r/wallstreetbets • u/MikeMikeGaming AI bubble survivor • Jan 28 '25

News Trump To Tariff Chips Made In Taiwan, Targeting TSMC

https://au.pcmag.com/computers-electronics/109466/trump-to-tariff-chips-made-in-taiwan-targeting-tsmc

Why don't we kick Nvidia while it's down am I rite?

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u/Yabutsk Jan 28 '25

He interferes with everything so that people need to bribe him to remove the tarrifs, restrictions or restore funding and credits. It's what happens when a middle-man runs the country.

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u/h08817 Jan 28 '25

It's how Putin secured his position. Navalny discussed it in his documentary, used to be on YouTube but I can't find it right now. He wasn't a field agent in the KGB, he was the man who took bribes to make things happen, and that was how he gained influence.

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u/Big-Compote-5483 Jan 28 '25

When the USSR collapsed he was responsible for handling what industries got sold off into the private sector and to whom. He used that position of power to eventually gain leverage over the Oligarchs/crime bosses, building up his influence in the background while Yeltsin drank himself to death, eventually handing things off to Putin.

Our prez is the US' Yeltsin; this country's Putin is one of the people trying to dismantle all institutions so they can be bought up by select oligarchs.

They have no problem tanking the markets so the public sector no longer functions. When that happens, those institutions will be sold off to the private sector. Wheela - we have russia 2.0

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u/Dunkaroos4breakfast Jan 28 '25

Wheela

Is this how they say voila in Russian?

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u/ItchyCosAids Jan 28 '25

But the USSR owned most of those industries (ya know, because communism) that were then sold off. The USA is an unapologetic capitalist, what industries does it have to sell off besides the postal system or libraries?

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u/Big-Compote-5483 Jan 28 '25

A lot - transportation, water, electrical grid (looking at you Texas & Puerto Rico), etc., but there's plenty of privately run infrastructure that's going to fall flat and will need to be sold cheap once the grant money stops flowing. Whoever buys these institutions and infrastructure will become insanely rich(er).

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u/Aurtach Jan 28 '25

Don't forget education. They have been blatantly defunding and milking money away from public schools to charter and private schools for years. Billions of dollars to be made by privatizing education

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u/TurielD 🦍 Jan 28 '25

The USA is an unapologetic capitalist, what industries does it have to sell off besides the postal system or libraries?

Whichever industries the mango decides to take and hand over to his cronies for 'national security' concerns.

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u/mercenaryarrogant Jan 28 '25

Maybe the old members of the Soviet communist state will eventually regret assisting fucking Nazi's getting elected in the U.S.

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u/envythemaggots Jan 28 '25

Prepare for shock therapy the USA 🫡 It’s been a long time coming

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u/jorel43 Jan 28 '25

No that's not how Putin secured his position. You know not everything can be tied back to Putin or Russia. Trump and Putin are nothing alike, either now or in the past.

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u/TheRC135 Jan 28 '25

"Middle man" is a nice way to say sleazy, corrupt old grifter.

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u/VibeComplex Jan 28 '25

It’s national racketeering lol

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u/StandardChemist6287 Jan 28 '25

It’s all by design. Everyone needs to watch this video https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=fQXzIY3uJlHAlXAH

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u/barth_ Jan 28 '25

Yup, plus he isn't invested in chip companies. He wouldn't do this to casino chips 😁

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u/MediumLanguageModel Jan 28 '25

Exactly! It's such a waste of oxygen for people to get all indignant about him threatening Greenland. No one needs to fall for that. He's positioning Denmark on the defense for negotiations on military installations and mining.

Before any Trumpers think I'm defending him, remember 1) that he's only doing this to leverage support from the most corrupt oligarchs in the country and 2) he's not smart enough to come up with these ideas himself; he's just a big enough scumbag to follow through on it to the extent his boosters are willing to make him feel like the special prince his parents never did.

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u/Devlnchat Jan 28 '25

Just like how he effectively banned tik tok and then unbanned it and forced Tik tok to write a big message saying "thank you daddy T. from saving us!".

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u/MtnMaiden Jan 28 '25

I bet he's got a shit ton of stocks.

You can't sue the President for insider trading :p

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u/DropmDead Jan 28 '25

Apt. Apt analysis, Yabutsk.