Got the parts to fix my air conditioner in my car, and a used phone, and a retro handheld I had been putting off.
All used, of course. I’m not contributing back to this corrupt hell government.
Sadly, I have no way to import a KMR L–02 Orca OR, since the ATF makes it such a pain in the ass to import onsey-twosey, and the tariffs mean that if they ever get a US distributor, it’s going to be out of my price range.
But I did get a CZ Shadow 2 Compact a week ago, and that’s going to be my carry and competition gun for however long these tariffs last.
I’m going to have to get a few pounds of powder, primers, and a few thousand bullets (the projectile part), because all of that is going in increase in costs, too. I was quoted a price of $315 or so for 8# of Vihtavouri N-135 powder; I’ll probably try to get 16-24#, 15,000 small rifle primers, and at least 8-12# of Ramshot Silhouette powder. About half of the raw materials to make bullets–lead, copper, brass, nitrocellulose, etc.–end up being imported, because we simply can’t keep up or don’t have the mines.
Czech here, also own the CZ Shadow 2 (full size), it is such a pleasure to shoot.
Vihtavuori, lol.
Am six months away from my four year cycle of a new iPhone. Bit the bullet last night on a current model while the carrier still offering top dollar for trade-in, and there are no tariffs.
We are buying supplies to do fixes in our home like fresh paint, to get it up for market.
I can’t really think of anything I need that will be problematic when the tariffs drop. I do have a hankering for French cookware, but at the same time, I don’t NEED more French cookware. ;)
Plan is the same as before Trump’s stupidity… pay off debt. Plan to be out of debt (except for the mortgage) by end of year.
Too late. I have no money.
Yup. I’ve been busy, oh you know, managing having fucking cancer and having necessary surgeries.
I only fucking wish I had money to spend to rebuild my life before it all goes to shit.
Some fun new news! Now Trump wants to enact tariffs specifically on pharmaceutical companies! Hooray!
It was nice having met you!
Edit: /s, obvs; I’m so sorry that you’re in for even more shit
No previous poster; I felt smart a couple days ago buying a few smaller appliances and airbrush parts ahead of the tariffs, then the pharmaceutical ones were announced and it’s like “oh cool, so my chronic health condition will just bankrupt me now instead”
I really hope that you’re not telling me that you only had a problem with Trump’s tariffs once it affected you personally. Because that would be pretty shitty.
I see now my comment had a typo: it should have read not previous poster at the start. No, more I felt like I might be “getting ahead” of the tariffs a bit by prepping some and now that preparation is more than wiped out if these pharmaceutical ones happen
For the record: I happen to care about everyone being impacted negatively by the tariffs, up to and including the hapless fuckwits that voted for it. If that still reads like being selfish, I think you’re trying to read it that way
Bold of you to assume i have money.
I bought some computer parts even though I don’t live there. Just cause I expected it to be worse soon.
Big order of fishing supplies off Ali Express before May 1. Line, lures, hooks, that sort of thing.
Is this as a hobby or prepping for food scarcity? Not judging, legitimately just asking.
I like fishing as a hobby, but I eat some of the fish I catch. I think it’s good to have a hobby that doesn’t cost very much and gets you out into nature. I’ll probably spend $60 total on supplies for the full year and it’ll buy me some toys to try and target some other species I didn’t last year.
I also like gardening and cooking, so while I’m not intentionally planning for food scarcity, I’ll be circumstantially more prepared.
I think tariffs are generally applied based on date of customs arrival, not time of order - discussion on wine imports who order months+ in advance as well as some small businesses getting hit unexpectedly on long-ordered goods, plus my own industry that has a several month lead time on orders and some bills we have received. I’m less familiar with that mechanic but I don’t know that placing the order before that time will help you if it has to ship from overseas.
