Lack of ships and cargo at the Port of Seattle
International shipping to the USA has slowed dramatically and the word is this is just the beginning. This is extremely rare to see these docs without cargo.
This is going to cause an enormous amount of inflation isn’t it
Yes, but never mind that.
This is going to cause Soviet-style, empty shelves, lining up for bread, actual goddamned shortages.
Don’t worry, Americans are great at sharing and rationing
Imagine going through another COVID-like experience as far as the economy is concerned, except this time it was entirely caused by the conservative virus.
Because it's starting to look like that's what is going to happen.
which will superheat the aforementioned inflation
Glad I just got a bread maker!
Gotta learn to make buns with it so it's just not loaves.
Trumpflation as it's going to be called in history books
Seattle did not vote for this.
Add in Bob Ferguson as well, Seattle voters really aren't getting what they're voting for 😭
So begins the actual effects of Trump's idiot tariffs.
Ah well at least they stuck it to the woke agenda amirite? I just want to repeat that I feel awful for the actual decent people in the USA that have more than two brain cells. And I wish that I could give you an island or something where you don't have to share a country with piece of shit scum human beings.
But that aside, I'm going to start looking at this as good news, personally. I am going to feel glee at seeing Americans having to lie in the bed that they made. I'm looking forward to some real pain and suffering here.
I am going to feel glee at seeing Americans having to lie in the bed that they made. I’m looking forward to some real pain and suffering here.
American here. Feeling the same. The only way the dumbest among us can learn is through personal suffering. So that's the way it's going to be.
The only way the dumbest among us can learn is through personal suffering. So that’s the way it’s going to be.
I'm a bit worried that, instead of learning on their mistakes, they'll just find another scapegoat. Like, "if we had Canada and Panama none of this would've happened", or some other inane shit like that.
Maybe they're going to go hungry for a month or three, but at least they owned the libs!
Someone else posted this in a different thread but its even more relevant here.
Light takes 8 minutes to reach the earth from the sun, if the sun vanished it would still be daylight for 8 minutes.
It takes 30 days for a ship to reach the US from China.
We're around day 26 now afaik?
I work in the fashion retail industry. We had cancelled half of fall holiday orders and increase MSRP on a bunch of other stuff. This is only the tip of the iceberg for issues that will compound.
This is about to make COVID shortages seem aspirational.
Yup, there-abouts. Someone said the last ships from China will reach the east coast on the 8th (that one takes longer). So, starting on the 8th, there will be NO import from China in the US.
Prep for some spicy times.
It's not that China's blocking shipping, it's that retailers aren't confident that they can move a product at whatever the previous cost of the product x 2.25 + other costs and profits was, right?
A lot of telescope parts are made in China, IIRC, so let's use them as an example. Celestron is based out of California, let's say they sell a scope for $1400 and it used to cost them $800 to get from China. That means that to make the same amount on each unit after the cost, they'd need to charge $800+(800*1.25)[the tariff]+(1400-800)[their margin on the product] for a total of $2400. Mind you, I have no idea how thick their margins really are, so I'm not going to comment on that. Now, my understanding of markets is that they sell at whatever they think the market can bear, so if they thought they could sell the scope at $2400, they already would have been. So, it makes sense to just not buy any telescopes just now, since if dingus wakes up tomorrow, declares victory in the trade war and declares tariffs woke, you'll be stuck with a bunch of product that will be basically impossible to move without taking a loss. This also gives you time to scrape up the capital to buy at the increased price if the tariffs don't drop. Eventually, though, you're either going to have to buy product at the higher price or close up shop.
So much to say that I'm a little surprised that there aren't at least some shipments coming of lower-cost higher-volume goods that might be better able to absorb the shock of the tariffs. The fact that there's just nothing coming our way is incredible to imagine. Is it because of the recent gouge-flation; companies have recently increased prices to the resistance point and they now know that there's zero wiggle room for passing those costs on to customers without suffering a loss in sales volume?
That’ll teach the libs!
(Sarcasm)
Winning!
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Brought to you by your local low IQ conservative voter.
At least we get an unobstructed view of the USCGC Healy
What a weird photo in the article.
Edit: now realised it's a hand
Last weekend I saw a traffic jam of ships here in Vancouver, go figure
So there it is.
Too much winning.
Paint the deck orange to confirm the real cause of it
Any day now a self starter American will build a $2 billion dollar manufacturing plant to make American made products to replace that Chinese crap for only 114% more for the consumers to purchase.
I'm NOT Racist and I LOVE Jesus but this is a SMALL Price to Pay to be able to BULLY MINORITY CHILDREN!
-Literally EVERYONE who Voted for Trump since he LITERALLY Campaigned on doing EXACTLY this!
The irony being that they would bully Jesus as well if he showed uo.
Generalizing all trump voters as irredeemably bad is a barrier to antifascist organizing.
Some of trump's most affected victims voted for him and it's naive to think we don't need them to defeat fascism.
Its a bit late for the people who's leopards are eating their face to get upset that they voted for the leopards.
Especially when everyone else told them specifically "that leopard will eat your face."
If you voted for trump, quit crying and start protesting. Its basically the last hope we have of a peaceful resolution to this problem.
If they could look past him being a felon, raping kids, assaulting women, mocking a disabled person, etc...they will be no help defeating fascism
Those people will be the ones destroying libraries and universities, and setting up concentration camps before they’ll protect the actual constitution. They aren’t going to help.
The ones that support him right now are too far gone at this point. The people you see complaining in town halls are the people that need to be swayed, but they have already decided that he is not what they want.
Nobody who voted for Donald Trump is a victim.
I think the anti-fascist organizing will have to find a way to succeed without changing their principles to make the fascists feel welcome.
Fun story here, I co-organized parties and we sold slaps for 2 bucks each. Guest what? It worked very well.
Trump voters are the same as the ones paying to be slapped minus the party.