Featured Trump tariffs put the US auto industry in disarray

Let's call it an unspoken tenant. The term is somewhat fluid. After all there is video of people trying to get over the Berlin wall not too many decades back -
Photographs of people shot while trying to cross the Berlin Wall at the Berlin Wall memorial Stock Photo - Alamy
& getting shot for their efforts. Similarly to this day in North korea.

China commies have their own brand of hell

Persecution of Uyghurs in China - Wikipedia

 

No, having a closed border doesn't mean you're a communist country, it just means you are taking care of your people over foreigners.
Which makes sense....who wants to come into a country illegally? Sure some are desperate for new jobs and opportunities BUT many have backpacks full of drugs or they are dragging little children to sell them into our human traffickers/sex-slaves network or they are gang members coming over to bring their crap.
The Vatican has had one of the tightest borders and border enforcement in the world for many years and they are hardly communist.
The insane open-border is the main reason Kamala got slaughtered in the election. But kudos to her for being our ONLY politician put on the Presidential ballot without a single vote to be there by members of her own party. (So when Democrats accuse Trump of being a king or a tyrant or anything else non-democratic, they just need to shut the heck up and fix their own broken party.)

 

Not sure why the discussion has gone off the rails into such politics. We do have some of the expected results of the tariffs.

Economic growth has slowed. Producer inflation has increased, now it is ready to accelerate consumer inflation Manufacturing employment has dropped when before the tariffs there were 500,000 open manufacturing positions that companies were planning to fill. Now we are told the tariffs won't show anything good for 2 years, great excuse to lie about the numbers. These were expected things from the tariffs. The voodoo economist Peter Navajo said that they would not be inflationary and create jobs. When asked about his previous failed tariffs, he attacked the economist community and the numbers. Now taxpayers are paying secretary of the treasury to go on Sunday shows and lie about the numbers. Employment has gained in health care, government, and AI. Manufacturing is down in the US other than semiconductors.

 

must be because no one realizes tariffs & Trump are not political

Question that's more apropos is why the thread wasn't started in FHOP in the 1st place. That's on the OP.

As far as using Auto Sales / tariffs as a presidential blamefest, auto sales are worse or better turning on who is buying what - as it's always been. I see a bunch of Fords are doing better than average.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g65277687/auto-sales-q2-2025-winners-losers/
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Think the semiconductor manufacturing in the US is gonna be a smashing success? I don't. Takes fabs but it also takes a culture and a workforce. Every time I see a video of a chip factory I think where in the US could we get that workforce? Even Taiwan isn't having enough babies to sustain their workforce long term. China either but there people can be compelled to work in those conditions..

 

The Times covered this recently, I thought it was a decent read.