Its a bit late for the people who's leopards are eating their face to get upset that they voted for the leopards.

Especially when everyone else told them specifically "that leopard will eat your face."

If you voted for trump, quit crying and start protesting. Its basically the last hope we have of a peaceful resolution to this problem.

If they could look past him being a felon, raping kids, assaulting women, mocking a disabled person, etc...they will be no help defeating fascism

Those people will be the ones destroying libraries and universities, and setting up concentration camps before they’ll protect the actual constitution. They aren’t going to help.

The ones that support him right now are too far gone at this point. The people you see complaining in town halls are the people that need to be swayed, but they have already decided that he is not what they want.

Nobody who voted for Donald Trump is a victim.

Fun story here, I co-organized parties and we sold slaps for 2 bucks each. Guest what? It worked very well.

Trump voters are the same as the ones paying to be slapped minus the party.

I think the anti-fascist organizing will have to find a way to succeed without changing their principles to make the fascists feel welcome.

Don’t worry, Americans are great at sharing and rationing

Imagine going through another COVID-like experience as far as the economy is concerned, except this time it was entirely caused by the conservative virus.

Because it's starting to look like that's what is going to happen.

which will superheat the aforementioned inflation

Glad I just got a bread maker!

Gotta learn to make buns with it so it's just not loaves.

The only way the dumbest among us can learn is through personal suffering. So that’s the way it’s going to be.

I'm a bit worried that, instead of learning on their mistakes, they'll just find another scapegoat. Like, "if we had Canada and Panama none of this would've happened", or some other inane shit like that.

It's not that China's blocking shipping, it's that retailers aren't confident that they can move a product at whatever the previous cost of the product x 2.25 + other costs and profits was, right?

A lot of telescope parts are made in China, IIRC, so let's use them as an example. Celestron is based out of California, let's say they sell a scope for $1400 and it used to cost them $800 to get from China. That means that to make the same amount on each unit after the cost, they'd need to charge $800+(800*1.25)[the tariff]+(1400-800)[their margin on the product] for a total of $2400. Mind you, I have no idea how thick their margins really are, so I'm not going to comment on that. Now, my understanding of markets is that they sell at whatever they think the market can bear, so if they thought they could sell the scope at $2400, they already would have been. So, it makes sense to just not buy any telescopes just now, since if dingus wakes up tomorrow, declares victory in the trade war and declares tariffs woke, you'll be stuck with a bunch of product that will be basically impossible to move without taking a loss. This also gives you time to scrape up the capital to buy at the increased price if the tariffs don't drop. Eventually, though, you're either going to have to buy product at the higher price or close up shop.

So much to say that I'm a little surprised that there aren't at least some shipments coming of lower-cost higher-volume goods that might be better able to absorb the shock of the tariffs. The fact that there's just nothing coming our way is incredible to imagine. Is it because of the recent gouge-flation; companies have recently increased prices to the resistance point and they now know that there's zero wiggle room for passing those costs on to customers without suffering a loss in sales volume?