Another TACO moment?

@newjaninev2 😂🤣Yes I do

@DarthInvader подживем увидим 😀

@newjaninev2 HA! Good luck.

@Thrust Temporary.....means stopped.
This woman is facing deportation.
Is she one of Trump's worst of the worst?

@JSul3

Temporary means not permanent. You expect they can freeload forever. You thought wrong.

America is for Americans. Not the rest of the world’s debris

@Thrust The world's debris?

Is that what you call your ancestors?

Those here on TP should be given a path to citizenship.

@DarthInvader You're waist deep in a scorching case of TDS. You don't even live in America but let its leader drive you to distraction.

You're so impotent with rage, you have to soothe yourself by picking fights with Trump supporters.

But that just demonstrates your pathology and leaves you empty and hollow.

@SumKindaMunster
Aaaand BINGO!!! WE HAVE A WINNER. Thank you for proving me Right 😂🤣😂🤣🤣 This. This is why you LINKED THE POST. 😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣This is What you were looking for😂🤣😂🤣🤣. As a wise man once said, keep them talking long enough and they'll eventually reveal themselves 😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣

@DarthInvader LMAO, the classic fallback “You’re not American!” 🤦‍♂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣 Yet you want all the glory of the “leader of the free world.” 😂🤣😂🤣 Meanwhile, you completely dismiss my Kamala post, so am I suffering from Kamala Syndrome too, or does that only apply to the dear leader? 😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣

Breathe, dude. This wasn’t about America, it was about Trump. Or maybe you just don’t have opinions on world leaders?

Now I’m raging? I thought you said I’d be gasping for air from all the hysterical laughter. 🤣😂🤣🤣🤣 Make up your mind, bro.

@MoveAlong What you're missing is the concept that the tariffs are designed to drive manufacturing back into the US. As tariffs are absorbed into pricing from overseas suppliers, more purchase decisions will gravitate towards US manufactured products. That incentivizes manufacturers to invest into the US economy and build their goods here.

Rebuilding the manufacturing base is essential to middle class wage growth, and is also critical to our national security. We can't rely on our adversaries to provide us with the resources we need when we need them.

Perhaps you can recall the days when your average blue collar worker provided a good living wage without having a have both parents working. I doubt we'll ever get back to those days, but the middle class has taken quite the beating since the advent of NAFTA and bringing China into the WTO. Tariffs are designed to reverse the poor results of bad trade negotiations. The rust belt will flourish once again.

@carpediemI understand what trump is thinking. I can't say for sure he's wrong. But the manufacturing base we used to have left for a reason. We can buy products from other sources cheeper than we can make them at home. The only way we're going to get it back is to be able to manufacture goods cheeper than we can import them. He thinks if we make imported products more expensive via tariffs it will reach a point that we can produce those goods cheeper than we can import them. OK, that sounds good. So now we open factories and ramp up production and start turning out goods. Great. Who do we sell them to. Not China. Not Southeast Asia. Not India or Bangladesh. They make their own commodities. Not Europe. Not Australia. Not Canada. They buy from China, India Bangladesh and Asia.

So what do we do with our products that other countries can make buy and export cheeper. I guess we sell to ourselves. Great all we need are malls and factories. We make and buy our own goods. That is a formula for stagnation. A fish cannot eat it's tail forever. And there is no margin for the wealthy and powerful to skim from the top.

We live in a global economy. We can either participate and compete or drop out and flounder.


“We’re all going to become so rich you won’t know where to spend all that money.”-Donald Trump
“Jobs in factories will come roaring back into our country” - Donald Trump

That is hyperbole and we all know it except you know who. But that's trump.

@MoveAlong As a developer, Trump is self promoter. I accept that and it doesn't bother me. So the hyperbole concern is not one I share. As for tariffs, do you not think other countries have tariffs on US goods? Think again. Not only tariffs, but non-tariff related methods to keep our goods off their streets. Japan is an expert at this.

Cheap labor isn't everything. I used to think it was the unions who drove the demise of the "rust belt". As I grew and became better educated, I realize that taxes have even greater impact. Monetary policy also has a tremendous impact. Many countries manipulate their currency to keep their goods competitively low against the domestic goods within a country. China has been doing that for a long time. Trump's first round of tariffs on China in his first term were easily absorbed that way. It's a balancing act and the scales have been stacked against us. And there's more to the equation than mentioned herein.

I assume you're a reasonably astute thinker and pay attention. If my assumption is correct, then you'll see deeper than the headlines. Trump is securing investment into the US both through private investment, but also direct governmental inflows. Also patent rights and infringements thereof by bad actors like China and much more.

You state we will never sell product in China. Perhaps you're right about selling cheap crap. But what about vehicles and other large dollar hard goods? If the playing field is a level one, we have a chance. As it has been, we have none. SE Asia has great potential as a growing and developing region. We either have access to those markets or we shut those markets out of ours. I can tell you they do NOT want to shut out access to the US consumer market. It's what's growing their own economies.

You're welcome to throw in the towel and surrender to globalist entities looking out for themselves. I choose not to and want someone who will battle for my country. Trump fits the bill perfectly. Is he perfect? No of course not. But he's performing a level that exceeded my expectations. Not speaking for others, but I suggest many feel the same way.

@Khenpal1 Tariffs are legal and the President can set them. The thing is that most people think that they are paid by foreign countries. All they have to do is to raise the price of the products to cover the cost of the tariffs. That means that the importer will pay a higher price and the consumer will pay a lot extra, depending on what the middle men charge.

Look at it like this:

You have been selling me a product for $10. I set a tariff of 50% ($5). Would you really give me $5 to buy the item I have been selling to you for $10?

@Diotrephes Pure speculation

@Khenpal1 That's just the way it works. That's the way it's always worked. We will not know the exact numbers bc trump kills the messengers.

Consumers will know every time they go to the store though and when they don't have any money left at the end of the month.

https://apnews.com/article/inflation-trump-fed-powell-prices-8842d6ebca9d1870983e678e578d2091