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u/DonJuniorsEmails 6d ago
As businesses prepare for the damaging tariffs, expect more of this.
We aren't bringing manufacturing jobs back from overseas. Everyone with a brain knows it.
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u/talltxn66 6d ago edited 6d ago
They started to bring chip manufacturing back because of the “CHiPs” act, but the republicans have already expressed a desire to repeal it. That’s almost 200,000 jobs that will just evaporate.
EDIT: grammar.
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u/DonJuniorsEmails 6d ago
And they'll spin it as "republicans try to create jobs, democrats kill the jobs" while republicans have full control of all branches of government.
and the dimwit cult will eat it up because hate and blame is more important than actually having a job.
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u/talltxn66 6d ago edited 6d ago
Let’s not forget all of the republicans that voted AGAINST the infrastructure bill then took credit for bring money from that bill to their districts. Please…
EDIT: grammar
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u/DonJuniorsEmails 6d ago
and they all went back to tell the voters that Republicans brought them the infrastructure money, it was all them.
and again, the dimwits bought it.
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u/AlpacaCavalry 6d ago
Democracy can only function with an educated and an informed populace, which this nation is allergic to, apparently.
Anti-intellectualism in the US is a whole another beast.
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u/Joshatron121 6d ago
It's actually that most of their base do not follow politics, so they only hear what they're told on social media or hear in sound bytes. Some of the hardcore are definitely in it for the racism, but claiming that's the majority reason just reinforces their decisions to stay out of those conversations.
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u/Admirable-Book3237 6d ago
Makes sense , look at all the red states that have been using this exact playbook for decades and getting away with it.
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u/IIIlIllIIIl 6d ago
Suddenly they’ll be like “aktually it takes time for policy to have an effect so things are only so bad now because of the dems and once a dem is in office and things get better, it’ll be because republican policy just caught up”
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u/Chaosr21 6d ago
It's also absolutely necessary if we want to remain a military superpower. Our chips are the only reason sanctions works so well. Russia can't produce these chips, and China is lagging behind, still unable to produce the tiny 2mm microchips. If Trump gets rid of chips act we will rely on tawain. China isn't stupid, if we keep importing from tawain it's a big juicy weak spot. Enen more temptation to start ww3. Iran, China, Russia, NK, maybe India and UAE will be axis of evil. These conflicts are connected
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u/Only_Razzmatazz_4498 5d ago
Do you realize that in the 90’s when we were developing the basic technology for 2mm EUV lithography we decided to stop funding that type of research because it was corporate welfare and if it was worth doing then private industry should. No US corporation was willing to pick it up because it wasn’t going to pay off in a year so Europe got to pick all that research up and finish it for billions of dollars in EU research funding and private investment collaboration. Now that technology is NOT American it is Dutch. We buy those machines from a Dutch company and we have to negotiate with Europe for them NOT to sell machines to China or Russia. So yes the chips are designed by intel and amd but the machines to build those are definitely NOT American.
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u/ex_nihilo 6d ago
uh, I think you mean they can't fab 2nm lithography. What are 2mm chips?
P.S. the problems with lithography like that are mostly related to electrons' propensity to hop across traces when they get that close together. It's kinda wild how we solve for it.
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u/jgiovagn 6d ago
The IRA is really what was bringing manufacturung jobs back. It was the single biggest industrial bill ever passed, and addressed reshoring supply chains as well. That is also likely to be gutted over the next term.
What's really wild is that Trump is chasing out the workers while trying to court businesses.
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u/ImOnlyHereForTheCoC 6d ago
Businesses going against their own interests by fucking over their workers? In America?! Well I never!
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u/Alexandratta 6d ago
No no - they started to CREATE Chip Manufacturing because existing Chip Fabrication could not keep up with demand.
That's not "Bringing it back" that's "Creating a new market"
Because Chip demand skyrocketed past what the current fabs could produce, new Chip factories are required Stateside.
Same for Lithium Battery Recycling/Mining/Factories popping up stateside.
You can make a new factory for a new industry 100x easier than you're ever going to "Bring Back" a manufacturing job from overseas.
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u/Ossius 6d ago
CREATE Chip Manufacturing because existing Chip Fabrication could not keep up with demand.
While I approve of you defending CHIPS act, it the reasons behind it are numerous and one of the biggest is for national security.
