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Trump tariffs to stoke US food inflation despite pledge to lower costs (www.reuters.com)

submitted 4 days ago by RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago

unless the countries move to halt flows of illegal immigrants and the deadly opioid fentanyl into the U.S.

I really hate how often this statement is repeated without the context that these tariffs are being enacted under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which specifically allows the president to impose economic regulations by executive order in response to a specific state of emergency.

That's why they keep talking about fentanyl and immigrants; Because those are their supposed justifications for being allowed to do this without involving congress.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 88 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Trump lying to get elected? Perish the thought!

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago

Elon told the only truth you will ever hear when said the next fours years are going be really hard on the lower class. Anyone not a billionaire is going feel the pain.

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 49 points 4 days ago

He lied... No one could possibly have expected this

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, but the price of eggs will be going down though, right?

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 56 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Actually thanks to Trump hamstringing the CDCs attempts to reign in the bird flu outbreak, egg prices are set to skyrocket.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Until he demands that FDA/USDA allow the bird flu eggs to be sold to Americans and populations of chickens must not be culled, because acknowledging bird flu as a disease is too WOKEMINDVIRUS.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Jokes on them. Not culling an infected bird population just delays the bords' deaths by a few days, while increasing the infection risks for farm workers and other bird populations exponentially. AFAIK the infection can kill off an untreated population within a week.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Which he will then blame on the birds being too woke. I'm calling it now.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

We'll, they were DEI hens. If they only had white male chickens, this wouldn't have happened.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

FTFY: If they only had white male chickens laying eggs, ;-)

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

I can’t fault the logic. No one would have to spend a single penny on eggs.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

DEI…ducks, emus, and ibises.

[–] SarcasticMan@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No, because Biden, who was in cahoots with the egg cartel, used his political voodoo that all Democrats gain after their child adrenochrome infusions in the pizza basement to price-lock eggs and make gas expensive.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Stop, you're giving them ideas.

[+] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You'd have to be extremely selfish and a climate denier to think that the price of eggs going up is a bad thing

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree with the sentiment long term, but short term - it's gonna be a disaster to put something like eggs beyond the reach of the poor/uneducated especially and it'd be much better to have people gradually eased into something like this.

There are whole lot of idiots that think they must have animal protein or else they will die. Not even kidding; I've been a vegetarian (mostly vegan) for 20+ years and I get people agog that I'm even still alive, LOL. That's from adults, mind you, not children. I suspect that's because of the extreme amount of animal protein marketing and that nutritional education in this country is just plain terrible. I suppose it's getting better, though, since about 5% of the population is veg*n.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sure, long term is to ban them. Short term is to increase the price.

And, along the way, you need government marketing telling people that animal protein is the #1 cause of heart disease in the US, and tell them to eat peanut butter or beans instead. Or not worry about it because protein is a nutrient that's extremely rare to be malnourished-in.

Then redirect them to the nutrients that they should worry about (which are actually a problem in most US American's diets), such as calcium, vitamin D, B12, etc.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Eggs are the lowest impact animal protein that’s readily available. You’d have to be an actual idiot to think that increased egg costs will result in lower carbon and methane footprints for the average consumer.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

It's cool. I'll just start stealing food if it gets too expensive to buy. I encourage anyone else to do the same. If it comes down to you not being able to take care of yourself and your loved ones because of price, you steal that food and we'll all gladly turn a blind eye.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

I told my teenager who works at a grocery store “remember, if you see someone steal food, no you didn’t”

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 days ago

Sounds like part of the plan to get more prison slave labor!

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I am still hopeful that he changes his mind (aka "The oligarchs backing him make it clear that he can commit suicide from five bullets to the back of the head") and, after he finishes his morning ritual of watching 12 hours of fox news, he says something like "We were going to start the tariffs today but Canada have shown they are willing to listen to us. Let's give them a week" and keeps doing that for the foreseeable future.

I am fully aware that is copium.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

My biggest copium thought was that he'd get inaugurated, pardon himself and fuck off to Moscow. He's still fucking here.

[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The White House said on Friday that the new tariffs on Canada and Mexico will take effect on Feb. 1, denying a Reuters report that they would be delayed until March 1.

So did the tariffs take effect or not? Or are they supposed to be announced closer to the end of the day US time?

[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

As of 11:46am ET, they have not taken effect. I am NOT sure if Trump administration knows how to implement what they want to do LOL.

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I DECLARE TARIFFS

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

You didn't say HEREBY!

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago

I just wanted you to know that you can't just say the word tariffs and expect anything to happen.

I didn’t say it. I declared it.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Many past presidents have said implementing policy is far harder than declaring it. There’s a big delay, and big gap.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they're dysfunctional for a while, and that tariffs don’t take effect when he says they do.

This would honestly be very Trump, as he can just jawbone his base into believing they're reality as he often did in the business world, before politics.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -5 points 3 days ago

Yes. We need tarrifs and UBI