I'm going to hell for laughing at this...

let me explain from personal experience. I bought an item from France, cost approx $700. On delivery, I had to pay the tariff of approx $482, so the item cost me &1180.00.

Not to change the subject, who else has seen the propaganda bullshit ad with Kristi Noem asking illegals to contact them at a "government" website?? They say they wanna help but my guess is they wanna know where you are so they can come get you. Trump's grabbing at straws since he's polling at 32%.

Exactly.

Does his brother wear orange makeup, have stupid yellow hair, play golf a lot and lives in a big white house?

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Amen! And ouch!

Oooof.

Pitiful.

The US education system is extremely flawed, and it only gets worse. Folks who refuse to enlighten themselves and learn will reproduce and perpetuate this dynamic

I hope you disowned him long ago.

Holy shit, there are some real idiots in this country.🙄

Good thing he didn't identify his brother-in-law by name. Trump might have given him a cabinet position.

I guess he will find out the hard way.

What’s even funnier is that he thinks that even if China paid the $30, our companies would pass along the savings!

Wouldn't China just increase the cost anyway to compensate?

China gets the same money for exports as before tariffs, US citizens pay that tariff either the US importer eats the tariff (doubtful) or he passes it on to US consumers.

I meant in Lilli's scenario where the exporter was paying the tariffs

Yes. If China was for some reason paying us to sell to us(???), a formerly $100 item that they pay $30 on would suddenly be sold to us at $130 (or maybe more to make up for lost sales!). The effect would be the exact same.

what, do you think they're trying to run a solvent business or something?

that's what we were told by the Idiot in the White House

It would have been nice if our media focused on explaining policies to voters last year as opposed to only doing horse race and Biden coverage

FAFO, I guess.

Innumeracy is just as bad as illiteracy.

I don't think this is true, someone this stupid couldn't calculate 30% of a $100

Ignorance is no longer bliss. It is now mandatory.

Spot on, George!

The ignorance is astounding.

They think tariffs will lower the price of imports, which is not true, but can't mentally extrapolate out that lower priced imports would harm US made products?

There's got to be way to make them understand simple contests. Maybe like this: if you had a lemonade stand and your mommy raised your cost of supplies to $1.30 from $1, would you then need to charge more or less for your lemonades? Maybe they would understand that?

Concepts

I don’t think they are capable. Too much pathological interference with basic reasoning

Maybe if you did it in 3 crayon colors , MAGAS *might* understand

Yes

No they would say mommy is going to eat the 30 cents extra.

If we could make them understand simple concepts we wouldn't have a felon for president and be trying to save democracy, but I appreciate your efforts.💙

It might just work but we’ll need a really big box of Crayons 🖍️

The 64?

We’re going to need a bigger box 🖍️

Not 125?

Oh heck. Let’s just buy the whole darn factory. 😂

When we're done with them, I know where we can stick them, too.

And China will pay for it! /snark

Omg, that’s hilarious.

that's a 42% tariff smdh

Pinche pendejo

So, the brother thinks that his chosen President is trying to encourage us to buy more Chinese goods by lowering the prices? Idiots got us here.

Focus on helping people DO what can be done to resist what olis happening while we still can read about it here. Your voice is powerful. Your leadership has never been as important as it us now. It won't be allowed publicly, let alone digitally, if Trumputin proceeds down this path. Please. Lead!

Being MAGA is an indictment of an individual's character, intelligence, or both.

If there was an intelligence test for voting not one republican would get elected.

Pure genius: $100+30=$70

F—-ing dummies ( excuse my French)

This is why the Orange Menace and his fellow Republicans love the uneducated and are trying to destroy our education system. You can come right out and explain something to them but they still won't understand even the simplest of concepts so they'll just believe what their preferred politicians say

What's really sad is that he has grabbed some of the very educated, too. My parents are educated people who used to encourage learning and critical thinking. They now justify everything Trump et al. do. If you're predisposed to cult thinking, you will wind up in a cult, no matter your education...

Sad, but true. I think it's easier for the uneducated and weak-minded to be drawn in, but I guess if a demagogue's rhetoric matches a person's beliefs/fears/prejudices/etc., then the propaganda and lies will take the place of provable facts, debunking of lies, and (not so common) decency.

Ignorance is rarely bliss!!

I'm pretty sure that's what Trump thought, too.

You misspelled Stupidity.

Probably heard that on Fox, OANN, Newsmax and or the Orange guy

Sorry you have a dunce for a brother!

The ignorance of the citizenry is what will destroy this country.

