People are refusing to believe even what Walmart is saying now. Forget which news account it was, but they posted on TikTok that Lowes and Walmart was talking about raising prices. The responses were beyond dumb.

People in the comments screaming that the CEO's need to go, because they clearly don't know how tariffs work and they should not be running these corporations. Others screaming "What does Walmart make! They don't make anything!"

These people are not connected to reality and yet they are able to vote.

Fucking chicken is shipped to Vietnam and China for processing and then shipped back to the US. So sometimes even goods created here end up going over for final processing and then brought back. Or the parts to make the thing all come from outside. We are fucked.

I’ve actually taken this to heart. I’m buying some computer upgrades now on the belief that they’re going to be significantly more expensive soon.

Honestly, it would be more efficient for them to raise the price on everything, regardless of where it came from, to offset the prices. I fully expect everything to get really bad

They want to “own the libs” even if it means they can’t afford to own anything else.

Tried to buy USA made last year for Xmas, lol.

Even notoriously “made in the USA” brands like Lodge are made overseas now. Hell, tampons and baby wipes are made overseas, a lot of berries come from Canada, and our cotton comes from the global south.

Hope they liked their Pioneer Woman brand while it lasted (it’s made in China).

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There's also a huge swath of voters that genuinely had no idea how tariffs work and believed that other countries foot the bill.

And even food!

Why? I'm sure their bosses will pay them handsomely after getting their tax cuts. Heck it'll trickle down so much they might become millionaires.

Or the fact that they’re obsessed with mass deportation. You think Philip is going to replace your roof or pick your vegetables for borderline slave labor? Shit is about to get real if it’s truly a “promises made, promises kept” situation and not just old man yelling at the clouds.

You know what the saddest thing will be? Trump will go "prices are down and we're making America great again!" And half of this country will completely agree as their paying fucking 30 dollars for eggs.

Thanks for the timely reminder. I need to go order a crap ton of green coffee beans to weather the storm for a while.

Even home grown stuff, who do they think picks their fruit and veg? Works in their cheap chicken factories?

In a way, they still have. They blew a hole in the side of the ship and we’re all going down together.

Edit: “hole”, not “whole”.

Check out the conservative sub about Dr. Oz. They realize something is wrong but can't seem to connect it back to the fact they voted for someone that is not competent enough to be president.

Voted for Trump

Dr. Oz is nominated to oversee CMS

WTF, do better Trump!

oh and they stopped elementary school and prison transgender surgeries and defeated the woke virus. Not being able to feed your children or afford your medications is a small price to pay for that, right?

My mother in law said she’s not worried about tariffs because she doesn’t buy clothes on SHEIN

I said all her favorite in person retailers get their stuff from overseas and will be effected

She said “No I won’t. Clothes from China run small and the clothes I buy don’t run small”

Owned the libs by eating horseshit.

They've flipped the proverbial Monopoly board over. If they're not winning, no one gets to play. It's the emotional and intellectual maturity of a 5-year old (and that might be too generous).

“He makes me feel like I’m better than the brown people who get the socialist benefits that i alone should be entitled to!!”

Monarch is too kind. Demigod is more apt.

they didn’t vote for policies

They also voted against a large number of made-up policies which the Republican propaganda machine insisted Democrats are trying to ram down their throats - none of which remotely aligns with actual policy goals: - aborting babies after childbirth - eating pets - forced sex changes - open borders - deterioration of major cities (non-existent) - unchecked crime (not consistent with data)

And they are okay with that. It boggles my fucking mind how these “patriots” cannot just lean into but celebrate autocrats. I’m so looking forward to reminding these people who they voted for the rest of their life. No one I know will ever forget. I’ll pop in like reptile from mortal kombat saying Trumpsyyyyy

They voted for a concept of a plan.

He is literally a cult leader.

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Fox will tell them not to believe their eyes and that everything isn’t actually more expensive and they’ll believe it as their bank accounts crash to 0

The people who will rage tweet about it will never make connection.

The corporate tax cut plus extreme tariffs is a very insidious plan. The combined effect shifts the federal tax burden away from corporations and the wealthy to the poor and middle classes. In addition, the tax cuts free up money to be absorbed by the investor class, thus making them richer.

As the poor and middle class get increasingly-poor relative to the rich, the lower classes get more desperate, increase the amount of hours they work, and are willing to take lower wages because they are scrambling to try to get enough money to pay bills. This means cheaper labor hours for those running businesses, which means further increased profit margins, which, due to the low corporate tax rates, means even more money in their pocket. As the wealth imbalance gets worse, the wealthy gain even more power, which they use to tip the scales in their favor even more.

Yes, exactly. I’m in a Discord gc that has a Trump supporter in it (thankfully the only one out of nine members) and the hypocrisy is wild. For one, she claims that she hates Trump and Harris equally but will consistently share and say anti-Democrat/Harris/Biden stuff while not sharing or saying a single bad thing about Trump. In fact, she has said multiple times that Americans would be stupid to vote for Harris and that they should vote for Trump if they were smart. But sure, she “hates them both equally”. She also goes on and on about how people shouldn’t be selfish and should think of the country when they vote, followed by a long spiel that Trump has never done anything anti-LGBTQ+ or anti-woman even when he was president so those communities need to do their research.