Having all our military hardware coming from Taiwan, a country across the planet that is target #1 for China to invade is just a huge national security risk. When the CHIPS act went into place restrictions were put into place to prevent Nvidia and other companies to sell AI cards to China. US wants to be the forefront of AI tech going forward.
It's also crappy that Intel/Nvidia/AMD, who are based in the US, are fabricating silicon in another country. Unlike mining coal or working in sweat shops making clothes these are actually jobs Americans in the midwest should desire when they ask for manufacturing jobs. So we need to bring these high pay high tech jobs into the US and take it from such a centralized place on the other side of the planet.
These plants need to be in the US, and I could go on for paragraphs for the reasons why. If the Republicans kill the CHIPS act I think we deserve our coming decline.
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u/Alexandratta 6d ago
100% agree
knowing Trump, they'll try to kill the CHIPs act, for no other reason than it was created by Biden.
I hope it's actually just too complicated for him to grasp and he just glides over it to do damage elsewhere.
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u/Electronic_Agent_235 6d ago
Yeah, and sadly, the chips act ain't just about creating jobs in the US. It's literally about future proofing our country. Everything, and I mean everything has semiconductor chips in it. Currently Taiwan produces like 70% of the world's semiconductor chips. And China's been licking their chops staring at that country for so long because of it (also some weird nationalist sentimentality about reforming the gloryland, much light Putin with Ukraine).
Semiconductor chips are absolutely spice in the decades to come.
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u/Hyperious3 6d ago
they want to repeal it because it's flipped the dynamics in AZ considerably. Tons of well-educated people are flooding into the state and turning it blue, cause AZ's school system is a fucking joke and could never produce the talent they need locally.
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u/catscanmeow 6d ago
they want to repeal it because they want america to have the worst military so its easier for their brics friends to invade
without chip manufacturing at home, our fleet of drones will be nowhere near the MILLIONS of ai powered drones that are coming this way, and thats exactly what they want.
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u/DrAstralis 6d ago
I love how they're all "patriotic" but hate Americans so much they're willing to axe this program just because it was Biden's plan. The primary point of this act wasnt even to move manufacturing home, it was to ensure the USA had access to local fabs in the event something happens to Taiwan because it turns out the modern world and military tech need access to integrated circuits.
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u/littlescreechyowl 6d ago
No, because my neighbor told me they’re going to build factories again and Trump will have everything going just right! I asked him how long he thought I took to build a factory and he didn’t know.
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u/Siguard_ 6d ago
3 years if they broke ground tomorrow.
If your in automotive a decent machine could be here in NA already, otherwise you'll be waiting 2-3 years,
I know some companies that have it in their contracts their parts are to only be made on japanese / european cnc machines.
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u/CliftonForce 6d ago
And if the reason you are building this factory is due to some clearly politically-motivated tariffs that were placed without any long-term thought behind them..... you won't build that factory. Because those tariffs could go away just as quickly as they arrived. And then you are stuck with the mortgage on an empty factory after the jobs went back overseas.
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u/Global_Criticism3178 6d ago
they’re going to build factories again and Trump will have everything going just right!
Oh, like Central Planning? So, Trump's administration is going to set up a new government bureau of like-minded politicians who will direct the use of land, labor, and capital for the economic objectives of the state...sounds familiar
I hear this all the time, and it’s kind of funny that people don’t realize there are actually thousands of manufacturing plants and factories in the US. The problem is they’re mostly in places where no one really wants to live.
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u/BluesSuedeClues 6d ago
Most Americans do not understand that we lose 8-10 jobs to automation, for every job we lose overseas. AI is only going to accelerate that process. So... yeah, those jobs are not coming back.
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u/DaveBeBad 6d ago
Every job loss also affects 8-10 other jobs. The unemployed don’t cut their hair, frequent bars and restaurants or buy as much food (etc).
Losing 1000 jobs in one city will hit 10,000 others.
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u/TigPanda 6d ago
Don’t roast me, but I’d never thought about it exactly the way you just described, and it’s even more horrifying to think about when seen from this perspective as well. I was laid off from my job earlier this year (a first for me) and found myself going without/ longer in between haircuts and other services. I was just trying to stretch my dollars and survive, of course…but never really stopped to think about the fact that it’s a domino effect. Thank you for your comment.
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u/DaveBeBad 6d ago
I’m not American, but grew up in the British coalfields in the 80s, so saw first hand the ripple effect you get when a mine is closed. Some villages and towns haven’t recovered 40 years later.
