nikka what?
Dave Chappelle talks about Trump’s tariffs
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Elim Garak
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Obama did a targeted tariff on tires. He didn't do some crazy ass across the board tariff.
Now if he can stay in this bag we've got something, cuz that shyt was funny.
Kyle C. Barker
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Everything doesn't need to be filtered through a left vs right lens for legitimacy. I'd hate to see the subject of tarriffa get treated the same way the biological sciences get treated these days.
In any case Reagan placed tarriffs on Japanese products quite a bit during his terms (mainly with electronics and automobiles)
Reagan Imposes 100% Tariffs on Japan Goods : Retaliatory Sanctions Aimed at $300 Million in Electronic Products in Semiconductor Dispute
President Reagan decided Friday to impose punitive 100% tariffs on a wide variety of goods produced by Japanese electronic giants in retaliation for Tokyo's failure to abide by the semiconductor trade agreement between the two nations.
www.latimes.com
Place is full of idiots 
Those movie roles weren’t paying like that, and they were small parts. Even with Half Baked and him being the star, it was a low budget film. Did you know he didn’t even get $1M off Chappelle Show? He signed a messed up contract because he was desperate since his girlfriend (now wife) was pregnant. It seemed like a lot of money for a struggling comedian/actor (a few hundred thousand), but he was grossly underpaid for how successful that show was.
Dave has never seen a lump of coal?
Sounds as if he's never been invited to the barbeque
Coal and charcoal are not the same thing breh.
newworldafro
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Elim Garak
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nikka it literally says it in the video.
Simpletons can’t understand the difference between “what” and “how”
Pull Up the Roots
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I agree that real progressives should challenge free trade and how it's harmed workers, but I think we need to be clear about how tariffs actually work under capitalism. Tariffs aren't left-wing by default, they've been used by all kinds of governments.
The problem with Trump's version of protectionism is that it never came with strings. There were no requirements to bring jobs back, reinvest profits, or support union labor.
I support protectionism these days too, but only if it's tied to real labor protections, powerful domestic investment mandates, and severe penalties for offshoring. Without those, it's just another way to funnel public support into private profit.
That's why Trump's tariffs (plus corporate tax cuts) should be opposed, because tariffs without strings are useless. Protectionism without worker power is just corporate welfare in disguise.
Pull Up the Roots
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That comparison really falls apart once you look past the surface. Obama's 2015 quote was about setting the rules of global trade through the TPP, which meant working *with* allies to keep China from dominating the system. He had a long-term, strategic plan focused on leadership and cooperation. Trump just slapped tariffs on China, and everyone else, too. That's not strategy, it's a blunt weapon that spurs inflation, retaliation, and hurts American consumers and workers. His one-man trade war through tariffs *is* not the same thing. Don't let those MAGA accounts manipulate you.
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Power is in my hair nikka
You have to remember that if these people ceded and accepted that people need to work collectively for the betterment of everyone.... they'd have no identity.
People discredit just how much many people have built their entire existence off single ideologies.
