Oh thank god everything has been way too cheap recently, thanks Mr president
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According to the news, Americans are only going to be paying $1,000 more per person for their basic goods this year. It's a good thing most people aren't working paycheck to paycheck, have been receiving cost-of-living wages, and are not already in debt, right?
: “Sorry kiddo, but we ALL need to make sacrifices!”
*to Moloch, maybe Satan, but definitely making sacrifices to The Market!
Probably closer to $300 for me, and that's a bargain price to pay for getting to see the empire crumble.
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c'mon, collapse
This
Watching the United States President choke the economy to death in less than 100 days.
honestly the perfect way for america to go out. bumbling narcissist and former reality TV star is elected head oligarch by 80 million people who either see assholeness and cheap showmanship as endearing qualities and/or were just plain miseducated. said oligarch thinks he can bully the rest of the world into handing him free money for his pipe dream of reviving 1950s US dominance. ends up completely alienating ~~allies~~ satellite states as the dollar collapses and BRICS booms.
Guess we're doing accelerationism now
We're not doing anything.
The US has simply decided to destroy itself because the idiot failsons/daughters of smarter imperialists took the reins as true believers of the past's bullshit and took power.
Now it just burns because it burns
Or as the eternal science of Marxist though teaches, monopoly capitalism has such extreme contradictions during late stage, it destroys itself
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I’m along for the ride. And trying to keep in mind the upside: if the country collapses, they will not have the ability to interfere in other countries.
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The end of the fourth Reich draws near 
If this lasts a while, it will be interesting how the Treatlerites respond. I've always imagined the US falling apart in like two weeks if it was under the same kind of embargo that the US subjects Cuba to. This won't be close to that, but I still expect some craziness.
Does anyone else find it weird that the fourth Reich started before the third?
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Smoke em if ya got em! I'm out here staying stoned donating beans
lib status: owned
fridge status: empty
wife status: cheating on me
oh yeah, we do get tired of winning 
i'm interested in seeing how people who voted for him are going to rationalize their support when the tariffs are pushed to consumers to cover. goods and services are going to increase in price and instead of it being due to a series of complicated events that the president is of course involved in it'll be directly Trump's fault. explain that away, please.
"because of woke"
“Well you see. Poor porky was facing competition and it scared him. Once when labor is free AND he has a full monopoly, THEN porky will probably feel safe and FINALLY let us lick his plate.
Because China
My money's on "Woke DEI corporations (controlled by Soros/Zuckerberg/The Jews more broadly) are trying to stop Trump by raising prices for no reason".
Biden's fault
DEI sweaty
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I love that he and his movement have been so rabidly anti-China particularly on the economics and he applied 250% more pain on Canada than China.
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In the face of waning dominance of the dollar as the world currency, lacking options to sustain the dollars value in the global market, empire as a tool no longer viable, and alternatives to their Financialization schemes, and global sanctions driving a split in payment systems, the Hermit Kingdom known as the Burgerreich turns its economic policies inward, abandoning conquest of empire, imperialism, and third world Financialization, in favor of economic nationalism.
Which is very funny because we subsist almost entirely on imports.
The rulers of empire now believe the propaganda they feed to the proles.
We're going to go from worrying about the price of food to just being worried about its availability.
Does BRICS have an alternative payment system even? Not their own currency, just something that allows them to directly trade without ever using the $$$.
There was some talk last year about one but it sounds like that's not in the table. Still they won't be using swift out looks like either?
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Mom said it was my turn to raise inflation 
My boss is scared of good coats skyrocketing despite us being Canadian. We aren't paying the tax. If it raises prices on American import, whatever, we don't get our food from there for the most part. Anything that isn't local is either from Italy cause Italian restaurant or from China cause that's where most garlic comes from. Maybe our lemons are american but I think that's all.
looks like they're doing a retaliatory 25% tariff starting tuesday, so it's gonna go both ways
That seems like a really dumb move. "OH, YOURE BLEEDING? WELL ME TOO MOTHERFUCKER!" absolute Wimp-Lo logic. Just sell shit to any of the other countries.
I don't think they can. Like politicians can do all the trade deals they want but the infrastructure doesn't exist to get shit to ports that dont have the capacity to handle all the shit. Don't get me wrong Canada SHOULD be able to do trade with other countries but they got complacent.
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there is probably some increase on the cost of goods from transportation element because of gasoline price, iirc most of canada's oil is refined in america and canada buys it back from america - which means the tariff of oil will probably raise the prices of good as a secondary effect
I figured there would be something like that, there is an oil refinery really damn close by, so I know we do some. It almost blew up once. Considering the rate that food prices have been going up regardless, it will probably be pretty hard to notice.
Considering the rate that food prices have been going up regardless, it will probably be pretty hard to notice.
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Stock up, or start making and selling, “I did that” stickers
What about Denmark? Thought he was gonna tariff the Danes too
greenland is the tariff
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