lol stores are gonna start getting cleaned out on the regular. And they’re gonna stay empty.
Are we winning yet?
Its also what the stores voted for. Almost every major corporation wanted Trump and heavily lobbied for him to get in. News outlets, grocery chains, retail stores, tech companies, every large corporation wanted this.
Source?
Source is all news from the last year? There are hundreds of stories on who contributed to his campaign and caved to his policies.
If true, then parent should not have a problem providing a source supporting their broad claim. Parent claimed “Almost every major corporation wanted Trump and heavily lobbied for him to get in. News outlets, grocery chains, retail stores, tech companies, every large corporation wanted this.”
EDIT: I’ll add that I think that there are probably pretty good reasons for this not to, in fact, be true. It would be quite unexpected for all industry to support one candidate; normally, there is a split, with donations from, say, the finance industry tending to benefit Democrats in recent years. Trump’s 2024 campaign, unlike his 2016 campaign, had quite poor financial support, falling far behind Harris in political donations; Trump’s weakness there was why Musk was in a position to bail Trump out with his colossal expenditure. In recent years, the number of major news outlets that are viewed by Republicans have been quite concentrated into a few sources, especially Fox; Democrats have consumed a broader range of news media; and one wouldn’t normally expect news media primarily consumed by Democrats to be supporting Trump.
But, hey, I’m willing to see the parent’s source material if they have it.
Can you provide a source proving you were born yesterday, or can we all agree that’s a generally reasonable assumption?
Here’s Walmart:
https://united4respect.org/reports/walmart-political-spending-2024/
Amazon:
https://united4respect.org/reports/amazon-political-spending-2024/
I very much hope I do not need to explain NewsCorp’s ‘political contributions’ of all kinds to you.
Or WaPo, which Bezos personally intervened in, to prevent them from endorsing Kamala.
… The person you are incredulously doubting made a broad and general statement that is broadly generally true, but I am guessing you would want a comprehensive analysis of every company and corp in the US to validate the truth of it…
… When, as demonstrated above, it takes an entire organization to figure this shit out for even a few major corps, because our laws regarding political donations have been fucked since Citizens United, and you have to do a massive effort of sleuthing to untangle the nested shell corporation like structure that is now commonplace in PACs.
Costco is probably the only major retailer that leans more Dem than Rep.
…In the event qualifications are relevant to you for assessing claim veracity, I all say this as a person who has degrees in Econ and Poli Sci, one of many specializations being Poltical Economy, who has worked for MSFT and a Fortune 500 import export middleman firm based out of Seattle that is 100% certainly shitting its proverbial pants right now.
You can provide a link if you want too. That is not one.
You can eat a bag of dicks
Unfortunately, it seems this needs to happen to wake people the fuck up.
Another article today about people literally having no concept of why the websites they’re shopping on is suddenly way more expensive (and explicitly showing the tariff costs).
People are surprised by this, and many of them have literally never even heard the word “tariff” before.
And the illiterate yokels in 12 months time: “Tariff?! That sounds like one of them thar a-rab names!!”
especially chinese sites that deliver to usa.
lol stores are gonna start getting cleaned out on the regular
Nah. We’ve already seen businesses implementing digital price tags for just this occurrence.
Your stores will stay stocked. You’re just going to see merch doubling and tripling in price as inventory depletes.
Eventually, you’ll walk into a store, see a single pair of jeans on the rack, and read a $1000 price tag on it because it’s the last pair of that style in 20 miles.
Sounds like a scalpers wet dream
the toilet paper crisis will soon be on the scene again.
i heard the shore employees are going to lose thier jobs the moment it stays empty.
And that’s just from the Tariff effects. When you count hoarders scalpers people stealing from trucks fromwarehouses and everything else it’s going to get really crazy. And people are going to start hoarding things that aren’t getting tariffed because they don’t want to find out the hard way
Yay, another COVID style supply chain apocalypse. This time brought on entirely by American conservatives and their lack of brain cells.
Buy exactly ZERO gifts for your conservative family members for their bdays and Xmas and make sure to tell them it’s because of the new Trump Tax.
I don’t think you’ll be able to buy anything for anybody lol.
This is a Depression Train coming right for us
Glad I’ve already been living as frugally as possible for the past several years.
These new poors are gonna act like being poor is something new.
Make it “republican tax”. This is not trump tax
the last time was also conservative caused too.
I am using a portion of my savings to prepare before things run dry. Some extra food, but mostly renovations or big ticket items. New sink and a bidet toilet, my first ever smartphone, physical cash in the form of Euros, a 24tb drive to prep for replacing my Windows OS with Linux, a gun club membership and ammo, ect.
