“One billion percent tariffs!” - DJT next week
If you find yourself in a hole remember it’s a great hole.
~Donald Trump
Lmao, taxes/tariffs or not; everyone’s boycotting your shit anyway. Fuck you America!
I just want to point out Trump does not equal America. But, unfortunately, we kinda suck in other ways and have been fucking over other parts of the world for a while, so… 🤷
The American people voted that into office, either directly or by not bothering to vote against it.
America collectively chose this.
I feel for those that actually wanted different, but until you can get through to your friends, family, and neighbours to fix this mess; America is going to be judged by the actions of the representatives they voted for.
Well, we are one of the most heavily propagandized countries on the planet. So, uh, wish me luck?
But, for what it’s worth, I stand with the common citizens of any country. Even Russia. At least in that I don’t bear ill will towards the commoners anywhere.
America desperately needs class solidarity. But, so does the planet. My two cents anyway.
I’m … kinda ok with this particular, but my father was an abusive alcoholic. Although, his vice of choice was vodka which probably doesn’t apply.
But fuck Trump tarrifs still, I just want a heavy booze tax, not some stupid man baby hissy fit with the rest of the world.
The problem with that is people, especially alcoholics, are still going to drink. If its prohibitively expensive, they’ll turn to bootleg liquor which is probably contaminated.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/istanbul-tainted-alcohol-people-dead/
Yup, I know. Actually, when they did this with cigarettes they did see it go down a little with adults but the main thing was that it helped reduce youth smoking. Teens have a tighter budget for these things.
But the bootlegging is unique to booze, so yeah.
Untaxed cigarettes are absolutely a thing
I mean, in some places. The tax is generally a disencentive to start the habit. I’d be curious to see a natural experiment comparing places with and without it as the US dropped it’s smoking rate to low teens (at least, until vaping became a thing).
Stop playing around dude, just put 1000% on everything from everyone and go play golf. Surely that won’t burn everything to the ground and cause him to get dragged into the street by an angry mob…
Why stop there. Just put a million, billion, infinity +1 tariff and watch trump say infinity +2!
