1000 protests in America today?

@AverageJoe1 said
But, what did she say exactly?

Some crap about spicy sausage.

I dunno, I don't actually read her propaganda.

@My-King-And-I said
...said miss floppy parts.

🤭

Such a maggot. Can't find an argument good enough so attack the speaker with random misogyny. Well done, you should do well in the new Trump world.

@AverageJoe1 said
You might want to start a thread on that one. But if it is full of numbers, I probably would just be an observer. The big picture is good enough for me. You should watch Kudlow at 4 o’clock.

The largest tax increase on Americans since 1968.

@wildgrass said
The largest tax increase on Americans since 1968.

You libs leave out all the forthcoming balancing, which, if you'd have included that to close your post, would help the OTHER libs know how we have lost 4M jobs to Europe, et al, all of which will all come back now, when Trump kicks butt. Y'all pretend to not get it. You do get it, but like to stir the pot. AVJoe is on to you.
There is new news about 'misgendering' children , where the givernment wants to take over your children. That is, they want to apply WOKE.
I will do up a thread on it so we can get the views of no1Marauder, our resident sex and government and family (marx-style goals) czar.
Does Maruader know that Obama deported over 3M illegals and no one even got upset about it. Must be the WOKE factor.

@AverageJoe1 said
You libs leave out all the forthcoming balancing, which, if you'd have included that to close your post, would help the OTHER libs know how we have lost 4M jobs to Europe, et al, all of which will all come back now, when Trump kicks butt. Y'all pretend to not get it. You do get it, but like to stir the pot. AVJoe is on to you.
There is new news about 'misgendering' ...[text shortened]... w that Obama deported over 3M illegals and no one even got upset about it. Must be the WOKE factor.

Is the goal to balance trade deficits then?

If anything, 104% tax on Chinese imports to the US is going to offshore more manufacturing. Why build an iPhone in the US if you have to pay steep prices to import all the raw materials?

Consumers are stuck with the bill in the end, apple already announced their phones will be $700 more expensive.

@wildgrass said
Is the goal to balance trade deficits then?

If anything, 104% tax on Chinese imports to the US is going to offshore more manufacturing. Why build an iPhone in the US if you have to pay steep prices to import all the raw materials?

Consumers are stuck with the bill in the end, apple already announced their phones will be $700 more expensive.

Why, I am not as smart as you are about these pesky problems, although I am really upset that our economists and Trump advisors have not recognized these matters as being really bad decisions. So you think they have given no idea to the raw material boondoggle? That they do not consider the actual innards of the phone itself?? How do you know all of this, all the possibilities swarming around us, as we bring it all to rest?
We can recreate the extinct Dire Wolf, but we cannot solve this problem?? I bet they could recreate Joe Biden if his tissue is still viable.
Anyway, I am not worried about the phones, BECAUSE we will have some Musk-type entreprenurs who will figure out how to build them from our own minerals, and sell them for $39.00. Believe it! I don't know HOW you socialists can think you will ever prevail.
Gotta go see if Trump has got Korea and Japan squared away, this will totally bring China around. Are you fellows blind? So he will fail w tariffs.?? Tell me what you think in about a week

@AverageJoe1 said
Why, I am not as smart as you are about these pesky problems, although I am really upset that our economists and Trump advisors have not recognized these matters as being really bad decisions. So you think they have given no idea to the raw material boondoggle? That they do not consider the actual innards of the phone itself?? How do you know all of this, all the possib ...[text shortened]... und. Are you fellows blind? So he will fail w tariffs.?? Tell me what you think in about a week

So you think they have given no idea to the raw material boondoggle?

Of course they haven't. None of them even know how their own tariffs numbers were calculated. They asked a chatbot to send them the tariffs data. They are all idiots.

@wildgrass said
Is the goal to balance trade deficits then?

If anything, 104% tax on Chinese imports to the US is going to offshore more manufacturing. Why build an iPhone in the US if you have to pay steep prices to import all the raw materials?

Consumers are stuck with the bill in the end, apple already announced their phones will be $700 more expensive.

$700?? Of course , the news changes every 5 minutes, so this misstatement is not your fault. Here are some timely messges

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/04/07/new-post-tariff-iphone-cost-estimate-comes-in-much-lower-at-just-29-more

https://www.fastcompany.com/91312841/how-much-iphone-cost-trump-tariff-apple-china-vietnam-india-sales-business-model

@wildgrass said

So you think they have given no idea to the raw material boondoggle?

