Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[Axaday]

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I want a whole article here.

 

[Axaday]

My voting mistake keeps on curb-stomping me as I try to atone for my sins. My wife and I both woke up out of our MAGA brainwashing, though our son and much of her family are still firmly indoctrinated. I've written email and left voicemail for our Senators, Angus King and Susan "Concerned" Collins. I've even been to a couple of protests in Augusta.

Now that "Libration Day" has hit, and the stock market is crashing, we may be losing a good chunk of our retirement thanks to our poor decisions. I was already planning to seek additional employment as my wife's cerebral palsy worsens, but now I think that need is imminent as prices for necessities skyrocket.

This didn't happen because of people that voted for Trump and then realized it was an error. It happened because of people who voted for Trump and are proud of it. You are off the hook, Deathy. I believe your marker just slipped in the voting booth.

 

[Dekafox]

An article from The Economist, to provide historical context: https://archive.ph/UdUXk

Apparently tarriffs at this level have not existed in the US since the 19th century. We now have higher tariffs than even the Great Depression era.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Bingo.

Senator Chris Murphy outlined this on Bluesky:

I need to pay more attention to Chris Murphy. He actually gets it.

 

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The tariffs being trade deficit divided by exports would explain a lot. NZ got hit with a tariff of 10% because we were supposedly charging the US a 20% tariff, which we're not (it's a little under 2%) so we've all been trying to work that one out.

It's going to be difficult for a country of 5 million people to buy enough from a country of 340 million people to even out the trade deficit, I have to say.

 

[Ironbite4]

Dow's already down 1600 points. Can't wait for it to hit close.

Ironbite-HOW LOW CAN IT GO! HOW LOW CAN IT GO!

 

[Dekafox]

Dow's already down 1600 points. Can't wait for it to hit close.

Ironbite-HOW LOW CAN IT GO! HOW LOW CAN IT GO!

This has insufficient Sickos, so I feel obligated to apply my own.

Also in answer to that, this is the biggest drop since June 2020 in the COVID lockdown days: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/trump-tariffs-stock-market

 

[KidTDragon]

I will also participate.

 

[Axaday]

I verified all the numbers here https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/ and then made this worksheet for my 9-year-old. She got Japan wrong because my 4 looked like a 9. She is slightly off from Trump's poster because she ignored the numbers after the decimal point, which I freely forgive as a mathematician, because I know that there were zero significant figures on the entire sheet. She is ready for a job in Trump's Office of the US Trade Representatives, who supposedly did all of the analysis to determine what reciprocal tariff would be necessary to balance these nations, factoring in all the various variables and unfair trade practices, currency manipulation and so on. It took my daughter 4 1/2 minutes.

 

[Steevy Maximus]

With that skill? Member of the Cabinet!

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Would she like the job? We're going to make that legal in Florida.