#what do tarrifs do?

[there-goes-trouble]

Sorry for no I.D. on next link:

[thatsleepymermaid]

People keep wondering how Trump won, but honestly it's relatively easy to see. On top of the far right turn that usually takes place after disasters, there's a few other factors at play. Mainly, inflation.

The average American doesn't have a clue what's going on in their government (state or federal) or around the world. I tried talking to a local about Palestine, and she thought it was another word for Pakistan. Right now the biggest concern I've heard from my neighbors is actually groceries and gas prices.

Biden failed to address inflation, and Harris didn't have a solid plan. Neither did Trump, but Trump did say he was going to decrease prices, and the people in my rural area here remember everything being cheaper in 2017 but not much else. That includes just about every racial group present in my neighborhood. We don't have widespread Internet and most people get the news from satellite TV news, so they are uninformed about most things.

(logistics are tricky for people to keep in mind when their wallets are on the line)

On top of that, Trump promised high tax returns for many income brackets . That extra money looks awfully good if you're struggling to afford groceries right now. Regardless of if he's going to do it or not. (Prices will probably get higher because of the proposed tarrifs). People want to keep their own fed and safe, regardless of foreign affairs or civil rights. The second Trump's team announced their tax return plan I knew he was going to be elected. I'm just surprised I predicted it before Allan Lichtman.

I don't know where this post is going, but don't blame other left-leaning people for voting 3rd party or being pro-Palestine. If you really want to figure out the general consensus among average Americans, talk to your neighbors. Join a local Facebook page. Organize and build community as much as possible. We will need it in these difficult years.

[xclowniex]

To all my US followers, please vote for biden. Like I get that voting in the US is simply voting for the lesser evil and that can be demotivating, but what people don't understand is that US laws surrounding imports and exports can seriously fuck with the economys of other countries.

Like trumps tarrif policy that he is wanting to bring in, will have serious effects on the NZ economy as NZ exports to the US is a decent chunk of our exports.

Even if you think voting is a waste of time or that there won't be much difference in the US (which isn't true but ignoring that), at least vote so people in other countries do not suffer for your decision.

[importantmentalityphilosopher]

What you Trumptards don't understand about Trump's tarrifs is that it hurt farmers and consumers in general. Now to the subject of high gas prices and grocery prices; Canada has high gas prices and grocery prices. Is this Biden't fault. Trump likes to think he had/has something to do with lowering prices of everything and that's just some more kool aide he's throwing at you. As to the wars in the world; Afghanistan was still going on when he was President. He let 5000 Taliban Prisoners out of prison includin their leader. He made a deal with them to form a strategy for a pull out. He bragged that once this started it couldn't be undone. It set us up for the 13 who were killed.

LMAO, I hope to God this is an AI Bot and not a real human since that would be absolutely pathetic. Entertaining but definitely pathetic.

[thecursivej]

Live Reactions Harris vs. Trump pt. 1 of ??

Oh this is very, VERY, debate-y.

DAMN HE SCARED! Cowering while Kamala is like "Hiiii"

Did David Muir just say it was Kamala and Trump were elected 4 years ago? Weird

Ope, looks like Donny is already struggling to stay awake.

Definitely doing better than Biden did. It seems she's been practicing impromptu speaking (slay).

Okay... but are we better than we were four years ago? (I personally say yes, but the american people need to see you answering this question).

LMAO not trump giving the lil' nod at "he's gonna do what he's done before"

Already very respectful, very straightforward, great connection to the camera (and in turn the audience through the camera).

Donald...Tarrifs end up hurting people because they raise the....SALES TAX. Ayiyiyi.

Damn, already blaming immigration.

Trump brought up African American jobs and fucking Kamala looks like she wanted to cackle.

LOOK AT HER FLOOOOW (if you're a debate kid/coach, you know)

He's so upset, because he knows she's spitting the truth.

Welp, jan 6th very passively mentioned; mark your bingo cards.

Damn, great rebuttals from Harris. Trump isn't event really rebutting.

BIDEN MENTIONED. MARK YOUR BINGO CARDS.

Have...have you looked at her plans? Donny boy?

THANK YOU DAVID MUIR FOR PRESSING; HELL FUCKING YEAH.

...bruther you do not understand the economy. What the fuckeroni and cheese are you saying?

