Companies will raise prices to account for what they’re losing on the tariffs.

I saw someone say it seems that the tariffs were calculated by dividing our trade deficit by their exports to us and cutting that number in half. Another person analyzed his charts and concluded they look a lot like they were generated by AI.

So, there is, literally no basis in logic. Either one of Trump’s minions calculated what it would take to recoup the difference in the trade deficit and just wrote it down and he announced that as the new basis for international trade, which has never, ever been done, for the reason that it is fucking idiotic, or he asked Gemini how to execute his already objectively stupid policy and wrote an Executive Order making it the law.

And the fact that we are forced to accept people on the Internet’s guesses about how he calculated these numbers may actually be worse than the fact that just about every product on the market more complex than a stapler just jumped about 30% in price.

It is.

In light of the Trump Administration, a lot of the terrible shit other Presidents have done is a lot less noteworthy.

Remember Hillary’s emails?

I wonder if the people who go on about it actually understood the implications of the email server, or just reacted when Fox told them to.

Alice in Wonderland.

Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll move against the nuclear arsenal and the Army will finally give him the boot.

I said any Muslim who voted for Trump will get what they deserve.

Which, when you think about it, is even more bullshit. Because that means Reddit believe Trump’s election will result in violence against Muslims. But they still allow pro-Trumpism.

Because the Britons who vote for him hate minorities.

As much as this makes me hate Donald Trump more than I already did, which was already more than I hate almost anyone, the really horrific thing is that a decent fraction of Americans will look at this and think Trump made the right decision, or at least a brave, or reasonable, decision.

Because it is.

If they’re going loose an eye, it seems likely it’ll be the orange one.

Water ‘is wet’ top Democrat says

He is not joking and while it is most relevant in the United States it is not exclusive to us.

The simple reality is that it is not possible to maintain good relations with the US. Donald Trump is an idiot and a fascist whose agenda is driven by his whims as much as anything else. Starmer could bend over backwards to appease His Orange Majesty on every issue and Trump would still fuck the UK just because.

Reddit being popular is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy.

When you get right down to it: people don’t care that Reddit is selling their information, that the site itself is a piece of garbage, that running the site requires a bunch of no-life weirdos whose numbers will only increase going forward and whose power will likewise, or that the design actively encourages bots to the point of disincentivizing actual human beings from using it.

They want their memes, they want their news, they want their niche little interest subs and they want their porn. The simple fact is that lemmy is a smaller version of Reddit with fewer options and to the majority of people who don’t care about their data or the objectively dogshit running of the site, there is no reason to cross over to Lemmy.

Until Reddit takes a Musk-type turn into being totally unuseable, lemmy will only see a trickle of users who are burned by Reddit.

Donald Trump isn’t just evil. Donald Trump is stupid.

Not only does his agenda not further the interests of America, it doesn’t further the professed values of the Republican Party.

The sole guiding principle of the Republican Party is: Hurt the right people.

I would welcome fifty new Congressional districts, the overwhelming majority of which would vote Blue within an American political framework.

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As it turns out, there are about 2,000 pounds of difference between Republicans and Democrats.