Man. Am I ever so fortunate to being a minimalist. Wtf is everyone buying all the time?
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think of shit people actually need.
band aids? China
Peroxide and Rubbing alcohol? China
gauze? China
IV tubing and equipment? China
This ain't a, "I can't buy fruitless shit anymore" kinda crisis.
It's the big one, homie.
So, is this not a wake up call for every country to not be reliant on one or do you believe everything should be made in China?
I am using a portion of my savings to prepare before things run dry. Some extra food, but mostly renovations or big ticket items. New sink and a bidet toilet, my first ever smartphone, physical cash in the form of Euros, a 24tb drive to prep for replacing my Windows OS with Linux, a gun club membership and ammo, ect.
Before Trump was a thing, I was planning on just sitting on my life savings and let it grow, only touching it when I hit 60 or 70. That is out the window, since odds are that Trump's regime will kill me for being an progressive autistic. Fun times. 😩
Lol dummies
I suspect many more Americans may actually start to feel feelings about Trump when they can't participate in the great American pastime of buying more shit.
Here's hoping they instead realize they don't need any of that shit.
No bread, no circus. The first already happened a while ago, but losing the second shows a possible hilarious miscalculation from Trumps lot. The blowback is going to be interesting. Though I also worry it's a way to force people out in the streets as they are laying the groundwork for unrest.
soon have only about 7 weeks
I'll soon buy a house in maybe up to about 6 months or more, possibly less. Give or take a few months. Definitely sometime around then. Or after. Or before.
Right?! This thing will happen in "soon" + 7 weeks. What a worthless headline/statement.
Yay, another COVID style supply chain apocalypse. This time brought on entirely by American conservatives and their lack of brain cells.
Buy exactly ZERO gifts for your conservative family members for their bdays and Xmas and make sure to tell them it's because of the new Trump Tax.
the last time was also conservative caused too.
Make it "republican tax". This is not trump tax
I don't think you'll be able to buy anything for anybody lol.
This is a Depression Train coming right for us
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lol stores are gonna start getting cleaned out on the regular. And they’re gonna stay empty.
Are we winning yet?
Its also what the stores voted for. Almost every major corporation wanted Trump and heavily lobbied for him to get in. News outlets, grocery chains, retail stores, tech companies, every large corporation wanted this.
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Unfortunately, it seems this needs to happen to wake people the fuck up.
Another article today about people literally having no concept of why the websites they're shopping on is suddenly way more expensive (and explicitly showing the tariff costs).
People are surprised by this, and many of them have literally never even heard the word "tariff" before.
And the illiterate yokels in 12 months time: "Tariff?! That sounds like one of them thar a-rab names!!"
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lol stores are gonna start getting cleaned out on the regular
Nah. We've already seen businesses implementing digital price tags for just this occurrence.
Your stores will stay stocked. You're just going to see merch doubling and tripling in price as inventory depletes.
Eventually, you'll walk into a store, see a single pair of jeans on the rack, and read a $1000 price tag on it because it's the last pair of that style in 20 miles.
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I didn't vote for this.
Neither did I but 79 million idiots did, and 88 million didn't vote at all.
In a sense 167 million people wanted this shitshow so here we are.
Buy a gun, ammo, and canned goods. Form support groups with like minded people in your areas.
This summer is going to be a hootenanny of epic proportion.
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Lean inventory and just in time supply management for the win!
Excited to revisit the discourse on price gouging for the next few months.
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if you need, or might need tech in the near future, BUY IT NOW. not just because of the price hike, but because there won't be anything left to buy
I recently bought a small generator that charges via solar panel. With weather events getting more severe each year, and my boyfriend needing a sleep apnea machine, it seemed a good idea to get a portable source of power that's completely off the grid.
I don't know what's going to be happening in the near future, but I figured I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and be unable to get it due to scarcity and potentially-dramatic price increases.
Uprisings eminent.
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