Tariffs always raise prices. Sometimes they do protect local industry, by raising prices so that local industries can compete against foreign competitors. At least for a time. Usually it leads to the eventual failure of the industry due to making less competitive products.
This is why companies should never set themselves up walled gardens of communication. The execs probably had no clue how hated their company was, because they just see the sales and stock values. Then the minute they actually step into the real world, they get smacked with the dildo of consequence.
They may be trying to move away from China, but they're going to be moving back fast with these tariffs in place. Everyone loses in a trade war, but China is very much going to be the winner. No matter what happens after today, the US has lost it's bargaining position and value as a trading partner and ally.
Putin has won his war against the US, it's just a matter of how we fall at this point.
Not that I'm disagreeing, but I also know where that ends. I should say, the range of endings. Aside from probably neither of us living long enough to see where it ends, the range of endings are almost universally bad for humanity in general, and the US in particular.
I'm not as worried about the violence against judges, which is a horrific development. I'm more worried about the violence that happens when people realize their political views can bring violence against them because of what's being done to judges.
That's going to be the end of peaceful protest, and the start of a LOT of political violence.
Honestly I hope Newsom takes this fight and loses, even though I applaud the effort. It's an unconstitutional overreach for a state to step into international trade and relations. But having the fight over it will both remind the rabid right why we have a federal government, and what they could lose if they keep going down this path.
As a coder, the majority of my job isn't writing code. It's translating the bullshit management says and the broken specs we're given into what they both actually want, not what they said. There is never going to be an AI that fixes that
I don't know, every time I drink that much I forget.