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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Bezos is to Trump as Trump is to Putin. IOW they each grovel and obey in the hopes their master will give even a slight positive acknowledgement, but it never happens.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Haha keep dancing for your new master, Bezos. Fuckhead.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

The mean girls oligarch shunning is actually kind of hilarious

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Temu, taobao, alibaba all openly show 150% tariffs in their ui.
Go try checking out.

Amazon might hide it but it sells all the same products so not gonna deceive many

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

What's hilarious is the tariffs appear in their "Haul" storefront, which is just their version of Temu. It's pretty new like a few months old and an attempt at stealing business from those other apps.

So you're telling me that a online shopper would stumble on Amazon Haul, never ever knowing about the many other discount e-commerce stores, and won't quickly piece together WHY things are priced that way?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think you understand how stupid the average person is. There is a decent chance this will all be biden inflation in their minds and not tariffs if there isn't literally a thing that says "tariff charge" on it. Even then they will probably see that and think it's just there to lie and hurt Trump

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

given how much tariffs have permeated the news and people's bank accounts and retirement accounts I don't think there's much avoidance of the topic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

They think this will somehow be a quick trade war that ends in everything being the same price, but suddenly produced domestically. They are still delusional. They are still riding the 2020 inflation wave they call bidenomics.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's just another example of their incompetence.

They ought to be proud of labeling the tariffed products, so that customers could easier choose the domestic brands, which supposedly is the point of having the tariffs in the first place.

Attempting to hide it only shows that they realize how bad the tariffs really are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Tariffs are advertised as helping domestic companies.

In actuality, they directly hurt foreign companies and the hope is that the unhurt domestics will then flourish.

If the tariffs collected were used to simulate domestic companies, this would actually be possibly beneficial to the economy.

However those tariffs are being pocketed by the rich (through tax cuts and money laundering through contracts and crypto).

These should not be listed as tariffs costs, they should be listed for what it is: "amount Trump's administration decided to steal from you based on your spending habits"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Had they labelled them "Trump's beautiful tariffs" it would have gone smoothly

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

You know, I never knew who any of Biden's press secretaries were. They were never spouting insane bullshit, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would be pissed if they didn't. Getting surprised AFTER the purchase with an extra... whatever percentage Trump has settled on this week, would be absolutely infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think the idea was "here's the portion of the price that is affected by import tariffs." The price doesn't change. But it's just the WH freaking out over something that one small division of Amazon was considering and hadn't even made a decision about.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Keep pissing off the elite, trump,.please keep pissing them off.

I love how they get poorer and want to get rid of you some way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sooooo, the fucking "billionaire" POTUS is somehow NOT "the elite"?? What the actual fuck do you people smoke, and do you know where I can score some? I wish I could be this delusional sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He's costing billionaires loads of money, usually that doesn't end well... Obe can hope, anyways

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

ah, got it, sorry, misunderstood what you were getting at, thought you were one of the poors thinking Fatputin was on their side against the "elites".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

what the xD Trump is not pissing the elite off, he is hired for the elite and for project 2025, who want an extreme conservative america with only republicans at power 💩

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