Leopards Eating MAGA Faces (The Trump Policies Being Implemented Thread)

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AmeriKKKa deserves Donald Trump :mjlol:

nikkas wanted a US Christo-fascist state, so no cryin for the next 4 years as the MAGA Dark Ages unfold.

it's going to last longer than 4 years. because people are going to laugh at their stupid asses, they'll double down. the old saying "conservatism never fails. It is only failed." is now "donald trump never fails, he is only failed."
 

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I've never been the type to feel like this, but fukk it they get what they deserve...:yeshrug:

My wife and I will be fine the next few years and I make enough money where most of the price hikes shouldn't be that big of a deal....the poor muhfukkas that voted for this racist jackass are gonna have to hold their own nuts though....:manny:
 

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I've never been the type to feel like this, but fukk it they get what they deserve...:yeshrug:

My wife and I will be fine the next few years and I make enough money where most of the price hikes shouldn't be that big of a deal....the poor muhfukkas that voted for this racist jackass are gonna have to hold their own nuts though....:manny:
Same breh.

The media and his cult will never hold him accountable for it. But I will enjoy all these fukks that get screwed over by this choice.

Oh your Latino and your Grandma who came over illegally but has been providing you free or minimal cost child care for your kids. Suddenly gets kicked out of the Country. And now you have several thousand dollars of new expenses for said kids. :pachaha:

Oh you were naturalized, but they found some issues with your paperwork and now you're getting sent back to your home country

:sas1:


Little Jimmy and Mckayla love oranges and strawberries in their lunch every day. What's this no one is around to pick the fruit so there are distribution issues, or the costs went up.

:ohlawd:
 

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Donald Trump has won the presidency and, if he actually goes through with some of his policy proposals, the consequences for gamers will be stark. One of the reasons electronics are so cheap in America is its robust trade relationship with China.

During the campaign, Trump said he’d impose a baseline 60% tariff on Chinese exports. If he does that, the price of all the stuff gamers love is going to go up. Laptop prices could spike by almost 50%. The cost of video game consoles could rise around 40%, making the upcoming PS5 Pro cost almost $1,000. The Switch 2 may be backward compatible, but it may cost quite a bit more than the original.

Trump campaigned on punishing China for a perceived trade imbalance with the United States. It was a winning issue for him in his original campaign, and one he acted on, and he spent time on the campaign trail saying he’d do it again. Trump’s broad plan is to encourage a return of U.S. manufacturing through restrictive tariffs. A tariff is a flat tax on a trade good. Trump’s two big proposals are a 10% to 20% import tariff on all goods from other countries and a 60% tariff on goods from China.

China does not pay the cost of those tariffs. The companies importing the goods from China do. Companies have been clear that if tariffs raise their cost of doing business, they’re going to pass the costs onto the consumer. “If we get tariffs, we will pass those tariff costs back to the consumer,” AutoZone CEO Philip Daniele said on an earnings call in September.

The Consumer Technology Association, the trade association behind CES, published a study in October that looked at the possible effects of a 60% tariff on consumer electronics. It’s important to keep in mind that the study was commissioned by a trade group that stands to lose an enormous amount of cash should the tariff go through on electronics. That said, it’s still a strong indicator of where the industry’s head is at and what it believes would be a worst-case scenario when Trump takes office.

The study looked at ten different consumer tech products: smartphones, laptops, connected devices, video game consoles, and various computer accessories. According to the study, a tariff on electronics from China would have the immediate effect of spiking prices and the long-term effect of driving manufacturing to other countries. Critically though, those other countries would not be the United States. It’s still too expensive to make stuff in America and keep costs down.

“Across the board, the tariffs will cause significant price increases for the U.S. consumer,” the study said. The CTA estimated that laptop and tablet costs would go up 46%, smartphones would go up 26%, and video game consoles would spike 40%. That kind of increase would put the cost of the forthcoming PS5 Pro at just under $1,000. A top-of-the-line GPU, the kind used for AI and gaming, could bloat from around $900 to $1,300. The price of monitors would go up $109, desktops would go up around $74 overall, and headphones could cost an extra $35.

CTA VP of International Trade, Ed Brzytwa, stressed the damage tariffs would have on consumers in an interview with Tom’s Hardware. “Tariffs are regressive taxes that Americans pay. They’re not paid by a foreign government,” Brzytwa said. “They’re taxes that importers in the United States pay and foreign governments and foreign countries do not pay those tariffs. So when I say they’re regressive, it means that they harm poor people and people of little means more than they harm wealthy people.”

Trump’s tariff promise is probably one he’ll keep. During his first term, he imposed tariffs as high as 50% on the country, but tech industry lobbyists successfully carved out an exemption for electronics. It’s impossible to know if they’ll be able to pull off the same feat this time around.

If you were planning on upgrading your PC, building one from scratch or even buying a console, it might be wise to pull the trigger on it before Trump is inaugurated on January 20, 2025. The price after might skyrocket.
 

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I've never been the type to feel like this, but fukk it they get what they deserve...:yeshrug:

My wife and I will be fine the next few years and I make enough money where most of the price hikes shouldn't be that big of a deal....the poor muhfukkas that voted for this racist jackass are gonna have to hold their own nuts though....:manny:
same, I'm depressed as hell about Trump winning, but my financial situation will probably improve. The people who needed him to lose sat home or voted for him. This is like that meme with the scientists after global warming finally hits "we told you, I'm prepared GL"
 

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A federal judge on Thursday struck down the Biden administration’s “parole in place” policy that gave legal status to certain undocumented individuals who are married to US citizens.

