So let me say, I agree entirely that the tariffs raise consumer prices. Trumps tarrifs plan is indeed insane, and his claims about it being paid by China or whoever are entirely ludicrous.

However, as a technical point, all taxes have a “tax incidence” that you can measure. The tax incidence is the percent of the tax on a corporation, good, service etc that is borne by an entity. It is not always 100% on a consumer except in the most trivial, “consumers pay for everything” kind of way. For competitive or reputational reasons a firm with substantial revenue might decide to absorb some cost, rather than pass it on. In those cases, the tax incidence is not 100% on the consumer, but shared by the business out of their revenue.

I promise though, Trump has the mind of a decomposing tangerine and absolutely could not speak about or understand the subtleties here.

Anyway, politically speaking, I’ll never bring this up again. Please keep hammering Trump however you like and I’ll keep my corrections to myself, lol.

The Krusty the Clown approach to threatening people.

If you haven’t seen it : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zIu2dGTJlHM

Ugh, now all I can afford is “not me” to install them. Not experts that’s for sure.

(this is not a joke, not really).

I was thinking night of long knives, considering who Trump says is out to get him.

This kind of stuff lands with Trump voters. I know from family Trumpers that seven year old trans kids on the gymnastic team is one of their top priorities. Not economy, they’ll say economy, but ask them to define it.

Memes matter, ten years of impressionable Internet connected youth seeing memes of Trump as some sort of good guy has both normalized his damage and elevated him. It’s fucking gross.

No, I have a lot of experience in liberal organizations and they are not, despite the memes, closer to conservatism than progressivism. It honestly makes me feel like most people on lemmy have never really worked with liberal groups.

The major differences between a liberal and a social democrat or progressive comes down largely to deciding when a market has failed and when to use government intervention, both Liberals and progressives are fine with intervention, only the threshold changea. We want the same things, mostly, but disagree on how to get them.

Conservatives, philosophical Conservatives anyway, won’t typically even consider such a thing, and often do not even want the same things as Liberals or progressives.

This both sides same stuff just hurts progressive causes, because it sours mushy people with little to no real philosophy on voting for liberal parties. Those people flip flop back to Conservatives when they get angry and we lose the progress we’ve made, as is about to happen in Canada.

I know that conflating Liberals and Conservatives is practically lemmys official pass time, but I have to point out they are not the same.

Here’s hoping they’re not the politically disconnected manosphere types, Trump has been chasing this vote and it could be a sleeper.

I hadn’t even thought about that. Maybe I will.

Fucking right we can.

Sorry, I’m m Canadian, can’t do it.

I’m a concerned Canadian, so someone can take this idea and run with it.

Need these in men’s rooms, given the gender gap. Maybe a sticker in northern Michigan “Hey union brother! This shop is busy thanks to the CHIPS act. Harris/Walz.” or “Man to man, you know we can do better than Trump. Who do you want your kids looking up to as president?”

Or something idk.

Some of those that work forces…

Damn, look at that. Thanks.

I’m sure he will want to fein outrage and threaten lawsuits to give the permission structure for his supporters to vote for him, on getting elected all these pretend lawsuits dry up.

Well, you’re more optimistic than I am. Hope you’re right.

Pretty transparent to have the funding expire just after the election, gives republicans a few weeks to decide if they care about the deficit (Dem elected) or not (republican elected).

Who would have thought that paragon of virtue would just lie like that.