“Yeah, I voted for Trump, absolutely. Did I know he was going to increase the tariffs? Yes, I did,” he said. “However, I thought that the infrastructure would be set up prior for small business to come back to America and manufacture in America. …"
When the fuck did Trump promise that, bozo? Small business support was the Biden/Harris campaign platform.
Hear me out: We pool our money together to pay for the infrastructure. It will be a percentage of your income for it. Those who make more money pay a higher percentage because they benefit from that infrastructure more. Then we have organizations to make sure the money is fairly collected and responsibly spent and make sure they can do their work unhindered.
Oh wait, that’s like the opposite of what Trump has been doing.
“You sound like a commie!”
I’ve unironically met someone in real life that thought taxes are a scam and should be abolished. How blissful it must be in his head.
I’m jealous that you’ve only met one libertarian in real life.
What gets me is what infrastructure did he think would be setup? Did he expect magical wheel factories to appear for him to start distributing from? It’s not like he’s designing or something guy is just drop shipping cheap alloy wheels.
Thing is, he didn’t think. He felt. He was a moron emotional fuckwit. Like all republicans.
This is a neighbour to the “Shirley Exception”. Let’s call it the “Shirley Prerequisite.”
People will hear an idea they broadly like, and rather than actually examine how its going to be implemented, they’ll simply assume that it will be the way that they would implement it, because to them that’s obviously the only logical way to do it. Sometimes their way is the logical way, sometimes it isn’t, but the point is that they can’t get out of their head enough to consider any other possibility.
In this case, the possibility left unconsidered is that Trump is a fucking moron.
Yeah, but that platform would have also helped brown people.
Fox got him so confused he,
“Damn that’s wild because I voted for you to have zero tariffs and a $50K tax break as a small business owner under Kamala,” reads the top comment under the video.
One of the best comments because it’s true and he can’t dismiss it as people being mean or reveling in his pain, just stating reality.
Oh fuck that guy. He knew good and goddamn well those tariffs would hurt people. He just didn’t care because he thought they would not affect him. Cry that your cruelty backfired all you want, but I also love this for you. I hope he gets even more of what he voted for.
Yes. Prospect for land. Work with local regulators on zoning and permits. spend millions.
Hire architects, contractors. Go through several phases of designs and decisions. Spend millions.
Research manufacturing equipment. Price sellers and eventually buy manufacturing equipment. Spend millions.
Hire and train staff, costing millions.
Power on manufacturing plant (costs millions).
Pay employees (costing WAY more than it did overseas)…
And then like, yeah, smooth sailing baby…?
And then the tariffs go away and boom! Rug pull!
How about you do all that and then sell me your product, and then I turn around and sell it to the customer and make 5X the money you make?
Conservatives are always so close to understanding a concept and then never get there.
Four years of Schadenfreude awaits!
If the entire western world wasn’t being dragged down then I’d find it funnier.
It’s a lesson don’t become so dependent on one nation.
Is putting small companies out of business better for the country? No. Is putting this guy out of business better for the country? Maybe. 🤷🏻
Dude, but he imports rims! Truly a very important business!
Rim importers are very important to our economy. Without them there are no jobs importing rims. These rim jobs are something not everyone is willing to do. We should praise those who are willing to perform these rim jobs.
They could’ve simply asked him to spawn domestic production chains with an executive order, duh! Read Art Of The Deal, dumb dumbs.
Come on, have some covfefe and don’t be a Panican
Suckers!
I’ve had a handful of conversations with trumpians who think this is all 4d geopolitical macroeconomic chess. And every single one of them are essentially convinced that some weird, bastardized, reductive model of global economics that exists in the collective headspace of the maga-sphere is The Way It Works. And it simply doesnt work that way. They’re convinced everyone else in the world HAS to do business with us, when that couldn’t be further from the truth. NATO allies have reconsidered buying our military hardware, for fucks sake. Sure, it’ll be painful for them for a bit, but a lot of our former allies now (correctly) view us as a clear and present danger. This is outside the bounds of the post-cold war context that we’ve existed in for several decades. This is a new era. This is the end of Pax Americana. And they don’t seem to be able to admit that it’s happening.
They can’t admit it because it’s an echo chamber. Trump tells them what they want to hear. They feel smarter for being validated by the president so they ignore the nagging voice that things aren’t going to plan because the only possible explanation is NOT that they were wrong and don’t understand these complex issues, but that even though they can’t see the full picture, they were right. Then all the other people in the same position agree that 4D chess is being played and they all voted a smart vote and the endorphins flood their brain again
This is exactly what they think.
For example, american car factories only make 70% of their capacity. European car factories currently export 50-60% of their product to the USA.
So if there is any idea with the tarriffs (debatable), it’s that the USA will have to grow domestic production (easy) while the rest of the world needs to shrink production (hard).
In other words, there are no other consumers rich enough to buy all this stuff.
Be that as it may, when security considerations become involved - and they are now involved - economic matters largely take a back seat.
Yes, I agree. Just as with the production/consumption disruption, the current US administration seems to be abandoning the Pax Americana commitments that led to a world of interrelations and dependencies that went beyond trade and economics. This has huge implications. The usa still has a very large military capacity, but the balance of power and what it is going to be used for…these are now in flux in a way we have not seen in living memory.
In a way, its the same logic being applied: that Europe or south America or whatever places are not capable of becoming a rival global power.
They’ll never admit it, because there’s a chance some liberal will say those 4 dreaded words: “I told you so.”
Something something bootstraps…
“hang yourself by your bootstraps”.
The business owner posted a follow-up video Friday, replying to a comment that said “I love this for you,” criticizing the mocking response he was met with.
“Yeah, I voted for Trump, absolutely. Did I know he was going to increase the tariffs? Yes, I did,” he said. “However, I thought that the infrastructure would be set up prior for small business to come back to America and manufacture in America. So to wish ill on someone and to love the fact that they’re suffering, to love the fact that their family is being negatively affected, because I didn’t vote the same way that you did is [expletive] up.”
He went on to explain that he doesn’t judge people based on their politics and has friends across the political spectrum.
“I’m sorry, a lot of you are [expletive] up … I hope you guys can be better people,” he concluded.
But the comment section again wasn’t in the mood for sympathy.
“I didn’t think the leopard would eat MY face,” wrote one person.
“I’m starting to think this is rage bait because there is no way,” concluded someone else.
Additionally, he ends his tik tok by saying, “[if he can’t get any help] it’s back to digging ditches again. Which I’m not scared to do, but it’s a little harder with a wife, two kids, and 45 years old.”
lolol 💃🪩🕺
I just know that at some point he ranted “Nobody wants to work anymore!”
Where’s that “have the day you voted for” meme? It’s the only worthwhile response to these folks nowadays.
Best thing he can do for the world is fuck off and die.
On one hand you’re probably right. On the other hand, lack of empathy is how we get here to start with.