My ass is mirroring Kamala's expression before the camera even shows her.

Yeah, call his ass out Kamala. Call his ass out. But also pls answer the question; why we keeping them tarrifs?

Okay so, if you've got "someone doesn't answer the question" go ahead and mark that shit if you haven't.

I love Harris just being like "Bro what the fuckeroni and cheese is this?"

MARK HARRIS LAUGHS, GOOD FOR HER.

LMAO That Marxist reaction is AMAZING.

OPE, ABORTION, HERE WE GO BESTIES.

WHO THE FUCK IS ABORTING A CHILD AT NINE MONTHS!? That is murder, not abortion.

LMAO Tim being out of it?

WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY SAYING THIS SHIT!? Yeah, no, making up bullshit right now.

....Does Trump know what Roe even is?

Each state that's voted for abortion to be in their state's constitution HAS VOTED YES AND ENSHRINED IT. WE DIDN'T NEED TO OVERTURN ROE YOU DUMBASS.

THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION THAT YOU CANNOT AND NOWHERE IN THE U.S. IS IT LEGAL TO KILL A CHILD ONCE IT'S BEEN BORN HELLO!?

Great job with the response, Kamala. Truly, a wonderful response. ESPECIALLY calling on religious differences and faiths.

Girl her use of rhetorical questions is just so... so... GOOD. As a public speaking professor, this shit slaps.

PROJECT 2025 MENTIONED, MARK YOUR BINGO CARDS

I'm about to molly-whop Donny boy (spiritually in my heart pls leave me tf alone FBI)

Bruther your actions speak louder than their words.

IMPOSSIBLE!? HELLO!? Nah dawg, never tell me the odds.

Ope, student loans mentioned, mark your bingo cards.

HELL YEAH PUSH FOR THAT YES/NO!!!!

Annnnd no yes/no. Not worth it.

MMMMHMMM YOU TELL THAT ORANGE CHEETO PUFF THAT NO ONE IS ASKING FOR THEIR NINE MONTH OLD CHILD TO BE MERKED.

Kamala did answer the question; she would support reinstating all the protections from Roe v. Wade.... but as we see that isn't enough. There needs to be a clear outline of what to do.

NOPE YOU DON'T GET TO RESPOND CUT THE FUCKING MIC ABC

Welp I've got a bingo already, 26 minutes in...holy fuckeroni and cheese.

WW3 mentioned

Once again, no answer from 45.

Welp, here he goes continuing to peddle the false info about Haitian immigrants (who did legally immigrate here) eating people's pets; which the Mayor and PD have DEBUNKED. Fucking wild

I love that Kamala looks so fucking concerned for his brain.

LMAO LOVE DAVID MUIR CLAPPING BACK AT TRUMP

PFFFTTTT "I heard it from people on TV" BITCH WHAT!?

I love Harris just giggling at the absurdity.

I feel like the only noise in Donny's head right now is the AOL startup noises.

God... I'm so fucking done with his bullshit and we're only 34 minutes in.

What's hysterical is the Biden admin KEPT Trump's immigration policies... bruther. The fuck?

Here he goes again about migrant-crime

SLAY TO DAVID MUIR CORRECTING SHIT AGAIN

Can we just cut his fucking mic already?

CONVICT MENTIONED MARK YOUR BINGO CARDS!

I am fucking cackling.

Mmmm good use of rhetoric, Kamala. Good job.

Kamala looks so done with this bullshit. If I was up there debating, I'd have written down "what the fuck is this fucker saying?"

Democracy mentioned

CUT OFF HIS MICCCCCC

Slay to Lindsey asking the hard questions.

Mmmm, good job focusing in on fracking since she's in Pennsylvania....BUT ALSO FUCK FRACKING....But also yeah we do need various forms of energy...BUT NOT AT THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE PLANET PLEASE.

"I was given a small loan of a million dollars" dawg... that's not small....

Oh fuck off Trump, you get to talk while she talks? But when she does? You're so angry? Fuck off.

CUT THE MIC FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST JESUS

Jesus christ he goes over time just fucking cut off the damn mic.

He definitely isn't gonna answer about Jan 6. He's just gonna deny deny deny. "I think IT'S gonna be big" BITCH!?

