I’m not so sure folks are fully grasping why Donny is threatening the rest of the world with tariffs. Or what it means, really. American consumption and wendigo capitalism are what drive the global economy. Millionaires line up for the chance to catch a bit of that unhinged, never-sated, American public consumption of their products. It’s what generates vast wealth that allows middling entrepreneurs to pay for their grandchildren to never work a day in their lives. Americans are cattle and the whole world is either suffering from American consumption of natural resources or they’re fully relying on it to sustain their own existence. And without American consumption, a lot of globalized economic value craters instantly. So when Donny tells foreign corporations he is going to impose tariffs, he is threatening to cut them off from the faucet. To limit their ability to exploit American citizens. And that’s it. Foreign corporations are not scared of the tariffs because they know that domestic American corporations will just raise their own prices to match it anyway because greed is king. There won’t be some big gap in price between imported and domestic products. Logically, this sounds absurd. But if you think it won’t unfold like that, then you just don’t really grasp the USA or what actually happens in the markets over here. Covid was a perfect demonstration of how it will play out IF any tariffs ever land at all as Donny claims. All companies will see that consumers have no other choice and they will all raise the price on everything so it’s more or less in the ballpark with the competition. Sure, it might be a few dollars cheaper than the imported competitor, but both will be 30% more expensive than they were the year before.