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Summary

A new WalletHub poll reveals that 74% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will worsen inflation, which remains a major concern for most households.

Trump’s plan includes significant tariffs—up to 60% on Chinese goods and 20% on other imports—to protect American jobs and address issues like fentanyl production and border security.

Experts warn these tariffs could increase consumer prices, with middle-income families potentially losing $2,500 annually.

Analysts caution Trump’s plans may face political hurdles in Congress despite his economic-focused campaign promises.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 4 days ago (6 children)

poll reveals that 74% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will worsen inflation,

Where the fuck were those people in November??

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Voting for the leopards they were certain would not eat their face.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Naval gazing, believing what they were told?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Not voting. If we combine harris and non voters we get a similar number to the poll. Of course that's a major simplification, but it still has something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

They were told to be angry at trans kids in sports competitions, so their two braincells were busy.

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[–] [email protected] 244 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Are we going to pretend he gives a shit? He doesn't. He got what he wanted, and he can't be elected again (barring him fucking our systems so severely that he manages to force a third term on us). He's going to wreck the justice system to avoid any consequences for his actions after his term, and he could very well kick the bucket while he's in office anyway (dude's got KFC gravy for blood).

He doesn't care. He no longer has to. He can play his country-destroying games with impunity. He has no reason to give a single fuck what the American people want.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't think he cares as much about the tariffs, but I am quite sure tariffs on Mexico and Canada were Elonia's idea

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I mean he enacted tarrifs on Canada and Mexico in his first term so it's not like it's not something he's been thinking about.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

Oh it's deeper than that, it's money coming out of our pockets slipping through a third party and going back into the government offers. It's an extra tax on goods by proxy. He then has a fresh revenue stream without any earmarks on it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (5 children)

156,302,318 voters voted out of 244,666,890 eligible. 77,266,856 people voted for tRump. That's 167,400,034 eligible voters who did not vote for tRump. So yeah...that tracks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

And nobody gives one flying fuck about anyone who can't be bothered to vote. If your to lazy to get off your ass and vote you have absolutely no right to complain about anything cause politically you don't matter and you get what your lazy ass asked for.

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[–] [email protected] 157 points 5 days ago (4 children)

74% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will worsen inflation

How about not voting the guy in then?

[–] [email protected] 97 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I was told the election was about the economy.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I was repeatedly told on Lemmy that it was about genocide.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (3 children)

That's a term I haven't heard in a long time.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It was and they won! Now with Trump in office no more Palestinians will suffer! The humanitarian crisis is over, god-emperor himself said he wants Israel to "finish what they started". He must mean that war needs to end, what other interpretation could possibly be accurate? I thank Jesus personally every night for helping the man win who wants to jack inflation right back up after it's finally started taming. Our economy is in the right hands!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I was also repeatedly told on Lemmy that it was about BlUEMaGA.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (3 children)

As often as people beat that drum, it's nothing but an excuse for most. They don't have any actual thoughts or opinions on the economy. Just voting on vibes.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

They voted because of "woke" and immigrants. A guy on social media told them those are the real problems we face.

I can't believe how little we are acknowledging that social media is currently being used to manipulate voters not just in US but also in Europe. Why people think that what happened in Romania didn't also happen in US? And is not happening in other European countries?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps they should have thought about that before voting for a lunatic.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You don't understand though. They really had to stick it to minorities and women, their every day be damned.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 days ago

The only poll that mattered was on November 5, 2024.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 days ago

Too bad the poll that matters already happened.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago

American Voters soon to get bad news that Trump does not give a fuck about them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How's this news? That's literally what MAGA was selling the entire time. The so called "Temporary Hardships". They promised and they're going to deliver some economic hardships, that was the sales pitch and people voted for it. Anybody shocked is just not paying attention.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 days ago (2 children)

We can all agree that polling is completely meaningless now yeah? It obviously has zero correlation with reality.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It was an election season where the race was polling around 50/50 pretty much throughout. Even when one candidate had a lead, with margins of error, no they didn't. A ~50% probability of losing is huge, even if many polls did show her slightly ahead. Consider a 20-sided die. 9 sides are red, 11 are blue. You wouldn't be surprised if you rolled red.

