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( the joke is not that these are low quality, but they are assembled wrong; Chinese embassy is calling Americans dumb )

I feel you may have missed the most important detail, that they are assembled backwards.

¡La chancla!

Yeah, making himself richer and manipulating the market in plain sight.

He's an authoritarian nut job that is destroying this country and ignoring the Constitution. He's emboldened the racists to be more open and violent. Unless you are a billionaire, he will eventually get around to destroying everything you hold dear as well. Don't think you are special.

Everybody is roasting you but I want to help you in a meaningful way. Decreasing trade and taxing US Citizens with tariffs does not create manufacturing jobs. In fact the USA is losing manufacturing jobs, exactly like last Trump term, because we're tariffing resources like steel and aluminium used to build heavy machinery, which is one of the USA's major exports following petrochem products and financial services.

See, successful countries specialize in specific goods and services then trade that to other nations. We could be making our own lamps, plastic tables, and mass producing PCBs but doing so makes us less money than the things we're actually good at making. We're actually forcing other nations to compete with us by not offering goods and services meaning they now have to create replacements for us.

It's not that the stated goal is wrong, it's that the Republican Administration's methods are so terrible that they can't achieve it. Indeed the methods are so wrong that it's not even clear that the stated goal is the real goal they are pursuing.

He might be rude and orange... He might also have done all this with no plan, he might be driving up the cost of virtually everything, he might be driving many small businesses into bankruptcy, he might have created instability that's going to make everyone reluctant to start new businesses, he might have driven away all of America's trading partners, he might have handed the 21st century to China on a silver platter, he might have ended the dollar as the global reserve currency and all the perks that come with that... I could go on.

How much more damage will Republicans do to the US before enough people accept that, by and large, our manufacturing days are behind us? And that manufacturing leaving our shores is not the reason the working and middle classes are poorer than they used to be?

In a global economy there's no need to be fully self sufficient; unless, for some reason, no one wants to work with you.

If the true goal is to just bring manufacturing back to the US then a stable economy and negotiated deals with entities that are actually manufacturing things are going to go so much further than just telling the rest of the world to find new clientele among the remaining 96% of the global population because the 4% that lives in the US can no longer afford it due to artificially imposed limits.

His tariffs won't fix shit.

Tariffs can do one of two things:

1. Protect domestic industry
2. Exert pressure in a trade war.

To accomplish 1, tariffs have to be permanent and planned. To accomplish 2, tariffs have to be reversible the moment the other party caves.

These tariffs are neither planned nor permanent. Yet Trump wants you to believe that they can bring back manufacturing.

You're right that there's a real issue with globalisation And tariffs aren't even an insane mechanism to use. But the way that the administration is using them is either a) well-intentioned but incredibly badly implemented, or b) a cynical manipulation.

The sad part is that it's likely to make it harder to change things for better in the long run. Instead of a sane plan to develop domestic manufacturing we have this chaos, and once it's over people will be wary of the very idea.

It must take some serious mental gymnastic training to try and justify trumps economic policy

I agree that trying to bring manufacturing capability is a huge deal. Economics aside people talk about private jets polluting like crazy, well every container ship belches smoke like the fucking fire navy. And there's a lot of them

Speaking of the navy there's a concerning amount of missile components that are subcontracted to chinese companies

But all that said if I was a company and I could hold out for 4 years I wouldn't build facilities in the US. When the new admin comes in I bet they would remove tarrifs and those facilities become way less profitable