alt Hacker NewsI am checking conservative echo chambers from time to time and find it ridiculous that they always find a positive spin on all the obvious grifting and destruction that is happening around them. we are witnessing the downfall of an empire with our own eyes and can do absolutely NOTHING
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I build homes and so am adjacent to many blue collar Trump fanatics, here's the thing I constantly hear;
> My tool for X used to cost $500 or $2000. The $500 was imported and good enough for me. I could never justify spending $2000 on the Made in USA version although it was very well built and I wanted it. Now, with tariffs, the import costs $1800, so it's easy for me to justify spending $2000 on the Made in USA option. Trump got me to buy American and support American manufacturing. Go MAGA!
It's strange how if the same economic condition existed due to a Biden (or any liberal presidents term) they surely would have been villainized for eliminating ANY lower cost option, increasing the cost of business (when tools cost more, everything they create costs more), and simply stealing food from people's families (as the $1500 extra he spent would have presumably remained in this contractor's profits in the pre-tariff reality not to long ago). It takes massive mental gymnastics to view this as beneficial and anything other than a direct tax on American consumers. The brain washing rhetoric of conservative media is an extremely powerful weapon.
Best part is how "west" wants Russians public to revolt against tyranny while we boil like a frogs ... And do absolutely nothing.