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alwaysinasnit
(5,549 posts)
jls4561
(2,841 posts)Last edited Sat May 17, 2025, 05:56 PM - Edit history (1)
marybourg
(13,589 posts)shareholders.
newdeal2
(4,794 posts)They’re bad for business.
TexasBushwhacker
(21,094 posts)He doesn't give a shit about the 99.9%.
bif
(26,673 posts)
Walleye
(43,834 posts)
hlthe2b
(112,827 posts)(or at least lose major money as a result of his damned idiocy?)
Aristus
(71,658 posts)He’s just never had to order it to happen. 
BootinUp
(50,959 posts)Last edited Sat May 17, 2025, 03:58 PM - Edit history (1)
DemocratSinceBirth
(101,644 posts)
Cha
(316,823 posts)Mump is lying to his cult and they’ll believe him over their Lying eyes 👀.
BootinUp
(50,959 posts)Cha
(316,823 posts)Amazon Take Off the Tariff Increase Prices Column On his Website
MadameButterfly
(3,746 posts)I wonder how Bezos is liking his deal with the devil
Cha
(316,823 posts)going to like the whole Tariff Scam right away.. and now it's materializing. 
Like someone said today.. they couldn't wait for the Maga Bucks in the Cult to get pissed off. Paraphrasing.
ProfessorGAC
(75,855 posts)The moment profits drop & analysts start asking question on a 10Q call, Amazon will do what's in their best interest.
Bozos just mollified the man-baby but has no intention of holding to that "deal".
Cha
(316,823 posts)Couldn't happen to a more Deserving bunch a Treasonous Fascists
Bluetus
(2,305 posts)Last edited Sun May 18, 2025, 09:34 AM - Edit history (1)
Amazon explained they have a separate site for wholesale transactions, and that is the site that displayed tariff information briefly.
I don't believe the main retail site ever showed the tariffs. It should.
Cha
(316,823 posts)
B.See
(7,800 posts)eat up the lies and ask for more.
The price of eggs was put on President Biden's shoulders, yet this cretin starts punitive tariff wars but shouldn't be held responsible.
Typical flim-flamery for the readily BAMBOOZLED.
travelingthrulife
(4,463 posts)Walleye
(43,834 posts)EX500rider
(12,180 posts)Walleye
(43,834 posts)FormerOstrich
(2,868 posts)He has no concept of the most fundamental of things.....
Okay, so he thinks Walmart can absorb the costs. However, what about smaller companies (the very few that Walmart hasn't already done in)? Assuming Walmart does as they are told and bend over it will be a double hit to the mom & pop. They won't be able to compete.
Arggg
Lovie777
(21,772 posts)
GoCubsGo
(34,671 posts)
flvegan
(65,782 posts)
DemocratSinceBirth
(101,644 posts)
Justice matters.
(9,407 posts)To break things and throw their feces around?
Don Convicton... 
MadameButterfly
(3,746 posts)Prairie Gates
(7,209 posts)
You mean, all along the whole thing about "They have to pass it on to the consumer" has been bullshit, and the government can dictate prices for products across the board?
Wow! Is it like "Only Nixon could go to China," and "Only Trump could establish federal price controls?"
Welcome to the command economy!
Walleye
(43,834 posts)Communist price control, they called it
Klarkashton
(4,739 posts)He can never admit how badly he fucks things up.
orangecrush
(28,420 posts)
This should be good
spanone
(141,025 posts)Is Walmart going to pay those billions of dollars that the tariffs are supposedly bringing in?
Jim__
(15,081 posts)
ImNotGod
(1,194 posts)
Srkdqltr
(9,378 posts)Ya, I know, it's Trump we are talking about.
hildegaard28
(792 posts)Prices. They should just tack on a separate tax for every item effected by tariffs. They should call it the Trump Tax. It can go under the the regular price of the items, and it should be totaled and placed under the sales tax at the end of the receipt.
Diamond_Dog
(39,770 posts)their Dear Leader is screwing them for his own self aggrandizement? That he doesn’t give a flying fuck about them?
Justice matters.
(9,407 posts)That's what they learned from him (among other deplorable behaviors).
not fooled
(6,607 posts)that he's fighting for them.
Their mental capacity stops before getting to "but he created this situation."
Midnight Writer
(25,147 posts)And they the same person to be the head of the Federal Reserve?
And the same person to be the head of all law enforcement?
And the same person to be able to single-handedly overturn all Court decisions, including Supreme Court decisions?
And the same person can claim legal immunity for apparently anything, including violations of our Constitution?
