Just in case you're keeping track of Trump's tariff Damage, here's a small sample

[paxamericana]

14 minutes ago, robosmith said:

American taxpayers are getting clobbered

We pay more when inflation rises, so far it hasn’t. Meanwhile, with just the threat of tariffs, oversea countries lose their entire economy. The losses don’t scale 1:1. 

14 minutes ago, robosmith said:

REGRESSIVE TAX is what the oligarchs WANT.

No, what they want is open border immigration and free trade for importer. Hollowing out the American industry. That’s what the oligarchs want. You’re just a useful ideot to them.

Edited September 15, 2025 by paxamericana

[robosmith]

8 minutes ago, paxamericana said:

We pay more when inflation rises, so far it hasn’t. Meanwhile, with just the threat of tariffs, oversea countries lose their entire economy. The losses don’t scale 1:1. 

No, what they want is open border immigration and free trade for importer. Hollowing out the American industry. That’s what the oligarchs want. You’re just a useful ideot to them.

You make a LOT OF CLAIMS with ZERO  EVIDENCE. LMAO

We all know Walmart is not going to eat the tariffs forever.

[paxamericana]

25 minutes ago, robosmith said:

LOT OF CLAIMS

Tell me how letting China into the WTO in 2001 was not a mistake. Manufacturing jobs is what makes a country thrive and middle class. Letting rich oligarch sell into your market tax free while exploiting slave labor overseas is how you get income equality. If you actually care for your fellow Americans you would support Trump. You are MAGA , you just haven’t realized it yet.

Edited September 15, 2025 by paxamericana

[robosmith]

1 hour ago, paxamericana said:

Tell me how letting China into the WTO in 2001 was not a mistake. Manufacturing jobs is what makes a country thrive and middle class. Letting rich oligarch sell into your market tax free while exploiting slave labor overseas is how you get income equality. If you actually care for your fellow Americans you would support Trump. You are MAGA , you just haven’t realized it yet.

It was not a mistake to let China have routine ASSembly jobs and force Americans to GET EDUCATED for the advanced tech jobs.

I've worked ASSembly line jobs and never want to go back.

Trump is doing a really shitty job of MOVING US AHEAD.

Edited September 15, 2025 by robosmith

[paxamericana]

21 minutes ago, robosmith said:

It was not a mistake to let Chica have routine ASSembly jobs and force Americans to GET EDUCATED for the advanced tech jobs.

I've worked ASSembly line jobs and never want to go back.

Trump is doing a really shitty job of MOVING US AHEAD.

Not every Americans qualify to work higher value added jobs!! We’re born with different IQ levels. Don’t pretend everyone can learn how to code or be a banker. Second, teenagers need a path to financial success instead of committing crimes. Earning money by working an assembly job can give them that. Americans don’t want a handout, they want a paycheck! There is a growing chorus from the left on this issue and they see eye to eye with MAGA. Economic populism is all about the workers. You should support Donald J Trump your president.

Edited September 15, 2025 by paxamericana

[robosmith]

44 minutes ago, paxamericana said:

Not every Americans qualify to work higher value added jobs!! We’re born with different IQ levels. Don’t pretend everyone can learn how to code or be a banker. Second, teenagers need a path to financial success instead of committing crimes. Earning money by working an assembly job can give them that. Americans don’t want a handout, they want a paycheck! There is a growing chorus from the left on this issue and they see eye to eye with MAGA. Economic populism is all about the workers. You should support Donald J Trump your president.

I'm not the complete ASS H YOU ARE.

[robosmith]

[gatomontes99]

5 minutes ago, robosmith said:

You make a great point. We should let China use Uyghurs as slaves so they'll buy soy beans and we can buy poorly made, Guicci knock off hamdbags on Temu for $10. What is a Uyghurs any way? They arent really humans, right? Just let them be slaves.

19 hours ago, robosmith said:

I'm not the complete ASS H YOU ARE.

You tell him. You are twice the ass h he is! 

[Nationalist]

15 minutes ago, gatomontes99 said:

You make a great point. We should let China use Uyghurs as slaves so they'll buy soy beans and we can buy poorly made, Guicci knock off hamdbags on Temu for $10. What is a Uyghurs any way? They arent really humans, right? Just let them be slaves.