We got a refrigerator. Needed one anyway but rushed it a couple months back because I saw the writing on the wall.
buying dental hygiene products, items for my newly persisting PDs, that should last me a while. Rx will be more complicated though. i got most of last years prescription, just refilled each month eventhough i havnt finished the current ones, so i can just ration that for my dermatitis.
i recently bought oneplus12r which is a chinese product, glad i bought it before he began the tariffs, this has a large battery life so it would last a while, better than pixels and iphones. hate to say i do have to use prime for most of my shopping, only way to get things on the cheap without be gouged by big chain stores.
Coffee.
Upgrade my nas to ssd.
I have everything I need, but my partner bought a massive bag of rice.
I just panic bought a new phone, after realizing mine probably won’t make it a year.
Same.
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I love coffee. I didn’t start drinking it until I was 22.
i dint start drinking til like 2 years ago,
Nothing, I’m not buying anything special from that country they can fuck off.
Slowly but surely we will move all our ongoing needs away from the USA and back within the EU fully, so that they can burn in their own little corner of the dark ages as they desire, while we continue to live in present day.
It’s one thing to say Fuck the US. It’s another to say fuck Americans.
I’m American and I’ll say both. They(we) let it happen, and our cowardice and inaction right this second just continues it. We had millions of protesters over the weekend. Did anyone listen? Nope. Until we take it back by force, nothing will change and the majority isn’t willing, so, we’re just gonna take it. Every second of inaction is willingness on our part. It can always get worse and does, yet we do nothing.
We deserve it. Maybe it will finally wake us the fuck up, if it doesn’t destroy us first.
The people that are going to suffer the most are the ones that don’t deserve it. It will be the gay kids in the south who are sent to conversion therapy and are physically abused to “fix” them. It will be the black buisness owner who is forced to hire more white people so it isn’t “dei”. It will be a sweet grandma that starves to death because she can’t afford food anymore.
Your examples are tame. There are already prison camps in El Salvador, house raids, disappearances, death of the rule of law…
This is actual fascism playbook™ stuff.
We had millions of protesters over the weekend. Did anyone listen? Nope.
What’s supposed to happen from protests? Let’s say that you have a representative who was just elected or reelected and they’re fully aligned with the current administration’s policies. They don’t need votes or your support. Of what use will protests have?
Rallying our forces. Protests are where people get connected with organizations whose focus is to bring the working class into cohesive groups that are empowered through collective struggle to win better conditions. A protest makes it visible to everyone at the protest and all the regular working people who witness it, what they believe in as a collective and that none of them are anywhere near alone in feeling that way. They make it clear, both to the protesters and to the ruling class, how much strength there is in numbers and how deeply connected we are. It is a show of our forces and; even though I agree that protest is severely neutered under our current state of policing; when done correctly, it can still be a display of the numbers that we are willing and able to mobilize and even use to disrupt the system when doing so is strategically advantageous and agreed upon by the movement.
Of course, the ones done correctly are generally the ones that don’t get any media attention, if not deeply negative attention, precisely for all the reasons I stated. It is against the interests of the wealthy and ruling class for those to be viewed positively and widely publicized.
Oh, the reaction to these protests also makes it blindingly apparent where the loyalties of the ruling class lie, which is bound to wake a few people up along the way.
If nobody ever mobilizes, you quickly see people start to go doomer, believing nobody cares and there’s no possible way out of the situation because this is what we “chose”. This is a “democracy”, and this is what democracy gave us, so it must be correct. It’s much easier to gaslight the masses and normalize what is happening if they never see resistance to the popular narratives put up by powerful monied interests.
Excellent answer. I fall into the category of your last paragraph. I feel like I’m in a country not my own and if this is what the populace wants, maybe I’m in the wrong place.
This actually connects a few things for me that I’ve been thinking about lately. I believe that the current “ruling” class has figured out, among other things, that it is easy to disrupt a collective action problem while somehow also solving it for their own groups. If you look at the people in the cabinet and other supporters, they’d all be fighting each other, but are somehow united under one man.
If I understand your post correctly, organizing to protest puts like minded people together to further organize into groups that can unite to solve common problems even if their personal problems differ. For example, if I’m out to support trans youth and I meet up with someone to support women’s reproductive rights, we both have a common vested interest in changing the current political climate even if I’m also a gun owner.
