Friday, July 11, 2025

Start Budgeting Now

Households will pay an average of $2,400 more for goods this year, thanks to Trump's policies.

Posted by retort at 11:22 AM | 30 COMMENTS | permalink

More

President Donald Trump says he plans to impose blanket tariffs of 15% or 20% on most trade partners, dismissing concerns that further tariffs could negatively affect the stock market or drive inflation.[image or embed]

-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) Jul 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM

Comments

Rofl. I was forced to start budgeting after Biden's inability to contain covid for a long time like he said he would do and his ridiculous inflation numbers, and Trump has just prolonged it by implementing increases without a go-forward plan to enact decreases elsewhere.

Another POTUS, another negative impact to my wallet. Before these two idiots, I lost 8k a year to Obamacare, I lost a ton under W because I had to sell property in 2009 that had depreciated by a large amount, and under Clinton I lost money on futures because of his stupidity of transferring debt just because he wanted to trick voters into thinking he paid off our deficit.

Why partisan people only care about the money they lose under POTUS's that don't belong to their party is beyond me.

#1 | Posted by humtake at 2025-07-11 11:38 AM

Didn't a court find his unilateral declaring of tariffs to be illegal?

I guess we're just going to do it anyway?

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-11 11:42 AM

I was forced to start budgeting after Biden's inability to contain covid for a long time like he said he would do and his ridiculous inflation numbers

Ok, idiot. I'm sure the rest of your "analysis" is quite sound...

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-11 11:44 AM

@#2 ... Didn't a court find his unilateral declaring of tariffs to be illegal? ...

From what I understand, SCOTUS has not yet done so.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-11 11:52 AM

Why partisan people only care about the money they lose under POTUS's that don't belong to their party is beyond me.
#1 | Posted by humtake

I care about the Presidents who are actually President, when they are costing me money.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-11 11:56 AM

after Biden's inability to contain covid
#1 | POSTED BY DUMTAKE

This is why it's pointless to attempt conversations with Republicans.

They're ------- retarded.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-11 12:18 PM

@#2 ... Didn't a court find his unilateral declaring of tariffs to be illegal? ...

When (if) the case reaches SCOTUS, the letter that Pres Trump wrote to Brazil declaring tariffs on Brazilian goods due to Brazil's prosecution of fmr Pres Bolsonaro will not, in my non-legal opinion, help Pres Trump's case that he is implementing tariffs due to a national emergency in the US.


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-11 12:20 PM

I care about the Presidents who are actually President, when they are costing me money.

Trump is the most expensive president in history.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-11 12:20 PM

"Biden's inability to contain covid"

You mean after Trump let COVID into the country, Biden was unable to control it?

It's like saying "Chicago's inability to contain gun violence" after the Second Amendment let guns into the country.

Which is exactly what Republicans say.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-11 12:20 PM

"Trump is the most expensive president in history."

I wonder if he is also #2.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-11 12:20 PM

after Biden's inability to contain covid
#1 | POSTED BY DUMTAKE

This is why it's pointless to attempt conversations with Republicans.
They're ------- retarded.
#6 | Posted by ClownShack

^
Eberly, you're level-headed and impartial. Can we get a ruling on ClownShack's scandalous accusation?

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-11 12:22 PM

Biden's inability to contain covid

#1 | Posted by humtake

Yes, it was a tragedy that Biden was president in 2020.

Idiot.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-11 12:23 PM

It was Biden's fault the bloated------------- had to be airlifted to Walter Reed.

~ HumTrig ~

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-11 12:25 PM

Trump just announced 35% tariffs on Canada ... where farm fertilizer, building lumber, and so much more are imported from.

#14 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-07-11 12:25 PM

"Trump just announced 35% tariffs on Canada"

To be accurate, these need to be represented as a 35% tariff on Americans.

#15 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-07-11 12:31 PM

building lumber

#14 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

And so the collapse of the American homebuilding industry.

Gee, it's too bad Biden is president.

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-11 12:53 PM

"I wonder if he is also #2."
~Snoofy

Trump will ALWAYS be #2.

#17 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-07-11 01:07 PM

#1 | Posted by humtake

Was all of that really the fault of the Presidents? Or did you just make a lot of ------ financial decisions over the years? I'd guess maybe both, but mostly the later.