Before Trump was a thing, I was planning on just sitting on my life savings and let it grow, only touching it when I hit 60 or 70. That is out the window, since odds are that Trump’s regime will kill me for being an progressive autistic. Fun times. 😩
I suspect many more Americans may actually start to feel feelings about Trump when they can’t participate in the great American pastime of buying more shit.
No bread, no circus. The first already happened a while ago, but losing the second shows a possible hilarious miscalculation from Trumps lot. The blowback is going to be interesting. Though I also worry it’s a way to force people out in the streets as they are laying the groundwork for unrest.
Here’s hoping they instead realize they don’t need any of that shit.
I voted Harris in 2024, don’t assume what you truly don’t know.
if you need, or might need tech in the near future, BUY IT NOW. not just because of the price hike, but because there won’t be anything left to buy
I recently bought a small generator that charges via solar panel. With weather events getting more severe each year, and my boyfriend needing a sleep apnea machine, it seemed a good idea to get a portable source of power that’s completely off the grid.
I don’t know what’s going to be happening in the near future, but I figured I’d rather have it and not need it, than need it and be unable to get it due to scarcity and potentially-dramatic price increases.
Excited to revisit the discourse on price gouging for the next few months.
There is no price gouging in U.S.A.
The Orange King has invited you to Lake Gitmo.
Lean inventory and just in time supply management for the win!
soon have only about 7 weeks
I’ll soon buy a house in maybe up to about 6 months or more, possibly less. Give or take a few months. Definitely sometime around then. Or after. Or before.
Right?! This thing will happen in “soon” + 7 weeks. What a worthless headline/statement.
Question for the class: aside from the obvious like computers and technology, what category items are we expecting to be hit hardest? Or to ask pointedly, what items that we NEED might be affected?
The ones you don’t think of, naturally.
Literally anything imported. Which is virtually everything.
It’s time to play America’s favorite game, “Find Something Made in the U.S.A.”! Check the clothing in your closets, check the produce in your fridge, check the toys in your child’s toybox!
The first person to find five different items labeled “Made in the U.S.A.” wins the game!
Baby care items are going to get hit hard.
Clothing, but, tbh, I expect that need to be flexible. I personally could ride out a few years just repairing my items. Pants are what I expect to run out of first–the bottoms give out and that is beyond my repair skills.
I have a few more bags of coffee than I normally would, because caffeine makes things better and we don’t grow that here. I have a bit of chocolate.
I really don’t know what will be in short supply. I didn’t want to hoard stuff I won’t use, but I don’t want to run out of stuff I need.
we dont grow cacoa either, tropical climates grow our vanilla orchids, cacoa, and coffee beans, avacadoes, pineapples too. and vanilla is notoriously hard to grow, due to its biology(because you have to hand pollinate each flower as the natural pollinator is probably in its native range is either extinct or extirpated and not available in where the vanilla grows, and the vanilla has been mostly self-pollinating.
Yep. I suspect we’ll be fine for cheap/low quality candy, thanks to native corn syrup. Sadly my tastes run a bit fancier.
I thought most clothing was now made in Vietnam and Indonesia?
I’m not sure. A quick audit of my clothing says Peru, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Poland, and China.
I’m also not sure how the tariffs will end up.
I’ve got stuff in my house that was from Pakistan
That’s pretty diverse. And yeah, I don’t think even Trump knows what’s going to happen.
Anything that’s coming from China, the other terrorists are on pause right now but with Donald Trump you just never know. There’s also a lot of things that are made in America but the parts are sourced from China, in whole or in part. That being said once Panic buying sets in I expect even things that aren’t terrorists to start being price hiked and go missing from shells I people who don’t know the difference and don’t want to find out the hard way
Man. Am I ever so fortunate to being a minimalist. Wtf is everyone buying all the time?
think of shit people actually need.
band aids? China
Peroxide and Rubbing alcohol? China
gauze? China
IV tubing and equipment? China
This ain’t a, “I can’t buy fruitless shit anymore” kinda crisis.
It’s the big one, homie.
So, is this not a wake up call for every country to not be reliant on one or do you believe everything should be made in China?
I don’t believe our system with China was sustainable even before Trump. Can already stressed Americans handle high prices and no relief from their employers or government, and no stock for the next 10 years until we get manufacturing in gear, not that we will?
Uprisings eminent.
Lol dummies
Good. Let the Trump suffering intensify.
