regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once: — virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — against increasing the minimum wage — buys foreign imports because they're cheap
Can cognitive dissonance also have cognitive dissonance? All republican sign points to yes
I think you are giving the average conservative too much credit by believing they can hold 3 thoughts in their head. Conservatism as an ideology is people who literally want to be told how to live.
Those gloves won’t make it through one shift.
Aren't they also against taxes? Tariffs is just a cute name for taxes
Every manufacturing plant or repair shop, no matter the size, has imported machinery. Nearly every piece of equipment or machine has imported parts. Trump's tariff policy is completely void of any business sense.
a+ Got ‘em Lololol 😂 they are so disordered.
A diorama of ignorance in four parts. Incredible finds and the damnedest part is that you didn't cherry pick. Their actions, business plans and balance sheets do not align.
this guy also doesn't understand the most basic thing about minimum wage. it's supposed to be the minimum you need to live off of. so it's meant to be able to cover rent/mortgage, a car, food, utilities, and other necessities.
Letting the untermenschen make a living?
He's so confidently wrong; the whole concept of a "minimum wage" is that it's the *minimum* income necessary to live on. It's been decades since that was the case.
also, I'm not a fashion person, but it's been my experience with all sorts of products that the more they cost, the longer they last (though obviously there's a point of diminishing returns). A $200 pair of shoes lasts far longer than a $50 pair. Being cheap often costs you in the long run.
Quality runs counter to Consumerism. If you make something well enough, you only need to buy one of something. When everyone has one, the game ends. Currently we are emptying the tank to make junk we know won’t last
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trump take gape gloves
The conservative mindset: "If it's good for me, it doesn't matter if it's bad for you."
...and wants to deport all the people who are willing to do the work.
The minimum wage job arguments here in thr US by republicans piss me off. I'm lucky to have a well paying job, but it shouldn't take going to a university for 4+ yrs and going into debt to have an income that can pay the bills and overall support yourself decently.
Min wage should be set at the min amt of $ it takes to be able to live decently comfortable, and that means w/o worrying if you'll be able to pay the bills or buy that gallon of milk, and not being able to afford to enjoy life.
Tired of the BS argument that min wage jobs are for teens and, in this case, not meant to be a career, to excuse not paying ppl enough to be financially secure.
I think my favorite part of this person demonstrating their stupidity is that those are actually $6 gloves.
He's proving why that .99 trick works. True room temperature iq people
Possibility to consider: -They rapidly cycle through all three of these, while not introspecting or conceding any of these views -Meanwhile, blame Democrats the entire time -Time continues to pass while first two points repeat -The country drives itself into the ground -Heat death of the universe
Trust me bro you gotta buy the cancer gloves. The other brand is a scam
Also, that guy has never done the kind of skilled-trades work that calls for a decent (though not overpriced) pair of gloves.
Let's bring manufacturing back to the U.S by putting tariffs on raw materials we need to import. Sure, that makes tons of sense...
Also, let's impose massive tariffs chaotically and without warning, long before any company could realistically open new factories in the US and set up the necessary supply chains for it all to work.
Well, it's a known fact that any business which needs lots of runway to build facilities, tool up, source materials, hire, then train can very easily weather any amount of "on again/off again" uncertainty with respect to tariffs. They never need to know how much something will cost, or sell for.
I think the ever changing nature of things makes it worse. I source parts for a job and just trying to follow changes is insane. Not to mention there's a cash flow crunch because you have to pay tariffs up front, long before you actually sell anything. www.digikey.com/en/resources...
Oh for sure. I was being as sarcastic as I could be. I honestly don't know how any manufacturing company could come up with a viable financial plan for the year, give meaningful investor guidance, secure loans, etc. It's madness.
And they're always happy to pay those costs themselves rather than passing them along to the customer!
Oh, big time! Every company has buckets of money lying around to magically dispense. Margins are thick all over, after all, and competition is non-existent.
But it's SUPER for insider trading!
the average trump supporter thinks china will pay the tariffs
They actually do know who pays. They're just massively in denial
there's a very simple reason why conservative influencers source their blanks from abroad: pursuance of self-interest and profit maximization are considered virtues in their worldview. supporting US manufacturing would be like supporting welfare.
They would rather get cheap crap from overseas than ever, ever support a union worker in the U.S.
The best part is the old wisdom of "its cheaper but its far worse" from overseas is ringing less and less true. Cheaper overseas production is now of a much higher quality as the quality raw materials are all primarily procured there, supply chain is more efficient, and cost savings is in labour.
Some things are still crappy, but I have those Gorilla Gloves and I absolutely adore them. They protect my hands without killing sensation, and they're durable. Cheap Chinese paint brushes are also surprisingly decent for beginners, and you don't lose much if your cat steals them.
Yep - they've now had 40 years as a major/primary manufacturing power. They've gotten really good at it (no matter your opinions on the morality of their methods to achieve it, it's a fact).