I'm so sick of this shit already.

MMM GOOD ON KAMALA CALLING OUT THE BLOODBATH COMMENTS. HOLD HIM TO IT GIRL.

Legit fuck off Donny. You're not fooling anyone.

....Named two fox news hosts....not very reliable motherfucker.

He knows he's losing when he says "let's leave this debate right now"

BRUTHER HE ISN'T PRESIDENT.

Mark "random personal attack" for biden.

CUT HIS MIC, DAVID, DAMN.

DAMN STRAIGHT YOU LOST FUCKO.

"Fired by 81 million people" GIRL ATE. AND READ. BECAUSE READING IS FUNDEMENTALLY.

Y'all I am maniacally cackling at the way he's getting roasted as hell.

VICTOR ORBEL?! WE GONNA FOCUS ON THAT FACIST HURTING HIS OWN COUNTRY!?

Jesus just cut the mics. Lord almighty.

Oh here we go; Israel and Hamas... this should be interesting (for anyone worried; I am Pro Palestine through and through; fuck Benjamin Netanyahu)

So Kamala's main phrase is "Let's look at how we got here"

We have to be freedom for Palestine; but if we don't cut off Bibi? Then they will destroy all of Palestine so we won't get a two state solution, Kamala. For fuck's sake, they (IDF) killed an American protesting in Israel.

Why...are we talking about Ukraine right now? Hello?

This would absolutely have happened under Trump and with his anti-semitism? It probably would've been worse.

Weird fucking compliment to ABC from Donny, that ain't gonna help tho.

Ayiyiyi.

WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT UKRAINE?!

Already, that's it for this part, go get a snack and water, I need to scream into the void. BRB

[tengritexas]

Alright here we go chat

Im playing an interesting game endorsing a candidate on tumblr but Im going to anyways. You can like it not like I dont care its cool.

This blog is aimed to remain apolitical but in the past few months its become increasingly hard to do so. Im now at the point where I must encourage you to vote.

I will be publicly endorsing Donald J Trump. And while Im certain that upsets most of my followers its important to clarify Id rather be your friend and win a heart than win a mind.

I do this for the sake of perserving a good conscious for myself

My reasons for endorsing Donald J Trump are as follows

-The shift of Taxes to Tarrifs:

Under the Trump administration you will not be taxed on tips or for working overtime. Instead that money will come from Tarrifs placed on China which will double as support for american factories and american jobs.

-The chronic health epidemic:

Robert Kennedy (under the trump administration) aims to stop the chronic health epidemic which I think is crucial not only for American youth but also for global health moving forward

-Defunding of CIA operations

Literally just yesterday multiple agencies raided a man over a rabid squirrel in what almost seems like a twisted comedy sketch.

Keep it plainly there are 2 sides of the CIA, one of which does not like you and wants to keep (what I believe) very important spiritual discoveries from the public eye. These discoveries need to become more publicly available

UNDER TRUMP, the CIA lost considerable funding which I believe has led to both assasination attempts. Trump hires private investment firms our of fear that this previously mention sector of the CIA acts autonously and unconstitutionally. This was briefly mentioned in the NASA UAP hearings of 2023

-Media machines/Smoke and Mirrors

I believe the media machine is a marvel of the elite class that currently rules America. I still have not been presented with a case of how Harris will solve the very real and very critical issues (thats not to say they arent there I merely havent seen them) her campaign has been essentially smoke and mirrors. If she wins it appears to me more so a victory for the media machine (which I have a personal vendetta against) than it being because of her capabilites

-Moral conscious and the Eagle Pass Crisis

I am a Tengrist and believe I should not disturb the natural order of things. Harris as the border czar has disturbed the natural order of Texas autonmy. She has done something which seems to me extremely irresponsible. Threatening to shoot Texas rangers and sending in national guard is something I will take serious. Those are my friends, my brothers, the people I see in class and you will not threaten my neighbors.

