'Build your own manufacturing': Trump-voting business owner stung by tariffs savaged after asking for ways to keep company afloat
'Build your own manufacturing': Trump-voting business owner stung by tariffs savaged after asking for ways to keep company afloat
“Damn that’s wild because I voted for you to have zero tariffs and a $50K tax break as a small business owner under Kamala,” reads the top comment under the video.
One of the best comments because it's true and he can't dismiss it as people being mean or reveling in his pain, just stating reality.
Oh fuck that guy. He knew good and goddamn well those tariffs would hurt people. He just didn't care because he thought they would not affect him. Cry that your cruelty backfired all you want, but I also love this for you. I hope he gets even more of what he voted for.
Yes. Prospect for land. Work with local regulators on zoning and permits. spend millions.
Hire architects, contractors. Go through several phases of designs and decisions. Spend millions.
Research manufacturing equipment. Price sellers and eventually buy manufacturing equipment. Spend millions.
Hire and train staff, costing millions.
Power on manufacturing plant (costs millions).
Pay employees (costing WAY more than it did overseas)...
And then like, yeah, smooth sailing baby...?
And then the tariffs go away and boom! Rug pull!
Bankruptcy and golden parachute. Repeat.
How about you do all that and then sell me your product, and then I turn around and sell it to the customer and make 5X the money you make?
However, I thought that the infrastructure would be set up prior for small business to come back to America and manufacture in America. So to wish ill on someone and to love the fact that they’re suffering, to love the fact that their family is being negatively affected, because I didn’t vote the same way that you did is [expletive] up
This guy is a double idiot. That he would think the manufacturing would be around before the tariffs went into place. it's just silly thinking.
But also that he believes "go woke, go broke" isn't the exact same thing he's facing, is a whole other level of ignorance.
There's no way this person isn't just rage bait. No one could truly be this fucking regraded. I refuse to believe there are people this genuinely ignorant who aren't just out there for rage bait.
Lmao you haven't been to Trump Country if you think someone can't be stupid enough to be like this unironically. I live in a district that went like 80% for Trump and most people are like this here lmao.
The "business" is just up charging and drop shipping stuff other people have made, it's just scams on scams all the way down.
My conservative parents literally believe that the tariffs are making it faster and easier to build US manufacturing because of the "money it's raising"...
I bet they hate income tax though
Maybe, but cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing. Certainly could be rage bait but I wouldn't be so quick to assume he didn't legitimately believe tariffs would benefit him.
I keep saying this, but there was at least one Jew... In a concentration camp... That thought Hitler was a misunderstood hero of the Jews.
He was nicknamed Berliner and beat other Jews into submission at Sobibor Concentration Camp. Eventually he was lynched by the other prisoners
Human perspective is far too malleable.
regraded
Can we fucking not? Everyone knows you mean an abelist slur. It's not less hateful because you changed a few letters. Also, it makes you sound like one of those weirdos that uses terms like "seggs" or "grape."
Trump thinks factories are magic. They aren't things you can just conjure out of the ether by sacrificing a pile of cash - it takes hard work, thinking, and negotiation.
Things that Trump is incapable of.
Also, if you're capable of investing in manufacturing, you're no longer a small business.
Trump has OCD, around tariffs and germs.
Conservatives are always so close to understanding a concept and then never get there.
Is putting small companies out of business better for the country? No. Is putting this guy out of business better for the country? Maybe. 🤷🏻
Dude, but he imports rims! Truly a very important business!
Rim importers are very important to our economy. Without them there are no jobs importing rims. These rim jobs are something not everyone is willing to do. We should praise those who are willing to perform these rim jobs.
I’ve had a handful of conversations with trumpians who think this is all 4d geopolitical macroeconomic chess. And every single one of them are essentially convinced that some weird, bastardized, reductive model of global economics that exists in the collective headspace of the maga-sphere is The Way It Works. And it simply doesnt work that way. They’re convinced everyone else in the world HAS to do business with us, when that couldn’t be further from the truth. NATO allies have reconsidered buying our military hardware, for fucks sake. Sure, it’ll be painful for them for a bit, but a lot of our former allies now (correctly) view us as a clear and present danger. This is outside the bounds of the post-cold war context that we’ve existed in for several decades. This is a new era. This is the end of Pax Americana. And they don’t seem to be able to admit that it’s happening.
They can't admit it because it's an echo chamber. Trump tells them what they want to hear. They feel smarter for being validated by the president so they ignore the nagging voice that things aren't going to plan because the only possible explanation is NOT that they were wrong and don't understand these complex issues, but that even though they can't see the full picture, they were right. Then all the other people in the same position agree that 4D chess is being played and they all voted a smart vote and the endorphins flood their brain again
They’re convinced everyone else in the world HAS to do business with us
That seems to be a widespread opinion amongst a lot of the international elite. Germany thought Putin was never going to risk war because it would kill his European fossil fuel revenue and destroy his economy.