Ok i had to google "source their blanks" sigh...feeling slow
Same 🤠
Help me out…
Who makes/sells the merch they put their logos on and resell
"Trump fans are much angrier about housing assistance when they see an image of a black man In contrast, Clinton supporters unmoved by racial cues "Republican states have higher murder rates "Liberal policies, like California’s, keep blue-state residents living longer Even lower overall tax rates
I read "sourcing their blanks" as "hiring more conservative influencers" and it made much more sense that way.
Hold up, this is not just the average *conservative* who does this: “tariffs are doomed because the avg conservative holds all 3 of these positions at once: — virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing. — buys foreign imports because they're cheap. — against increasing [US] minimum wage.”
yeah but they're the ones the tariffs are a dog and pony show for
This is true.
If you can't screw the poor what even is the point of being American?
"They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, healthcare and the power to fight back against big banks & big corps." Billionaires and Fox News "Murdoch’s role in destabilizing democracy in North America, Europe" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A well stated reason.
They also source their women from abroad much like they prefer their overseas labor - American women have dignity and American workers are not slaves
I believe it's called "Fuck you, I got mine."
This is it, nailed it as usual
Perhaps also add: against subsidized healthcare, meaning American companies are at a disadvantage relative to foreign manufacturers, since they have to bear the additional costs of providing healthcare.
The obvious solution is no healthcare for the peasant class, and if we die off it was God's will.
This assumes the modern average Conservative has a sense of shame/awareness. They don't.
I’m glad someone finally figured this out.
If a company pays you to hold a door open for 40 hours a week, you deserve a wage appropriate to live comfortably in your area. The first thing a company is paying you for is your time. Skill and everything else is second.
To be fair, "skill and everything else is second" is pretty.much the motto of this administration.
Great joke, but skill is literally not on their list.
It's very simple actually, they want something akin to slavery back. A domestic workforce who have no labour rights, paid in peanuts (if they're paid at all), who can produce mass cheap products. Of course in this scenario, they WON'T be the ones forced to work in factories.
Who buys the crap though?
Economics isn't their strong suit
I think you’re 100% correct…the long game is weirdly totally their jam AND not at all. Dog who caught the car. Europe isn’t going to buy all the stuff made by slaves. America can’t. Like where is your market?!?!? Ford was complicated however, pay them enough to buy your product was spot-on
The ultimate MAGA thrill is owning another human being☠️
That finally explains their obsession with owning the libs. That’s canon now.
You've described slavery, feudalism, sharecropping, company towns, paying in scripts, etc.
“Buy American!” I scream from my imported $50k SUV
While it is indeed a funny result, there's a small detail here that could have affected the poll: the wording difference between "working in manufacturing" (abstract, like a motivation poster) and "working in a factory" (hard work in a loud, dangerous place).
It makes sense when you realize how many Americans exist 24/7 thinking only of the harm they wish on others
As someone who has worked in a factory, I get it.
I also immediately thought of this article
America would be better off if everyone had to at some point in their adult work in at least (1) a public-facing job and (2) a job that involves sustained physical activity and attention (product assembly, harvesting, warehouse picking, etc). No exceptions for supposed soft healthy-bodied people.
If those jobs were capable of supporting even a solo person, living independently, there would be a surplus of applicants. But the continued push for profits has meant wages must always decrease as a ratio of turnover.
Desperate people are more than willing to destroy their body for financial security, and they can’t even promise that.
It doesn't even have to be for very long. I worked one day in a mailing factory and two days in retail, and my perspective on folks with those kind of jobs radically changed. I was about 22 at the time, temping while between jobs.
I believe that the shifting to hiring foreign non-English speaking labor was intended to damage labor solidarity, discredit abuse accusations, and overall devalue labor. Everyone needs to know how the labor sector works so they can't pretend that foreigners are a problem and that labor is easy.
Spot on!
They are just too dumb to realize.
I may be naive, but maaaaybe SCOTUS will strike down the tariffs? It would be a win-win-win: they get to show that they don’t just rubber-stamp everything he does, Trump gets out of this inflation pickle he’s gotten himself into, and we get to buy things from other countries again.
And who could trust all of this? A week later, he does something similar. It takes weeks and months again for this to be lifted. In that time, he's already done a lot of stupid things... no one trusts the man, and therefore no one trusts the USA either.
The ultimate hypocrits and victimhoods
what you're missing is how many of them want to bring back slavery, which reconciles all three desires
tbh i would wager every american not on uspol-bsky believes this
And in some cases hawking imports from the very countries whose trade policies they love to whine about
If you're going to start a thread about conservative cognitive dissonance, we're going to be here for a good, long while.
Always love to see "minimum wage was never intended to be a career" when it's so, SO easy to disprove
Now do "state's rights", "liberty", "pro-constitution", "fiscal conservative", "free speech", "small government", "lower taxes", etc.
I see you've met my mother.
The Trump Tax is a war on Christmas.
These views are not inconsistent once you realize that conservatives ultimately want chattel slavery for domestic manufacturing
I noticed that too.
These aren’t thoughts, they’re rage bait. It’s just taking points that ChatGPT spit out now
How are you real (complimentary)
Such kkkonfusion.
Well, they won't be that cheap much longer.