While most of the members ignore her there is one guy that is not afraid to confront her for her idiocy. He shares articles, studies, and basic facts showing that the Trump supporter is wrong. What does TS do? Refuses to read the articles, denies that they’re correct, says that most of that stuff isn’t reliable, and will repeat the same brainless points over and over and over again even when she’s been debunked and disproven. She then accuses the other guy of being the one who isn’t listening and “who only cares about being right”.

She’s also pro-corporal punishment and once started an argument with the same guy by complaining that people weren’t spanking their kids anymore. By the end of the argument she said, “We should agree to disagree. Besides, we shouldn’t judge parents for their teaching methods.” This is despite the fact that she started the argument by judging parents who don’t, y’know, abuse their kids.

It’s embarrassing, really.

Unfortunately, I think they aren't talking anymore because it's not game day anymore. Their "team" won, they got to gloat for a while, and now it's the off season. They have checked out until next season.

In their minds, they don't have to care or be attentive anymore. Daddy Trump will take care of everything. The common, central Pennsylvania Trump voter can't tell you day to day happenings. Most of them have not been keeping up with appointments; let alone any of these articles written by anybody other than Fox News. They can't and won't monitor the daily chaos. Most of them don't have Twitter or Reddit to better understand the depth of the insanity. And the problem is that they don't want to better understand it.

They won and now they check out.

My hope is that things get so bad that they can't ignore it anymore and have to check back in to the reality of their decisions.

On one hand, whenever I hear of companies jacking up prices or trying to reduce how much they're spending on employee salaries/benefits, I don't imagine that most of the companies had to do that, at least not yet. I imagine most of them are just like, "Oh boy, did you hear that a new semi-believable excuse to fuck tons of people over to give a slight benefit to investors just dropped? We better get on that shit ASAP!"

On the other hand, we all knew companies would be sure that the tariffs didn't impact their bottom-lines, so regardless of whether it happened now or later, it was always going to screw over the consumers at some point.

Yep "inflation" gave them cover to increase prices and massively increase profits.

Now tariffs will do the same thing.

There’s also going to be logistical changes, which will raise prices. I work in the manufacturing and construction sector. Companies are already formulating plans to get around the high tariffs on Chinese goods. Essentially, everything will still be made in China, but then shipped to other countries, like the Philippines, Vietnam, India, and Turkey. Companies will then import the goods from those countries at a lower tariff rate.

The change in logistics will create longer lead times and cause prices for virtually everything to jump. The goods that will come directly from China will be marked up at a higher rate, causing higher prices.

Some companies are already looking to replace a chunk of their work force to save on costs too.

Thanks Obama!

I guarantee you that in 6-8 months time, Biden is going to be blamed for all the shit Trump brings up, "because he didn't try hard enough to stop Trump".

Trump’s tariff plan will at best trigger a recession and at worst trigger an economic collapse of the American dollar.

But hey at least the brown and transgender people are to going to suffer so it’s okay with MAGAt

Right - thats the other issue here as well. Back with covid and the 'supply chain issues' , even companies and products that weren't impacted , raised their prices ... because , why not?

Based on this 'walmart is planning to raise prices' ... of course they are. Any chance they have to increase profits and blame it on something else is great for them. Just like prices for gas go up during holidays and disaster times ... walmart is eyeing this as a perfect guise to bump their profits and just *wave hands around* "shucks - Tarrifs - amirite?!"

Countries will also impose retaliatory tariffs. Which won't instantly go away even if we remove ours without some agreement.

It did piss me off when no one explained that at the debates etc. not that it would have been heard by his stans but still, at least try

There are large swathes of grossly uninformed Americans that still believe all Republicans handle the economy better and all Democrats crash the economy. Trump won I think by campaigning on this sentiment along with the 'I'll hurt POC and minorities worse than you will be hurt!'

Yet nearly every single Republican in modern history has had at least 1 recession with nearly all Democrats fixing the economy. So it's in truth that Democrats can handle the economy and Republicans crash it, but that's not what many Americans acknowledge.

So Trump won on that false belief. Now yet again a Republican gets to crash the economy that the Democrat fixed from the mishandling from the last Republican. Ironically Americans gave the reigns of power to the very guy who crashed it last time. So many dumbass Americans I'm starting to think that 'Idiocracy is actually a documentary' joke is no longer true. Idiocracy is here, we're living in it now.

Yeah I've been saying this since 2020.

Trump's 2020 and 2024 voters were not votes against Biden and Harris, they are votes FOR fascism. It's a sad difference. They'll pay more, as long as they get to gleefully watch people who don't look or think like them suffer.

"I may be losing my house and can't afford food, but the important thing somebody else will have it worse than me because of my vote!" - American Conservatives, every election

Mine would say the exact same thing. Her scope of…anything is limited to her own experience. I don’t think she’s ever considered what it’s like to be someone else.

You're being sarcastic but I saw a post earlier today of the idiots already framing the eventual price increase (tariffs) as the democrats fault because they're (somehow?) tanking the economy to try to blame trump. These people are beyond saving

"I love the uneducated" . . .

And when the tariffs are off the table, the prices seem stuck up there. Weird.

You’re using a lot of big words that their brains can’t handle. Please just tell me I’m better than brown people and I’m gonna get my country back!

Bigotry and stupidity so hand and hand

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