Terrified Trump Flees Tariffs War After CEOs’ ‘Empty Shelves’ Warning
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The president sounded much more conciliatory after he was told about the chaos his plans could bring.

Summary

Trump had to reverse his aggressive tariff rhetoric after CEOs from Walmart, Target, and Home Depot warned of empty shelves and higher prices due to supply chain disruptions.

Investors reacted negatively to his threats against Fed Chair Jerome Powell, prompting a market sell-off.

Trump backtracked, expressing optimism on a China trade deal and now denying plans to fire Powell.

Global markets remain volatile, and the IMF cited Trump’s trade war as a “major negative shock” to global growth.

  • Allonzee@lemmy.world
    24·
    8 hours ago

    I’m saying that you can’t credibly go “you… You fucking shot me! What the fuck?!” at someone who shot you because you shot them a few seconds prior to that.

    It doesn’t make it right. It’s wrong. But it’s also a non-sequitur for a serial killer to condemn another serial killer over the sanctity of life.

    As an American, Americans have no business condemning other nations about misinformation campaigns until we clean our fucking house up and provide reparations to those both within and without who were hurt by our misinformation campaigns.

    • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      8 hours ago

      So what you’re saying is, because America’s government is doing shady shit, American citizens have no right to call out other countries for the shady shit they’re doing?

      Since you like your weird conversational analogies, that’s like you saying;

      “China gets to shoot whoever the fuck they want because other countries have shot people!”

      Two wrongs don’t make a right. It’s a dumb argument. Stop doing it.

      • Allonzee@lemmy.world
        13·
        7 hours ago

        I mean, you can and are.

        That being said, it’s equivalent to a Chinese citizen finger wagging at the US about our compromised democratic republic.

        It would ring empty from a citizen of a place that will literally run tanks over him for wanting a political voice, and would be gallows comical as a source. Context matters.

        Don’t like it? Let’s clean our house up. IMHO the Nordic nations, with the happiest citizens with the highest sense of wellbeing in the world, the only point of civilization existing for those still paying attention, have the right to talk Infinite shit about just about anything to just about every other nation, because they’re doing being a society right and meeting the only fucking goal that matters. Their house is made of iron, not candy glass. Every nation on Earth should be taking their notes, every citizen of every other nation rioting for their models to be enacted at home.

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      7 hours ago

      Huh? I’m the American government now? I reserve the right to condemn any government, anywhere, for reason. Especially when they make choices without my consent.

      You speak emotionally, betraying that you know very little about the problems that truly need to be solved.

      • Allonzee@lemmy.world
        12·
        7 hours ago

        You are in a sense.

        Americans love to separate ourselves, but George Carlin was right, this is a representative government. I voted against him thrice, and primaried for an actual left, and phone banked for Sanders on two campaigns, but Donald Trump represents the United States as it is in practice perfectly.

        He’s like the United States anthropomorphized into human form. Proudly classist, proudly racist, proudly greedy, proudly willfully ignorant, proudly drunk on schaudenfreude, proudly cruel and sociopathic, obsessed with ego score and image despite being a gross, overweight pig.

        Trump is this fucking place. The embodiment of everything I’ve despised about this fucking cesspool since before he was fake firing people on fake reality TV. We could not be governed more appropriately as a people given our PRACTICED values of being temporarily embarrassed millionaires dying alone undermining one another to “beat” our neighbors instead of living reasonable lives together if we tried.

        Maybe we should stop being a horrible, antisocial society that tries to compete against one another in every possible way instead of cooperating before we continue to tell other places what they’re doing wrong, because this is a meth house on fire, geopolitically speaking, and has been since the 1970s. We don’t have the credibility to get caught up in other nation’s problems.

        Oh also, sticks and stones but ad hominems will never hurt me.