And the same person to head up a mindless political cult, prone to violence?
Something tells me they do not plan to give up power through free and fair elections.
Shermann
(9,008 posts)Walmart's online marketplace boasts over 200 million unique products. The prices on these products are constantly in motion due to countless other factors. Good luck with that.
BlueKota
(5,050 posts)they will realize the tax breaks are not going to be big enough to cover the amount of business and profits he's costing them. Plus there has got to be some members of the financial elite, who have hefty egos of their own, & don't appreciate tsf telling them what to do.
If they stop seeing a substantial return on their contributions maybe they will cut off funds to the congressional pigs campaigns, and the pigs will turn on their master. It's not likely to happen, but it would be great to see.
Skittles
(169,606 posts)maybe, just MAYBE some of your fucking cult will snap out of it and realize YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT
bluestarone
(21,193 posts)Make his stupid ass MAGA people happy.
Bread and Circuses
(1,573 posts)BurnDoubt
(1,475 posts)
Nictuku
(4,566 posts)They (Republicans) just LOVE his market manipulation
IronLionZion
(50,823 posts)
rurallib
(64,554 posts)This feels like it.
A pox on both their houses.
Let the games begin!
Jacson6
(1,769 posts)Not DJT's feelings.
Emile
(40,647 posts)
aggiesal
(10,543 posts)
Ocelot II
(129,111 posts)
Warpy
(114,391 posts)"That's not how things work, Stupid. Fuck off"
Self Esteem
(2,248 posts)Force corporations to not use inflation + supply change issues as an excuse to raise prices?
artemisia1
(1,367 posts)Arazi
(8,706 posts)Pretty sure Kamala Harris got shredded for suggesting grocery stores were price gouging and needed to be reined in.
The rightwing were shrieking about her “communism” (sic) during her entire campaign
Nixie
(17,938 posts)This is apparently how it works.
Tribetime
(7,058 posts)A few weeks since they raised prices already
DemocratSinceBirth
(101,644 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(175,007 posts)If Trump were right about foreign countries paying tariffs, why is he demanding that Walmart simply “eat the tariffs”? Because he’s wrong about the basics.
By trying to bully Walmart, Trump gives away the game on his tariffs agenda - MSNBC
— (@oc88.bsky.social) 2025-05-19T13:52:23.601Z
apple.news/ABKcQqIWIS7y...
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trying-bully-walmart-trump-gives-away-game-tariffs-agenda-rcna207634
As The Washington Post reported, the president did not take the news well.
President Donald Trump over the weekend admonished Walmart for warning that his tariffs could force a price increase, urging the world’s biggest retailer to simply absorb the consequences of his trade war. ... The president responded Saturday, posting on his social media platform, Truth Social, that Walmart should ‘EAT THE TARIFFS’ and ‘not charge valued customers ANYTHING.’
......When it comes to the president’s approach to the issue, he has repeatedly pushed a simple claim: Foreign counties pay the tariffs. That’s never made any sense, and everyone who’s ever taken an Economics 101 course has tried to explain how absurd this belief is, but Trump — whose capacity for confusion about the basics of trade policy is endless — has nevertheless clung to the assertion, telling the public that tariffs on China, for example, lead Beijing to put money in American coffers. That’s long been absurd, but the Republican has long been impervious to the policy details.
Trump’s latest online statement, however, gives away the game: He apparently now realizes, at least on some level, that his tariffs are responsible for pushing Walmart’s costs higher, and the retailer now intends to push its prices higher as a result.
The president wants Walmart to simply “eat the tariffs” — meaning, Trump wants the company to profit less in order to accommodate the tariff-related costs. Time will tell whether Walmart follows the White House’s lead......
But again, the dust-up itself served as a reminder to Trump that it’s American businesses and American consumers that feel the pinch from his tariffs.
It was against this backdrop that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke on the Senate floor in late April, calling on companies to do what Amazon was prepared to do. “To the large businesses that sell to consumers, I say: Show your customers how much tariffs are hurting in their pocketbooks,” the New York Democrat said. “People deserve to know the impact tariffs have on their finances. ... And it’s also small businesses: They don’t want to get blamed for hiking prices when Donald Trump’s tariffs have put them in a terrible position — in a position that says, raise your prices of close your doors. They hate doing either.”
A week later, congressional Democrats introduced legislation to codify this idea into law, unveiling a bill that would require retailers to display costs that reflect Trump-imposed increases. Although the legislation will never be seriously considered in a Republican-led Congress, the effort itself should be part of an educational campaign for the president, which seems to be working, slowly but surely.