Americans Really Dislike Trump. But They’re About to Truly Hate Him. Welcome to the summer of scarcity and the full-blown Trump recession.

https://newrepublic.com/post/194705/trump-scarcity-tariffs-recession-economy

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  1. We have our Federal Election coming up today in Australia. I am hoping Anthony Albanese wins. The last thing we need is a Trump and Musk puppet running things here like Peter Dutton.

  3. We’re growing vegetables in raised beds. On the one hand, it’s a privilege to be able to do. On the other, it’s laughable to think it will make a significant difference when things get really real.

  4. “Americans Really Dislike Trump. But They’re About to Truly Hate Him.”

    Those of us with brains have been hating him since 2016. The rest will double down and blame Biden or former trade partners for the empty shelves and high prices this summer.

  5. No matter how bad it gets Trump’s supporters will blame somebody else. He’s very good at convincing them of complete BS. He will have them believing that it’s the fault of the liberals, Democrats, immigrants, the Canadians and the Chinese.     The worse the economy gets the worse the attacks on those target groups will become.

  6. Yep. Trump could change course today, and it won’t matter – empty shelves and a recession is guaranteed. And Trump won’t back down, of course.

    Good job, GOP voters, and the Dems that sat at home instead of voting Kamala.

  7. You know, somebody said, “Oh, the shelves are going to be open.” Well, maybe the children will have two peas instead of 30 peas. So maybe the two peas will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally.

    /s

  8. “Full-blown Trump recession.”

    And Trump will blame Biden for all of it, as he has. And the MAGA demographic will believe him. 🙁

  9. Bring it, the Magats have to Not See, Not Touch and Not taste items available to start believing what we already know is self inflicted.

  10. And wait until retailers start price gouging. Much like trump supporters the future isn’t too bright.

  11. The Great Trumpcession/Trumpression… Let’s start normalizing and calling it this

  13. Awful. A lot of businesses live and die on the Summer season. I overheard a Mayor once tell his Chief of Police “Amity is a Summer Town, We need Summer dollars”…

  14. The orange bag of shit and his American Taliban squad know what’s coming that’s why they’re gearing up the military to go into states etc. this shit is going to get very ugly very fast. I’m not sure average Americans are ready for what these evil fucks are prepared to do to America to further their shit-ass agendas .

  15. Somehow, they will blame Biden for product shortages that would have been shipped and received completely within the timeline of the existing administration.

  16. I’ve moved on from hating the gun to hating all the people who wanted to pull the trigger.

  17. I am going to go on record and say I’ve never voted for Donald Trump and never will vote for a Republican – ever. They’re all fascistic assholes who care about power more than people and what’s about to happen to them is going to be the best possible feeling. I hope they record themselves freaking out over empty shelves like they did when asked to wear a mask during Covid.

    I’m extremely worried for the people who already are rationing medicine to survive. I voted for them and prayed the country did too. But no, we have too many individualistic fuckwits who get scared at the thought of a 13 year old trans child possibly coming in 7th place at the swim meet. Fuck you and I hope you pay for what you voted for – bigotry is expensive.

    Edit: this post is gonna be flagged by DOGE AI and I’m gonna be shipped off to El Salvador, aren’t I

  18. This is the **REPUBLICAN** recession!

    Those traitors could end this **TODAY**!

  19. You know, I would feel a little more happy about my nation if the reason people hated Trump was victimizing the disabled, sending people to concentration camps in foreign countries, mocking veterans, slashing every program we have that keeps us from eating poison with our dinner. But no that’s all fine but Jesus Christ you have to pay one cent more for your new video game or worse yet the new console isn’t available that’s just a bridge too far.

  20. Just to add, tourism is going to be lousy. All those foreigners not coming and Latinos/South Americans/hispanics not wanting to travel.

  21. I used to give my fellow Americans grace. Now I fully understand George Carlin and the “half of them are dumber than you think” quotes. I am super excited for the rubber to meet the road on this one.

  22. There’s a whole generation that hasn’t been through a recession. If it’s anything like 2008… Going to be a whole lotta people pretending they didn’t vote for Trump in 2024. Just like former Bush voters.

  24. The Felon will blame it on Biden, Obama and even the “Mexican illegals”, and the rubes will eat up that BS like fatty burger patties!