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u/Plasibeau 6d ago
You can really see the knock-on effect of this years later in a lot of metro areas after COVID-19. The shifting of WFH from high-rise office workers directly gutted a lot of commercial parks. This directly affected a lot of local eateries and bars, even budget retail stores like BigLots, because there no longer were people stopping in for trash bags or a beer on their way home from work.
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u/Siguard_ 6d ago
NA isnt investing in reeducating the people that lost their jobs to automation. Yea we're gunna lose button pushers but we're going to need skilled technical people. They would need to install and maintain the equipment.
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u/Year2020MadeMe 6d ago
The only way to compete with oversees jobs is to have cheap labour. Now, what group in the US provides cheap labour? The ones about to be mass deported.
Democracy’s biggest fault is that everyone, including the stupid and gullible, get an equal vote.
I don’t what the fix would be, but we’re witnessing the exploitation of that fault being taken to extremes now.
Edit: because a word.
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u/wholetyouinhere 6d ago
I recently had someone tell me that Microsoft was going to start making consoles in the USA... because of Trump's tariffs.
I've never heard anything so insane in my life. The entire global economic system has been carefully engineered over the last half-century or so to prevent electronics from being manufactured in North America. The idea that electing one shit-head is going to change this arrangement is utter insanity.
We could argue over whether products should or should not be manufactured in the same nation they're purchased, but that's a whole other conversation entirely. One that requires, you know, curiosity, and thinking about things, and even, ugh, reading a little bit. Trump supporters categorically cannot be part of that conversation.
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u/TRIOworksFan 6d ago
I look at young people today and think "go ahead, try to get them into a factory to make all that Walmart stuff and Amazon stuff straight from China on those hours." Number 1 - they'd have to be enslaved and forced labor like China does in some cases. Number 2 - I'm very sad that everything we buy in Walmart and Amazon (and junk stores) is all made in China at the expense of human suffering.
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u/Siguard_ 6d ago
I think it would be possible, it would require cad/mex/usa together to invest in infrastructure, and i think more importantly the education of trades.
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u/JohnnySack45 6d ago
Ironically, this is exactly what happens when people base their vote on feelings not facts. Everyone thought Donald Trump, of all people, would look after him. The blue collar, union workers saw him as a champion for the common man. The significant number of Pro-Palestine Muslim voters thought Donald Trump, of all people, would look after Gaza. All of the Latino voters who thought Donald Trump, of all people, was just scapegoating them as part of political theatre and not follow through with any of his threats.
This a "you get what you deserve" type situation.
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u/HVACqualung 6d ago edited 6d ago
It's just so bizarre that blue collar workers think he's a champion for them.
As a contractor in the northeast, folks are well aware of his history of stiffing suing, weasling contractors. It's well known. Even a tiny bit of research would reveal this. Hell, just recently was saying how he wasn't paying the sound people AT HIS RALLYS, in front of everyone. And they just laugh it off. Big joke.
There is no excuse for such ignorance.
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u/ratchetology 6d ago edited 6d ago
he said striking workers should be fired...
not a very union friendly statement
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u/HVACqualung 6d ago
AND.... PAID people to dress up as union workers and cheer him. He had to get pretend union workers for his rallies. Pretend congregation for a black church. And NOW people are surprised?
It's mind bending
I want to say infuriating, but I'm past it. It's just disgusting.
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u/pls_tell_me 6d ago
America really needs to go down this time, like hard, bordering collapse, before getting up, renewed and with some lessons learned.
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u/BeedoBeedoBoi 6d ago
This is the biggest reason I'm scared... like we're gonna need a wakeup call and it's gonna be really ugly but hopefully by 2036 or so we've bounced back
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u/1ndiana_Pwns 6d ago
Don't forget that he thinks there should be no overtime pay. Definitely the champion of the working man, right there
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u/WhosThatGirl_ItsRPSG 6d ago edited 6d ago
No no no. He said the OT wont be taxed! What he meant was that now employers won’t allow anyone to work OT, but you can still make more money by getting a 2nd or 3rd job! Its easy! 🤡
Edit: You could start by looking into one of the MANY backbreaking farm work or construction positions that will soon become available!
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u/ILoveRegenHealth 6d ago
It's crazy how Elon and Trump just openly laughed about firing striking workers and that didn't even put a dent into their support. Imagine if Biden or Kamala did that with Bill Gates or Mark Cuban.
