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China replies ... actually china just yawned and doubled tariffs.
Oh China did much more than that... Over the weekend they basically imposed a ban on shipping rare minerals to the US. The stuff used for all those chip fabs Trump wanted to build in the US. Minerals used for medical equipment. Minerals used to make bullets hard or allow missiles to aim for targets. They essentially shut out the majority of tech and military in the US. China knows how to deal with an idiot, and the idiot's response was "more tariffs, that'll teach 'em!"
china doesn’t need us goods; on the other hand, when everything at dollar general quadruples in price, more people will join the anti trump protests
I don't like the framing of this as "poor people = stupid," but either way China produces everything from the cheapest commodities to high quality machinery, it won't just be Dollar General hit.
Your point was that dollar general shoppers are too stupid to connect rising prices with the tariffs everyone is talking about. This is infantilization of the working class.