• 11111one11111@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I know this will get downvoted for not shitting on trump in some way but this sounds like hes telling walmart’s corporate board members to take the revenue loss at their own expense without passing the cost increase to their customers. If Bernie said this it would get a standing ovation. Fuck everything else Trump tho.

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      10 days ago

      That’s not a fair comparison, because Trump created the tariffs. If Bernie has instituted tariffs, there would be a purpose and a plan. Trump doesn’t have a plan, or whatever his plan was it isn’t going the way he wanted. He wants the Waltons to eat the loss to make his plan look better. It has nothing to do with income inequality or wealth redistribution. It’s ego. Trump took a steamy wet shit on the carpet and he wants the rest of the world to clean it up.

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          They don’t. They’ve said they really don’t. What it DOES do is increase the instability of the market, and a lot of the people behind Trump stand to profit if they can pick up the pieces after a financial collapse, just like what happened in 08, just like what happened in 2020.

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      9 days ago

      You honestly think that if Bernie imposed tarrifs on China, and then told Walmart to eat the costs people would cheer?

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      10 days ago

      And that’s stupid. Where does he get off setting prices. Is this Russia. He fucked it up now his way of “fixing” it is to tell them to stop doing that. If he had a brain like Bernie he’d have come up with some legislation to promote American businesses instead of just trying to tax everyone.