The local news just pointed out that the US imports 85% of our seafood. Not that i was in any means in favor of this #TradeWar but this is something that is obviously going to hurt my pocketbook as the tariffs hit. #USPol

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-8-2025

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-versus-the-free-press

China hits back with 84% tariffs, a lot of MAGA farmers are about to get a nasty reality check.

China strikes back with 84% tariffs on US goods - #FinSky #USpol #TrumpCrash #Tariffs www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

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There is a trade deficit because you want my things more than I want yours
(I make good stuff, you make crap)

So, to punish me you will make your people pay more for my stuff.
This will encourage your industry to make more of the crap I didn't want in the first place.

Is that how tariffs work?

Our economy is cooked. CHINA is about to kill us with an 84 percent tariff. #USPol

"Beijing’s tariff hike brings the accumulative tariff total to 84%”

#USpol #Tariffs #China

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3305873/china-fires-back-stern-rebuke-trumps-tariff-escalation

Is the far left happy to see Maoism in Washington?

Since being out of the US a few years, I've come to understand Trumpism in a way that I didn't when I was there.

I have two friends (neither of whom voted for Trump) but they're both men in their early 50s, both college educated (ie have a university degree) and both have worked since their 20s in various jobs.

One of them has one child and lives with his wife. Until just two years ago, he never had a job that paid him a living wage for a single man.

The other has no kids, and lives with/takes care of his (now elderly) mother. He works two, sometimes three jobs to get by, despite working for the federal government (as a contractor) for the last ~20 years in various roles.

Both of these men are intelligent, thoughtful, and I'd argue are both relatively hard workers (particularly the second) and yet the system has entirely failed them.

America's social contract *has* broken down, and while I don't see the appeal of Trump, I certainly understand thinking "Let's start over."

I want a follow up interview with this voter:

https://masto.ai/@mister914/114067402063004823

Basically, if yoou put a criminal in the White House, they will legalize crime.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-81/

Ob die Chinesen ihre US-Sojabohnen wohl so sehr vermissen werden wie die Amis ihre Elektronik?

China kontert Trumps Zollerhöhung auf 84%. Ein Schritt, den ich mir von der EU auch wünschen würde.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2025-04-08/trump-tariffs-stock-market-updates

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Does anyone have a pattern and instructions for making a cute little Donald Trump doll? I'd like to have one handy that I can stick pins into, since that seems to be one of the few avenues for participatory governance left open to us.
#USpol

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