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Good God in Heaven, that gives us a clear view of what it means to live under a rock.

LOL!

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Can confirm

Trump is intentionally using tariffs because they are notoriously difficult to explain, consumers don’t always see them, and he can pass the blame to others. Also, it creates a slush fund so he can build a new ballroom and fund his secret police (ICE)

See this is exactly the problem. Just because *you* understand them doesn’t mean he isn’t relying in the ignorance of his base to get away with this. You can act self righteous if you want but it doesn’t change the fact that there is a massive group of Americans who are blissful in ignorance.

They aren’t difficult at all, unless you are a victim of the American education system.

Here ya go Spence: If Wal-Mart imports a bucket from China at $1.00 a piece and Trump slaps a 25% tariff on Chinese goods it now costs Wal-Mart $1.25 a piece for said bucket. Wal-Mart then passes ON that cost to YOU, THEIR CUSTOMER. You are now paying 25 cents MORE for that bucket.* PASS IT ON.

Tariffs are NOT difficult to explain! FOR FUCKS SAKE.

They only seem to be a difficult concept for the completely ignorant.

“The completely ignorant” = MAGA & Trump voters.

I’m sorry. Tariffs are hard to explain? They couldn’t be easier to explain if anyone would try. I’m thinking of you FOX

IT BOGGLES THE MIND. #IDIOCRACY

People find all kinds of basic economic ideas hard to understand. Like people who literally think they'll take home less money if they work overtime or get a raise (benefit cliffs excluded), inability to understand tax brackets, stock market basics like market cap and available shares, etc. Morons

the white house fact sheet is pure fiction...

I have trouble believing anyone is that stupid

I can give room for people ot understanding tariffs, ive worked around international shipping retail roles. What i can NOT accept, is, whole adults, who grew up in the tom tom maps era, library and write down directions era, not looking it up to check…lazy ass mfs

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Don't bother to ask what it costs if the dollar continues to fall and all imports cost more, tariff or not.

Rule of thumb: tariffs never make anything cheaper.

Start calling them sales taxes on imports, then maybe the idiots will understand

Seems to me that's exactly they are. Targeted federal sales tax

Half of America is this way. Walmart coffee used to be $4 Now it’s close to $8 For bad coffee Tariffs you stupid motherfuckers.

Also because of climate change really. Coffee prices are up everywhere atm. Either it's too dry or there is flooding, causing harvests to fail. You could grow them in green houses, but that would be wildly more expensive than growing them there and transporting them on cargo ships.

Well, that was an optimistic outlook.

Ignorance of many Americans; one of our greatest challenges. And the Republicans love it!

MASA strikes again! (Use your imagination for the S)

Shit... I'm very certain that people in my family think the same thing. People who love "pure" capitalism never have a clue how it works.

That brand of ignorance has big "The Perpetual Motion machine salesman was so convincing!" energy.

Consequences of an underfunded public education system have come home to roost.

This is why Republicans are defunding public schools. It’s easier to fool the poorly educated.

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It's those dumb ass people that make up the maga cult...

Ffs

Your B-I-L should NOT own a business if he is this dumb. Thoughts & Prayers…

Ok that one is particularly dumb

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I shouldn’t be but, damn. Really? Thought they fot a discount? FFS, we are doomed.

Too bad your brother believes what trump tells them

haha that's amazing. Like a preschooler explaining how they think the world works

I'm sorry but there NEEDS to be a test to be able to vote. Absolutely anybody can vote, you'll just have to some edgeamacating first.

Half the people have below average intelligence….

Oooooh. Numbers are scary!

#BeatingHeadAgainstWall

#StupidIsTheNewSmart

I truly can't understand how anyone can be as stupid as magas are.

bsky.app/profile/dizz...

That person is missing lots of things, I'll bet.

"We live and learn..." No. You absolutely never learn.

Most people are not good with math; therefore, they are easily conned. You could spend hours trying to explain it to them, and they still wouldn't get it.

#MAGA for you! This is what happens when they listen to ONLY @FOXNEWS anchors and former FOXNEWS cabinets now working the Insane Asylum!

I would call it stupidity

Wendy's briefly offered a 1/3 lb burger that was cheaper than McDonalds 1/4 pounder but then soon lost the competition because too many customers thought that 1/4 was bigger than 1/3. Likewise, voters will keep voting against their interests, no matter what! A passing IQ test may be needed to vote.

But, but, that's simple math. Jfc

Welcome to my world, on the daily.

