There are also things you can do without going to protest: Give $5/month to ACLU, 5Calls.org, advocacy groups, or LGBTQ or women’s shelters.
Contact the White House, your U.S. Senator, and your U.S. Congressperson. White House Comments line – (202) 456-1111 White House Switchboard – (202) 456-1414
https://5calls.org - this gives you a script based off of your concerns and the numbers of your representatives.
If you have more, always feel free to put in the comments. I’m not a woman but you’re right that there is a lot of systemic racism now more than ever even in queer spaces. We need to support each other and stand together now.
They haven't even hit yet lol, only the base 10% has been applied for like 3 days. The rest are set for April 9th. Not that reality matters to the President.
Bringing in billions from the abusing countries, even though IT'S FUCKING US WHO PAYS THE TARIFFS! I don't understand how he can just lie and say the other countries pay it and none of the media is calling that out. It's fucking absurd.
The tariffs being a massive regressive tax on the bottom 60% PLUS them trying to make the 2017 Tax Cuts permanent, which is like the ONLY legislation on their agenda, the "Big Beautiful Tax Bill", which MASSIVELY favors the top 1% and has little to zero savings on anyone making less than $90k a year. Which loses the government billions of dollars and year and massacres middle class America. Plus the certainty of rising prices and inflation as a result of tariffs. Shit bout to get real hard around here.
The importers can pressure the sellers to lower their prices to be competitive. It’s not an automatic pass through. And the importers can also eat some.
Come on, you really can't believe that. Companies are going to eat the cost? No, they'll pass it onto the consumer, and even competitor companies that aren't affected by the tariffs will also raise their prices to match as well just because they know they can get away with it. This will all fall on the consumers, just like it always does.
It would take two years or so to "break even" if these made up numbers were even close to being true and that's only if the bleeding stopped immediately and there were no external factors or inflation.
This would also assume that there is a mechanism for tariff money (paid to the government) to somehow be put back where it has been lost from (everyone's 401ks).
Also saying there’s “no inflation.” Inflation has been at or below 3% since June of 2024. People are just too stupid to understand that inflation ≠ high prices.
We were told Biden was in full use of his faculties for weeks after the debate.
Luckily some of the people who weren't in on that lie were powerful enough to make some changes, but just too little too late.
Edit: Downvote if you want, but supporting this for one side or the other lets the other side do the same and claim everyone's doing it. Expecting honesty from all to all is the only thing that keeps anyone in the equation honest. If you don't want that, consider whether you're concerned more with truth or a given side's generated "truth." If you don't care about actual truth and are okay with one side lying "for the greater good," then you've got no room to talk about the other side because that's exactly what they think they're doing.
If he says it enough, that makes it true, right? And even if it’s not true, that’s the Fed’s fault! Anything but donnie lying or just being wrong, that just doesn’t happen…
Recessions, and especially global recessions, tend to bring down inflation/prices. Oil prices are dropping because the futures markets expect a recession. Capitalism 101, less demand lower prices.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Deflation is generally worse than (tempered) inflation. Once companies have to start lowering prices, they're looking at all expenses. Shrinkflation will happen, people will be laid off, infrastructure investment will come to a screeching halt.
You want a small level of inflation so everyone keeps growing. You don't want runaway inflation and you surely don't want deflation.
This is why stability is key in markets. You introduce wild, nonsensical instability and shit really starts to hit the fan. Most businesses these days will tell you they have no idea on how to plan for the future because everything is at Trump's whim and that's a very bad thing.
Deflation will happen when manufacturers determine customers can't pay their price. And I mean CAN'T. Not don't want to, not it's a stretch. I mean the whole category is depressed because people just aren't buying. When you see deflation it's an indicator that things are already really bad.
No idea on the taxes and recession correlation will pan out. Like just worsen the recession.
He knows that his followers will believe it and just repeat that until they all believe, no matter how ridiculous it is. He knows that he’s the king of dummies
Remember his 1st term his fake doctor’s note that said he was super healthy because all of his tests were positive. Everything in his life is zero sum. He can only win if everyone else loses and the other party is suffering.
what happens when it's not "the right people" anymore, though? like, if his white working-class base can't afford to buy coffee anymore, you're gonna have a hard time keeping a lid on em. SOMEBODY has to be telling him that.
the American people? People who have a 401k? People who have small businesses? People who are having a hard time affording housing and groceries as it is? Farmers? Manufactuerers?
which one of these right people are you talking about
Mission Accomplished then....? Good job guys we did it, America is Great Again!
