President Donald Trump on Wednesday acknowledged that his tariffs could result in fewer and costlier products in the United States, saying American kids might “have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,” but he insisted China will suffer more from his trade war.

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    What about the kids who were lucky to get 2 dolls prior to the trade war? Shit outta luck I guess.

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    We are already at a family video game for the kids to share and a really good dinner for the week.

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    Except the kids aren’t getting 2 dolls. They’re getting dragged out into the middle of the street half naked in the middle of the night because the brownshirts can’t even read an address correctly when they’re casually disappearing whole families.

    Why the fuck is this even reported on. Fuck this whole system, down to the author that thought ‘ya that’s worth making an article’

    Don’t buy your kids dolls. Buy them fpv drones.

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    Except a doll is $10 for the crappiest model, meaning were already only getting two dolls in the average budget. With that logic, we’ll have to save up for the doll parts and assemble a single doll ourselves.

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    2 dolls instead of 30 works out to a reduction of 93.3%! That’s HUGE. If that’s supposed to be his positive spin on things, Americans are truly fucked.

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      It really shows that he doesn’t care about Americans, he cares about punishing and attacking people that he doesn’t like. That is all that matters to him, and he doesn’t hide that.

      The fact that he has supporters is absolutely unfathomable to me. Then again, those same supporters want to punish the same people he does, so it starts to make sense.

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        He wants to punish Americans more than probably anyone else. Americans had the nerve to laugh at him when people joked about his hair, or makeup, or physique. Americans did not elect him in 2020. Americans allowed him to be forced out and didnt fight back hard enough when Biden “stole” the election. Americans allowed him to have some minor inconveniences when they put him on trial, raided his house for classified docs or made him take reaponsibility for his actions. Americans are going to pay because he knows nothing other than vengence for percieved slights and Americans allowed them all to happen

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      That’s the real statement. Instead of 30 dolls it will be 2, but that translates to food supplies, too. Instead of 30 dinners in a month, we’ll only have 2.

      In the year after Maduro took over Venezuela, the average citizen lost 40 pounds.

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    Cause American girls were getting 30 dolls every Christmas.

    This guy is such a psychopath that he doesn’t even understand how Christmas gifts work.

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        If a dollar is good, then lots of dollars is even better. To him, toys are like currency for kids, so when he wanted to buy a doll for Ivanka or Eric, he’d give them 30 of the same doll, rather than a bunch of different toys.

        Jr just wanted his daddy’s love, which doest exist, so he was shit out of luck.

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        113 American Girl dolls would be expensive as shit though - I think with all the accessories and accoutrements you’re looking at the price of a decent used car. The newer models are also shittier (less history focused, because Mattel lol)

        The books though - they went hard. There was an entire series about about an enslaved girl who escaped to the north with her mom (I wanna say Addie?). Felicity, the American Revolution girl, stole a horse and got told what the consequences could have been (like, iirc it’s like “yeah you could have totally been hanged for that stunt.”)

        I was too broke for the dolls, but if you have a kid - the books are A-tier children’s historical fiction.

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    I don’t understand the hard on the right has for China yet they benefit greatly from China’s low costs. As soon as the USSR fell and Islamic fundamentalism faded away I just knew the US would be looking for a new boogeyman to keep us distracted and justify defense spending.

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      The fact that they call it a defense budget and not a military budget kind of says it all too.

      I’m all for actually defending your country, of course, but yeah…