r/news • u/johnk317 • 1d ago

China to impose 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods imported from the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/china-to-impose-34percent-retaliatory-tariff-on-all-goods-imported-from-the-us.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard
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u/Bobby837 1d ago

Thing is, it gets too bad for them they'll just "rename" or relocate. Like Southern Dems did after the Civil War.

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u/kandoras 1d ago

Or they'll say that was MAGA and not Republicans. Or just pretend that they never really supported him at all.

Sort of like how it became impossible for years after the Bush administration to find anyone who would admit to having voted for him.

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u/Streamjumper 1d ago

Fortunately we have the internet, where many of them have been very loud and open about their support. With plenty of pictures of them and their mandatory 101 pieces of Trump flair.

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u/CelerMortis 1d ago

right but the people who can be bothered to care about historical facts aren't the ones getting us into these messes

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u/big_fartz 1d ago

When the fanfare dies and the tide turns, I suspect we will find that no one voted for him and everyone's confused how it happened. Because no one will want to have accountability for what they did. The only fortunate part is with social media what it is today that you'll never be able to scrub all the evidence of who you were then when you voted for this.

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u/whereismymind86 1d ago

Nazis tried the same trick after wwii, it didn’t work

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u/Pegasus7915 1d ago

Lucky Lt. Aldo Raine has a fix for that.

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u/picklerick8879 1d ago

Damn right. “I think this just might be my masterpiece.” Carve the truth so deep they can’t hide from it, rebrand it, or scrub it clean.

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u/Slut_for_Bacon 1d ago

They can go to Russia since they like that style of government so much.

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u/apk5005 1d ago

More likely they’ll bring Russia here.

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u/Disgustipated2 1d ago

I mean, they already did

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u/Bladelink 1d ago

Why is it always the shittiest countries on Earth trying to spread their "greatness"? FML.

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u/Streamjumper 1d ago

At least it'd fix their chronic misunderstanding of exactly what Communism is. I imagine having people capable of explaining their firsthand experiences under it could clear things up a little.

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u/Slut_for_Bacon 1d ago edited 1d ago

Russia is not communist..

Russia does not claim to be communist. Russia has not been communist for 30+ years. Some could argue they weren't actually even communist during the cold war, but that's more of an opiniom things.

Russia is an autocratic dictatorship masquerading as a liberal democracy.

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u/Streamjumper 1d ago

I'm talking about how they can talk to people who lived in Russa when it was "communist". 30 years hasn't killed all those people off, though it has caused some to forget.

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u/picklerick8879 1d ago

Yup — rinse the brand, keep the rot. They’ll swap slogans, rebrand the grift, and pretend they were never part of it. But the stink of complicity doesn’t wash off that easy. History has receipts.