Check out millennial farmer on YouTube. Dude has been on weapons grade copium for a while and its hilarious to watch. Yes, tariffs on Canadian potash would have ended me, but I bought before the tarrifs. Yes, tarrifs on soybeans means its not profitable but I don’t have to sell right now. Yes, cutting subsidies that I was planning on using to pay for the multimillion facility I just built would ruin it, but I’ll figure it out.
Dude just keeps going this’ll be good long term, I voted for long term. Buddy, you’re already done.
They have not felt the effects of the tariffs. None of us have, really. The supply chain shock hasn’t even started in earnest yet. Container ship traffic to west coast ports was up until recently as companies rushed to get stocked up but now, all the ones from China are being rerouted to other markets.
Even if Trump made a trade deal with China tomorrow, there’s going to be shortages of a lot of a lot of things later this year. That would just be like COVID. Container ships take time to cross the Pacific Ocean. And even if companies wanted to onshore production, that takes time. Building a factory takes years; even retrofitting an existing one takes time.
Just today, I read that Subaru is going to produce fewer cars in the U.S. and more in Japan to avoid raising prices in Canada and elsewhere. There’s just going to be layoffs and production moving overseas.
Subaru isnt an American company. We only care about American companies. Americans employed by foreign companies can get fucked I guess.
It’s so contrary to one’s self admit wrong.
If they can’t see what’s right in front of them, why would we care about whatever it is they think they see in the future?
Because there are enough of them to win elections.
tl;dr - Republicans win because they don’t over-estimate the intelligence of your average voter.