You tell him. You are twice the ass h he is! 

Oh you know @robosmith loves slaves. That's how he gets his cheap zucchini. 

[robosmith]

1 hour ago, Nationalist said:

Oh you know @robosmith loves slaves. That's how he gets his cheap zucchini. 

STOP LYING gnat girl. There are NO SLAVES picking American crops. Your ALZHEIMER'S is getting really bad.

[SpankyMcFarland]

China’s trade surplus is a serious geopolitical problem for everybody but instead of focusing on that Trump has alienated friendly nations across the world and gone into this scrap very poorly prepared. Now even his mega-donors don’t take him seriously.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/19/republican-mega-donor-trump-china

 

[LinkSoul60]

All in all, tariffs seem to be working out quite well so far....

‘Tidal wave of problems’: With harvest here, Trump’s trade war pushes some US farmers to the brink

In 2018 and 2019, the first Trump administration paid billions to farmers who were hurt by trade wars the president had started. It was “hush money to keep them sedated,” said Chris Gibbs, an Ohio farmer who previously was the Shelby County Republican chairman and voted for Trump in 2016, but has switched parties and is now the county Democratic chairman.

“It is a tough situation right now with the lack of markets that we have, or places to market our crop,” Euken said. “And it’s kind of the government that put us in that situation. So I hate to pin it on the American taxpayer, but if they want us to survive, we are going to need some help.”  Still, he said, he isn’t sure Trump is willing to bail out farmers a second time — because to the term-limited Trump, he said, “it doesn’t matter anymore.”  “The last time when we had bailouts, it was to his benefit to bail us out for future votes,” Euken said. “Buying a future vote is not going to help him one bit.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/20/politics/us-farmers-trump-tariffs-dire-consequences

[gatomontes99]

https://www.bea.gov/news/2025/personal-income-and-outlays-july-2025

 

US retail sales increase strongly; softening labor market a headwind

 

Aided by back-to-school purchases, retail sales up 0.6% in August

[SpankyMcFarland]

Every Western country needs to learn from Japan’s example on rare earths. They’ve been weaning themselves off China’s supply for over a decade. 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/rare-earths-japan-more-prepared-than-most-for-chinas-mineral-squeeze.html

And it’s good to see Canada and Australia co-operating on critical minerals too. 

https://www.industry.gov.au/news/australia-and-canada-strengthen-partnership-critical-minerals

 

Edited November 1, 2025 by SpankyMcFarland

[Deluge]

On 9/13/2025 at 11:12 AM, robosmith said:

What are you marxists crying about? Everything Trump does is an attempt to repair the damage YOUR side caused.

It's mind bending that you open borders sluts even open your corrupt, stupid pie holes. 

Edited November 3, 2025 by Deluge

[Nationalist]

On 9/14/2025 at 5:25 PM, LinkSoul60 said:

lol... no doubt they must be leftist journalists.

Ahhhh no, journalists don't set expectations and no they don't apply whatever number they want.  They report what economists are saying and reference the economist by name or institution.  Economists forecast expectations that journalists report.  It's called journalism. 

 

From Google:

"For 2026, economic forecasts for the USA suggest

continued slow growth, with a potential slight increase in the unemployment rate, and inflation that may remain elevated but start to moderate. Key factors influencing these predictions include higher tariffs, fiscal policy, and slower population growth, though AI-related investment is seen as a supportive factor. "

 

Have a nice day.

 

 

[robosmith]

On 9/15/2025 at 12:02 PM, paxamericana said:

Yeah and let me guess less than 10%?

Historically my advisor's fund has returned more than 10% after fees.

[Hodad]

There's 'overwhelming evidence' tariffs have raised consumer prices, says Bank of America

• Analysts at the Bank of America said tariffs have raised prices for consumers.
• They wrote in a note that consumers have covered about 50% to 70% of the cost of levies to date.
• This suggests tariffs will continue to put "upward pressure" on inflation, they said.

 

Whaaaaaaaaaaat?!?

🙄

[WestCanMan]

On 9/14/2025 at 3:36 AM, gatomontes99 said:

CPI went down last month, unexpectedly. But it was only unexpected to journalists. The small amount of goods that are imported only went up a small percentage. This meme cherry picks a few,  because the overall stats are not that impressive (if you are trying to create panic). So, the meme tries to create the impression of a generous effect on the price of goods by amplifying a few outliers. Reality is not your friend. 

