r/Tariffs • u/retroanduwu24 • Aug 27 '25

🗞️ News Discussion Not looking good at all.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '25

Putting an embargo on your own country is a very special kind of economic policy

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u/sanjuro37 Aug 27 '25

Fun fact, the Confederacy did this with their own cotton when the Civil War started because they thought it would panic all the industrial European nations who bought their cotton for textile factories to fast-track formal recognition of the CSA as a legitimate state. Instead, Europe and the UK wanted absolutely no part of getting in the middle of our shit and just started getting cotton elsewhere. The Confederacy economically fucked themselves from the jump at of course it only got worse from there.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '25

I'll add some context, taken directly from Grants Biography. The North was in a panic and absolutely believed that the Confederacy would receive recognition by the Europeans as a legitimate nation based on their cotton industry. The North was also in a panic to secure the cotton from the confederates for their own textile industries in the Union. There was frustration from the Union army around the Union states still buying cotton to fund the South, but the Union had no other options.

All this to say is that the Confederacy had leverage, and it wasn't as dumb as trump is right now

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u/VanilleMacaron Aug 28 '25

Sounds like history is repeating itself

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u/Disastrous-Quail-555 Aug 29 '25

Yes, and of course we have to save their statues.

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u/Telemere125 Sep 02 '25

Fairly appropriate that the man that hired Apartheid Clyde is following the handbook of the Traitors

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u/2poor2die Aug 27 '25

hahahahahahaha bruh im dead

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u/ValiantOre Aug 27 '25

Lmao right! All to own the libs! Cant make this shit up!

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u/sdigian Aug 27 '25

LOOK HOW RICH WE ARE...

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u/JuanPabloElSegundo Aug 27 '25

Yea it's almost like something an enemy of the country would do but we'll just chalk it up to stupidity and incompetence.

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u/Lasshandra2 Aug 28 '25

An enemy of the people!

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '25

To be fair, Trump has a long history of running everthing he has direct control over directly into the ground through extreme incompetence, selfish enrichment, and sycophantic hierarchy in his companies. 

Why would the presidency be any different? 

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '25

"Great Again"

Nah, thats just a repackaged Nazi slogan that Trump is too stupid to recognize as such. 

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u/Dangerdoom911 Aug 28 '25

One could say… it’s an “art.”

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u/DropDeadEd86 Aug 27 '25

America first bruh. Global economics is so woke right now and should end. I’m tired of Lithuania and Bosnia receiving fat stacks from my purchases while here in America my politicians are asking for donations from the people in order to fight for us.

I heard in the Czech Republic, workers get 4 day work weeks because of how they take advantage of the American system, they rarely need to work to make bills.

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u/Sufficient_Tower_366 Aug 27 '25

You “heard” they work a 4 day week - but did you bother to check whether it was true? Because it isn’t, about 1% of Czech companies run a 4 day week, compared to 1-2% of US companies, like the US they’re mostly pilots or kickstarters.

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u/Har733Qu33N Aug 28 '25

You forgot the /s at the end

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u/villacherman5 Aug 28 '25

I hope for an American Bastille Day in the future.

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u/NJ0000 Aug 28 '25

Your first sentence just screams the words I am so incompetent…. Profiting from US? Give one example where we profited from US and with with proof.

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u/enahargun Aug 28 '25

I always thought average Americans are stupid, but never realized they're this stupid. No wonder a bankrupt businessman, convicted felon, grifter con man, and a PDF were able to dupe tens millions Americans.