Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

Steevy Maximus

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Such a bullcrap "rich person" answer, even before you start to math the how much a product would have to increase in cost to go from "30" of something to 2.
 

Dekafox

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Such a bullcrap "rich person" answer, even before you start to math the how much a product would have to increase in cost to go from "30" of something to 2.
This really feels like a "Let them eat cake" or "Don't you people have phones?" quotable moment, even if it'll be buried soon enough under everything else.
 

Axaday

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He then claimed he picked Moran to do the milestone interview “because frankly, I never heard of you”, and added: “Hey, they’re giving you the big break of a lifetime, you know – you’re doing the interview.”

Yeah, I'm sure this is going to lead to great things for Terry Moran, Senior Correspondent at ABC News.
 

Axaday

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On his steep tariffs against China – which reached 145% on some goods – Trump dismissed widespread economic concerns about price increases for American consumers. “Everybody’s gonna be just fine,” the president insisted, despite analyses from Moody’s and other financial institutions projecting thousands of dollars in additional costs for American families.


“It’ll raise prices on everything from electronics to clothing to building houses,” Moran said.

“You don’t know that. You don’t know whether or not China’s gonna eat it,” Trump countered, claiming his tariffs were necessary to address trade imbalances that made the US economy “not sustainable”.

You don't know if....China is going to pay a $145 tariff so that they can sell something for $100?

Yeah.....I don't know either.
 

Rhinox

too old for this
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an 80 year old toddler that seventy million people decided was the most qualified person to run the country.
Genuinely embarrassing to watch. I'm sure it means nothing to his followers, bootlickers, and die hards, but sweet ******* Jesus.
 

Axaday

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an 80 year old toddler that seventy million people decided was the most qualified person to run the country.
I'm not clear on whether the MS-13 photoshop was intended to be passed off as undoctored or whether it was made to demonstrate what each finger tattoo meant.
 

Rhinox

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I'm not clear on whether the MS-13 photoshop was intended to be passed off as undoctored or whether it was made to demonstrate what each finger tattoo meant.
I'm pretty sure it was added to show what someone thought all the tats meant.
Really, though, it doesn't matter. What truly matters is that Trump looked at that and decided that those were actual tattoos. More than that, he attempted to cajole and then bully the reporter into saying he was right.
 

Axaday

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I'm pretty sure it was added to show what someone thought all the tats meant.
That is what seems the most likely to me and also it is the funnier answer. Someone made it to double down for the benefit of redhats, but hilariously, accidentally tricked the President of the United States into thinking something that they didn't even intend to trick anyone into.
 
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Ironbite4

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It's not gonna work though. Everyone is called for Hegseth's head.

Ironbite-but Trump can't call for it because Hegseth spent a lot of money for the position.
 

Pale Rider

...and Hell followed with him.
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FB friend:
My auto mechanic friend reports that he knows a snowbird who's in Florida and who had gas stations refuse to sell gasoline to him because they saw his Canadian license plate. They believe EVERYTHING Trump says, and they're angry at Canadians for flooding the US with Fentanyl and stealing $200 billion from American taxpayers every year like Trump says.
America has squandered all of its international soft power, because when you levy sanctions on your friends, you can't use the threat of sanctions to make countries want to stay on your good side.

It used to be that when America said "change your policies or we'll levy sanctions against you", people in other countries would take notice. But now that America has said "actually, you can be our friend and ally for generations and we'll still levy sanctions against you anyway", there's no point being America's friend anymore, and so all of that soft power, built up over a hundred years, has evaporated away. And it only took 100 days.
Trump's entire business history is basically him selling overpriced goods and services to people who can't tell the difference between solid gold and gold-plating. And his idiot supporters thought he was the guy to fight inflation.
 

Steevy Maximus

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Not sure where to put this, but since it is all related to tariffs anyway...
Microsoft just instituted a 20-30% price increase across ALL of its Xbox hardware. Most accessories are seeing a price increase in the $5-10 range, while Microsoft confirmed some of its bigger titles this holiday season will cost $79.99. In addition, Game Pass is seeing a roughly 10% price increase across all tiers. Microsoft is citing "Market Conditions" for the increase, despite soft hardware sales of Xbox consoles (though, cross platform publishing efforts and Game Pass remain strong performers)

Nintendo had already increased accessory prices $5-10 across the board, and took a LOT of flak for Mario Kart's $80 price point. Sony has NOT increased hardware costs for the US...yet. Nor have they officially announced any standard $80 game titles...yet.
 

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
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Xbox hardware and software prices going up significantly in the UK as well. The tariffs aren’t just affecting the States…
Yup, because international prices are usually calculated based on the US price, then add the exchange, and whatever fees and markups that can be gotten away with.
 

Pocket

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Part of that's because they're all sold by "American" companies that insist on routing all shipments through their US-based buildings before passing them along to where they're actually going, even though they don't do anything that couldn't be done in an overseas branch office. If there's one silver lining to this, it's that it's going to make the rest of the world wake up and realize how stupid they've been to rely on "our" products in the first place, and take steps to solve that reliance.
 


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