Tracking toy tariffs

AceofKnaves said:
Like it’s literally the plot of Wicked
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Nintendo has pulled the Switch 2 preorders in the U.S over the tariffs according to the BBC. That is not going to please the Nintendo fans.
 
Hopefully all the disenfranchised groups can recognize their common enemy. Probably sounds like a jok, but whatever it takes these days.
 
They will still release the Switch 2 over here but I guess they have no idea what the price will end up needing to be. Everything is so damned uncertain now. Who could plan for this?
 
Huh. I used to be able to recite the whole Voodoo Economics bit on Ferris Bueller from memory and only JUST grasped what he was even talking about.
 
With these tariffs in place wouldn't everything eventually rise in price, even American made? Humans are a greedy bunch. If Chinese widgets are selling for $20 because of tariffs and Vietnamese widgets are selling for $22, are the American made tariff-free widgets really going to just stay at $10 or will they see that the other stuff is still selling somewhat and decide they could raise their price to $15 and still undercut them?

Not to mention their costs will rise too. Company vehicles will have insurance go up because the cost to replace them is now higher. That cost is passed along.

This may be a big oversimplification and I'm no economist or manufacturing expert but it seems it is all interconnected like one big web.
 
Even manufacturing in America doesn't shield you from tariffs, because so many of the inputs will still have to come from elsewhere and thus be tariffed as well. That's on top of the fact that it will already cost more to manufacture here, since it being cheaper elsewhere is the whole reason it wasn't made here in the first place. So not only will it be more expensive just by virtue of forced manufacture here, it'll be even MORE expensive than it would've been!
 
Right, and you can hire American contractors and American laborers to do construction work but they're going to charge a ton more now because materials come from other countries and costs are skyrocketing.

We converted our garage into an ADU so my mom could live there, JUST before COVID hit, and the contractor said the costs of materials were jumping up so we got real lucky with the timing.
 
That's what I thought. Even if a car is made over here, many of their components are not. We're in for a crazy ride and the other side has not quite grasped that yet. I think ultimately people who vote for him are selfish. If it really does start to affect them then I think their opinion of Trump will start to change. It doesn't even have to be all of them. Just enough where the Republican House and Senate aren't afraid of them voting for a primary opponent if they take a stand against Trump.
 
I finally bought a new car not quite six months ago, in large part because of the possibility that Trump would win and this sort of thing was going to happen. I'd been driving the same car for like 17 years and was fine with it, but I figured the issue was going to be forced soon enough and the timing was only going to get worse. Pretty glad I did now.
 
Damien said:
And it's just sad to watch a hobby you love just .. die.. because of greed, narcissism, and abject stupidity that was preventable for the last two decades if anyone, at any point, had actually done something.
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Absolutely. But I think both political parties have completely failed their citizens and by constantly blaming the other side for the problems instead of doing something. Instead of focusing on solutions and the hard work of communication, it's just pointing at the other people. For example:
Justice said:
It would explain why we end up without any real pro-Trump comments here on these forums
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I'm not pro any politician or party these days - or really ever - but the demonization of people who think differently is apparent in this thread. Y'all are being real nice about it and talking about having empathy - but the undercurrent is hostile towards the non-majority opinion. Which is fine - just own it.

I think this crap is insane but we have got to stop pointing at one another and start pointing the finger - you know which one - at our elected leaders. Both sides have so successfully diverted attention from their actions and accountability for their actions by teaching us to yell at one another. This tariffs thing - what if it's just a giant bluff to make us look right so we miss what's happening on the left?

And to be relevant, I'm having a really hard time enjoying the new season of Daredevil - Kingpin makes my skin crawl because he is all of these narcissistic, power-hungry, little man things and I don't find him entertaining at all. Not a big deal in the grand scheme but yuck all the same thing (not to knock D'Onofrio).
 
I think the problem is reducing things to “one distinct side versus another distinct side” aka “good vs evil” when instead of “good” it’s “a bunch of flawed people, many trying to do their best, some very much not so much” vs, well, “evil”.

The “both sides are bad” argument may be salient under “normal” circumstances: our current situation is NOT normal. Everyone gets nervous about these sorts of comparisons, but I submit to you that having the “both sides are bad” argument right now is the same as Germans in the 1930s having that same conversation.

Yes, both the Dems and the GOP helped get us here, but currently we aren’t dealing with either of those in power, not in their traditional forms. MAGA uses the shell of the GOP like a parasite that has devoured its host’s corpse from within. I am no fan of the GOP in any modern incarnation, but this is not that. This is something else, something MUCH worse, and it’s not remotely about opposing “teams” right now.
 
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