Of course they haven't. None of them even know how their own tariffs numbers were calculated. They asked a chatbot to send them the tariffs data. They are all idiots.

Now you have us believing that you have inside knowledge about getting their info from chatbot. Ha, you dont fool me, I have a cousin who works getting tea for rhe cabinet in the War Room, and he says there is no chat bot in there. Curious, though,.......why would he ask me what one looks like?

@AverageJoe1 said
$700?? Of course , the news changes every 5 minutes, so this misstatement is not your fault. Here are some timely messges

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/04/07/new-post-tariff-iphone-cost-estimate-comes-in-much-lower-at-just-29-more

https://www.fastcompany.com/91312841/how-much-iphone-cost-trump-tariff-apple-china-vietnam-india-sales-business-model

What? Your number is my number.

iPhone was $1300 now it'll be $2000. Thats $700 more.

@wildgrass said
What? Your number is my number.

iPhone was $1300 now it'll be $2000. Thats $700 more.

I did say 'of course', that your info is $700, now outdated in the flurry, as Xi is packing his suitcase....Trump is making him come in the back door at the WH.
? Why is IRS head stepping down?

@AverageJoe1 said
I did say 'of course', that your info is $700, now outdated in the flurry, as Xi is packing his suitcase....Trump is making him come in the back door at the WH.
? Why is IRS head stepping down?

A recommendation for a new Olympic sport: Political corespondents write articles to guess the correct price of iPhones after tariffs.

@AverageJoe1 said
I did say 'of course', that your info is $700, now outdated in the flurry, as Xi is packing his suitcase....Trump is making him come in the back door at the WH.

That's not the way we're seeing it.


https://newrepublic.com/post/193918/donald-trump-begging-china-deal-tariffs

"Trump Is Begging China to Make a Deal Over Tariffs"
"Donald Trump appears to be growing increasingly desperate to fix the fallout over his tariffs."

Edith Olmsted
April 11, 2025 12:32 p.m. ET

Donald Trump’s administration has been begging for a call from Chinese President Xi Jinping—despite Trump’s claims that his reciprocal tariff policy sent nations scrambling to cut deals with him. But instead of fostering negotiations, it seems their desperation only made things worse.

Beijing announced Friday that it was raising tariffs on U.S. goods from 84 percent to 125 percent, following confirmation from the White House the day before that it was placing tariffs of 145 percent on Chinese goods.

Ahead of Thursday’s announcement, the Trump administration had attempted to talk Chinese officials out of levying more retaliatory tariffs, and advised them to have their president give Trump a call, according to CNN.

Instead of entreating Xi to a meeting, U.S. officials awoke Friday to even more tariffs, and no request to begin negotiations.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer confirmed Friday morning that the U.S. had not yet begun talks with Chinese officials to walk back the tariffs.

The White House has claimed to have started negotiations with officials from 75 countries—though it has refused to divulge which ones—in response to Trump’s reciprocal tariff policy. China has been a notable holdout, and was therefore made exempt from Trump’s 90-day pause on new rates going into effect.

The Trump administration has been saying pretty much the same thing to China for roughly two months, insisting that Beijing must make the first move, but with no luck. Trump claimed Wednesday that “China wants to make a deal. They just don’t know how quite to go about it,” noting that the Chinese were a “proud” people.

China’s Finance Ministry released a statement Friday saying that it wouldn’t fall for Trump’s blatant bullying.

“Even if the U.S. continues to impose higher tariffs, it will no longer make economic sense and will become a joke in the history of world economy,” the ministry said in the statement, which CNBC translated.

“With tariff rates at the current level, there is no longer a market for U.S. goods imported into China,” the statement said, adding that “if the U.S. government continues to increase tariffs on China, Beijing will ignore.”

@Suzianne said
That's not the way we're seeing it.


https://newrepublic.com/post/193918/donald-trump-begging-china-deal-tariffs

"Trump Is Begging China to Make a Deal Over Tariffs"
"Donald Trump appears to be growing increasingly desperate to fix the fallout over his tariffs."

Edith Olmsted
April 11, 2025 12:32 p.m. ET

Donald Trump’s administration has ...[text shortened]... d, adding that “if the U.S. government continues to increase tariffs on China, Beijing will ignore.”

Trump will not win them all. So when (if) he doesn't win China, y'all write about that failure till the cows come home......all the while that many many countries buckle.
Wait and see. For the ones of you who have no clue what is going on, this is info about TRUMP'S TAX CUT. Geez. I am too busy for this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/house-budget-vote-trump-republicans.html