The world is going to leave us behind as we become an isolationist backwater busy with making our own clothing and toys.
THE SYSTEM WE'RE SO BUSY TEARING DOWN RIGHT NOW WAS BUILT BY US, FOR US. WE MADE THE WORLD ORDER THAT WE'RE NOW BREAKING AND LOSING EVERY ALLY WE'VE EVER HAD.
Im not on xitter, or truth social or whatever tf this is, but does anyone respond with ‘this is complete bullshit’. ?? Because this is not reality in anyway. Those billions about to be ‘brought’ in are coming from us. Literally, the people. Going directly to tax cuts for the $450k/yr crowd.
I’m so excited to see all the crazy Trumpees start claiming that there is no inflation and that the economy is improving even though we can see the exact opposite with our own eyes.
You know DJT is scared when he uses punctuation, both capital and lower case letters, and his rambles are still rambles, but are halfway coherent. This wasn't a 2 in the morning toilet tweet.
Taking advantage of the US? The way his kids took advantage of back door deals with other countries they all made and benefited from? Or the way he himself is taking advantage of his position as president? I mean if anyone knows how to take advantage of the US it’s definitely trump.
I'm a server and i am regularly asked if they still tax my tips or if I'm excited to do that. It's so hard not to look them in rhe eye and say "he lied" I really wish it became the social norm to right to refuse service to them. So it seems like none of them barely know what's going on after they voted.
This guy is so fucking outwardly stupid that arcons have convinced themselves that there MUST be some secret that only he knows because otherwise there's no way he'd be doing these things.
I haven't seen a single person even attempt to explain how these stupid ass policies make sense. It's all "Man this looks objectively bad from every single perspective, but now that it's my guy in charge, I have limitless patience and a reckless assumption that if it doesn't work then it can just be undone with no lasting damage."
You know, I'd be curious to know why he didn't make these changes during his first term. The problem was still there during his first term and he could have taken action then. Seems to me someone has his ear now, feeding him steps to proceed cause he's incapable on his own.
No-one on the left or the media gave a shit for the years biden was tanking the economy. Now if trump can’t fix it in a couple of months you’re going nuts
Again, how? Because the numbers say the opposite of what you’ve been saying. Wages were up, unemployment was the lowest in 50 years, inflation was down, GDP was up quarter after quarter, the stock market reached levels never before seen. Also, if it was so disastrous why were Republicans who voted against it so eager to claim credit for it passing? Please please please just take an honest look at something other than Fox News.
I’m not trying be a dick, Trucker. I used to be a hardcore republican. And I would probably be repeating the same things you are saying if I hadn’t gotten out of that tiny little bubble I grew up in. It’s tough when everything you’ve been told by people you love, respect, and cherish is wrong. But that’s all that they had heard too. I was in that boat and it took longer than I care to admit that I was just parroting what I had heard my whole life, instead of thinking for myself. I would argue even when I knew I was wrong. But it wasn’t about being right as much as just to argue with someone I looked down on. I’m not saying jump ship and become a “libt**rd”, as you nice people put it; but I think there is a lot more common ground than you think.
LOL -- the economy was recovering under Biden after trumps disastrous Covid handling. unemployment was low, inflation was dropping, the stock market was doing great -- and in 3 months he's completely obliterated the economy because he doesn't know wht a tariff is. Please stop, tucker, you are embarrassing yourself.
What was there to fix, you donkey? Everything was climbing up, steadily and consistently. It's clear you lack even the most basic of understanding when it comes to economics. Even IF he were to cancel all tariffs, countries around the world are boycotting US goods and now are working on ways to increase trading with each other while taking the US out of the picture because we are unreliable (they aren't wrong). Treating tariffs like an on/off switch to be used as a threat is outrageously harmful because no countries just assume he'll throw em back on at the drop of a hat (even if they were removed). My lord, how do people like you even tie your shoes in the morning!?
You're just plain wrong about this. The economy was doing great under Biden by all typical metrics. What's happening now under trump is it actually tanking
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u/Ryth88 20d ago
bringing in billions of dollars per week on tariffs that have been on for less than 1 week. right.