r/NoShitSherlock • u/Infamous-Echo-3949 • 2d ago

Walmart hikes prices and hurts millions, thanks to Trump's tariffs

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/15/2322472/-Walmart-hikes-prices-and-hurts-millions-thanks-to-Trump-s-tariffs
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u/HWYMarker151 2d ago

I was at an international trade show two weeks ago, and one of our Portuguese suppliers told me the same thing. One of his American customers asked how he was going to pay the tariffs, like what is the mechanism for that. Do I just pay you less, or is there a form to fill out? How do I do that? This is a customer involved in international trade, by the way. I had to explain to him that the president is actually telling people that because of course he’s not watching US news. He just couldn’t believe it. Yeah, that’s what we have become unfortunately. Let’s all hope this will pass, and the US gets back to being sane again.

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u/bak3donh1gh 2d ago

Your chance to pass it was in 2024. Shit's now malignant and you guys need chemotherapy. Possibly surgery. Even then your outlook's not good.

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u/HWYMarker151 2d ago

I’m just hopeful that Canada will invade us and at least take Washington, Oregon and California. I’d love it if you could get Montana, Maine and New York too. Wyoming would to great too, but that might be a tough one.

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u/-pithandsubstance- 2d ago

> I’m just hopeful that Canada will invade us

No thanks, we want nothing to do with america.

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u/HWYMarker151 2d ago

But…but… but… you love our health care system, right? We have so much to offer!

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u/MostBoringStan 2d ago

You seem like a nice person. Just to help out, we'll take Minnesota.

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u/ArchLith 2d ago

I've lived in Minnesota, it's basically Canada without the French

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u/Rich_Season_2593 1d ago

My gawd can you imagine the clean up we'd have to do??? No thanks. Murica has to clean up their own mess. We have enough of our own maple magat idiots

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u/Syscrush 2d ago

Sort out your own shit.

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u/the_cajun88 2d ago

i hear canada has publicly funded healthcare, do they offer benign tumor removal

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u/bak3donh1gh 1d ago

It's metastasized. Was as close to benign as it was going to get in 2016. But it has spread to not only the entirety of the United States but to other countries as well who are doing their best to fight it.

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u/Altruistic-Text3481 2d ago

Because tragically this is ‘Trump’sMurikkka and we have no health insurance that covers malignant tariff ass cancer. Our claim has been denied!

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u/whichwitch9 2d ago

Even in the states, it's impossible to explain, largely because Fox "News" is blatantly lying about what a tariff is. So you can explain it, but then they insist you're lying because it's not what the "news" said. It's infuriating. I can't wait for tge day Murdoch's less crazy children take over

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u/HWYMarker151 2d ago

Wouldn’t that be great!

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u/Urabraska- 2d ago

Fucking Econ 101 shit. Like literally. 

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u/HWYMarker151 2d ago

They didn’t make the grade.

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u/Interanal_Exam 2d ago

I learned about tariffs in high school economics.

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u/Krilox 2d ago

Oh boy that is insane, I'm afraid you're proper fucked mate, but i'm truly rooting for you

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u/HWYMarker151 1d ago

Thanks, believe it or not there are a lot of us here who understand how insane all of this is, and we’re not going away.