Ok. Even if this was how Tariffs magically worked, why would they sell us the steel then?
The “forgot” pane covered up where he had to pay them $200 for $100 worth of steel.
when you explain it like this, yeah the trump tariffs clearly make no fucking sense
Someone needs to revise the bottom and add 2 panels
1: change pane 4 to the Canadian seller going “not my problem, I already got paid”
2: go to pane 5, looks like pane 3 but have the US as a giant muscular character w the club behind the American buyer,
3: Pane 6 is the Canadian counting his money and maybe drinking some maple syrup
4: then final pane is the American beaten and bloody on the ground while the American government is walking away with his money and throwing his wallet in the ground while the Canadian seller also has his money and walking away to the right.
I can visualize it but have no artistic skill
Edit: like this guy but with the American flag as his face or maybe trumps face since it’s wholly his doing
if somebody would properly call it “additional import tax” they have a small chance of understanding that goods get more expensive for the end consumer and that tax goes to the evil greedy government, aka Elon and Donald will siphon parts of it away.
Remember they are taxes. Don’t call them tariffs. They are the Trump sales tax
It’s like free money! /s
I want to laugh but there’s a good chance some MAGA literally think this is exactly the type of hardball negotiation that dear leader can troll Canada into accepting… or else… (somehow) bam! 51st state.
So that’s how tax cuts work? Thanks Leavitt!
…that isn’t how that works…
This is so dumb…
I hope the person who made this hasn’t reproduced
It’s incredible the amount of misinformation that comes from the Whitehouse. They create such a smokescreen about tarrifs that people who don’t want them have to spend half the conversation trying to make sure the Republicans know what a tarrif even is.
That’s not by accident. It takes 2x the effort to counter a lie. By the time you’ve expended your energy on what reality is, there’s no longer time for a productive discussion. If we can’t agree what a tarrif even is, we can’t discuss whether that’s the best strategy to achieve our common goals at all.
This is the erosion of democracy in action and it all begins with a smokescreen of blatant propaganda.
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A bunch of clowns running the show.
Ok. Even if this was how Tariffs magically worked, why would they sell us the steel then?
The “forgot” pane covered up where he had to pay them $200 for $100 worth of steel.
when you explain it like this, yeah the trump tariffs clearly make no fucking sense
Someone needs to revise the bottom and add 2 panels
1: change pane 4 to the Canadian seller going “not my problem, I already got paid”
2: go to pane 5, looks like pane 3 but have the US as a giant muscular character w the club behind the American buyer,
3: Pane 6 is the Canadian counting his money and maybe drinking some maple syrup
4: then final pane is the American beaten and bloody on the ground while the American government is walking away with his money and throwing his wallet in the ground while the Canadian seller also has his money and walking away to the right.
I can visualize it but have no artistic skill
Edit: like this guy but with the American flag as his face or maybe trumps face since it’s wholly his doing
https://preview.redd.it/rtcovuhtidoe1.jpeg?width=377&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8fa196e0afddbc66b96b4ee40db041155b08d7c9
if somebody would properly call it “additional import tax” they have a small chance of understanding that goods get more expensive for the end consumer and that tax goes to the evil greedy government, aka Elon and Donald will siphon parts of it away.
Remember they are taxes. Don’t call them tariffs. They are the Trump sales tax
It’s like free money! /s
I want to laugh but there’s a good chance some MAGA literally think this is exactly the type of hardball negotiation that dear leader can troll Canada into accepting… or else… (somehow) bam! 51st state.
So that’s how tax cuts work? Thanks Leavitt!
…that isn’t how that works…
This is so dumb…
I hope the person who made this hasn’t reproduced
It’s incredible the amount of misinformation that comes from the Whitehouse. They create such a smokescreen about tarrifs that people who don’t want them have to spend half the conversation trying to make sure the Republicans know what a tarrif even is.
That’s not by accident. It takes 2x the effort to counter a lie. By the time you’ve expended your energy on what reality is, there’s no longer time for a productive discussion. If we can’t agree what a tarrif even is, we can’t discuss whether that’s the best strategy to achieve our common goals at all.
This is the erosion of democracy in action and it all begins with a smokescreen of blatant propaganda.
Please tell me this is sarcasm
1) Enact Tari
2) ???
3) Profit
Should have been like
USA – “I’d like $100 worth of steel please”
Canada – “Okay, here is $100 worth of steel”
USA – “Oh, and there is a $100 tarrif!”
Canada – “Okay. Give back half the steel please”
USA – “Canada is taking advantage of us!!!”
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