- The global stage and forever wars

While I think Trump makes overly ambitious claims that "the ukraine war will end in a month" and "israel will stop fighting in a month". I still think this is comperatively more optomistic than his counterpart. I personally do believe Trump having the only administration in which no war started is remarkable. The track record favors Trump here (though I do not believe he will wave a wand and create peace)

- What I do not see on the ballot

I have not seen any suggestions or signs of Trump wanting to take away any rights that the American people already possess. There seems to be this idea that we will move backwards. He supports LGBTQA+ platforms, He supports many diverse universities. Even recieved endorsements from Trans communities. I have seen people argue that your rights are on the ballot, I have not seen this to be true unless you are of the 1% that owns bump stocks (he did want to ban those but its related to guns)

Its your vote, and I suggest you vote your conscious as well. But I hope youll take these points into consideration.

For the sky, for the ground, for the soul.

[anonymous-bastard]

Do you know if what is going on with the US is going to affect the European Union?

There is so much going on lately I don't know who to ask and where to find that information.

-🪡's mun

That's a difficult question, one that I am not exactly qualified to answer. But I'll try, with the asterisk of "this is all to the best of my knowledge"

First of all: don't panic. The EU IS prepared for this. They planned what they'd do if Trump wins.

But yes. It will effect us, because US-American politics always effect us. And the effect of a Trump administration are probably going to be bad. Trump and the EU, in general, don't like one another.

Just looking at his previous term, the EU and the US got extremely estranged. A lot of trust was lost on the EUs side.

It's not great for the economy; Trump really hates the trade deficit between the US and the EU and is likely going to end up trying to impose higher import tarrifs again. And the EU will respond with her own tarrifs. But this isn't new; we got through it before.

Something to keep an eye on in the news is the whole military topic: NATO, military aid to Ukraine, US troops in Europe etc. I have absolutely no clue what will happen on that front though.

Trump will roll back environmental protection. I probably don't need to explain why that's bad.

You can expect Trump to embolden our own right-wing parties. The right-wing shift in our countries is something we can and should do something against.

From what I can rememeber of the last Trump presidency, it'll basically be one scandal after another. There will constantly be stupid, scary shit happening. Some of us will affect us directly.

TLDR: Things are looking grimm. But none of this is new. We know Trump. We are prepared.

As to where to find information: search on trustsworthy news sites. Talk to people you trust about it, eg your parents, family, teachers, friends parents, etc. Try to get unbiased information, use multiple sources, consider more than one point of view. Question people's/ new's sites/ etc. intention, especially on the internet. Why are they giving you this information? Are they trying to provoke an emotion?

And you didn't ask about this, but it'll be important anyway:

You will most likely feel scared. Helpless. Angry. Resentful.

And those things put together? Will mean you're looking for someone to blame.

Don't blame the average US-American. It'll be easy, so so fucking easy to do.

To project all these vile feelings onto them. To look at the bullshit in the world, the bullshit happening to your European brothers and sister and feel nothing but hate. To take the fact that you feel helpless and project it onto the nearest American as an easy target to take the blame.

Don't.

[breaking-everything]

Going to take a break because I'm only venting until Trump Pussy Neck starts banning free speech. So much for "little government".

He's going to install laws similar to Russia that we can't even criticize his ass and his shitass idea of religion.

Every MAGA that has "Free Thinker" on their bios are clowning themselves. You're slaves to a demented geriatric serial rapist's beliefs that will raise your taxes because you make under 300k and took credit for Obama's economy you dumbasses swore was Trump's doing.

Republicans fuck it up, democrats pick it up and it takes awhile to fix it before you tank it again swearing it was democrats' fault.

Enjoy your listeria infected food, your higher prized goods with those stupid tarrifs that will affect all products coming in and no baby formula again for all those forced babies his lonely ugly virgin incels salivate about touching.

Hey, you are what you voted for.

[anexperimentallife]

I love Kobo so much. Using the app because my reader finally gave up the ghost, and have to wait to get a new one until we do a mandatory trip to Malaysia in 2025 to reset our visas, because the Philippines has ridiculous tarrifs on electronics.

No, really--what we'd save on a new eReader, replacement phones, and maybe a cheap replacement laptop for @thesurestthing will MORE than pay for the trip.

(I mean, it'll have to go on credit cards, obviously, but Zoey's laptop is literally like, twelve years old, we only replace our phones when they start dying--which I'm sure they will be by then--flying out of the country every three years is MANDATORY for visa purposes, and a new eReader is the only actual luxury purchase I'm planning when we go.)

Yeah, I know Kindle and Note have more selections, but I like Kobo's business model.

