Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

Post by arandomusername » Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 2:42 PM UTC

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I wasn't talking about Trump specifically, or even conservatives. Everyone on both sides automatically thinks the worst about everyone on the other side these days, usually just to score some internet points. It's a terrible way to go through life. We should show a little grace sometimes.

This dumb bothsiderism take is exactly the reason for the shitstorm hitting US right now. People really need to stop sane washing everything he says and try to actually have an objective glance at him and take him for who he is: a con man. He made a majority of conservatives as goddamn fools, voting against their own best interests because he said he'll punish the right people. Spoiler alert: he instead concentrated…

Post by lukas099 » Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 2:45 PM UTC

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This is why I don't know if he will/would actually hold fast through the turbulence of actually implementing anything he's threatened. Once we eat through inventories and stuff that left the ports & currently on the water, prices will go up. The country went insane when inflation crossed 5%, are we really going to do it again.. when the reason for it will be so singularly obvious?

Whilst the reason may be singularly obvious to those who consume various forms and sources of media, there's likely enough people that only consume re-published whitehouse press releases and the trump administration probably already has an alternative explanation that they'll use for these increased prices. And their target market will eat it up and ask for seconds.

Post by Aurornis » Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 2:49 PM UTC

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> Why is no one highlighting how this is repeating history 8 years ago? Because it’s not? The tariffs which are currently in effect or soon to go into effect are so far out of line with anything in modern history that there is no comparison. The reason everyone is panicking is because people expected more of the same as 8 years ago but instead we got something massively worse, without a hint of cohesive strategy, and…

Lol there was no 'cohesive strategy' 8 years ago, what the heck you wtite about. You suffer some memory loss? He was chaotic, he was doing ego polishing reality show from day 1. The only difference was a 'barrier of sanity' that people around him formed, dampening his bipolar outbursts into more reasonable actions (or lack of thereof, often without his knowledge). He eventually fired all of them, forgot that part? No…

Post by Aurornis » Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 2:51 PM UTC

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Only on China, the rest were largely removed.

> Only on China, the rest were largely removed. No they weren't. They were changed to 10%. Prior to all of this the average was 2.5%. So that's not a removal at all, but a rather large average increase even if you exclude the omglol China rate.

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 3:00 PM UTC

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It's funny, (well, not funny ) because the social issues are the ones where the toothpaste doesn't go back in the bottle. Progress over the long run only goes in the right direction, there's no path to undoing broad acceptance of homosexuality just like we'll never go back to forbidding interracial marriage or women voting. So the top 1% will benefit economically from the right being in power, but the rest will spend…

Iran would like a word.