Mark Cuban or someone would take out a few full page ads. The media would eat that up!

Many now understand how the tariffs will impact them; however, the new mantra is that the pain is only temporary while Trump returns manufacturing to the United States. You would think that, at some point, they might calculate how long it takes to site and build a factory. We can erect buildings, but who will supply the machinery to be housed in the factory? We would have to source the machinery from outside our country and, well, tariffs! Given that our economy has lost an estimated 13 trillion dollars since Trump took office, who will invest the funding for new factories? Furthermore, who in their right mind would take such a huge investment risk in an economic plan driven by a capricious moron? If there were an actual plan to return some manufacturing sectors to the United States, shouldn't we create a Department of Industry to coordinate what types of manufacturing would be in our national best interest, as well as operationally effective, and economically efficient? I'm not certain Trump true believers could grasp the scope or complexity of these issues even if you were sufficiently gifted to explain it at a bedbug level of comprehension.

Putin is smiling and laughing.

To take advantage of the news cycle and the pain points - we should have been messaging on not enough money to pay for groceries, now we should shift to ‘ we’ll starve in 2 weeks’ ‘we’ll lose our home in a month’ ‘ we need to choose between food or shelter’ or along those line to show common people cannot wait it out -

Peruse the plethora of YouTube channels in which they congratulate themselves for having gardens, raising chickens, livestock, etc. I certainly admire their self-suffiency and credit them for putting in the hard work to keep themselves afloat. The more skills all of us possess the greater our adaptability. In the poorer red states ( which constitute most red states), they are accustomed to being poor. That doesn't scare them. What lights their fire is their narrative of perpetual victimhood which can be assuaged only by doling out suffering to those whom they perceive as having taken advantage of them by obtaining an education and securing a job. I am not certain what message would resonate with them. They appear to be determined to anchor their allegiance to one who demonstrates the attributes of the Anti Christ. It may be more productive to more ahead without them as in blue states working together to secure what we can for our citizens. We can only hope that they, eventually, catch up.

and politics is to achieve the end result of more manufacturing (if that is the desired goal) with minimal pain. Biden’s infrastructure Act provided that opportunity to grow manufacturing in the States without getting people to pay exorbitant taxes.

I fell asleep with YouTube on, and woke up to a program doing a deep dive on shipping news. The drop off is minor, and some of it attributed to routes being cancelled due to excess shipping capacity.

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With evidence of port shortages, empty cargo ships all over the place, a high level of confidence that many goods will run out in 2-3 weeks.

I'm in buy-nothing mode, except for food and necessities. If they don't have what I need, I'll do without until things get sorted.

Well, except for coffee.

There will always be plenty of junk to purchase on store shelves but that junk will be at highly inflated prices due to the coming price inflation from the inflationary stagflation that the Turd and the Republican Nazi Party created and caused with their insane and "soon-to-be-failed" economic tariffs policies. The economic suffering from the coming Turd Depression is just beginning.

Come on man, give them some credit. I'm thinking 1st grade with maybe using a nursery rhyme so it sticks.

The Federal Government just found a new cash cow, They collect the Tariffs, and we the public pays for it.....Another Tax on us, really regressive on top of that

Cute, huh........

In the US so if the item comes from that local warehouse ( meaning they got it stocked before the tariffs kicked in) , you are spared the import charges