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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExactly how many brain damaged people are "in charge" of the US now?
Sure, the 100% to 4500% tariffs are gonna immediately bring back manufacturing to America.
It's sooo easy to build an iPhone factory and supply it with ALL AMERICAN parts and people.
Oh, yehhhhhh, we gots lots of people with highly skilled fingers and aptitude to build tiny electronics.
Auto industry? It's been a global operation for decades...parts from one country, assembly in another.
I used to work for a Japanese car company in America. I'll never forget a good friend being angry with me for taking the job saying "Remember Pearl Harbor!" I told her I didn't (of course I remembered the event but I was not so damaged by it 45 years later I could accept them as an employer) and I needed the good paying job to pay off student loans and for health insurance.
US auto makers and foreign auto makers in the US get most of their parts from our (previously) friendly neighbors Canada and Mexico.
This chaos is going to lead us into some serious trouble that won't be easy to come back from.
Stop the insanity!

maveric
(16,839 posts)Brenda
(1,544 posts)Lovie777
(18,089 posts)99.9%.
Brenda
(1,544 posts)Just saw an article that says this:
But we all know Tim Cook will lie about anything at this point.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tariffs-economy-trump-ceo-lawsuit-learning-resources-ceo-rick-woldenberg/
WmChris
(307 posts)Thier red hats and mrump lapel pins are a dead giveaway.
Redleg
(6,465 posts)There really isn't any good leadership, just a fucking narcissistic clown being followed by a bunch of sycophants and ass-kissers.
Brenda
(1,544 posts)that you like?
Maybe you mean the people who are keeping our government going...the long time employees who are being harassed and threatened on a daily basis?
Yeah, I like them too. Tens of thousands of them have been fired.
To me, the "in charge" people are obviously Chump, Musk's minions and all the other cult members.
Emrys
(8,592 posts)Yea, thus spoke the prophet Saint Sarah, like many of her ilk so maligned in her own country while alive, now sanctified in ...
... oh, so sorry, it appears she's still above ground and breathing.
What was the question again?
Paladin
(30,231 posts)Jeez, the fun that historians will have in the future, reviewing this absolute shit-stain of an administration, and the millions of clueless, evil fuckheads who put it in power. To hell with them all.