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Realizing that none of these people are "thinking" in a tradtional sense, I still wonder why they think China, or any other country, would agree to such an arrangement.

Are people no longer taught the old saying "if it seems too good to be true, it almost certainly is" ?

The Emperor’s New Clothes

#StupidAtWork

Yes

People are really this smart 😆. Old George Carlin joke ." Think of how smart the average person is and then consider half the population isnt even that smart .

That would be median not average, but point taken.

the BIL is the missing link missing his mind and no doubt Magat

Trump pretty much thinks that, too. More ignorance…

The Dayglo Wankspangle may be an ignorant, sex offending, fraudster, felon, tasteless, golf cheat. But he tells lies too.

I don't believe he believes that. He doesn't say things because he believes them, but because he wants to make you act in a certain way. Language to him is not communication, but manipulation.

Straight from his "brilliant" economist, Peter Navarro. 🤣

Official Navarro portrait:

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It doesn't matter if it's not true. Trump said it, the media will amplify it, the masses will believe it.

MAGA USA shares a lot of traits with the late USSR...

👏👏👏

I gather that at least Mike Pence is not applauding at this point in time. It seems to show that, although he is a RAT, he still has shreds of moral values clinging to him.

The m is silent

A word you will understand that will explain trumpies. Thinking. BOLLOX. The Exporting Countries Don't EVER PAY Tariffs imposed by Potus trumpie. IDIOTS. 🇮🇪🇪🇺

The americans are not known for having a robust educational system.

Many trump voters are ‘stupid,’ meaning: they are not capable of learning.

That's what happens when you systematically destroy public education for 40 years straight.

I always thought a nuclear missile would end this country, but it turned out to be just an overwhelming number of stupid and gullible people living on a steady diet of FOX News and “My 1000 Pound Fiancee” episodes.

This is exactly why Republicans are so hellbent on shutting down anything related to education. Keep your base stupid, they will believe anything you say, and continue to vote Republican. And they say Democrats are the "sheep"...

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Perfect demonstration of how our Dept of Education has failed all of us.

Meanwhile, 🌮 thinks that the 30% tariff is going into our US Treasury, and that he's saving us 1500% on pharmaceuticals. My head is spinning.

He is stupid.

Mathing is hard 🙄

I guess he’s a MAGA moron.

public education has been severely decimated in the past few decades in the name of "cost-cutting" measures which are actually throat cutting measures to future generations

That is ignorant. The item will cost him about $130-135

🤯, but not surprised. Add to that most Americans have no clue as to how our government operates and benefits the American people.

😂🤣😂🤦‍♀️🐈‍⬛

Dumb ass Americans...the worst!

And obnoxiously, most of Trump's supporters STILL believe this, even if the facts prove otherwise. They'd rather believe a fraudulent con man even if the facts prove that he's a fraud as long as they can pretend they're 'sticking it to the libs'. That's all that matters. Just sheer hate.

Yup. And even trying to think brands you a snowflake or a communist.

these are the dummies that voted for Trump

I guess when you no longer place any priority on teaching people about anything but job skills, they're still going to come up with their own personal "beliefs" about concepts they used to be taught in social science courses. Most likely he knows to blame Biden if prices go up, and that's about it.

American education at its finest

Idiocracy in full

And ignorance is how our country will fail cuz it's full of it. And it's run by pieces of shit

Wow! That one is a real brainiac 🤣🤣🤣

This is the exact reason Trunt relentlessly attacks education.

Is he interested in politics? He fits right into the Trump administration.

You know what's so sad? Even though this is happening right now, literally in front of everyone, in a decade people won't even remember this and the ignorance will continue. Historical amnesia is such a weakness and humans are sick from this temporal disease. Across all of our history.

Yep. And our grandchildren will pay the price…

This perfectly sums up the level of intelligence of Trump voters

Terrifying

Republicans are all in for higher taxes on average Americans as long as they can relabel them as “Tariffs” and lie to their constituents about what they are and who pays for them. Meanwhile everything costs more and the RAPETHUGLIECONS blame the higher costs on Biden.

The stupid...are sooo stupid. 😬😮‍💨

Ha! This is a perfect example of the Republican thinking. If they dumb down the American people enough they can say anything and their voters will accept it. Making America Gullible Again.

If I were to 🤦🏻‍♂️ for each such sign of utter stupidity I would suffer from serious concussions.

Prices are just starting to rise, thanks to Trumps Tariffs. U.S. citizens should expect their cost of living to go up at least 25% this year, at minimum and MUCH more next year. Trump voters are in for a rude awakening.

