President Donald Trump on Wednesday acknowledged that his tariffs could result in fewer and costlier products in the United States, saying American kids might “have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,” but he insisted China will suffer more from his trade war.
2 dolls instead of 30 works out to a reduction of 93.3%! That’s HUGE. If that’s supposed to be his positive spin on things, Americans are truly fucked.
It really shows that he doesn’t care about Americans, he cares about punishing and attacking people that he doesn’t like. That is all that matters to him, and he doesn’t hide that.
The fact that he has supporters is absolutely unfathomable to me. Then again, those same supporters want to punish the same people he does, so it starts to make sense.
He wants to punish Americans more than probably anyone else. Americans had the nerve to laugh at him when people joked about his hair, or makeup, or physique. Americans did not elect him in 2020. Americans allowed him to be forced out and didnt fight back hard enough when Biden “stole” the election. Americans allowed him to have some minor inconveniences when they put him on trial, raided his house for classified docs or made him take reaponsibility for his actions. Americans are going to pay because he knows nothing other than vengence for percieved slights and Americans allowed them all to happen
Fuck this shit.
Nobody cares about how many dolls kids are getting.
I don’t think most kids get 30, but is he already talking about how Christmas is going to be? Tomorrow is May 1st. That is 7 months away.
It’s just another example of him being delusional as fuck.
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Doesn’t work great for young kids, their interests and abilities change a lot in over half a year. Especially with a new school year which doesn’t start til August/September.
I think what he‘s trying to say is that everything will be 15 times as expensive so it‘s not that-… oh my gosh…
its the WEAVE, weaving 9 incomprehensible things together in trumps mind into one that his magats can digest.
Why parrot his bullshit in the headline? China will not suffer as much as the US. This is such bullshit.
I honestly think they might because of how Xi operates but this isn‘t a contest. It‘s just reckless and destructive.
Because that’s the eye-catching part of it? The ridiculous quote is why we’re here.
It is. And it just further proves he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. China might take a hit, but the us is going to be drastically worse off.
Everyone knows the goal of running a country is to make people suffer. Not to accomplish anything positive. That would be GlObAlIsM
If Utilitarianism is about maximizing overall benefit and minimizing harm, Trump is an Inutilitarian
Except the kids aren’t getting 2 dolls. They’re getting dragged out into the middle of the street half naked in the middle of the night because the brownshirts can’t even read an address correctly when they’re casually disappearing whole families.
Why the fuck is this even reported on. Fuck this whole system, down to the author that thought ‘ya that’s worth making an article’
Don’t buy your kids dolls. Buy them fpv drones.
Sadly, this probably concerns the average voter more than all the Nazi shit…
People are going to die in the streets due to the impact of these policies.
Not sure man, my vehicle threw a rod and I am struggling to find financing to get a used vehicle until I make the money to figure out a long term solution. Partner checked FB marketplace because I don’t have an account, I checked Craigslist, and the dealers near me can’t seem to make a loan work with $1000 down on vehicles listed at $15k. Found one car selling for under 10k, but it has 95k miles and everything online seems to say it has a 135k mile average lifespan. So when you don’t know how the people before you drove it, and it’s got a 3rd party exhaust on it, I have to assume my extremely (55-60 mile) drive to work will leave me stranded on the side of the road by the end of the year still owing money on it unless I scrape the barrel everywhere in my budget and someone sell it for nickles in 6 months trying to trade it in for something half way better. Maybe I can get arrested when I become homeless and die in jail instead of on the street.
I was gonna suggest an electric bike until I saw that mileage. Fucks sake man, best of luck
Why are you looking at dealers? Plenty of Camrys and Accords out there. They will do 400k miles easy. Ask private seller if they’re willing to do a inspection, find a mechanic that’ll do one for you and then meet at their shop.
Go to credit unions around you and apply for a loan yourself. You shouldn’t ever rely on dealerships to find financing for you. Interest rates are awful right now but with your commute you need something reliable and fuel efficient (like a Camry or Corolla).
Yeah, I was hoping to finance a 2018 Subaru Crosstrek with 70k miles on it. Out the door was ~18. They shot that down pretty quick. I’ll figure out something, didn’t see any decent shape Toyotas around, small town
Nissans get a bad rap, but I haven’t been able to kill the three I’ve owned despite neglecting their maintenance.
Presently rocking a Versa here with 215k miles right now and it doesn’t want to quit. It just keeps going.
(Not a CVT though, not sure if that’s the difference)
Yeah the CVTs they use are absolute trash
It’s a huge difference
No passenger car Nissan should be touched, their CVT’s have been and continue to be unreliable dogshit.
I once bought a 1990 Nissan Sentra for $700 in 2013, then sold it ten months later for $700. I had to pay for gasoline and oil, but that’s it. It was a totally functional car, it was just absolutely tiny and didn’t have airbags, so I didn’t really want to keep driving it.
Was it a manual 4 speed?
It’s definitely worth driving an hour or two to a bigger city to buy a car there. What I’ve done with the last several vehicles I’ve bought was to stake out TrueCar.com, find the models I’m interested in, and then watch them over a month or two to see what is and isn’t a good selling price (crossreferenced with info from KBB.com).
