The sun is 8 light-minutes away from the Earth - meaning if it were to disappear the sun would still shine in the sky for 8 minutes after it had vanished.
It takes 30 days for Chinese cargo ships to reach the U.S. from China.
‘Liberation day’ was 24 days ago.
The consequences are coming soon.
I thought the tariffs were canceled? Or reapplied then canceled? I can’t keep up.
Upon seeing the empty shelves Conservatives will say “this is what life is like under communism” without a shred of irony.
They did that last time Trump was in office lol, I distinctly remember a post exactly like that
Just in Time shipping strikes again
Can’t wait until Christmas
Just in Time shipping and manufacturing only serves one purpose, making quarterly reports look good. Managers and equity firms LOVE JiT because keeping inventory on hand doesn’t balance well on their spreadsheets. They can not quantify inventory getting used over the course of a few years because they can’t see past the next quarter. To them, it’s lost profit; even if it doesn’t lose its value and is all but guaranteed to get used/sold eventually.
You would think more companies would have learned the merits of Just in Case manufacturing. Those that did absolutely thrived under COVID as they were the only ones still able to produce.
But no. The COVID crisis “ended” and companies went “Well something like that will certainly never happen again! Back to the old ways!”
Conservatives (and businesses are generally conservative) are great at deluding themselves into adopting any strategy that puts money in their pocket over intelligent strategies that would lead to better long-term outcomes, but cost a little more and/or make slightly less profit.
That’s why they stick with Trickle Down Economics, which have poor long-term outcomes for all but the rich, instead of Trickle Up Economics, which helps everyone, even though the inevitable outcome of Trickle Down is a catastrophic shift (for the rich) to Robin Hood Economics (Take from the rich, Give to the poor).
It’s extremely interesting to watch them give trump leeway here. I saw polling recently that many of the trump faithful believe that the tariffs will bring short term pain but it will be worth it for the long term benefits.
What’s going to turbo suck is that they will take the exact wrong lesson from this. It will enforce their short term thinking because they will remember this time that they experienced short term pain for long term gain and the gain never materialized.
I just wish we had the ability as a society to have a more nuanced conversation than sound bites. Ok we disagree about tariffs, one side thinks they are real fucking dumb and the other thinks they are great and will have long term benefits. It would be amazing if we could have an adult conversation about this, how it’s expected to work, how likely that is, what issues might be in the way, etc.
Perhaps it’s decades of being an engineer, but I propose designs that are meant to achieve goals and other engineers check my work, ask questions about things I might not have considered, help play out scenarios that aren’t accounted for and at the end of that we have a better design. As a nation we now seem so incapable of having an honest dialogue between the two major parties that not only are we advancing ideas that obviously won’t work but it’s clear we have no feedback mechanisms to correct course. So now we will just blow up the economy because a group of people think it might, somehow, using mechanisms no one can identify, lead to a future that is “better” where no one can meaningfully define “better.”
And that’s the state of discourse.
But that would mean questioning the authority of the government and providing verifiable facts. The regime we currently have doesn’t want the betterment of society. They want mindless puppets who will go along with whatever is presented. Historically, people who question authoritative policies are labeled as traitors and enemies of the state, and are silenced so that the poison they spout can’t spread. Fact-checking is now seen as personal attacks and are met with imprisonment and are downplayed, if covered at all.
Related question- how much did Walmart and Target donate to the trump campaign and/or “inauguration fund?”
Why would the supreme leader care? He doesn’t even know what groceries are.
I think you mean McDonald’s
You don’t need stupid groceries when you have amphetamines and hamburders
They knew this was possible last summer, but they took the gamble. Sometimes you lose.
Could??? It will 100% and we (US residents) are all about to have to deal with the the consequences of electing an idiot as our president.
I’m all for a “Hot Tariff Summer.” Let the shelves be mostly empty, with everything else tripling in price.
Even MAGAs will feel the pain, and they’ll know it is all HitlerPig’s fault. Once they start questioning him even a little bit, it’s the beginning of the end for him.
His approval ratings are already underwater, and dropping. Let him have his way for a while, and his virtuosic incompetence will do more to reduce his support than anything the Resistance can do.
Then what? Best hope is a Blue wave in 2026, impeachment, then removal. Dont think that’s happening sadly. We got 3 more years
I would agree, if all things remained the same, but allowing his Tariff Economy to stretch its legs, and make the MAGAs and Corporations feel extreme pain, will change the playing field, and alienate many people who were past supporters. If Republican constituents are screaming at their Senators, maybe a significant number will finally decide that enough is enough.
Of course, impeachment/ removal would be a somewhat unsatisfying result, as it would only put Vance in the driver’s seat, and psycopath Peter Theil keeps him on a very tight leash. We would be at Theil’s mercy, and he has well established that he has none.
Where are our trump did that stickers.
Yeah, but who’s going to be there to notice the empty shelves at target?
Not all the government workers who got fired.
“Please come inside.” - Target CEO, reminiscent of “Please clap” Jeb Bush.
And the triple hit of inflation due to tariffs, reduced offer and of course speculation
Muricans are about to get tired of all the winning they voted for
Retailers vs trump. Let them kill each other imo.
I’m checking out. America is going to fuck itself to death and I’m tired of pretending like I care about any of these people.