I'm really sorry for the sister.

Yup. ‘Merica.

To which your brother-in-law should have asked: SO WHY IS HE ONLY SETTING THE TARIFF AT 30% WHY NOT 100% OR EVEN MORE

Sounds like a republican. Innumeracy is a core MAGA value

It's probably what Trump thinks, too. (Using "thinks" in its loosest possible meaning.)

🤣

His mentions of tariffs always imply that the OTHER nation pays the tariff.

🤣🤣🤣

Whatever he himself thinks, it’s certainly what he wants his supporters to think.

That implies they do think. I'd question that...

Perhaps "believe" would have been better.

I'm no neurologist, but i think, to believe one has to think as well. At least in the most rudimentary manner, like breathing... and stuff.

Implicitly assume? We need a new word.

Intrinsic partial thinking syndrome? [IPTS]

This part. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART. Someone this morning said his greatest talent is getting his followers to see things that are not there, and getting them to close their eyes to things that are.

He certainly didn’t make any effort to correct this assumption.

😂👊

Aside from needing to teach remedial civics in school, it seems that remedial math would be useful too. It could even reduce the cost of things by 1,000 or 1500%, at least according to POTUS.

MAGA are STUPID. Everyone knows this!

Is his BIL Trump?

Yep!!! Your brother-in-law, DEFINITELY a maga moron...FOR SURE!!.. A t-Rump voter..!!

There are times when we need to laugh at these people instead of just calling them dumb or ignorant. They'll actually learn something if we laugh at them.

That's how Trump WANTS you to think.

He thought exactly what Trump wanted him to think. We’re so divided & ppl aren’t talking as much with the other side, imagine how many more ppl think the same without being told the truth.

And they think you’re lying if you try to tell them the truth.

Exactly, Sue. It’s crazy-making.

Omg

Tariffs are a good word. Call them import tax, an additional sales tax to the federal government. What we see here is that we have the most ignorant press Corps we could possibly come up with. Those ignorant bastards are telling the world a false story of America today that's all they know.

Remember when nobody bought the McD third-pounder because it was more expensive than the quarter-pounder?

Ever since the last Cosplay President - Ronnie Raygun!

I can't fathom such stupidity seriously it's headache inducing.

Americans and their math . . . Lord!

Hey, i'm good at math. I even learned metrics in the military.....

The lack of education is the problem... people with poor education consistently voting to maintain the lowest standards possible is frightening 😭

You obviously have one severe education deficit overseas 🧐

Yes, but thats not the problem. Most adults, no matter how educated, can't immediately recall what they learned in school about tariffs when they were 12. The problem is the voters who automatically believe anything that supports their worldview and couldnt be bothered to Google "how tariffs work"

Some probably even know how tariffs work and just ignore it. A fascist cult of fanatics.

And no one said this is how it works. People just make things up on their heads and attribute it to politicians

Keep them stupid & they’ll vote for imbeciles

Is this still ignorance (rather than fucking stupidity) when the actual answer/explanation is a simple google search away?

1500%

Definitely a maga voter. Probably homeschooled, too.

Dumbest Buisness man ever! Talk about a fraud, imposter, dumbfk

Its funny till i remember these ppl vote

Trump loves the uneducated for a reason The lack or critical thinking skills in America is profound Conspiracy theories only work on gullible and ignorant societies Combined that with intense racism and fear and you have the prime environment for this disaster that has taken place

wow such stupidity

Their ignorance works for rapist trump

I blame the proliferation of standardized testing.

It’s not surprising that people are confused. This stuff is actually pretty confusing, and that’s exactly what they want. When the truth is obfuscated and difficult to understand, lies are more easily accepted and taken as true.

Tariffs aren't confusing at all. Tariffs are a sales tax. Who pays sales taxes?

And they spread this misinformation like a virus until someone explains it to them, and even then, cognitive dissonance kicks in and they refused to believe the truth.

Bullseye 🎯

We have probably found the limit of human intelligence, but I don’t think we have completely plumbed the depths of human stupidity.

Terrible education is how you got there. Holy shit.

Exactly

It's not simple ignorance. It's a complete disconnect from reality. And a hubris, anger, and buying into the narrative that makes the bubble impenetrable.

This is why it's a waste of time trying to warn them or correct them. They will understand it when it hits the square in the face, and not a minute sooner.

I absolutely stopped trying to tell my parents anything when my mother confidently told me, "The economy is actually doing really well, and stocks fluctuate all the time. It's normal for it to look bad during a change. But he's fixing things." The MAGA cult is an exhausting bunch.

