Tracking toy tariffs

We bought a bidet during the First Great TP Shortage of 2020 and I honestly cannot believe I ever existed without it. If I have to poop outside my home, I suddenly feel like a fucking 14th century French peasant. Forget even the money we save on toilet paper. That's ancillary to just how much nicer it is in general.
Also, there is the benefit of being a lot less concerned about the weird toilet paper fetish people have when they panic.
 
I would love to own an "R2D2" toilet, but I know the expense of installing one would suck. No one in the US builds bathrooms with the idea of ever needing to supply power to the toilet. Maybe one day though. A man can dream.

But, yeah, tariffs suck and whatnot.
I didn't obsess over them but they really didn't look much more complicated than a wall plug and some blu tooth.
 
Yeah, panic buying isn't about rationality.
I live in Austin. When that hurricane hit Corpus Christi a few years ago everyone panicked and bought up all the gas. Corpus is over 200 miles from Austin. This is Tx. We sorta refine a lot of gasoline here. I saw some guy in the back of his pickup truck filling 4 or 5 open Home Depot buckets with gas.
 
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I live in Austin. When that hurricane hit Corpus Christi a few years ago everyone panicked and bought up all the gas. Corpus is over 200 miles from Austin. This is Tx. We sorta refine a lot of gasoline here. I saw some guy in the back of his pickup truck filling 4 or 5 open Home Depot buckets with gas.
I think the issue is that a lot of people that panic buy during difficult times are the ones that see themselves as zombie apocalypse survivors. They're Hollywood survivalists, immediately envisioning what the 'after' world is going to look like. Does Covid create a deep need for extra toilet paper? Does a hurricane in Texas mean you just gotta have a huge stockpile of gasoline?
Or is it that these people have tiny brains and immediately go to 'Mad Max' whenever something bad happens.
 
I think the issue is that a lot of people that panic buy during difficult times are the ones that see themselves as zombie apocalypse survivors. They're Hollywood survivalists, immediately envisioning what the 'after' world is going to look like. Does Covid create a deep need for extra toilet paper? Does a hurricane in Texas mean you just gotta have a huge stockpile of gasoline?
Or is it that these people have tiny brains and immediately go to 'Mad Max' whenever something bad happens.
This exactly. Both times it's happened before here in North Texas it was largely unwarranted. The shortage came because people impulse bought assuming there would be a shortage, thus creating one. And I'm just not having it this time. I'm going to poop at home in peace.
 
Yes indeed. I haven't gone all in on ALL of his projects, but I do have quite a few things he's done. I happen to love the small art bag I got from his last KS.
I was looking forward to the new books and marker set, so I'm hopeful it'll eventually be able to happen.
 
Yes indeed. I haven't gone all in on ALL of his projects, but I do have quite a few things he's done. I happen to love the small art bag I got from his last KS.
I was looking forward to the new books and marker set, so I'm hopeful it'll eventually be able to happen.

I am not an artist but I enjoy Jazza's content quite a lot. I actually didn't find out about Jazza until I learned about him through his brother a few years ago - and that connection made me worried Jazza would be just another truly horrible piece of shit. Discovering how genuine and kind he seemed to be was really great, and I've been a fan ever since.

Shame that a lot of what he's doing has to be put on hold because of all this. He deserves all the success he's had for sure.
 
Maybe we’ll get lucky and toys get an exemption to all of this craziness in the end? I mean it kind of makes sense to give them an exemption. There isn’t an American made toy industry to try to protect like the auto industry. Hopefully Hasbro has just enough sway to make that happen. I mean l hope all tariff stuff goes away entirely but a toy exception would be a small win for us at least.
 
I'd love it too. In the grand scheme of thing, toys, while obviously a very lucrative business, probably wouldn't even break top 100 of the government's worries or concerns in a time like this. To them, it's probably just "kids and nerds" who are effected by the toy industry.

Problem is, you have all these truly heartless individuals in office that would sooner see a child go without a toy and the imagination that it brings than relent even the slightest bit with these tariffs. You have the dinosaurs in office like McConnell who'll pull the "in my day, we played with wooden nickels and had a rousing good time!" as he gleefully rips toys from kids' hands and burns them in front of them. Toys may not be a priority, but they're also an easy scapegoat for a lot of their other talking points- boys playing with Barbies turns them gay, kids playing with toy guns makes them into murderers, etc. As we know, it's a slippery slope, and while it may not be a priority right now, if given the chance and the time, it'll absolutely become a talking point in the future. But I digress- that's probably a topic better suited for the politics thread.

Come to think of it, the only "Made in the USA" toys I can remember seeing are the ones at the Dollar Store- the cheap, crappy (yet iconic, and a staple for us poor kids!) toy cars and dinosaur toys. I'm sure there's more than that, but those are the ones I see the most.
 
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