@AidanTTIerian @egirlyuumimain your position here is the same as Tim Wise's, but even Tim Wise dialed it down a bit to say "MAGA" instead of "MAGAt" for his tweet. You're right, but unless you enjoy Cassandra's role or saying awful stuff like "TRS was right", you should find some other angle to attack, like
1. the tariffs are being implemented ineptly by ChatGPT-using retards with insane numbers
2. the tariffs are not actually "reciprocal" but are connected to country-to-country trade deficits which is fucking dumb (you have a permanent trade deficit with any store you shop at that isn't a pawn shop)
3. the chaos and lies and inconsistent messaging makes it impossible for businesses to plan around this and is killing the market independently of the tariffs themselves
4. the tariffs aren't targeted at all, but are LAZY and STUPID, and have the immediate effect of killing American production because the inputs to production are also tariffed. With Americans unable to produce anything to sell to other countries, the only way to bring these trade-deficit tariffs down is simply for Americans to cease to buy from other countries. But Americans will also have very little that can be produced to sell to Americans
5. tariffs aren't something that other countries pay at all. It's a tax on imports paid by Americans. That the tax burden can be shifted, that the buyer does not necessarily pay +tariff% for each product, that tariffs can benefit domestic production, is all stuff that you can't say about LAZY and STUPID tariffs which are all that we're being given here.