[staticespace]

I'm going to focus less on blaming voters and more on blaming the absolute lackluster bullshit of the Democratic party.

They had "experts" and "qualified personnel," and they knew what people wanted. And they still gave the most milqtoast responses to shit, prompting Democratic voters to not show up and allowing Republican voters to sit in ignorance that we are the ones going to pay the tarrifs Trump has been ragging on about, not China or Mexico.

I want to be done blaming people with less power and influence than a goddamn politician.

I know I'm gonna slip into punching down or to my sides sometimes, but I want to really emphasize this.

People voted hard enough for what we were presented with.

Our current circumstances are the results of high-level political and social failings, not just who voted and why.

We need, more than before, to build a sense of community against the industrial and economic leaders literally sucking us dry. Doing so protects human rights, liberties, and keeps us from slipping further into fascism than this country already has.

We know Trickle Down Economics is a fucking sham, and it's about time we organized in ways that demands both major parties stop acting like it exists.

[wingedpastafreakbat]

I Collect BJDs, Too. Trump's Second Term Should Alarm You.

We should all know by now that Trump winning the presidency this year is catastrophic for the basic human rights of minorities in the US (and abroad, let's be completely honest here). He is planning to enact a political playbook of draconian laws meant to 'bring back' a fictional ideal of the US, one that sees everyone subservient to conservative cishet white men. This is not fear-mongering, it is simply a cold hard fact that the people backing him financially have a lot to gain from instilling a form of government that solely caters to their whims and desires, and a lot of the Project 2025 playbook not only gives the power to white men in general over that of women, LGBTQIA+, and BIPOC people within our boarders, but will give power to the wealthy white men in this country who want to own everything, including our very bodies.

This should concern you. I don't know how else to express to you that it should concern you. There are not enough words at my disposal to express just how dire this situation is for all of us. And if you aren't concerned, and you're a BJD collector like I am, then allow me to make it personal so you can understand.

These tarrifs will result in much narrower access to BJDs as a whole.

I'll use Volks as an example: Volks has a store based in the US, in Los Angeles. They send this store batches of dolls and clothes and wigs and eyes and replacement parts periodically to help keep them stocked. When they run out of a thing (unless that thing was being phased out/replaced/discontinued), the employees make a list of what they need, use their own profits to pay for it, and then Volks would send them new stock to fill the gaps. When the tarrifs take hold, this new stock will be more expensive, since Japan in general will be forced to pay higher import tarrifs. That means the US Volks location will have to spend more money on the restock shipments, which will in turn make the dolls more expensive so that Volks can maintain a substantial profit margin; but these tarrifs will backfire, because a 20%-60% increase will not translate to good profit for Volks, which means the US location will be shuttered to keep Volks from hemorrhaging money, which means your only option would be to buy your dolls from Japan... and you'd be paying the extra shipping money, because it will still cost Volks extra money to ship dolls into the US. This may result in Volks choosing not to ship dolls to the US at all, meaning you won't be able to buy any of their dolls again unless you can find a third party willing to spend their own money to send you these dolls at even higher prices that include the profit THEY need to make for doing so.

Lots of doll companies are not as big as Volks. A lot of them are considerably smaller. The smaller ones will cease operations in the US entirely right off the bat. Some will hold on, but eventually abandon us as a market. A lot of independant BJD artists in the US will not be able to make and sell their dolls because there are no well known (non-scammer) resin workers who will be able to help create a solid product the way that companies like Volks or Ringdoll or Lutz or Minifee can offer. Recast companies will also cease operations in the US, because they still need to import the recasts from the counterfeit suppliers in other countries who won't be able to afford the tarrifs point blank period. So if you thought that recasts would be an option, think again (they shouldn't be one anyway, but that's a different convo that we aren't gonna have right now).

Dolls have always been a luxury, I admit. It took me seven years to save up and buy the three girls that I have. One of them is just a floating head. She may never get a body now, since I can't afford to buy one right now and may never have the chance to do so by the time the tarrifs hit.

