They haven't been imposed on our goods yet, but it's happenning on goods coming in from Mexico, Canada and China, so it's likely going to be a thing. I'm assuming it will hurt Americans way more than us. Serves them right.

In theory there are arguments for some things being cheaper for us, ie China maybe wanting to sell more things to us because of America's tariffs.

In practice, I think we'll get dudded by our corporations and they will just hike prices and tell us it's because of America bla bla bla.

Hard to see things work out and we will wind up being forced to pay more and more.

Can't prevent corporate greed.

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myscreenname said..
Serves them right.

Is this racism?

They're trying to get a negotiated outcome and the Dem's maintained Trump's last lot. So there may be some logic.

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bjw said..
Is this racism?

Americans voted for him. So if they have the rug pulled from under them, they have no one else to blame. Not sure how racism fits there, brother.

The question is how are we - as Australians - going to be affected, because of the stain?

"racist" antagonism against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group.


If I were a Dem voting American, I'd be thinking it didn't serve me right.

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bjw said..
"racist" antagonism against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group.


If I were a Dem voting American, I'd be thinking it didn't serve me right.

Democrats are unhappy, so what - that's how American democracy works.

Explain to me how you came to define American voters as a 'racial or ethnic group'.

And then tell me how you think Trump Tariffs will affect Australians.

Americans are generally considered as a racial group.

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bjw said..
Americans are generally considered as a racial group.

Pffft,
Maybe by you - not by anyone else. Where did you read that?

Look, I'm sorry you failed the M.E.N.S.A. examination.

I guess, native Americans are a racial group. But the rest of them have DNA from all over.

I am worried the price of a bug-a-salt will soar and we will return to the sad old days of musing about how cheap they used to be

If a tarriff is placed on bitcoin I think we will all win (except for Russian scammers and people who already paid 32K for one),

Maybe Mexico will retaliate by banning the export of any Rodriguez Sugarman albums

Instructions unclear i now have 32000 rodriguez sugerman albums

And by god am i hoping they go up because they were hard to find.

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bjw said..
Americans are generally considered as a racial group.

A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution

Sorry I didn't have a woke dictionary. White people can't be considered a race or ethnicity.

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Carantoc said..
I am worried the price of a bug-a-salt will soar and we will return to the sad old days of musing about how cheap they used to be

If a tarriff is placed on bitcoin I think we will all win (except for Russian scammers and people who already paid 32K for one),

Maybe Mexico will retaliate by banning the export of any Rodriguez Sugarman albums

Bug a salt is available at BCF now. Not sure how that has affected the price, I still need to buy one.

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bjw said..
A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution

Sorry I didn't have a woke dictionary. White people can't be considered a race or ethnicity.

That's a strange definition of race, where did it come from???

I've always understood race was decided on DNA

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bjw said..
A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution

Sorry I didn't have a woke dictionary. White people can't be considered a race or ethnicity.

That's a strange definition of race, where did it come from???

I've always understood race was decided on DNA

Me too. Census data says USA is 59% white in 2021.
Maybe Americans are an ethnic group. But I suspect more than one group.

From wikipedia.

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decrepit said..

That's a strange definition of race, where did it come from???

I've always understood race was decided on DNA

www.monmouthcollege.edu/welcome-home/diversity-equity-inclusion/terminology/#:~:text=Race%20%E2%80%94%20A%20group%20of%20people,history%2C%20nationality%20or%20geographic%20distribution.

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decrepit said..
That's a strange definition of race, where did it come from???

Dictionary.

(Def not DEI Central Uni.edu)

So it's from Monmouth College, a small institution in Scotland.
That definition is purely a local one, so college students are all on the same page. It's not a universal definition of Race.

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bjw said..
Americans are generally considered as a racial group.

Nope, we are proud of our racism.

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philn said..

bjw said..
Americans are generally considered as a racial group.

Nope, we are proud of our racism.

And rightly so, you do it sooo well.

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philn said..
Nope, we are proud of our racism.

Shouldn't this be in the WA section?

Seems the tariffs have worked with Mexico and Canada. Trade wars over. Borders to be reinforced both top and bottom. Trudeau folds like the globalist leftie whimp that he truly is.

What does this means for Australia? Probably not much other than a lesson in how to be a strong representative for the people, rather than an agent of the BLOB deep state chaos industry.

Might be more about tariffs on China. Not much point if only America has tariffs. If China can still sell to Mexico and Canada, Chinese goods would enter America that way quite easilly tariff free.

I believe there's been issues with the Mexican border for decades. I'm not sure what all the fuss is about Canada though. But hard for Australians to criticize America's border policies when ours are secure in comparison.

Fentanyl and drug running with Canada apparently. Who really knows the truth, but something made Leftie Falsedeau move super fast.

He must have been pooping his panties over SOMETHING.

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Fentanyl and drug running with Canada apparently. Who really knows the truth, but something made Leftie Falsedeau move super fast.

He must have been pooping his panties over SOMETHING.

The main target is China, to stop all that Temu rubbish that copies all the IP and sells it back to them and us for half the price. They need strong borders if thats going to work.

Yeah i know, but you said you were'nt sure about Canada. All i can go on is the fairly unanimous reporting and statements from Trudeau and Trump about the fentanyl and drug running over the border - both ways. The tariff threat worked.

I suspect it won't be so easy with one of the world's largest industrialised economies.