US District Judge J. Campbell Barker had previously put an administrative hold on the regulation, rolled out earlier this year when President Joe Biden was running for reelection, as the judge considered the lawsuit brought by Texas and 15 other states. The policy shielded select undocumented spouses of US citizens from deportation and allowed them to work legally in the country as they sought citizenship.

In his Thursday ruling on the merits of their case, Barker, appointed by President-elect Donald Trump during his first term, said that Congress had not given the executive branch the authority to implement such a policy. He wrote that “history and purpose confirm that defendants’ view” of the relevant immigration law “stretches legal interpretation past its breaking point.”

The case is one of several ongoing legal challenges to Biden administration policies that the incoming Trump administration may refuse to defend after the White House changes hands.

Barker rejected a request by individuals who benefited from the program to intervene in the case so that they could also defend the policy.

The policy would have applied to people who have been living in the United States for 10 years, and utilized existing legal authority known as “parole in place” that offers deportation protections. In addition to spouses, the policy would also apply to undocumented stepchildren of US citizens.

As CNN previously reported, it was estimated that the program could directly affect 750,000 to 800,000 people. That could have made it the federal government’s most sweeping relief program since the 2012 implementation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which shields undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as minors from deportation.

DACA itself is currently the target of a yearslong legal challenge. An appeals court earlier this fall heard arguments on a judge’s ruling that deemed the DACA program unlawful but allowed it to continue for current enrollees while an appeal played out.
 

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Across the United States, companies that rely on foreign suppliers are preparing to raise prices in response to the massive import tariffs that former president Donald Trump promises if he wins the election Tuesday.

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Producers of a range of items, including clothing, footwear, baby products, auto parts and hardware, say they will pass along the cost of the tariffs to their American customers.

The planned price increases next year would come as consumers are beginning to enjoy relief from the highest inflation in four decades, and they directly contradict Trump’s repeated assurances that foreigners will pay the tariff tab.

“We’re set to raise prices,” Timothy Boyle, chief executive of Columbia Sportswear, said in an interview. “We’re buying stuff today for delivery next fall. So we’re just going to deal with it and we’ll just raise the prices. … It’s going to be very, very difficult to keep products affordable for Americans.”

Trump vows to impose the heaviest tariffs since the 1930s, including a 60 percent tax on products from China and a 10 to 20 percent fee on all other foreign goods. Doing so will encourage companies to produce inside the United States using American workers rather than buying from foreign suppliers, he has said.

Trump also has repeatedly claimed that foreign companies — not Americans — pay such import taxes. “The countries will pay,” he insisted this month during an interview with John Micklethwait of Bloomberg News at the Economic Club of Chicago.

In fact, American importers pay all tariffs to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency at the time their products enter the country.

Depending upon demand for individual products and the availability of alternatives, the tariff burden may be shared among the foreign producer, the U.S. importer and the final customer.

The foreign company that makes the product, for example, might redesign its assembly line to reduce its costs or might agree to trim its profit margin to retain U.S. sales.

But the main costs fall on American buyers.

“A consistent theoretical and empirical finding in economics is that domestic consumers and domestic firms bear the burden of a tariff, not the foreign country,” according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Budget Lab at Yale University.

Executives at AutoZone, an auto parts retailer, told investors this month that they were prepared for products they import to become more expensive. The company’s top suppliers include companies in India, China and Germany, according to a June press release.

“If we get tariffs, we will pass those tariff costs back to the consumer,” Philip Daniele, CEO of AutoZone, said on a recent earnings call. “We’ll generally raise prices ahead of — we know what the tariffs will be — we generally raise prices ahead of that.”

Likewise, Stanley Black & Decker CEO Donald Allan earlier this year told investors his company would probably “have to do some surgical price actions” to offset any new tariffs.

During his presidency, Trump imposed tariffs of up to 25 percent on $360 billion in Chinese imports. The Biden administration has retained most of those taxes and added others on Chinese electric vehicles, computer chips and solar cells.

Vice President Kamala Harris has assailed Trump’s proposed tariffs as a “national sales tax” that would hammer consumers. Trump’s tariff plans would cost a typical U.S. household between $1,700 and $2,600 per year, depending upon whether his universal import fee was set at 10 percent or 20 percent, according to an August study by economists Kimberly Clausing and Mary Lovely.

Harris campaign officials say their approach is more targeted than Trump’s plan to tariff all of the $3 trillion in foreign products that the United States imports each year.
 

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this thread has so much potential

Until the first police brutality cases involving black people, or when the KKK starts walking in black neighborhoods with no pushback. :francis:

I know that over 75% of black men and 90% of black women votes for Kamala, its just that Trump will go hard on blacks the moment he finishes off the immigrants.
 

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Until the first police brutality cases involving black people, or when the KKK starts walking in black neighborhoods with no pushback. :francis:

I know that over 75% of black men and 90% of black women votes for Kamala, its just that Trump will go hard on blacks the moment he finishes off the immigrants.
with black folks it wouldn't be an example of leopards eating your face because those numbers are saying we know leopards eat people. and the 25% of black men and 10% of black women who supported trump are more likely to blame the victims anyway, so they're not going to give a fukk.
 
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