Okay, so Trump just imposed a $32 tariff on all packages coming from China on top of the tariffs he already implemented. Apparently, this is to "stop fentanyl" or something. And...I'm not happy.
Like, a lot of electronics come from China. I recently got an android gaming handheld. Most of those are made in china and shipped to the US from there. I actually ended up getting a razer edge with is a more established American/Singaporean company, but a lot of people get stuff from like anbernic, or retroid, or ayn, etc, and yeah, now those are going to cost more. This will especially harm the low end. While it might raise the cost of a more premium device only 10-20%, a lot of people like to get these chinese handhelds that are only like $30-70. And now they're gonna cost $60-100. So 40-100% more. Yay! Thanks Donald!
Not...seriously. F this guy. Like, it's been said recently that we're like this late stage capitalist hellscape and the only thing holding us together are "little treats from china." Like, the only thing that makes this consumerist nightmare tolerable IS the consumerism! And now we're getting taxed on that stuff so rich people can pay less in taxes. Let's face it, that's what it is. Trump wants to cut taxes on wealthy and have this "external revenue service" get taxes from tariffs on foreign goods. It's a consumption tax. This is the same thing as that "999" plan that Herman Cain had, which actually helped radicalize me to be a progressive at the time. Because I kinda realized that these policies ultimately benefit the wealthy at your average american's expense. Raise OUR taxes while lowering the wealthy's. That's the real reason they're pursuing this IMO. That and some weird aesthetic of making things in America, which outside of jobs, i dont think anyone cares about. And in terms of jobs, I literally dont care about that given my politics and would rather focus on making the jobs we have actual tolerable. Which you dont do if you wanna strip any and all worker protections like Trump wants to do.
Oh, and don't get me going on fentanyl. I'm going to be blunt. This is gonna be a somewhat politically incorrect opinion, but I LITERALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT FENTANYL. I dont know why trumpers are so obsessed with it. They have this fear that ERMAHGERD ALL OF THESE DRUGS ARE COMING OVER THE BORDER WE GOTTA STOP THIS and you know what? Stopping this comes from YOU. If you dont do drugs, and never come in contact with illegal drugs, ever, you're never gonna deal with fentanyl. The reason this fentanyl crisis is happening is because people get involved with illegal drugs, and it being this illegal, unregulated black market, sometimes that stuff gets tainted with some serious crap. Like, sometimes they'll use low quality ingredients to make it cheaper and they're toxic. Or, they'll add heavier stuff to make it more potent only for it to kill people. And I'm going to be blunt. If you mess around with that stuff, you're putting yourself at risk. it's literally just "FAFO" as far as I'm concerned. I'm not gonna moralize and say people deserve to die. I'm not going to pull that weird crap. Obviously we should minimize harm when possible and practical. But...these tariffs aren't it. As I always say, you cant force people to care, and if Americans hate anything, it's being inconvenienced for some greater cause they dont give a crap about. And that's where I'm at with this. if you wanna stop fentanyl, fine. if you wanna tax my hobbies and make me pay extra for it, F off. I don't care. Again, dont do illegal drugs and you'll never touch fentanyl ever.
If anything the fact that we have a fentanyl crisis at all is literally just more evidence that the war on drugs is a failure. For some reason the right keeps on fighting it, and getting more and more draconian in their pursuit of it, but here we are, 50-100 years later, and the drugs won. it's the same thing as prohibition and people poisoning themselves with some weird toxic moonshine that jim bob grew in his garage somewhere in tennessee. Literally the same thing. Same thing with the cartels too. Remember al capone and those guys? Yeah. Alcohol. Moonshine. We had all this happen before. All making this stuff illegal does is cause all of these externalities. Im not saying we should legalize all drugs, but the less harmful ones, yes. And honestly? If people wanna F around with the heavy stuff, they can find out. I really don't care at this point. It's not my problem, and I don't want the government to make it my problem by taxing me over their stupid BS.
Seriously. The only thing that made the first term of trump tolerable was me checking out mentally and focusing on my hobbies like PC gaming. And now that trump is making gaming political with his BS tariffs, well, F that guy. And I know some SJWs are gonna be like "he targeted gamers, GAMERS" in a sneering condescending attitude, so I'll just kindly say F off, this is why no one likes you guys either and why we got this idiot in charge in the first place.
When glados is insufferable, we get wheatley. When wheatley almost blows up the place, we get glados again. And this is our post 2016 politics. We just happened to put wheatley back in charge, but that doesn't mean anyone likes glados.
Also, because I dont expect SJWs to get gaming references, that's portal 2.
But yeah. F Donald Trump. He's the worst president ever. The other 80 year old was MUCH better. And with him, the market raising prices wasnt even his fault. It was an unfortunate consequence of reopening the economy post COVID. These tariffs ARE Trump's fault. Presidents dont control prices, but when they impose tariffs they kinda do, and they deserve ALL the hate for that.
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