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[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 41 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

There are two bright sides to this (and dark sides as well):

-This will decrease demand of Chinese goods in the U.S., hurting a country that is ... problematic to say the least. (Anyone remember the Uyghurs? The O.G. Gazens?) It probably won't shift demand back to the U.S. factories, but maybe it is time for another country to become the slave-labor-ish manufacturing capital of the world.

-When the prices skyrocket, along with food from all the missing immigrant farm hands, Trump will get blamed. I just hope this wasn't the plan all along and those "fake" inflation hikes back after covid weren't to cover for the real ones down the road.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 5 hours ago

Trump will get blamed

Oh honey...

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 53 points 6 hours ago

Trump will get blamed

Ha, ha, ha, he will blame Biden, or immigrants, and his moron supporters will believe him just like they have when he lied the other thousands of times.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Trump will get blamed

Like they blamed him for his COVID-19 response?

If that didn't get through... honestly, I have no idea what would. Americans are just stuck in their feeds and divorced from reality now.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

They're planning on 10-20% tariffs on all imports. China is 60%.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 66 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

When the prices skyrocket, along with food from all the missing immigrant farm hands, Trump will get blamed.

i really hope you’re right, but i think that will most likely get blamed on biden “ruining the economy” in his last term, or something in that vein. a lot of trump voters get their news from fox news or directly from donald trump, and i can’t imagine either of those sources criticizing trumps economic policies.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Funny that we both posted the same concern at the same time.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

i’m glad that we both realized that 17 minutes ago was the perfect time to post that comment

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 35 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

When the prices skyrocket, along with food from all the missing immigrant farm hands, Trump will get blamed.

In all likelihood, only a small percentage of his voters will actually blame him for the predictable consequences of his tariffs. The rest of them will believe Trump when he blames it on Biden's economic policies that were put in place before Trump's second term. Our egos have a funny way of making us do mental gymnastics to avoid having to accept the idea of oneself being wrong.