Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[abates]

Pointing out that Trump eats at places regular people would eat at is, I think, too much like making him seem like a regular person and therefore more appealing to your average man on the street.

Meanwhile he's going over to Saudi Arabia because the country is giving him a passenger jet as a gift.

 

[Axaday]

Qatar is giving him the jet.

 

[wonko the sane?]

The trip to the UAE is to talk about their 2 billion investment in his crypto coin.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Maybe Elon can find a buyer for those unsold cybertrucks while he's there.

 

[Rhinox]

I need those damned big macs to work their arterial magic just a bit quicker, please.

 

[abates]

Qatar is giving him the jet.

The trip to the UAE is to talk about their 2 billion investment in his crypto coin.

Ah, thanks for the correction, hard to keep up with the blatant corruption these days.

 

[Paladin]

accurate branding at last.

‘RUMP’: Customers upset with missing ‘T’ in Trump-branded watch that cost $640

A man in Rhode Island bought his wife a Donald Trump-branded watch as a gift, but what they got was a “Rump” watch due to an unfortunate typo on the watch face.

www.azfamily.com

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

PS. For those dishonest chodes who defend ICE's behaviour because the victims are not US citizens, a tourist travelling in North Korea is not a North Korean citizen either, and yet wrongful detention of such individuals in North Korea is still considered a sign of a totalitarian dictatorship.

 

[Axaday]

It is so different, though. North Korea might wrongfully detain WHITE PEOPLE. Can you imagine?

 

[KidTDragon]

Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns

Gun control groups condemned the move as “a dangerous backroom deal spearheaded by Trump’s general counsel” that “effectively legalized machine guns.”

www.nbcnews.com

Gotta make sure the brownshirts are properly armed.

 

[Axaday]

Trump warns Walmart: Don't raise prices due to my tariffs but do eat the costs from those taxes

President Donald Trump has ripped into Walmart, saying on social media that the retail giant should eat the additional costs created by his tariffs.

apnews.com

It was a struggle whether to put this in this thread or the dumb things Republicans say. I ultimately decided that the other one is for dumb things OTHER Republicans say or there would hardly be a purpose for this one.

Imbecile with a business degree. Business tycoon that does not know how businesses work. Walmart runs on margins too tight for even a 10% tariff. They can't eat a 4% tariff.


Edit -

Walmart Profit Margin 2012-2026 | WMT

Current and historical gross margin, operating margin and net profit margin for Walmart (WMT) over the last 10 years. Profit margin can be defined as the percentage of revenue that a company retains as income after the deduction of expenses. Walmart net profit margin as of January 31, 2026 is...

www.macrotrends.net

They can't even eat a 3% tariff.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

This is one of those cases where I don't really want to see either side win, but I suppose Walmart is the lesser evil.

 

[Ironbite4]

The fact that he's trying to order one of the biggest retailers in the world to just...eat his mistakes is hilarious. As is this report.

Trump Rages Over Qatar Jet Fiasco as GOP Angst Worsens: “Humiliating”

As Trump seethes over criticism of his acceptance of a luxury jet from Qatar, a journalist who’s closely tracking GOP reactions explains why this is a growing problem for him—and what may come next.

newrepublic.com

He honestly thought people would just...praise him for grabbing this jet and nobody would criticize him for it. It's amazing.

Ironbite-he's such a thin skinned idiot.

 

[Axaday]

This is one of those cases where I don't really want to see either side win, but I suppose Walmart is the lesser evil.

Neither side is winning this.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Literally. The 30% tariffs are only for 90 days. Afterwards it's supposed to go back to the 145% line: in which case (if walmart did what it was told and just ate the costs.) they would be losing money on literally every single sale.

But of course, walmart won't: the single point of access for millions cannot just give up and die. It would literally kill hundreds if not thousands of small towns that are trapped in walmarts thrall.

 

[Axaday]

At TEN % they'd be losing money on literally every single sale.

Man, I get in the comments on Facebook and discuss stuff with total fools and there are people out there saying business will eat a 145% tariff and I just really, really don't even. How high would your profit margin need to be to pay 2.5 times as much for your wares and say "Oh, that's fine!" Maybe if I'd been charging 10x what my wares cost me.

 

[Axaday]

Literally. The 30% tariffs are only for 90 days. Afterwards it's supposed to go back to the 145% line

I THINK that "temporary" is a face-saving term for Trump. If it is anything other than temporary you are just saying you made a mistake. But in 90 days of this administration there will be plenty of other things to talk about he can just not turn it back up. It won't go UNNOTICED and he'll get some heckling for it, but it is still easier that way.

 

[Cybersnark]

But of course, walmart won't: the single point of access for millions cannot just give up and die. It would literally kill hundreds if not thousands of small towns that are trapped in walmarts thrall.

You say that like anyone at (the C-Suite level of) Walmart actually cares about actual people.

They do, OTOH, care about their bottom line, and that's they they won't accept losing money on this. They're not the kind of cultists who will burn down their own houses because the orange messiah orders them to; their obedience is conditional.

 

[Pocket]

How high would your profit margin need to be to pay 2.5 times as much for your wares and say "Oh, that's fine!" Maybe if I'd been charging 10x what my wares cost me.

There are definitely a lot of people across the political spectrum who believe that's actually what the profit margin is on most goods, and that it's mostly going to the CEO and shareholders. And maybe for a few products out there, it is somewhere in that neighborhood, if you tally up the profit margins of every single company that touches the product from the extraction of its raw materials to the drive home from the store.

The only way to really know would be if Trump had any interest in actually enforcing these ridiculous demands of his, instead of just making it known that he wants certain things to happen and that we should not blame him when they don't.

 

[Covert Agent Rodimal]

Honestly, I hate to say it, but Walmart and companies like it might be our best chance at stopping all of this before it gets any worse. Scary thought.