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Cedar Roach promptly checked out on $244 of workout gear from Lululemon (a Canadian brand) and a $150 sweater from House of Sunny (a U.K. brand) while Trump’s press conference played over the radio. Her boyfriend, Sean MacKenzie, ran out to buy three eight-packs of Guinness, filling up their refrigerator’s vegetable drawer with cans.
come on. these people's names are Felix bits. Cedar Roach? get out of here
If you can afford a $150 sweater on a whim why are you freaking out about tariffs?
$150 is fine, $180 is way over the line and completely unaffordable.
If this paragraph was a person I’d ring its neck.
Her boyfriend, Sean MacKenzie, ran out to buy three eight-packs of Guinness
Oh boy, you're sure set now dude.
Cedar Roach
what kind of person names their kid tree roach
meet my son Larch Mealworm... and this is my daughter, Acacia Mealworm
name's Pine Beetle but my friends call me Bark 
I work in a Tractor Supply type place and we've sold like 6 generators today.
This reminded me I need to get some solar capacity quick
Kikkoman is made in Wisconsin and California
That's the bastardized american version where they cut out the bits from the japanese show when kikkoman wasn't in costume.
KKKiKKKoman
Crackerman
Kikkoman is not a US company. It is headquartered in Noda, Japan. It may have some factories in America. That does not mean that it is an American company. They will likely face the tariffs. They probably import much of the ingredients from other countries.
I worked at a Japanese factory (not soy sauce) within America for 1 year. We made the product in America but it was still a Japanese-owned company. There were regularly overseers flying in from Japan to visit the factory. I had to fill out the paperwork with romanized Japanese words. I don't speak Japanese. I had to memorize new words for every terminology of the production process. It was kind of funny seeing white boomer American casually using these words. Just because a factory is located in US, doesn't mean that it is a US company.
I'll admit I bought a bunch of green tea and mirin in preparation for the tarrifs
soy sauce is made in america (california) literally grow/export more soy than anywhere else
americans are so fucking stupid
Are we?
according to the data you are
Woah how this plasma TV get in my house???
Sorry for being flippant, I'm legitimately surprised at what my countrymen are focusing on.
I must be doing it in my sleep.
It will be Trumpets buying them to skew the data.
i'm not
This article is actually kind of validating. On Reddit it seems like there are only two kinds of people - smug preppers who already stocked up in November, and normies who don't really understand or care that much. But yeah, so much of the stuff around us depends on global supply chains and 10-50+% tariffs on the entire world means we are so unbelievably cooked.
This morning I sat down and made a list of stuff and divided it into high, medium, and low priority tiers based on severity of expected price increase and effect on my quality of life if I have to skimp or go without. I'm planning to spend the next few months diverting money I would have been investing to aggressively buy the high and medium prio stuff. High prio for me is tech and health related stuff - laptop, headphones, masks, tea, vitamins/supplements - a lot of it directly or indirectly from China. Medium prio is basically hygiene products and work gear. Low prio is household items I'll pick up when I can. Today ended up being a good day for me to get a vacuum - guess where it was made? Vietnam and China 😅
1- buy them now in bulk
2- inflation goes up
3- tariff also makes the price goes up
4- resell them at lower market price
5-profit
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