Submitted 2 days ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to workreform@lemmy.world
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Let’s not forget Trump’s commerce secretary bought the rights to companies’ potential tariff refunds for 20c on the dollar and then cashed in when they were reversed. Yes, Howard Lutnick.
Oh, sorry not him personally of course, just his company now run by his sons without any inside knowledge.
this is the real story ^
the cronies in the inner circle created a whole new “prediction market” scheme, to capture even more wealth for themselves, even against their own fake party principles of laissez-faire.
Lutnick (and Trump) knew who’d be holding the bag once the dust settled. and you know they’re gonna keep doing it!
“It’s quite interesting that the commerce secretary’s firm is the one that is betting the tariffs will be struck down. That strikes me as very interesting—and quite telling about what those with connections to the administration think about the merits of the tariffs.”
Lutnick has been a steadfast proponent of Trump’s tariffs, frustrating many Republicans and staffers within the White House. He fought the efforts of others within the administration, such as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and National Economic Council chair Kevin Hassett, to put limits on Trump’s tariffs.
The fucking will continue
Yes, Howard Lutnick.
The guy who got the “we like you, don’t show up to work tomorrow” call from the Saudis the day before 9/11? That Howard Lutnick?
It’s worse than zero. The companies that charged us tariffs are going to keep the money they got AND we are going to pay them a second time as “recompense”.
They’re going to use the profits to buy out and shut down their smaller local competitors, too.
Unilevel has been on a buying spree since COVID, for instance.
Writing “Billy” is like writing “x-tra”, it only ever confuses people for no benefit.
Just write B if you’re such a l33t tester.
It doesn’t confuse plenty of people. You might not be one of the people the person posting in the screenshot was talking to. You don’t have to be. It might not be vernacular you’re familiar or comfortable with. It doesn’t have to be.
Not everyone in every neighborhood in the country talks or acts like you. The elitist attitude of explaining how useless their language choices are definitely reflects poorly on someone, but it isn’t them.
I disagree, it’s taking the piss by making a billion sound smaller. Because of that, it almost sounds like a parent handing out pocket money to it’s children. Not sure how you call this form of (dark) humor in English though.
And the prices never came down.
Jokes on them. I couldn’t afford to buy shit.
And he did it all without making the Epstein files go away.
Uhhh, billy? Fuck you entirely.
And you’re muddying the message as well, gross dude.
Someone’s trying to point out to their community how much we’re all getting fucked by this. It seems sort of crazy that your focus was that their chosen language didn’t seem designed to target and cater to you specifically.
It makes you come across as someone who feels like only people who act and speak like you do matter. It seems like racist bullshit. They like laughing at slight variations in language too.
Not even close. Message is obviously sound - look where we are and I made no specific mention alluding to what you perceived.
The language his the message entirely. Also odd to bury Walmart behind a “billy” when they are 5x the problem of the top mentioned billion.
Why does Billy alternate capitalization in each row?
Symmetrical design choice? OCD? What’s with so many people in this sub being so focused on the minute details that have nothing to do with the point?
If people cared they’d just burn down every building owned by those companies, but we don’t care. We care about tomorrows meal
I would say this is more accurate than their next meal, people say Amazon is evil but refuse to give it up because “it’s too convenient!!” but someone trying not to starve is a bit different
the check is for if you personally imported goods
and most of these companies funded trump, i dont know about costco though.
Costco has been pretty consistent about not involving themselves with the current admin from what I’ve seen
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The US economy is just one giant grift, and we’re the mark.
Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And he gets IRS immunity for himself, his family and all the companies he is invested in so no one gets to see quite how large the grift is and they can all avoid paying tax
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As marks go, we’re living pretty high on the hog.
If you want to look at what it’s like to get rooked, try living in any of our colonies and satraps.
The Japanese working class is eating double digit inflation once again. And they’re about to get a Volcker Shock style recession to balance it out.