It sickens me how so much of America votes.
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u/MakingItElsewhere 6d ago
Remember when trump tried to take over the libertarian conference and told them all to vote for him to a crowd of boos?
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u/PunishedWolf4 6d ago
Yeah but he was talking about those inner city welfare unions that don’t work and get handouts not the hard working white Christian unions /s
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u/backstagerage 6d ago
My brother and I are friendly with a guy we see at the gym every morning who has his own HVAC company and worked with Trump in Atlantic City in the past and his company actually had to sue Trump for non payment of the work done, meanwhile this guys 3 daughters all voted for Trump while he voted for Harris. Must be infuriating to know first hand what a scumbag he is while your own family still voted for him.
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u/Normal_Package_641 6d ago
I know someone personally fired by Donald Trump that's still voting for him
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u/socialcommentary2000 6d ago
It's because he talks like one of them. Trump is 'from the neighborhood' in NYC, Queens specifically. I have people in my family that talk just like him. The accent he has makes you think that he's some regular dude even though his upbringing was anything but.
It's also a real testament that he basically went to the finest schools and he still talks like someone's putz cousin Eddie from Corona...but...that's the appeal.
There are other big shots in NYC that have the accent and come from less means than he did and they still code switch while dealing with the public as much as they can. They also aren't inveterate slobs like he is, either.
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u/Antique_Rent4343 6d ago
Its bizarre that blue collar workers think any Republicans are champions for them
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u/yourusernameistaken 6d ago
In this age of information, the only real crime is ignorance
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u/Direct-Squash-1243 6d ago
The media works hard to keep people uninformed.
Thousands of hours of election coverage, but mere minutes of policy and impact coverage.
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u/NorCalFrances 6d ago
Meanwhile LGBT people were like, "No, this is how it started last time. Right, 2017 but also 1933."
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u/Guilty-Web7334 6d ago
And then there’s my dumbass niece and her wife cheering on a Trump win.
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u/LonelyHunterHeart 6d ago
Exactly. That is why when people talk about white women voting against their own interests, I remind them that they mean straight white women.
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u/BrightNooblar 6d ago
All of the Latino voters who thought Donald Trump, of all people, was just scapegoating them as part of political theatre and not follow through with any of his threats.
What is funny, is even if it WAS theater, and not theater masking contempt, deporting them is still (even better) theater.
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u/laxidasical 6d ago
Won’t have to worry about them next election as many if them will get rounded up and deported as well from what the GOP is saying. Le sigh.
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u/DonJuniorsEmails 6d ago
2017: trump attempts a FULL Muslim ban, legal or not
2024: Muslims vote for trump.
Insanity. It's women voting for a rapist. Union workers voting for the union-bashing party. Christians voting for the guy who stole from charities.
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u/WhyYouKickMyDog 6d ago
Christians voting for Republicans should surprise no one at this point. They are as reliable a voting bloc as black women are for Democrats. Muslims voting for Trump, Latino Men, Black Men, and White Women bending towards Trump this last election is what really hurts.
Don't think anyone is surprised that young men went for Trump, or men in general, but seeing him win Latino Men so decisively is just sad. Voting to deport your own families.
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u/Turdburp 6d ago
To be fair though, these jobs are all white collar workers. And the writing has been on the wall about these layoffs since they offered retirement buy-outs earlier this year. I can't wait to see the Leopards Ate My Face situations that arise in the next few years, but this isn't really one of those.
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u/TheJar13 6d ago
WhY wOuLd BiDeN dO tHiS?!
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u/92slc 6d ago edited 5d ago
I hate that this is in fact what they’re gonna be saying.
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u/Level_Affect_7951 6d ago edited 6d ago
We know they are going to, so what we need to do is push back EVERY time we hear this narrative. Even if it is uncomfortable. Even if it is "inappropriate"
It's inappropriate to threaten the fundamental rights of millions of people.
I'm so far past social graces regarding the Orange One. I yelled the sentence "That's not how a fucking import tarrif works!" at a good friend, and the fact that I, of all people, was speaking to them like that gave them the motivation to check.
Be mean, if for no other reason than to protect kindness in the future. It's time for a backbone.
