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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago (23 children)

"In 2024, China was the top supplier of goods to the United States, accounting for 16.5 percent of total goods imports. U.S. goods imports from China totaled $438.9 billion."

lol that would be hilarious to see. If he manages to piss Mexico and Canada too (same numbers), the USA will import nothing in the next few years.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Yeah, our economy will collapse and we'll all be waiting in bread lines. Can't wait.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (7 children)

gotta love every one in the world laughing at us as we suffer at the hands of lunatics.

doi they understand WE didn't vote for this shit. big because of the stupid ass electorial college here we are.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

well, there was that 40% of shitheads who didn't bother at all.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (9 children)

"I couldn't vote for genocide"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Let's be real, Israel was gonna do whatever the fuck it wanted anyway. The ceasefire was bullshit and now people are so focused on the orange clowns bullshit that soon there won't be any Palestinians left.

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[–] OutlierBlue 19 points 1 week ago

doi they understand WE didn’t vote for this shit.

No, but you're the ones that have to fix it. We can't do it for you.

[–] ThisSeriesIsFalse 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

On the one hand, I want to have sympathy for the suffering of my American neighbours.

On the other hand, you dumbfucks let THAT guy get into power... TWICE! I'd be disappointed if it was just the once, but TWICE!? You people saw how bad it was the first time, and voted for another round. Hearts out to the people who are suffering, but clearly this is what the majority of you want, so I can't feel much sympathy anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

2/3 of the voting populace saw Trump next to Kamala and considered Kamala a bigger threat

So yeah, fuck it. Let the US feel pain.

[–] BlackSheep 11 points 1 week ago

Nearly 90 million people didn’t vote in the 2024 USA election. If you don’t want to become an American, don’t act like one.

🇨🇦 ✊ 🇨🇦 GET OUT AND VOTE 🇨🇦 ✊ 🇨🇦

no excuses: https://www.elections.ca/home.aspx/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

With "we didn't vote for it", do you mean you voted for Kamala Harris, or did you vote third party, or didn't you vote at all?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Fat orange fuck will still be golfing and calling you a sad loser.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

There won't be much bread to wait for. The billionaires won't finance it, and the government won't have the resources anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

the USA will import nothing in the next few years.

I don't think its going to take very long for tariffs to bite American consumers. A month ago I bought a $1000 technology item that is manufactured in China. I see that same item's price has raised to $1200 in the last week or so. This was an item ordered from online, so its possible they didn't have a large inventory onshore in the USA.

There are bricks and mortar retailers that have weeks or months of inventory warehoused in the USA just as part of their normal supply chain. However without replenishment, popular items will sell out and simply not be stocked again because the tariff affected margins will price out consumers for many of those goods. I'd say if these tariffs stay as they are (or get worse) our retailers are going to have lots of empty shelves in 3 months.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We saw what happened with toilet paper in 2020 and said “wouldn’t it be great if everything could be like this? At least we wouldn’t have a black lady as President!”.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We are so racist and sexist as a country that we couldn't stomach voting for a black woman to be president.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

America is more sexist than racist. The problem is its incredibly racist to begin with in first place.

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[–] BlackSheep 10 points 1 week ago

He’s already pissed off Mexico and Canada. He’s pissed off most of the world.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He doesn't realize that this is a war that can't win, right?

Maybe all China has to do is to threaten to kick out Tesla and give their gigafactory to byd. The real president is going to be really angry with the sockpuppet

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hope China claps back with an even higher percentage. See who folds first: the orange trash bag with a country full of people whining that they can't get their cheap Shein and Teemu slop anymore or the country that trade in mass volumes with the entire world and can probably easily trade anything bound for the US to other countries instead.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They stop being effective. At 50% if there is another supplier they will be cheaper and get picked. If you set it to 100% or 200% it doesn't make much of a difference. Trade just stops between the countries unless there is only a single supplier for what you need.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Americans don't just buy Chinese products from Shein and Temu. They buy those products from Walmart, Target, Amazon and essentially every major US retailer.

The US is speedrunning ending their empire on the current trajectory. The world needs to call their bluff to put them in their place.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

He doesn’t realize that this is a war that can’t win, right?

He was never smart enough for that.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Let's all unite together as one and put 1000% on America. This is the guy most Americans found best suited to steer the country!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

no we didn't. they used anti voter legislation strategically planned over decades to eliminate voters. they are still doing this, just look into the SAVE act which will require people to now have their birth certificate or passport to vote... these if course are not common documents here as you have to pay for both, they can be pricey and time consuming to get.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Trump really doesn't get it does he?

Like powerful people have been assassinated for less

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Popcorn-time! Oh, no, that shit is American. Beer and sausages time!

I am ready to watch a disaster movie.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Nah, we have popcorn corn in Europe, too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

That doomsday clock is a lot more quiet than I expected it to be.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Hopefully they slap back with and then the EU responds is quick to respond to this recent April tariffs. Slap tariffs on US services

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

$2B/day huh?

So $7T wiped out of Americans savings will only take 3500 days to pay back. I guess they'll be writing cheques then?

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