Trump Tariffs May Upend Hollywood Production

At this point, I would prefer his tariffs to literally skull fuck every single industry so that it's crystal fucking clear that they are the cause of the impacts to his base.

I know they will literally lap up the shit fox news is slinging to them but it will not be able to be swept under the rug if the impact is big enough and opponents are loud enough.

I'm sure I could and probably will be wrong. There needs to be a clear as fuck message sent to all of the idiots that voted for him and all of the fuckwits that didn't vote for his opponent.

As long as he gets to watch the right-wing news networks, he doesn't care.

The knock on effects of tariffs are wild. You may have noticed a trend in the last few years of pillows and sleeping bags being half stuffed animal and marketed to kids. These products exist because the tariffs on bedding are lower than on toys.

looks at the past few years of live action remakes. shrugs

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Yeah but there are a lot of people tied to the production industry. Caterers, art dept, lighting/grip, production, camera, actors, writers, HMU, studios, G&E rental companies, prop rental companies, van rental companies, truck rental companies—and that’s just people involved directly in the production aspect. When you talk post production, distribution, every loosely connected type of company that survives on production…you’d be shocked how many people it takes to make even a 30 second commercial. Let alone movies, tv shows, documentaries, etc.
- Oh don't worry everybody's going to get fucked in short order.

Good news, Canada!

I've been mostly ignoring all this tariff talk. Is there reason to believe that this will be any different from his promise of building a wall?

Yes, tariffs are much easier for him to implement than building 1000+ miles of wall.
- Wow, did not expect downvotes for asking a question, so thanks for responding.
  I guess to clarify, I'm not worrying too much because if or when these tariffs get implemented and they prove to be ineffective and unpopular, he will immediately fold and backtrack. But I realize now, this will probably have it's own consequences.

Does it matter when most of the money is in YouTube anyway?

Bloomberg has valued YouTube, on its own/spun-off from Google, at around $400 billion, which is about half of the entire entertainment industry's market cap.

Vapid crap won over art. Trump himself is literally a symptom of the same problem. Oh well. Just add it to the pile of evidence that maybe humans are actually just terrible.

https://youtu.be/6TdeXsRvMjA?t=9
- This response actually made me laugh out loud. Because yes.

More proof that we need a labor or service tariff. We shouldn't allow US companies to employ cheap foreign labor without having to make up the difference in taxes. Every job in America should optimally either be filled by an American citizen, or just as expensive to the employer as hiring an American. In the rare case we don't have a citizen able to do it, invite the most skilled foreign citizen on a work visa to be treated and paid same as our citizens.

No, trump built a wall. It fixed the immigration issue. There are no immigrants in ~~ba sing se~~ America. Well, unless democrats are in power. Then it's a crisis
- I'm not talking about the immigration issue. I'm talking about what this article is addressing, which is a form of offshoring. Yes, they're talking about it in the entertainment industry, but it's the same problem across all industries. There's no difference to me between using an animation studio in Canada or a call center in India. We need to protect our labor - knowing that Americans are some of the most expensive employees in the world.