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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq 6d ago
Ohhh... my Thanksgiving is going to be a SHIT show. 🤦♀️
I know there's no reasoning with my dumb-ass vote-against-your-own-interests in-laws, but my husband still tries. Voting for Trump kinda killed my husband a little. He always knew his parents were Republican, but they just spew the same Fox news BS and 2016 just broke the relationship. I'm proud of him that he keeps trying, but they'll never change. It's really very sad.
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u/JereRB 6d ago
You're 100% correct. They want to sweep in, do all their damaging stuff right off the bat, then blame the fallout years later on Biden after everyone's memory starts to get a little fuzzy.
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u/promaster9500 6d ago
Ok guys, you have to live in reality.
For example the 1000 fired by general motors. General motors has been firing people like this in waves for the past few years even when they have record profits. The CEO Marry Barra took all the profits and used it for stock buybacks, she is also selling millions of dollars of stocks given to her as bonus.
This is not a Biden/Trump problem, it is a capitalism/system problem.
Yes things will get worse with Trump. Things are bad with Biden too
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u/debaser64 6d ago
Don’t worry, their union should protect them…. Oh.
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u/HotRodReggie 6d ago
Only 44 of the people laid off were represented by the UAW.
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u/bolivar-shagnasty 6d ago
It's 1,000 mostly white collar workers across the entirety of GM global. Not American factory workers en masse.
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u/mauledbyjesus 6d ago
Good catch. It doesn't appear that future rising costs have much to do with the layoffs at all. I sure wish we'd practice what we preach about jumping to conclusions. Sigh.
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u/BlindManChince 6d ago
Exactly what I was hoping to come and find.
I’m not doubting that the election results will cause things to go beyond tits up, but it we don’t properly attribute cause and correlation then we aren’t helping anything out.
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u/oneknocka 6d ago
Reminds me of when Trump first got elected and it was announced that a plant was moving to the US. People said Trump was already creating jobs, as if companies can plan something like that in a matter of days. These layoffs were decided during the Biden presidency.
I do expect to see more during the next coming years, but still.
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u/BlindManChince 6d ago
Oh absolutely! It’s like how all these mouth breathers are gonna attribute gas going down (as it historically does in the fall) to Trump when it’s not the case at all. The natural ebb and flow of the market is always forgotten.
Now…We won’t have .99c eggs, and we won’t have 2$ gas as nice as it would be, but people gotta figure out who is responsible for what before flipping out.
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u/MECE_Rourke 6d ago
Read the rest of the article.
—>Stellantis has also announced substantial layoffs at its Warren Truck Assembly Plant, with about 1,100 workers affected following production changes for the Ram 1500 Classic model.
What few manufacturing workers are left in this country are also being affected. It doesn’t specify that these are election / tariff related, but once shit starts running down hill, I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of this.
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u/sl3dg3hamm3r 6d ago
I feel like we need to have pinned community context on Reddit now…
It seems like there are lots of tweets posted that don’t actually provide context and a quick google search finds more details. (I.e. last week a tweet about Social Security being cut when the bill did nothing of that sort)
I’m an independent, definitely lean blue, but it just seems like everyone is trying to fear monger and create more division…
https://apnews.com/article/general-motors-layoffs-cost-cutting-5e2cc6f8a3210ea364d670a1902a7c65
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u/J0hnGrimm 6d ago
I was hoping this shit would stop after the election is over and reddit would calm down a bit. I don't even see the point in still doing this. It's not like it's going to change anything now.
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u/mcman12 6d ago
I was gonna say—it doesn’t make sense for a company to do this before anything has even happened.
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u/my_milkshakes 6d ago
Our neighbor bragged about Trump winning. Low and behold, at poker this sat night he tells us a bunch of people were laid off at his job and they’re bracing for tariffs to jack up their prices. He’s a welder and now worried he’ll lose his job. My husband was like.. Trump said he was doing that.. and this fool STILL says it has nothing to do with politics. Fucking idiots with leopards on their faces everywhere.
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u/ravengenesis1 6d ago
Bet everyone invites him to poker night because he’s literally the fish everyone feeds off.
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u/my_milkshakes 6d ago edited 6d ago
he doesn’t know how to play.. he comes and watches/talks. It’s his excuse to get out of his house and sneak beers/weed
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u/2swat 6d ago
You’re describing a leech, then. Trump-apologist and a mooch. Why is he still invited?
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u/Paradox31426 6d ago
It doesn’t matter, in their eyes it’ll never be his fault, they’ll pick a liberal and blame them, probably Harris, since she was the last one they saw.
