That doesn’t make it not wild though, imho.

Probably should spoiler tag that.

Wild.

Even stuff that is purely American will go up.

Imagine I make shirts in the USA with no imported goods. My cost to make them is $10 and I sell them for $15. My primary competition is overseas shirt makers who have much lower costs and their final price in my market is $12, so consumers often flock to them as they are cheaper.

Well good news for me! Tarrifs have made foreign made goods more expensive for the end consumer, and now those competitors price their shirts at $20, making my shirts the cheaper option!

Except, I’m a good little capitalist, so to make as much profit as I can, I’m going to increase the cost of my shirts to $17, even though my cost to make them hasn’t changed. I’m still the cheaper option, I can play to people’s nationalism, and I’m still making more money than before!

Only the end consumer loses.

Stand up comedian?

Nobody gets their second until everyone’s had their first.

I was raised Christian, went to church every Sunday and believed as a kid. Then I stopped believing in all my imaginary friends. Being slightly cheeky, but also I genuinely just grew out of it as I learned more about… Everything, really.

And then a world war to get out of it. Old is new again.

It’s always the ones you most expect.

Capitalism on track to destroy climate, warns everyone

Trump got elected twice. Don’t say no one.

An impressive amount of incorrect.

I’m sure “irked” was not the word he wanted to use.

Another “illegal boycott” to them, I’m sure.

Interesting is not the word I would go for.

Top Secret! is a gem of a movie and I will be watching it tomorrow in his honour.

I genuinely do not understand what that reply has anything to do with the point I presented.

Car manufacturers being legally allowed to sell cars directly to consumers is not a monopoly because there’s still a variety of car manufacturers to choose from.

This was basically the case in the “sweepstakes” he did leading up the presidential election. They admitted in court that the winners were predetermined and that nobody actually had a chance to win, so it wasn’t buying votes.

I’ve had him blocked for a while and it is still plenty active here for me.