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Most of the population in the US is about to recieve an object lesson in the global nature of modern manufacturing.
This goes well beyond where the raw materials for the final product are sourced from.
Machine components such as bearings. PPE and the polymer feedstock for ear plugs. Wire. The insulation for the wire. Semiconductors. Cutting tools. Etc.
There probably are domestic sources for a lot of these things, but that comes at a premium.
During COVID, I was biting my nails. I still wonder how close we came to global manufacturing collapse due to JIT failure.
If manufacturing collapses in the US, it will take decades to dig out of that hole. It could be something small like the lack of a plasticizer addtive. For the want of a nail and all that.
What's really scary, is that whether or not the tariffs go through, suppliers have already drastically reduced imports. They did it months ago when this bullshit started. It's just now starting to have an impact and will do so for months even if TACO bactracks today.
Commander Orangey McFucknutts may potentially crash manufacturing and the economy with it. It could be a Humpty Dumpty. I don't think most people understand how bad that would be. Starvation, widespread foreclosures and reposessions. Great Depression level stuff, but most of us aren't farmers anymore.
I wonder if this is why Epstein has suddenly, finally, become such a big deal. (Think about it, now it's news even though the facts being reported have been public knowledge for a decade.) It's the billionaire class warning him to knock this shit off.
Buckle up, it might get a little rough.
I'm actually more concerned with this middle-case. Consider fire-retardant additives for injection-molded plastics becoming unavailable or too expensive to get. That's one of those things that requires someone to either ignore the law, or maybe politicians move the goalposts in order to save face; you wouldn't notice in the end product right away. Meanwhile, standards on consumer goods drop by just that much, and things are a little less safe. Only that times how ever many other little corner-cases like this fall by the wayside, for products in every industry (e.g. food).
I'm sure it'd be sold as "toughening people up like in the good old days before woke pussies".