🤣🤣🤣

Very Special student...I'm thinking, shush!

It's not ignorance. They're just thick.

I don't think the former was ever an option.

Let’s all thank Fox News for helping with this intelligence decline due to their “douche-grooming” over the past 25 years. (Edited 12:00 PM via @skeetsapp.com)

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And now he‘s making money from taking 1500% price-reduced drugs. Smart One! ☝️

Someone should make sure they sit down with that guy and explain the consequences of the post attached rather than let him just read it Reminds me of the old Russian aphorism "If only Stalin knew I was in the Gulag" bsky.app/profile/larr...

Guys a fucking idiot Should have paid attention in middle school math class

Wow. The US need to invest some money in their public schools. But instead the department of education is removed.

The thing is, we don't need to spend more money on eduction. The US already spends more per capita than most OECD countries (38% higher than the OECD average and fifth overall for elementary and secondary education, after Luxembourg, Norway, Austria, and South Korea; figures from 2019). And we...

...don't necessarily have to manage education at the federal level. Canada does not have a Federal education department. The EU leaves primary/secondary education to the national level, although a lot of this is due to having so many different national languages. Now it's possible to argue...

...that our method of having so much education control be so localized, and yet at the same time with cities, counties, and states having some control too, is a big part of the problem. And I'd agree with that. But it goes deeper: far too many Americans no longer see education as a good in...

...and of itself, or as preparation for being part of our society, but simply as preparation for employment or, worse yet, an extension of the "culture wars", a way to impress their beliefs on other people's children or to use the power of the state to reinforce what they teach children at home.

Until we address this, changes to what level(s) of government make the decisions is not going to address our problems or improve our education system. And while more money would address a lot of problems in lower-income areas, it's not the cure for everything, and more federal money can just...

...(or "could just", to be fair) create opportunties for states and localities to cut spending. (Remember how lotteries were supposed to shower our schools with money?)

Is the spending including all the private schools? When you have entities that are there to make money and not JUST to make the pupils smarter and ready for the real life, things get more expensive. And don't compare EU and the US. EU is not a country.

The figures are public and private, but are for primary and secondary education (colleges/universities/trade schools exclulded). For grade schools/high schools in the US, private school spending can be disregarded since there are relatively few for-profit schools and they are more than offset...

...by private non-profit schools. Admittedly, some of these are very expensive, but those are in turn offset by relatively inexpensive religious (mainly Catholic) schools that spend less or roughly the same per capita than public schools do. And excluding private schools would likely further...

See how it works? They are planning for more MAGA voters.

You absolute legend, what is the name of this gif???

Colin mochrie face palm

The failure of American education is appalling…. And Republicans want to make Americans even dumber

The GOP has been attacking education for decades strategically dumbing down generations of potential voters. The richest, freest, best country in the world should have the best educated citizens who don’t have to pay for their education. Unless American exceptionalism is just a load of bullshit

Every high school history or civics teacher just died a little inside.

In the past we advanced in spite of ignorance, I fear the internet has multiplied it's effect to the point of stopping us in our tracks

Oh dear

Yup, that dimwit is 💯a Trump voter. 🙄

To be fair. I think that’s how Trump understands it to work, too.

A people full of Ignorance+arrogance is the gold mine Trump needed.

The Republicans sold education down the river 50 years ago. They would rather everyone be stupid than have black people be smart.

Sounds like a fool experiencing buyers remorse with no return policy or satisfaction guarantee.

Certain political forces have cultivated ignorance, through the enclosure of education, academic inquiry, and actual true facts. And the strongest opposition to these forces have largely acquiesced where they haven't just outright agreed.

New Math???😳🤪🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And that's what drumpf expects people to think, and trying to explain to them how tariffs actually work, they shout abuse at you for educating them, the US has actively bred stupid people...

Never mind looking into facts.

Bone headed stupidity

"Not only dumber than we imagine, but dumber than we *can* imagine."

A lot of morons across the Atlantic.

Well, the UK voted for Brexit, and Johnson for PM. I'd say we have our share.

Don't laugh. Trump's liable to think the same thing. After all, he thinks pharmaceutical companies are going to give us a 1,400% discount on drugs.

Wow

Not even Trump is claiming that this is how tariffs work... I hope it doesn't represent the majority of the population - sheesh 😬

Explains a lot…

You gotta thank that quality education system we have here.

Humpty Trumpty likes em dumb.