News media has no idea how to talk about polls because they don't want to talk about probability, they want to talk about which number is bigger as if it's a scoreboard. I didn't want him to win, but the polls weren't wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why? The polls showed Trump winning and he won, if anything they got more accurate.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't think he's planning on worrying about polls ever again.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't he at least have concepts of a plan for that?

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago

Has he ever given a flying fuck. He's a complete moron.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

He said he was gonna.

"But, we didn't think . . . "

He SAID he was gonna.

"We really didn't expect "

HE F*CKING SAID HE WAS GONNA!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's almost like maybe we shouldn't have elected the guy.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Seriously…. If 74% think his economic plan is bad, and yet a majority said that ‘the economy’ was the biggest reason for who they chose…. How?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago

They just said "the economy" because they don't want to admit it's racism

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Let him do this tariff thing. Maybe people will finally learn how "good" he and his party is with money when the US economy is completely ruined.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Republicans have been tanking the economy my entire life. Their voters do not learn

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Looking at what Trump is planning, you have seen nothing yet.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I understand the appeal of "teaching them a lesson", purely for spiteful reasons. But there are problems with that approach:

  • You can teach a child never to put his hand on the burner by putting his hand on the burner. He'll learn alright, but he'll also have a nasty burn. Similarly, you don't want people to learn the dangers of populism and extreme right by letting the extreme-right populist do stupid shit and wreck their lives.

  • We who didn't vote for the dangerous populist live in the same country as those who did: even if we wanted to let the dangerous populist hurt them to teach them a lesson, he'll hurt us too in the process.

  • History always repeat itself: even if everybody learns a hard lesson after Trump is done wrecking the economy - or worse - our children, or our children's children will invariably elect another Trump some day. So we might as well do our best to limit the damage each time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

It is not spiteful. I'm looking at this from the outside (as far as anyone can be with a world-dominating economy like the US), and I've given up any hope that Americans as such would learn without really, really painful lessons that manage to pass even through the thick skulls of the MAGA-heads. I don't wish anyone to suffer, but at the moment I cannot see any way for this lesson to set in without it.

That innocent people are hurt is horrible. But as only a smaller number of citizens have voted for the smart alternative, those who didn't vote and those who voted for Trump together are the majority. It could have been prevented if enough people had gotten their asses out of their houses - but that did not happen. And the death wish for the US was strong - Hitler only had about 33% of the votes and had to resort to political tricks to get where Trump was carried to by a majority of the voters. Think about that.

And yes, history repeats itself. You were extremely lucky to skip a few cycles - in comparison to e.g. Europe - but the signs were there for a long time, and way to few people cared. Maybe we all get lucky and it "just" turns into a 1929+ depression, focused primarily on the US.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago

Oh no, in light of this maybe he won't be elected anymore

Oh wait

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

It won't. His Congressional majority is completely servile, and none of them care what the American people think. Their only focus is on looting and sabotage.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

He has absolutely no reason to care now

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

"Get out and vote! Just this time. You won't have to do it anymore! Four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine, you won't have to vote anymore." - Donald Trump, July 26th 2024

He meant it when he said that. He doesn't give a single shit what polling says about his plans. Americans already gave him what he wanted and thus no longer serve a purpose to him. He's going to get his tariffs no matter how much it fucks over the useful idiots that voted for this fascist dictatorship and there's nothing you can do about it. Because that's just what happens in a fascist dictatorship, so you're going to have to start getting used to it.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

Polls don't mean shit. The only polls Americans should've given more of a fuck about, were the election ones!

Too fucking late.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Crazy?! If only someone had said something!!!

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