Live updates: Trump announces sweeping tariffs

[phoenixz@lemmy.ca]

Absolutely, just like Hitler was the most influential German leader ever

[cataphract@lemmy.ml]

, at least like put any effort forth if you're going to steal a joke and make it shittier.

[kebab@endlesstalk.org]

Russia is missing from the chart:

Overview In January 2025, United States exported $34.9M and imported $196M from Russia, resulting in a negative trade balance of $161M.

[brysmi@lemmy.world]

The goal is to start a fire and to attend the fire sale.

[gamer@lemm.ee]

Trump doesn't care about approval ratings. He has a "golden parachute" waiting for him and his buddies in Russia after he destroys America.

[absolutechicagodog@lemm.ee]

Curious that Russia is missing

[initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

This is really not true. The wealthy aren't playing 4D chess with the economy, they are just as short-sighted behind closed doors. The Great Depression fucked a lot of wealthy people up and turned the entire nation against them. It can happen again.

[dead_or_alive@lemmy.world]

I knew I’d get the ol’ switch-a-roo comments. Please enjoy one internet point sir.

[dead_or_alive@lemmy.world]

I see we have a dirty tankie in our midst.

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Lol, didn't even click the links, I kinda assumed it was Russia-Ukraine and just googled "countries that start with R"

[nalivai@lemmy.world]

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Russia was it's own case, comrade Krasnov will make sure of it

[archmageazor@lemmy.world]

Is he acting salty about the Vietnam war or what?

[Guest]

I was gonna say until his usefulness ends and he mysteriously falls out of a 4th floor window, but he's too fat and heavy to fall through one, so maybe just some plutonium in his diet coke

[orcrist@lemm.ee]

I don't think these are reciprocal. I think these are unilateral, and when countries respond, their tariffs will be reciprocal. The distinction is very important. This is a problem created by Trump, not by other countries. You don't get to choose false language to describe it that shifts the blame.

[Guest]

Own your president Trump.

People need to own up to anonymous no-identity social media addiction. The egomania they get chasing junk (drugs) off of Apple iPhone / iPad / Samsung / machine devices. Donald Trump is entirely an Apple iPhone addict in egomania off machine lust, as too is Elon Musk.

nothing of this could have been possible without a ruined education system and mindless propaganda.

Nothing is more mindless than the education people get off of Lemmy memes, Reddit memes, Bluesky memes, Fox News HDTV, Joe Rogan. That's the education that creates an audience for Donald Trump. Self-centered eoomania, like the Middle East gets with one religion vs. another religion. Fiction addiction problems are raging in USA.

Even if your theory was true

My theory:

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 [email protected]

[Guest]

It is not, Russia dont have tariffs they have sanctions... Dont be that guy

[Guest]

Nah, fuck that. Don't give recognition to that sack of shit.

[absolutechicagodog@lemm.ee]

We can apply tariffs to uninhabited islands but not Russia? Fuck off.

[Guest]

I’d argue it started with Bush and his No Child Left Behind bullshit. It forced a certain curriculum to leave out common sense and critical thinking skills

Children aren't the problem. it's adults who get their constant education of anonymous memes. The year 2007 introduction of the Apple iPhone changed everything about USA society. We had the Fox News Rupert Murdoch problem since 1996, but the shit memes people flock to and "shit postings" addiction are the learning / education / study problem.

Shitpostinh education is very predictable adult education outcome. Cal Sagan predicted in in 1995: “Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding (from 1995) of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, year 1995

[Guest]