don’t follow international news

… don’t use social media, and don’t talk to anybody that does those things (because it’s basically impossible for it to not enter normal conversation).

Yeah, there certainly exist some people like this. But I doubt they are the ones booking international trips.

Yes, it’s normal.

If you look at the logs, the bots are probably all trying to exploit some Webpress vulnerability or trying random passwords in /login.php.

Looks to me like only the tentacles are glowy, and the body and eyes are just reflecting the camera’s light.

There isn’t any genocide going on those places he pointed, and there hasn’t been any for centuries.

Dude is comparing his genocide to history books.

Seems like you are from the US.

As much as “left” and “right” carry any meaning anywhere, in your country those words have been redefined to the point they are completely meaningless.

If you have any left-leaning organized political movement, it never makes the news. You only have extreme right.

Also, Denmark subsides are probably in Euros. So it’s already 5% higher just on Trump’s first 3 months.

Yeah, it’s because of the tariffs people. There are only the tariffs, there’s nothing else to see here. Move along.

India makes a huge amount of drugs. The UK probably just doesn’t import them.

Hum… Putting them in quotes is nice, it reminds people of the claim.

I think the best would be to also explain in parenthesis, like: “reciprocal” (unilateral)

No, they are too late for that.

They could if Trump picked another other to implement his policies.

If the US manages to reduce their imports, what will probably happen is that the rest of the world will cut the more optional consumption from there so that they can keep buying the food. What means that US industry will suffer.

But your first feeling that sellers and buyers will redistribute who they deal with is probably correct too. Anyway, the tariffs shouldn’t have an immediate effect of changing how much food moves around, but nobody knows what domino pieces they will hit on the fall.

On the very short term, China is tariffing stuff that hurts. What means they are serious about not buying from the US and will pay extra for the privilege. And yes, also means somebody else will probably take their place.

Yes, but the other countries that buy from elsewhere will want their normal amounts too.

Can other food producers increase their production while the US spirals down? Nobody really knows, we are in shock due to both global warming and the war in Ukraine. And the US is a really major food exporter.

Can people make do with less food? Probably, but it’s not trivial.

Anyway, China’s tariffs are completely self-imposed. They can cut them at any time.

Yes, as you said, they aren’t a new concept. We have plenty of evidence, of countries that tried that again and again. We know what he is doing is stupid.

Besides, your theory on tariffs won’t even get to be tested. Kidnapping people at random on the street and sending them to concentration camps has an overwhelmingly larger impact on the economy than the tariffs. People from outside of the US will only focus at this if you start to invade other countries, but at this point, nobody inside the US should be concerned with tariffs, at all.

The problem is that China can live very easily without American goods

A lot of it is food. They probably can, but it will not be not easy at all.

Well, if C is a goal then he is even more stupid than he looks like.

I see. So you are ready to try the “increase all costs” route now…

I literally dont understand what they are doing.

Lol. Did you still expect to?

Anyway, they clearly have no idea what they are doing. Absolutely no idea. But this one seems to be calculated by an academic that used an impersonal objective formula that he expects to zero the trade deficit.

Somehow, it’s one of the economists that don’t know that tariffs don’t have a direct impact on the total trade deficit. Probably, an “economist”, but I didn’t check.

AFAIK, most low added-value products the US net exports are food. Also AFAIK, Canada mostly doesn’t buy those, but the countries that do buy them won’t just stop.

Well, yes, wages tend to decrease on that shift.

At least Brazil has tariffs large than that already. I doubt he will decrease them.