#thoughts and tariffs

[project2028]

BREAKING— New Jersey Senator Cory Booker has officially broken the Senate record for longest floor speech ever in United States history.

The last record was set in 1957 when Strom Thurmond spoke against the Civil Rights Act.

Senator Booker held the Senate floor in protest of the Trump administration laying off millions of federal workers, tarnishing USAID, planned Republican targets to end Social Security and Medicare, and allowing Elon Musk to illegally access federal government departments.

[noah-wyles]

[chronicmusicnerd]

So. Tariffs.

What is a tariff? It’s a tax placed on foreign items, to be put simply.

Why are they bad? More money for products = less products being bought = less jobs as people get laid off = more poverty.

Or, more money for products = people going into debt = more poverty.

Or, more money for products = people skipping over (sometimes necessary) products = people less able to stay healthy = medical bills = more poverty.

Do they work? No.

How do we know? The Great Depression.

Am I sure? Yes.

Are they good for anyone? No.

Are they good for any economy? No.

Was putting Trump in office a good idea? No.

Are people going to suffer because of his policies and his actions?

Yes.

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

Ok. Im Canadian. Im almost 40. I get that tariffs affect your own people.. so trump tariff'd Canada. Why did we tariff him back then? If tariffs affect us. It seems to me that they shot themselves in the foot and in response we cut off our own toe?

I dont get economics or geo politics at all and i just need someone smart to explain it to me please?

[alyfoxxxen]

‘Nowhere on Earth is safe’: Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica | Trump tariffs | The Guardian

Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica

Australian prime minister surprised after remote external territories – including islands home to penguins – targeted by US president

[aci25]

The USPS just suspended the acceptance of packages from China and Hong Kong until further notice.

This seems to be because Trump added tariffs to imports from China and suspended the de minimis exception that allows parcels worth under $800 to enter the country without being individually charged customs duty.

We don't have the infrastructure to process collecting duty on every single parcel from China.

[aunti-christ-ine]

[my-midlife-crisis]

From FOX news...