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James Johnson
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Posted: 20 January 2026 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

.......we are paying for the tariffs. 


More bullshit that the American public will have to deal with after he's long gone.

Courtously of the White Brains Grifter.

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Posted: 20 January 2026 at 2:58pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Did anyone think we weren’t? It’s not like the company bean counters were going to pick up the tab out of the goodness of their hearts!
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Posted: 20 January 2026 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

"Did anyone think we weren’t?"

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The majority of his voting base.
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Casey Sager
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Posted: 20 January 2026 at 5:19pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

I have a relative who's MAGA+ and he LOVES the tariffs.

He's a former CPA and former business owner so you think he'd know better. But when he donned those MAGA colored glasses all sense went out the window.
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Posted: 20 January 2026 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

Beyond the immediate gut punch of higher prices for the American people, the lasting effects of tariffs will be systemic changes in global trade. I don't see how any of this benefits the US.

Pissing off your major trading partners cannot be a good thing. US tourism from Canada is down double-digit percentages. US liquor sales to Canada are in the basement. And there is a big hit around the world in good will towards the US over this. And the most significant thing is those trading partners being pushed into forging new trading relationships.
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James Woodcock
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Posted: 20 January 2026 at 11:14pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

But he’s just spent on early an hour and three quarters telling everyone how
much money the tariffs have brought in.
Don’t you guys know anything?
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Bill Collins
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Posted: 21 January 2026 at 7:20am | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Forgive my ignorance, but will these tariffs affect the
U.S. film and tv industry? Other than weapons and pharma i
suspect it's one of their biggest exports.
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He has said that he will start to tariff movies not made in
the USA. Not sure how that would work, but then .....
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Posted: 21 January 2026 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

US exports are actually led by energy, cars, civilian aircraft, turbine and IT services.

The movie plan is obviously a fudge without any real thinking about how it might be practically applied. What defines the nationality of a movie for tariff purposes? Is it about where it is made? Or who makes it? Or who stars in it? Or who funds it? 

Spend any time at all thinking about this in practical terms, and you realise how unworkable/undesirable it would be.

If it's where it is shot, then Hollywood blockbusters shot on location would incur tariffs. If it's about who is in it, then all your non-American stars start working elsewhere. If it's about who makes it, then all your foreign talent starts working elsewhere. If it's about who funds it, then all your inflows of overseas cash into Hollywood dries up.

And that's assuming there's a way to apply the tariffs. Zeus knows how you'd apply that.


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