  25. Conservatives are already pivoting to the “America needs tough love” argument. These motherfuckers are in a cult. Their opinions will never change. That’s why they continue to attend rallies for a president who already won. That’s why they buy homoerotic Rocky merch with Trump’s face plastered on it. That’s why they vote against welfare programs that quite literally keep them alive. This will never change until they are dead. We have to accept that half of the voting bloc in America is lost for the foreseeable future.

    Least we can do is take comfort in the fact that we are on the right side of history, and we have a duty to our children to be living witnesses and resistors to this bullshit in any way we can. There will never be a come-to-Jesus moment for these people. There will always be a Muslim or Latino or Democrat to blame.

  27. This could all end tomorrow if even a tiny number of Republicans had any spine. Congress has the power to regulate tariffs and can certainly assert it, if anyone there wanted to. These aren’t Trump’s tariffs – they’re the entire GOP’s.

  28. I will always say… Americans usually will not do anything until their lives significantly change. Empty shelves are definitely a change that Americans will not like and make life uncomfortable…. That is when Trump will realize he fucked up and went too far. Right now.. there is not enough unhappiness from Americans but just wait… it will happen.

  30. Cant wait to see those “I did that” Trump stickers everywhere

  34. If a biz makes their living from selling 1000 different widgets every day, and if their supply of widgets is reduced from 1000 to 100, now they can only sell 100 widgets every day. Their markup on those 100 widgets must be increased to make up for the loss of sales of the other 900 items they no longer have to sell. Competition will limit how much they can charge, but if all competitors are in a similar position, they will all increase their prices at the same time.

  35. I’m willing to suffer if it means Fat Mango goes down.

  36. It’s been about two months of the economic tide receding. The disaster tsunami is on its way.

  38. 💚Brat summer💚 is far in the rear view mirror. Get ready for ✨️Scarcity Summer✨️

  39. >It’s going to be a rough summer—and many seasons thereafter, until one day we finally hit the nadir of Trumpian despair.

    There is no nadir. It always gets worse.

  41. Make post-WWI Germany great again was Hitler’s idea. Make America great again is Trump’s idea. Invade France and other former allies was Hitler’s idea. Invade Canada and other former allies is Trump’s idea, but to be fair, Putin put Trump to the reboot with Ukraine. Use the scarcity of food and recession to motivate the German people to attack their neighbors was Hitler’s idea. Use the scarcity of food & recession because of Trump’s overt actions to attack each other and our neighbors is Trump’s plan.

    Is there a single original idea in his head, or does he really think he can pull it off with his party of insurrection/Republican backing?

  42. I didn’t know it was possible to hate someone as much as I hate this “person”. The amount of energy I have wasted seething over this prick makes me worry about myself. Like, am I even normal?!? The crazy thing is, I’m not even an American. I’m from Canada.

  43. But will they really? Canadian here, my faith in the goodness and wisdom of America is fading fast.

  44. My wife and I have been preparing for this since last year. We’ve stocked up on essentials. We doubled the size of our garden. She has been canning like a mad woman. We can survive a year without leaving the house. The election in November sent us into overdrive. We’re ready for this. I wish we didn’t hwve to be

  45. Every house around my town (the routes that I drive through at least) that had a Trump sign up as recently as a couple weeks ago has taken them down. Every single one of them. I’m actually shocked.

  46. Yeah, polls are sinking hard and the consequences of his trade war against the world haven’t started to kick in yet.

    The last shipments from China came in last week. A few days ago there were ZERO ships unloading in the port of Seattle, and the Los Angeles port expects a 35% drop in volume.

    I figure it takes about two weeks for stuff to get from US ports to stores. Most retail outfits carry as little inventory as possible (“just in time” inventory) so those last shipments will hit the shelves less than a week later. Yes, some retail stocked up in anticipation of the tariffs but most don’t have the space for it, if they have the money

    So it’s all over by the end of May.

    This all sounds reasonable to me but in all humility I have no freaking idea what I’m talking about, and if there are any store managers or truckers or whatever who have a working knowledge of what’s up I would be happy to be corrected and learn

    EDIT: shelves no less > shelves less

  47. Trumpcession – when an economy collapses bigly due to the art of the deal caused by stable geniuses on covfefe.

  48. Our company supplies a lot of US tech companies and manufacturers. Seeing everything first-hand; I’ll tell you now before the numbers come out, it’s going to hurt.

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