These tarrifs, these policies, will affect vast swathes of non-American products, like snacks, drinks, food, entertainment, and toys. One of the big ones that overlaps with the BJD community, anime and manga, will likely vanish, as it will likely be deemed 'too adult' by the religious extremists in power. You will lose access to these things and you will not have another chance to get them for a very very very long time. By the time you do have the chance, some of the BJD companies whose market focus has been the USA might be completely gone. SmartDoll, for example: their company relies on US consumption of their products, and they market HEAVILY to the US market because we are a really really easy demographic to market to on the global stage. Danny has staked a LOT of his company into our willingness to buy his extremely westernized anime dolls. They are not very popular in Japan, and he focuses very little on other markets where his negative behavior isn't as readily tolerated. Unless he does a massive pivot to a different market... SmartDolls will be gone. I won't speak on how I personally feel about SmartDoll, but I know that a LOT of people love his product, and will be utterly devastated when they can never buy them again.

So, if you are in this community and voted for him, you should be worried. I know there are people in this community who did, because I've seen the alarming uptick of conservative rhetoric in this community first hand. At the end of the day, you are probably just as disillusioned with the US government and chose to vote accordingly. Even if that meant voting for a felon who has a vetted interest in toppling our current democratic structures and isolating the US economically and cleansing it ethnically and religiously. You will lose access to your dolls.

Be ready for that.

[the-dear-skull]

Best case scenario: He's too old to really do anything and just vibes as a mascot while states do what they want.

Worst case scenario: He dies and JD Vance becomes tradcat incel Caesar

What I think is going to happen: Given he can't run again, he's not going to give a shit about anyone or anything. He's going to impose the tarrifs, which will make things more expensive. The GOP are going to get angry at him because reducing inflation was their one thing post Roe. He might do an executive order getting rid of term limits, but he's already shitting himself in public; he's not living that long. The new partisan line isn't immigration or abortion, but whether or not you think women should be sex slaves.

[cirie-won-thirty-four]

Tarrifs are not exactly a bad idea but if you are incentivizing local manufacturing but have no solid infrastructure plan to support such an increase in local production then what you’re doing is basically just forcing business owners to raise the cost of goods because they would still have to import, just at a higher cost now lol

[babehog]

Thinking about playing darkrp gmod servers for way too long a time and after doing all the regular roleplaying of being a gun dealer, bandit, mayor etc. Making millions of money from printers and basically getting to know most of the players who regularly populated the server.

Eventually I got so obsessed with one particular role I just could not get enough of. I'd pick hobo, the only role who could build in the streets and then make a castle of breakable boxes occupying a small shortcut street somewhere on the map, and charge tarrifs on paserbys, proclaiming myself King of the Cardboard Castle. Some mods fucking HATED it and it got me banned in the end (because one mod hated my guts for pointing out he broke the rules sometimes).

Saddest thing is I never managed to find another server that allowed me to do this, as soon as I "blocked off" a street an Admin would be called by the first passerby claiming I was "propblocking" despite literally anyone being able to just punch my boxes apart if they didn't want to pay the toll. I think this is what led to me quitting darkrp permanently. The sheer lack of whimsy. No one wanted a fun role playing hobo on their server they just want more gun dealers and bandits and cops.

[junkydrawr]

This is so hard being here at work today at my grocery job. Watching everyone walk around like everything is normal. My Maga coworker cheerfully whistling. Like our whole country isn't going to be crushed by Trump's tarrifs next year and half of us will probably get fired. If I get fired... what do I do? My house will get foreclosed and I'll still owe a roof loan I just got. I'll have nothing. What will happen to my parents who live off SS and my dad's military retirement and his veteran disability? What will happen to my dog when I can't afford to feed her?

And Trump wants this because he's Putins stooge. He wants us to fail. He wants our dollar to be worth shit. He wants to combine Russia and US into a superpower to crush the world. I'm so fucking scared. Im so scared and everyone else is just acting normal.

[seventytwoowls]

If you voted for trump I hope you never know peace. If you chose tarrifs and racism and xenophobia and a stupid shitty fear of anything different over the people you know, your neighbors and your family and maybe even your friends I hope you know that whatever happens next, you caused this. You fucking helped cause this.

I don't believe in hell. But I do believe in migraines and long nights chasing sleep and misery and a longing for death and I hope you feel all of that and more in the next months, years, possibly decades as you see the way people look at you and the way our government looks at them.

I hope you never forget what you did.

I hope it hurts.