The Trump tariffs

[budoslavic]

People don´t get this. Chinese are filthy rich. Nobody has money like them.

Speaking of Chinese, they are known to steal and/or copy product ideas from American businesses. Chinese sellers on Amazon are a bunch of fraudsters.

I’ve been selling on Amazon for 14 years. Built a huge business there. It helped fund my exit from corporate America, my re-entry to investment real estate, my lifestyle. But an alarming thing occurred around 2019. I saw A LOT more Chinese sellers popping up. And the crazy thing is, if you took even an hour to scroll through the seller forums Amazon had become rife with Trademark infringements being filed against US sellers. But the caveat was, many of the IP infringement takedowns were coming from a person outside of the US. Amazon would then take the claimants word as gold, destroy the US based sellers account and all of a sudden, a Chinese based seller would pop up on those listings.

The US seller could not fight it and Amazon would not listen. A long standing seller, making their living on Amazon, shut down by a single Copyright infringement “claim”. Then to watch multiple OBVIOUS Chinese selling accounts pop up in their place…was not only common, but rampant. But the most insane thing was: Amazon didn’t care about the sellers in the US. They took fraudulent trademark claims as gold, destroying many third party US sellers in the process.

The tariff impact on these Chinese sellers will be the “Chickens coming home to roost” for Amazon…and it will be glorious for all of those who suffered as a result of Amazon putting a fraudsters word above a mom and pop third party seller based in the US.

 

[budoslavic]

I just got off the phone with a business owner in Mississippi. He’s pumped millions into a business distributing a product he imports from China. His contract with the company prevents him from manufacturing it in the U.S.

He also has contracts with a number of large retailers (Walmart, Walgreens, etc). He described some of those contracts as inflexible — requiring him to sell a unit at a set price. He told me he anticipates paying over $1 million in tariffs next week (as the 54% tariff kicks in) and has no ability to simply upcharge his retail customers to cover the expense.

In his words, “Russ, I don’t have 54% profit. This is put me out of business stuff.”

I share this because there are probably tens of thousands of businesses in similar situations. I just happened to have one reach out to me.

We were told that new markets would be opened for American manufacturers, and that America would also export freedom and democracy as part of its new trade deals.

What actually happened was those countries dumped heavily subsidized crap into our markets at below-cost prices, drove our manufacturers out of businesses, allowed us into their markets just long enough to steal our intellectual property, and then instead of America exporting freedom and democracy, we imported communism and social credit ideology and infrastructure into our economic and cultural bloodstream.

And if weren’t bad enough that our leaders transformed us from the world’s sole economic superpower into an economic vassal of communist China, it was our money that powered the rise of the Chinese military, which now threatens us and our allies across the globe.

The architects of those results now have the audacity to tell you you’re too stupid to understand why the exact opposite of what they promised is actually awesome.

 

[FrancisK]

Speaking of Chinese, they are known to steal and/or copy product ideas from American businesses. Chinese sellers on Amazon are a bunch of fraudsters.

The Chinese invasion of Amazon that happened a few years back is well known by e-commerce businesses, it was a mad house and it worse than what he describes. They were locusts, they hijacked and flooded everything it was a huge mess and caused massive issues for American sellers just trying to do honest business. Amazon didn't care, they let them do it they only saw next quarters numbers and nothing else....like most big companies.

 

[Australia Sucks]

This video gives an excellent explanation for the intent behind the Trump trade tariffs.

 

[It_Is_My_Time]

If this clown doesn’t like it, it must be good for us.

 

[Get2choppaaa]

99 percent of people don't know what arbitrage means.

Including in this forum... Some folks will Google it to tell me I'm wrong...but ooooaaaakkkaaayyy

FOR Americans these tariffs are painful...but good in the long run.

Let the otherworld REEE!!! while they realize our benevolence is coming to an end.

 

[magoo]

This video gives an excellent explanation for the intent behind the Trump trade tariffs.

Been some time since I heard Q “trust the plan” bullshit.

Trump doesnt have a plan. Its not how he works. Construction people are like this. You need to know and deal with construction to understand his actions.
His strategy is chaos. He said it himself on his books. He plays a game normal people dont understand. There are no rules. And the risk is always gigantic.
He uses deception. But it only works until people see through him. And realize its all fake. He is a bullshitter.

Sometimes things work incredibly. Other times its catastrophic. When your always betting high risk. If you win results are brutal. If you lose. You are not lucky all the time. And sooner or later one hand goes wrong.
Musk is doing good things. Even though he is also a high risk high reward type.

US and west doesnt need high risk high reward. We are rich nations. What needs to be done is stabilize and keep increase gradually wealth.

The west winning strategy is simple:

Tariffs on China. Fines and total ban to r&d infringement.
Explicit ban on any west company offishoring to china
Transfer of know how to China criminalized as treason.
Reduce tax and regulation
Ban lgbtq DEI etc
Ban feminism
Ban freedom of religion
Ban all clima bullshit
Close borders
Ban instagram and only fans
Ban divorce rape.
Free trade between western countries between themselves and more limited with Russia.
Tax exemption and subsidize christian religions.
Increase military spending to 10%
Increase politicians , judges etc salaries by 500% or more.
Illegal criminais reduced to slavery for x amount of time before being deported.
Illegals or legals without any other rights besides salary.
A increase in taxation for legals hiring.
Tax exemption for families with children
Nationality only given after 20 years residency. No other option available.

Trump is working with brics to destroy Europe. But US will feel the pain also. It’s suicide. This has been the policy for the last 20 years. Nothing new here.

Man Worried About Tariffs Glad He Just Bought New Underwear So He Doesn't Need To Worry About That For Another 15 Years

Rancho Cucamonga, CA — A man who admitted being very concerned about the effect increased tariffs will have on the prices of everyday consumer goods said he was glad that he had just bought new underwear and wouldn't need to worry about that for another 15 years.

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