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Yeah…my grocery bill has been reflecting this lately. Food is getting even more expensive.
Who could ever have foreseen something like this happening? Certainly, not I.
Is this not C/leopardatemyface?
Well yeah. Tariffs are taxes and I told people last year I need to save up for the trump tax and most people shrugged it off or gave me a hard time.
I work with international sales, tariffs are my job. But as we know, people don't like facts or reality.
In other news, bears shit in the woods!
It's going to be super frustrating when a court suddenly decides in a couple of years that actually these tariffs were illegal all along and the federal government has to give the money back to the businesses and they just pocket all this money
when a court suddenly decides in a couple of years
Good start
that actually these tariffs were illegal all along
We hope
and the federal government has to give the money back
I don't think that can happen, but it would be nice down the line to-
to the businesses and they just pocket all this money
GOD DAMN IT
So exactly like they did during the pandemic... And continued to after the pandemic.
This is why you don't fuck around and abstain from voting or shit on your vote and throw it in the trash with a non-viable 3rd party.
Because then conservatives gain control and trash our economy (again) and, oh yeah, bring fascism to America.
Or maybe we should blame the Republicans for electing republicans? You know, the ones who caused this?
Yeah. Sure. Blame them. They're felon rapist pedo supporters. I guarantee they don't care. They're lost causes. They're traitors to our nation. They have no shame, so blaming them doesn't do anything. You're literally just shouting into the wind.
So I'm going to speak to the people who aren't lost causes.
NO 3rd PARTY IS VIABLE AND NO 3rd PARTY IS TRYING TO BE
Our nation just got a crystal clear lesson in what happens when you don't vote or vote for a non-viable 3rd party.
Fascism. Fascism happens.
None of this crazy ass wild shit was happening when Dems were in control before January.
If you want to vote 3rd party, do it in local elections, not federal elections. It makes literally no sense to do so in federal elections. No 3rd party is putting in the work to become viable. The most popular 3rd party candidate shows up right before every election, loses, then disappears again. And she only got half of a single percent of the total votes cast.
A 3rd party president is not happening anytime soon, and probably not in our lifetimes.
So if you don't particularly like Dems either, how about you just vote AGAINST fascism?
I don't care about your feelings. I don't care about your ideals. Those don't mean anything when fascists take control. Do the intelligent thing and vote for a party that isn't bringing fascism to America and then reform it by voting out the members of that party that won't get onboard with progressive policies. Conservatives just reformed their party (into a fascist party) over the last decade or so. It's proof that parties can be reformed. And it's not the first time in American history.
Why not both? Republicans lock the fuck in when it comes to voting in just enough locations to flip seats. They turn out to vote in the necessary areas, where democrats don't.
I might not be able to change any republican's mind by telling them they are stupid as hell for voting the way they do (or give them facts that they would just ignore), but I can show up and encourage all my friends and family to vote against a fascist in our red district.
Because @DarkFuture@lemmy.world argues in bad faith and never blames both.
Question.
Are you fucking stupid?
How do I "never" blame both?
I'm anti-conservative as fuck and you can see that in my comments.
There are no conservatives on Lemmy. Even the conservative sub is anti-conservative because we ran them out of that sub. And if there were, they're fucking cultists. Me calling them out isn't going to do anything. There's no point in directing any blame towards any specific conservative, because they don't fucking care.
So I'm going to continue calling out the fools that didn't vote or voted 3rd party because they're potentially redeemable.
And do amerikkklansmen care? Nope!! Paying higher prices is good now because dicktator trump!
Dicktater.
As in tater-tot dick.
I want to say "no shit" but then I remember the average American.
Now it's time to lower the federal interest rate. We need a lot of inflation stat or we're stuck with fascists until we break out in a civil war again.
why hasn't anyone told about this???
Retailers wanted to put a line item on the receipts calling out the tariff costs and Trump threatened to sue them.
same story with Amazon too, initially there was a note detailing the extra cost of tariffs. needless to say Trump started hurling threats, flailing his arms, crying and shouting.
Yup, and when the tariffs go away, they'll keep the higher prices and pocket the difference.
Another fun thing about tariffs. Those domestic producers that are being protected by tariffs will increase their prices as high as they can.
For example, let’s say an American company can sell a widget for $5 and a Chinese company can sell it for $4.
You slap a 100% tariff on the Chinese widget, now it costs the consumer $8.
The American company can now sell you the widget for the initial $5 and leave $2.99 on the table, or they can jack their price up to $7.99, be cheaper than the Chinese widget, and increase their profits while gesturing around vaguely at “market conditions”
End result, you pay more for the widget, more than it the foreign producer used to sell it for and more than the domestic producers used to sell it for.
Now imagine you make something that has dozens of inputs and that happens to every input.
Truly a golden age
Here in Australia, most of the inflation we encountered in 2024 was due to large retailers simply increasing their prices because everyone expected everything to be more expensive.
It's been the same in the US since covid.
Groceries, they have a term ‘grocery.’ It’s an old term, but it means basically what you’re buying foods. It’s pretty accurate term, but it’s an old fashioned sound.
Because you bought food in "gross" -- or, large quantities.
Groceries are what you buy from a grocer at a grocery store
Grocer is one of those terms where it gets increasingly evident that English is Germanic Hill with a French castle built on top.
Wait what?
Now they should put up signs next to the prices showing how much of the raise is due to Trumps tariffs.
Trump has already threatened to sue grocery stores and Amazon for listing the tariff, and they're cowards
Lol, you think the ruling class gives a fuck? Look up who the owners of Kroger, Publix, etc. supported. They are happy to just charge more and blame Democrats.
But it's fine, because Cracker Barrel changed their logo back.
I'm pretty sure that was just a marketing stunt
Well yes. A logo change is very explicitly a marketing stunt to get people paying attention to you.
That whole thing was so stupid. A bunch of folks hated it because they thought it was woke. A bunch more folks didn't give the slightest shit but thought it was a terrible rebrand. Even more folks said "Wait, they're still in business?"
It is almost like that is how things work. MAGAts you are getting what you voted for.
Sadly, you and I, too.
Shocked Pikachu meme