Once I’ve found one that seems like a good deal, I then applied for loans online with local CU’s after comparing their rates. Once approved, I headed to the dealership to buy the car, though if you’re driving a great distance you may call ahead to make sure they have it. It might also be worthwhile to find 2 or 3 other vehicles that are good deals so that you have a backup if the first doesn’t pan out.
The last time I was looking (~6 years ago), banks were unwilling to offer and very judgmental about my request for a loan on a used car. They said loans were for new cars and the bank isn’t a replacement for a little financial know-how. I only went to two banks and one credit union, because I got tired of being condescended to, but the dealership said that they hadn’t heard of used car loans from a bank before (could be a lie).
I absolutely have used a credit union loan to finance a used car. They had rules…less than ten years, 85000 miles or something, but definitely did the loan. At the time anything under 7000 was considered a personal loan and had a higher interest rate.
Good luck.
That was absolutely a lie from the dealership. You can apply online at most places now to save yourself some time. Many places even list their loan rates broken down by the type of loan (48 month new car, 60 month new car, 60 month used car, etc) so that you can compare rates without even filling out a loan application.
You might also check your credit score with Credit Karma, or your credit card company, or bank to see where you sit (these will be Vantage scores but should be close to the FICO scores used when applying for a loan) just for some more insight.
Shop around to see who has the lowest rates and then start applying. Once approved you can then walk into the dealership to actually buy a car and even used your pre-approved loan to negotiate a better rate with the dealer since they get kickbacks from banks. Also be sure to never negotiate based on the monthly payment, just the total price of the car because they can really screw you with interest rates and term lengths to make your monthly payment seem low while you end up spending more overall when negotiating based on monthly payment alone.
The right people I hope.
I don’t understand the hard on the right has for China yet they benefit greatly from China’s low costs. As soon as the USSR fell and Islamic fundamentalism faded away I just knew the US would be looking for a new boogeyman to keep us distracted and justify defense spending.
The irony being that Russia would have worked fine if the Right wasn’t in their pocket.
The fact that they call it a defense budget and not a military budget kind of says it all too.
I’m all for actually defending your country, of course, but yeah…
There are many reasons you would be against china.
- Not a democracy
- Helping Russia in the invasion of Ukraine
- Aims to invade Taiwan
- You always want some amount of local manufacturing. Relying on a single supplier is never a good idea in any context if you can avoid it.
- Helps north Korea
- Claims international and other countries waters for itself
- Uyghurs
- Tibet
- Many active border disputes due to territorial expansion aims.
- Secret police stations to enforce it’s laws outside china
- Hong Kong
Low prices doesn’t justify any of that.
And that (non-exclusive) list (except the 1st point) is only what affects people outside of china. There’s many other reasons to dislike the CCP that only affects the Chinese. Like mass surveillance and censorship.
The rich will still get 30 and a new sports car
Is an anti-consumerism Trump on anyone’s bingo card??
A real “let them eat cake” moment.
Supposedly brioche, but yes point stands.
That’s the real statement. Instead of 30 dolls it will be 2, but that translates to food supplies, too. Instead of 30 dinners in a month, we’ll only have 2.
In the year after Maduro took over Venezuela, the average citizen lost 40 pounds.
I could stand to lose 40 pounds honestly
I’ve lost 80 in the last 18 months, but it was my choice, not HitlerPig’s.
but wait until he can’t find a good inflatable doll any longer…
Bad luck for the ones who could only afford two to start with huh?
Cause American girls were getting 30 dolls every Christmas.
This guy is such a psychopath that he doesn’t even understand how Christmas gifts work.
Big “How much could a banana cost? $10?” moment
If a dollar is good, then lots of dollars is even better. To him, toys are like currency for kids, so when he wanted to buy a doll for Ivanka or Eric, he’d give them 30 of the same doll, rather than a bunch of different toys.
Jr just wanted his daddy’s love, which doest exist, so he was shit out of luck.
113 American Girl dolls would be expensive as shit though - I think with all the accessories and accoutrements you’re looking at the price of a decent used car. The newer models are also shittier (less history focused, because Mattel lol)
The books though - they went hard. There was an entire series about about an enslaved girl who escaped to the north with her mom (I wanna say Addie?). Felicity, the American Revolution girl, stole a horse and got told what the consequences could have been (like, iirc it’s like “yeah you could have totally been hanged for that stunt.”)
I was too broke for the dolls, but if you have a kid - the books are A-tier children’s historical fiction.
American kids might “have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,”
Operating on the assumption that most households aren’t buying their kids 30 dolls (and those that do are probably going to be under the least economic pressure to cut spending), if American households actually cut spending on their kids by 93% of whatever they were going to spend, I expect that midterms are going to be interesting.
You have more faith in the American electorate than I do.
The wife and I have cut about that much of our spending, not including rent and bills. Major ports are already showing a 30 percent drop on imports. And not to mention that most of our farmland is either corn or soy. Pretty sure the majority of corn is used for ethanol and soy is exported. Other countries won’t buy our exports and we won’t by our own products. I’ve worked in manufacturing, American made is as bad as the “cheap” Chinese shit we complain about, only significantly higher priced.
Farmers are already in crisis and Temu fans just learned what a tariff is and they don’t like it