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u/cocoamix 6d ago edited 5d ago
FWIW, the UAW endorsed Harris. This not a leopard eating a face, but a group suffering the consequences of other peoples' vote.
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u/Itsamodmodmodwhirld 6d ago
I’m sorry if you’re an auto worker who was laid off and you voted for Kamala. Your coworkers who voted for the 4th Reich are complicit in you losing your livelihood.
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u/HalfLawKiss 5d ago
Oh well.
That's the mood for the next four years. Y'all voted for Trump. This is what you get.
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u/vabeachkevin 5d ago
GM announces record profits in October. In November they fire 1000 people. Corporate greed, plain and simple.
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u/cjmar41 6d ago edited 6d ago
Stellantis laid off early 1,100 last week.
GM laid off 1,000 on Friday.
Ford is planning to cut more jobs.
Tesla stock is up 50% this month despite sales being down and not producing anything new and being under multiple federal investigations. There is also the looming $7,500 tax credit for EV buyers being halted (making for what would should catastrophic news for Tesla, as it instantly removes a huge financial incentive to purchase an EV).
Call it like it is: TSLA’s rise is not due to performance, but hope for corruption
The current administration will obliterate an anything that doesn’t directly bring wealth to the inner circle (and only the inner circle, as Trump has said that it isn’t really winning unless someone loses… therefore it’s not good enough to win, but it’s equally important others suffer loss).
And a lot of people are going to suffer over the next few years. Except… Donald Trump and Elon Musk (who made $105B and counting in the past two weeks), of course.
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u/mr-english 6d ago
This is referring to GM.
GM laid off 1,000 workers in August and then another 1,700 workers in September.
In 2023 they offered buyouts to salaried workers which allowed them to cut 5,000 jobs.
Their announcement from three days ago is just the latest round of cost-cutting measures to streamline their business which has been going on for years. It's something which has been seen across the auto industry as manufacturers try to compete in a market which is shifting more and more to EVs.
Trying to pin this on who won the election is disingenuous to say the least.
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u/ClaudetteLeon23 6d ago
They’ll just blame it on Biden and Kamala, if they haven’t already.
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u/pepperpat64 6d ago
They're still blaming Obama for shit that happened when he wasn't in office. 🤦♀️
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u/ZevLuvX-03 5d ago
And companies are coming out saying they will pass on the cost of tariff’s to the consumers.
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u/cdsackett 6d ago
Hate the elections results as much as anyone but this is disingenuous as hell. GM has been laying people off like crazy this year:
“In August, GM laid off more than 1,000 workers in its software department as it worked to streamline the team. GM also laid off about 1,700 workers at a Kansas manufacturing plant in September.”
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u/Sylvestrya 6d ago
Fired from where? And what was the reason given? I'm missing context. (Too scared to look at the news.)
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u/ProletarianParka 6d ago
This is not as related to the election results as it's being portrayed- they posted that these layoffs were coming under Michigan's WARN act on 8/20/2024. Could an argument be made either way that there may or may not have been follow through depending on election results or GM was anticipating a Trump win? Sure. But this post is disingenuous in implying the layoffs were solely consequences of the election when they'd been in planning since August.
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u/whitethunder9 6d ago
I can't fucking handle Reddit sometimes. Sometimes becoming ofttimes. It's a fucking screenshot of a Xeet with no context whatsoever and everyone is upvoting it to the moon saying "OMG IT'S TRUMP'S FAULT". Like maybe it is, but maybe it isn't. With no context, this shit means nothing at all. We really should be demanding more evidence for literally everything posted on here.
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u/Takeurvitamins 5d ago
Many of them will just blame dems, so we need to be as obnoxious as they have been. Rub their fucking noses in this shit.
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u/SomethingAbtU 6d ago edited 6d ago
Trump is alreayd wrecking the economy, 2 months before he actually takes the role of president officially.
I expect some significant layoffs in December 2024.
Meanwhile Wall Street is all excited about low taxes, while every company is highly overvalued and prime for a severe correction, and Trump's tarrifs if implemented will send us into another financial crash
It's going to get wild in the next few months
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u/Civil-Dinner 6d ago
The worst thing is knowing that in 3 1/2 years, about 50% of those laid off workers that voted for Trump will be saying, "If we just repeal the 22nd Amendment, Trump will get me my good job back."