#18 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-07-11 01:11 PM


Trump just announced 35% tariffs on Canada ... where farm fertilizer, building lumber, and so much more are imported from.
#14 | POSTED BY AMERICANUNITY

Next month, if Canada opts to retaliate with tariffs on U.S. goods. Its part of the current trade negotiations.
Canadian goods are also subject to sector-specific tariffs, such as 50% levies on steel and aluminum as well as 25% tariffs on non-USMCA compliant autos and auto parts.

So not sure what you're complaining about really.


Was all of that really the fault of the Presidents? Or did you just make a lot of ------ financial decisions over the years? I'd guess maybe both, but mostly the later.
#18 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT A

Could be both, but to make fun of people struggling and complaining, isn't really a good strategy.

#19 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-07-11 01:36 PM

This is why it's pointless to attempt conversations with Republicans.
They're ------- retarded.
#6 | Posted by ClownShack

Do you know what a "conversation" is? You seemed to not enjoy the "conversation" when Hamas was murdering children (what did you call it?)

Pointing out facts that support your theory/assertion, is a conversation. But, after dealing with you for a few years now, I know its something you're incapable of doing.

#20 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-07-11 01:39 PM

@#15 ... To be accurate, these need to be represented as a 35% tariff on Americans. ...

Yup.

And Pres Trump seems to assert that the country, whose goods are subject to the tariff, pays the tariffs.

If tariffs are as beautiful as he says they are, why does he apparently feel the need to lie about them?


#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-11 01:56 PM

#19 | Posted by oneironaut

Strategy for what? Since when does someone like you give a ---- about hurting anyone's feelings on an anonymous website? Frankly, I have no empathy for you MAGAts anymore. I'm just pushing back some of the same crap that you COnny clowns have been throwing for years.

#22 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-07-11 02:58 PM

You seemed to not enjoy the "conversation" when Hamas was murdering children (what did you call it?)
#20 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Are you talking about when I mocked a sensationalized head line that said Hamas was beheading AND killing babies.

To which I said. They're beheading babies and then killing them? Talk about giving that 110%.

Which everyone but the most desperate of losers understood as a joke.

Did you have a point you were trying to make?

Or are you still crying about how I skull fkkked you so hard you had to reevaluate your worldviews?

#23 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-11 05:01 PM

www.washingtonpost.com

#24 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-11 05:04 PM

"Trump just announced 35% tariffs on Canada"

To be accurate, these need to be represented as a 35% tariff on Americans.

#15 | Posted by Danforth

Absolutely! Everyone but the wealthiest among us are getting a big tax HIKE thanks to Trump's tariffs.

#25 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-07-11 05:20 PM

When given the opportunity to help all Americans or only the wealthiest people in America, conservatives time and again choose to help only the wealthiest.

Because God forbid the government help people who aren't white.

#26 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-11 05:26 PM

"I wonder if he is also #2."
~Snoofy

Trump will ALWAYS be #2.

#17 | POSTED BY DANFORTH

You are what you eat.

#27 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-12 08:57 AM

LOL how much did Bidens 10% per year inflation cost ya?

#28 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-07-13 04:08 AM

Hard to believe that America is falling so far, so fast. One day we will wake to find out that Crypto is our new dollar, and cash is no longer used in many places, and the poor and priced out of the crypto economy, and ta da...autocracy.

#29 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-07-13 07:06 AM

LOL how much did Bidens 10% per year inflation cost ya?

#28 | POSTED BY THEBS

Not much since my COLA was 7.7%

#30 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-13 09:40 AM

Drudge Retort Headlines

National Guard Soldiers in DC Appear to be Mostly Patrolling Tourist Spots (116 comments)

Most Dangerous Sentence in the Constitution (79 comments)

New High for Trump Disapproval (70 comments)

Trump Gives Vance Expanded Roll in Russia-Ukraine Peace Effort (46 comments)

Texas One-Woman Stand Off (38 comments)

Donald Trump's $465M Civil Case Tossed Out by NY Court (34 comments)

Home Depot to Raise Prices Because of Tariffs (32 comments)

Teaching Slavery Is Bad, Upsets Trump (28 comments)

Trump Again Blames Ukraine for Being Invaded by Russia (26 comments)

Why Did Hollywood Stop Making Comedies? (25 comments)