r/worldnews • u/Significant-Colour • 1d ago

China strikes back at Trump with 34 percent tariff — bans rare earth exports to the U.S.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-strikes-back-on-trump-tariffs-bans-rare-earth-exports-to-the-u-s
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u/Significant-Colour 1d ago

In the free and fair election of the people, the people decided to fuck around, and now they are finding out. (:

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u/zookytar 1d ago

The people who fucked around are not going to find our because Fox News, Sinclair, and other right-wing media controls their information intake.

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u/NefariousPhosphenes 1d ago

They’re not going to find out immediately, but they’re going to find out when they’re laid off and everything’s prohibitively expensive from all of their winning and owning the Libs.

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u/ScavAteMyArms 1d ago

Nah, because that wasn’t Trumps fault, it’s the Wars caused by Biden. Or these things just happen. Or whatever Fox news says.

Until Fox news turns on them they will never fall, but at this point even if that happened there might be a new one.

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u/beaverfan 1d ago

Prices are already rising where I live. A package of tissue for example is now double what it used to.

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u/MWD_Dave 1d ago

"Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price must be paid." - Aldous Huxley

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u/buisnessmike 1d ago

A functional democracy requires an informed electorate. Republicans took the long, but reliable route of manufacturing an inability to think in a significant portion of the country. For decades, they cultivated a base that was stupid enough to think that voting for Donald Trump was a good idea and in their best interests, in large enough numbers that it ended up mattering. They found the exploit for democracy, and they used it.

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u/Enshakushanna 1d ago

word on the street is it wasnt really fair