I saw a bit of a Trump interview from CBS or something the other day, the woman interviewing him was trying to act like the prices of everything was up, after 4 years of pretending that prices weren't up under Biden.

Your news down there is a cesspool, and I'm not exaggerating. 

[CdnFox]

On 9/13/2025 at 10:12 AM, robosmith said:

There's nothing in the link .

Was nothing the amount of damage done by trump's tariffs? Is that what you meant to say? You are so weird

1 hour ago, Hodad said:

There's 'overwhelming evidence' tariffs have raised consumer prices, says Bank of America

• Analysts at the Bank of America said tariffs have raised prices for consumers.
• They wrote in a note that consumers have covered about 50% to 70% of the cost of levies to date.
• This suggests tariffs will continue to put "upward pressure" on inflation, they said.

 

Whaaaaaaaaaaat?!?

🙄

That's pretty much a given. But if they also stimulate economic growth at the same time to meet or exceed that inflation then it is a net win for the consumer.

So far that appears to be the case. We'll see if that holds over time

Edited November 5, 2025 by CdnFox

[gatomontes99]

52 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

I saw a bit of a Trump interview from CBS or something the other day, the woman interviewing him was trying to act like the prices of everything was up, after 4 years of pretending that prices weren't up under Biden.

Your news down there is a cesspool, and I'm not exaggerating. 

Oh yeah. That is why I call it the propaganda arm of the DNC. 

Edited November 5, 2025 by gatomontes99

[BeaverFever]

1 hour ago, WestCanMan said:

I saw a bit of a Trump interview from CBS or something the other day, the woman interviewing him was trying to act like the prices of everything was up, after 4 years of pretending that prices weren't up under Biden.

Your news down there is a cesspool, and I'm not exaggerating. 

Nobody was pretending prices didn’t go up during the pandemic and supply chain crisis (which was mostly out of biden’s control btw).  But it’s also completely irrelevant to the fact that they were going DOWN before Trump came into office and are going back up now solely because of Trump’s tariffs, not to mention the fact that Trump said prices would go down “on day one” of his term and still occasionally lies that they’re going down. 

[BeaverFever]

1 hour ago, CdnFox said:

But if they also stimulate economic growth at the same time to meet or exceed that inflation then it is a net win for the consumer.

Funny nobody on the right was willing to say anything that when Biden’s stimulus was growing the economy. Also it’s not a net win for the consumer unless that consumer’s income is also growing. Don’t confuse economic growth with income growth. 

1 hour ago, CdnFox said:

So far that appears to be the case.

Nobody knows what the case is, thanks to the government shutdown no data is being reported, much to Trump’s pleasure. But there are plenty of signs the economy is not growing faster than inflation. 

[gatomontes99]

2 hours ago, BeaverFever said:

Funny nobody on the right was willing to say anything that when Biden’s stimulus was growing the economy.

Yes we did and we talked about how the stimulus primarily added government spending rather than private sector growth. The GDP is the sum of private sector sales and government spending. As private sector sales slumped, Biden printed money, hired more people and frivilously spent money on illegal aliens and fraudulent NGOs. While they could say the GDP grew and jobs increased, the reality was the more important private sector was shrinking. We even found out a few months ago that the job growth was based on faked numbers. So, even the massive government hiring did not actually counter the job losses in the private sector. 

[BeaverFever]

2 hours ago, gatomontes99 said:

Yes we did and we talked about how the stimulus primarily added government spending rather than private sector growth. The GDP is the sum of private sector sales and government spending. As private sector sales slumped, Biden printed money, hired more people and frivilously spent money on illegal aliens and fraudulent NGOs. While they could say the GDP grew and jobs increased, the reality was the more important private sector was shrinking. We even found out a few months ago that the job growth was based on faked numbers. So, even the massive government hiring did not actually counter the job losses in the private sector. 

It worked in the end, the economy was “firing on all cylinders” by the second half of 2024. If you recall Trump tried to take credit for it even while Biden was still in office, saying it was because he was going to win the election in November and the “Trump golden age” was staring early. Then Trump got into office, dis a bunch of crazy and stupid things and everything started moving in the opposite direction.