just this once, and double down. Clarify that he did mean for that to be an inside thought, but now that he's said it, he stands by it--you cheer for fascist garbage, you're garbage by association. Them's the breaks; if you don't like it, stop cheering for garbage.)
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It’s sickening that anyone supports that monster. He should be losing by double digits.).
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usatodayn · 3 days ago
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Brenton Wood cause of death: The singer passed away at 83 years old.Raaaa
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