LA County ports expect roughly 40% drop in traffic as Trump's tariffs continue

[IIVI]

You know.

Things were fine about 8 months ago.

Now it’s two leaders who don’t care to see their country hurting. Like another person said, while still tariffs on Mexico, Canada, EU, Vietnam, etc.

Additionally, Japan said they aren’t going to make a deal without China.



This country is about to get crappy. I hope everyone has a good job they can hold or can find a new one easily.

I’m not looking forward to things being x2 to x3 marked up IN THIS COUNTRY.

 

[IIVI]

Oh yeah remember Trump said it’ll be a 90 day pause on tariffs while deals are made?

We’re at day 70 come Thursday.

Where the deals at?

Tick tick tick tick.

 

[Samori Toure]

You know.























Things were fine about 8 months ago.

Now it’s two leaders who don’t care to see their country hurting. Like another person said, still tariffs on Mexico and Canada.

Additionally, Japan said they aren’t going to make a deal without China.

This country is about to get crappy. I hope everyone has a good job they can hold or can find a new one easily.

It looks like they are saying that they will not make a deal that is against China. Either way it is completely stupid and Trump has managed to take a friend and make them a potential frienemy.

Japan to resist Trump efforts to form trade bloc against China

Any demands from Washington on Tokyo to downgrade its economic relationship with China would potentially deal Japan a major economic blow.

www.japantimes.co.jp

 

[Wargames]

You know.























Things were fine about 8 months ago.

Now it’s two leaders who don’t care to see their country hurting. Like another person said, while still tariffs on Mexico, Canada, EU, Vietnam, etc.

Additionally, Japan said they aren’t going to make a deal without China.



This country is about to get crappy. I hope everyone has a good job they can hold or can find a new one easily.

Nobody in Asia is going to make a trade deal against China because America is too erratic. Imagine you agree to work with America and we turn our back on you or Trump decides to pull a thug move and try to renegotiate worse terms (like he did to Mexico and Canada) and China is not fukking with you too. You’re fukked.

Its to the point Europe shouldn’t take that deal either but they are racist and see America as another white country.

Trump is just a fukking idiot.

 

[DeuceZ]

Pop shyt and apologize just ask Trump

 

[Robbie3000]

You know.























Things were fine about 8 months ago.

Now it’s two leaders who don’t care to see their country hurting. Like another person said, still tariffs on Mexico and Canada.

Additionally, Japan said they aren’t going to make a deal without China.



This country is about to get crappy. I hope everyone has a good job they can hold or can find a new one easily.

Nobody wanted this except Trump and his bootlickers. He forced the only country that can really fight back into a corner. Now China has no other option but to fight. Even if Trump ended all tariffs tonight, why would anyone take him seriously?

I think we are in for a lot of pain in the 2nd and 3rd quarter. I hope I’m wrong though.

 

[keond]

White folks care more about culture wars like a singular tranny trying to compete at a high school rather than a functioning govt. These retards will probably fall for whatever made up word some Stephen Miller type comes up as a code word for black folks, gays or whatever crackkas are upset about

I have zero faith that these yokels will get shyt right in 26 or 28. Best hope is that Trump has a stroke

 

[IIVI]

Nobody in Asia is going to make a trade deal against China because America is too erratic. Imagine you agree to work with America and we turn our back on you or Trump decides to pull a thug move and try to renegotiate worse terms (like he did to Mexico and Canada) and China is not fukking with you too. You’re fukked.

Its to the point Europe shouldn’t take that deal either but they are racist and see America as another white country.

Trump is just a fukking idiot.

Basically what other people have said.



Trump and Republicans betrayed a country in front of the whole world.

A White European country.

You want these other non-White countries to take your word now?

Wild.

If anything these dumbass Republicans worked backwards. You don’t betray allies all out in the open then ask other countries to trust you

Now there’s no way Trump can let his Russian buddies win because it’ll look horrible at the negotiation table for this trade war.

You let allies get stomped out and their land taken but you should be trusted now? Even some bootlicking countries like India haven’t made a deal yet.

Meanwhile time is ticking, 70 days for tariffs to come back.

 

[Vandelay]

Y'all getting it now.



We're fukked for quite awhile, but it hopefully opens the door to get orange man out the paint soon.

 

[IIVI]

Post that mentions May 10.

It’s real. Stateside: Trucking work dries up, warehouses close down, stock runs out, labor at ports is froze, etc.

The White House has put itself and the country in a bad situation but doesn’t realize it yet.

Around April 10th China to USA trade shut down.

It takes ~30 days for containers to go from China to LA.

45 to Houston by sea, 45 to Chicago by train.

55 to New York by sea.

That means that there are no economic effects of what was done on April 10th until about May 10th.

Around that time (it’s already started to happen) trucking work is going to dry up. Warehouses will start doing layoffs because no labor is needed to unload containers and some products will be out of stock, reducing the need for shipping labor.

All this will start in the Los Angeles area.

After about 2 weeks, it’ll start hitting Chicago and Houston.

Let’s say the White House, after 3 weeks, changes its mind, on May 31st.

“This isn’t working out like we thought it would. Tariffs back to 0.”

Let’s say China says “bygones be bygones, we’ll go back to how things were”.

Let’s say every factory in China that got screwed by their orders being cancelled says the same thing “no problem, we’ll make and ship”.

The problem is, even under the most favorable conditions of China and the factories restarting economic ties as though nothing happened, it will be at least another 30 days before economic activity is revived.

And that’s just in LA.

In Chicago/Houston, you’ll need to wait another 45 days.

New York, at that point, will still be getting containers from before April 10th, they will then have 50 days (May 31 minus April 10) of zero economic activity at the ports, in trucking of Chinese goods, in warehousing.

The whole situation is a bit like lockdowns. Once you shut down, it takes a long time to get economic activity back to where it was, if you ever can.

And again, this assumes, that China and its factories, which make things you can’t buy elsewhere, will start right back up again as though nothing happened, which is unlikely.

It’s almost like we’re speeding towards a brick wall but the driver of the car doesn’t see it yet.

By the time he does, it’ll be too late to hit the brakes.

 

[jj23]

How do you go to war with the people who make everything including your medicine? Thats suicide.

Doesn't have to be a war against China. Just a war....

 

[IIVI]

People really got no idea what’s coming.

 

[TDUBB]

I expect shyt ton of layoffs, empty shelves, and a whole lot of panic in a few weeks.

If Americans were bytching about egg prices then I can’t wait to see there faces when everything cost 3-4x more

I can’t wait to see Americans suffer and live on the street more often

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Y'all getting it now.



We're fukked for quite awhile, but it hopefully opens the door to get orange man out the paint so soon.

I don't even blame Trump, I blame everyone else for letting him walk back into office

 

[hashmander]

Trump don’t run shyt, he’s just making everything dysfunctional because he is stupid and the crackers who should stop him are p*ssy.

so basically he's running shyt.