Then Putin himself did the same thing, thinking he could starve Europe in a fossil fuel winter.
They’ll never admit it, because there’s a chance some liberal will say those 4 dreaded words: “I told you so.”
This is exactly what they think.
For example, american car factories only make 70% of their capacity. European car factories currently export 50-60% of their product to the USA.
So if there is any idea with the tarriffs (debatable), it's that the USA will have to grow domestic production (easy) while the rest of the world needs to shrink production (hard).
In other words, there are no other consumers rich enough to buy all this stuff.
Come on, have some covfefe and don't be a Panican
The audacity of calling other people names: this bozo voted for a platform of hatred and this is what it gets you.
"I voted against your health and well-being because I thought I'd make more money, why are you so mad at me?"
The party of FUCK YOUR FEELINGS is having some feelings.
Something something bootstraps...
“hang yourself by your bootstraps”.
The business owner posted a follow-up video Friday, replying to a comment that said “I love this for you,” criticizing the mocking response he was met with.
“Yeah, I voted for Trump, absolutely. Did I know he was going to increase the tariffs? Yes, I did,” he said. “However, I thought that the infrastructure would be set up prior for small business to come back to America and manufacture in America. So to wish ill on someone and to love the fact that they’re suffering, to love the fact that their family is being negatively affected, because I didn’t vote the same way that you did is [expletive] up.”
He went on to explain that he doesn’t judge people based on their politics and has friends across the political spectrum.
“I’m sorry, a lot of you are [expletive] up … I hope you guys can be better people,” he concluded.
But the comment section again wasn’t in the mood for sympathy.
“I didn’t think the leopard would eat MY face,” wrote one person.
“I’m starting to think this is rage bait because there is no way,” concluded someone else.
Additionally, he ends his tik tok by saying, “[if he can’t get any help] it’s back to digging ditches again. Which I’m not scared to do, but it’s a little harder with a wife, two kids, and 45 years old.”
lolol 💃🪩🕺
I just know that at some point he ranted “Nobody wants to work anymore!”
It's honestly so wild that these types thought Trump had some cohesive master plan that would all gel together nicely.
Like he told you the whole time that tariffs was basically his whole plan on the economy, and you thought there might be something more to it? From the guy who can barely complete a sentence? Be for real.
all conservatives are cry bullies.
Where's that "have the day you voted for" meme? It's the only worthwhile response to these folks nowadays.
Four years of Schadenfreude awaits!
If the entire western world wasn't being dragged down then I'd find it funnier.
It's a lesson don't become so dependent on one nation.
Small American businesses are adopting Leopards, no faces are expected to be eaten
Best thing he can do for the world is fuck off and die.
On one hand you're probably right. On the other hand, lack of empathy is how we get here to start with.
They could've simply asked him to spawn domestic production chains with an executive order, duh! Read Art Of The Deal, dumb dumbs.
Suckers!
Hope your business has the success you voted for!!”
Lmao
This wuss. “Wehhh peeplr laffin at me!”
"face eating leapoards can eat... my face?!"
When the fuck did Trump promise that, bozo? Small business support was the Biden/Harris campaign platform.
Hear me out: We pool our money together to pay for the infrastructure. It will be a percentage of your income for it. Those who make more money pay a higher percentage because they benefit from that infrastructure more. Then we have organizations to make sure the money is fairly collected and responsibly spent and make sure they can do their work unhindered.
Oh wait, that's like the opposite of what Trump has been doing.
"You sound like a commie!"
What gets me is what infrastructure did he think would be setup? Did he expect magical wheel factories to appear for him to start distributing from? It's not like he's designing or something guy is just drop shipping cheap alloy wheels.
Thing is, he didn’t think. He felt. He was a moron emotional fuckwit. Like all republicans.
This is a neighbour to the "Shirley Exception". Let's call it the "Shirley Prerequisite."
People will hear an idea they broadly like, and rather than actually examine how its going to be implemented, they'll simply assume that it will be the way that they would implement it, because to them that's obviously the only logical way to do it. Sometimes their way is the logical way, sometimes it isn't, but the point is that they can't get out of their head enough to consider any other possibility.
In this case, the possibility left unconsidered is that Trump is a fucking moron.
Yeah, but that platform would have also helped brown people.
He's lying. He did not think that, he's only saying that retroactively because that's something that he's just recently learned about tariffs.
Dude is retconning his own memory in an attempt to avoid the cognitive dissonance.
That's exactly what's happening.
He considered the tariff proposal with vibe-based reasoning.
Bringing manufacturing back to America sounds like something that might be good. Someone says tariffs will do that. That's the extent of the thinking.
Fox got him so confused he,