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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 43 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Yay, another COVID style supply chain apocalypse. This time brought on entirely by American conservatives and their lack of brain cells.

Buy exactly ZERO gifts for your conservative family members for their bdays and Xmas and make sure to tell them it's because of the new Trump Tax.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 25 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think you'll be able to buy anything for anybody lol.

This is a Depression Train coming right for us

[–] pulido@lemmings.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Glad I've already been living as frugally as possible for the past several years.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 hours ago

Uprisings eminent.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 67 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

lol stores are gonna start getting cleaned out on the regular. And they’re gonna stay empty.

Are we winning yet?

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

And that's just from the Tariff effects. When you count hoarders scalpers people stealing from trucks fromwarehouses and everything else it's going to get really crazy. And people are going to start hoarding things that aren't getting tariffed because they don't want to find out the hard way

[–] lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.world 59 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

Its also what the stores voted for. Almost every major corporation wanted Trump and heavily lobbied for him to get in. News outlets, grocery chains, retail stores, tech companies, every large corporation wanted this.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately, it seems this needs to happen to wake people the fuck up.

Another article today about people literally having no concept of why the websites they're shopping on is suddenly way more expensive (and explicitly showing the tariff costs).

People are surprised by this, and many of them have literally never even heard the word "tariff" before.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 10 hours ago

especially chinese sites that deliver to usa.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 18 points 14 hours ago

And the illiterate yokels in 12 months time: "Tariff?! That sounds like one of them thar a-rab names!!"

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 6 points 10 hours ago

i heard the shore employees are going to lose thier jobs the moment it stays empty.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

lol stores are gonna start getting cleaned out on the regular

Nah. We've already seen businesses implementing digital price tags for just this occurrence.

Your stores will stay stocked. You're just going to see merch doubling and tripling in price as inventory depletes.

Eventually, you'll walk into a store, see a single pair of jeans on the rack, and read a $1000 price tag on it because it's the last pair of that style in 20 miles.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like a scalpers wet dream

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 10 hours ago

the toilet paper crisis will soon be on the scene again.

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago

Lean inventory and just in time supply management for the win!

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 31 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 17 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 hours ago

I feel like we should have a system where the blue States get to have a different president than the red states. We sort of divide the federal government so each election you pick which one your state will be a member of this year.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 28 points 15 hours ago (11 children)

Neither did I but 79 million idiots did, and 88 million didn't vote at all.

In a sense 167 million people wanted this shitshow so here we are.

Buy a gun, ammo, and canned goods. Form support groups with like minded people in your areas.

This summer is going to be a hootenanny of epic proportion.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Excited to revisit the discourse on price gouging for the next few months.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

There is no price gouging in U.S.A.

[–] harmsy@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

The Orange King has invited you to Lake Gitmo.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 22 points 15 hours ago

if you need, or might need tech in the near future, BUY IT NOW. not just because of the price hike, but because there won't be anything left to buy

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 10 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Question for the class: aside from the obvious like computers and technology, what category items are we expecting to be hit hardest? Or to ask pointedly, what items that we NEED might be affected?

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago

Anything that's coming from China, the other terrorists are on pause right now but with Donald Trump you just never know. There's also a lot of things that are made in America but the parts are sourced from China, in whole or in part. That being said once Panic buying sets in I expect even things that aren't terrorists to start being price hiked and go missing from shells I people who don't know the difference and don't want to find out the hard way

[–] dzso@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Literally anything imported. Which is virtually everything.

[–] Bathilda_Bagshot@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Baby care items are going to get hit hard.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 9 points 13 hours ago

The ones you don’t think of, naturally.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Clothing, but, tbh, I expect that need to be flexible. I personally could ride out a few years just repairing my items. Pants are what I expect to run out of first--the bottoms give out and that is beyond my repair skills.

I have a few more bags of coffee than I normally would, because caffeine makes things better and we don't grow that here. I have a bit of chocolate.

I really don't know what will be in short supply. I didn't want to hoard stuff I won't use, but I don't want to run out of stuff I need.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

we dont grow cacoa either, tropical climates grow our vanilla orchids, cacoa, and coffee beans, avacadoes, pineapples too. and vanilla is notoriously hard to grow, due to its biology(because you have to hand pollinate each flower as the natural pollinator is probably in its native range is either extinct or extirpated and not available in where the vanilla grows.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 hours ago

Yep. I suspect we'll be fine for cheap/low quality candy, thanks to native corn syrup. Sadly my tastes run a bit fancier.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I thought most clothing was now made in Vietnam and Indonesia?

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not sure. A quick audit of my clothing says Peru, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Poland, and China.

I'm also not sure how the tariffs will end up.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 hours ago

I've got stuff in my house that was from Pakistan

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

That's pretty diverse. And yeah, I don't think even Trump knows what's going to happen.

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