Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. Trump’s trade war is going over like a lead balloon as people are just beginning to realize what a cockup this whole thing is for flyover country.

$50 billion in tariffs are being waved off by none other than Commerce Secretary and wannabe Dr. Evil henchman Wilbur Ross, who thinks people wont notice that their products are suddenly a lot more expensive and that they wont be able to sell their goods overseas because they’re now a lot more expensive compared to goods from other countries.

This hits products like farm goods particularly hard, and that’s on top of the tariffs Trump imposed on imported steel and aluminum. Ross said at that time that people wouldn’t notice a few hundred bucks more in the cost of a car (which would wipe out whatever tax scam gain you were being misled to believe you got).

Here’s a simpler, better-labeled chart making the same point. pic.twitter.com/4GtmSc3w1O

— Ernie Tedeschi (@ernietedeschi) April 3, 2018

The majority of Americans are seeing little gain from the tax scam, and that’s even if you set up your withholding perfectly. Throw in higher health care costs, and the odds are you’d never notice the change.

Also, Trump continues attacking Amazon. It’s everything Trump isn’t. Bezos is successful without having inherited his real estate fortune. He’s far richer than Trump ever inflated his worth to be, and now owns the WaPo, which is doing serious investigative journalism into Trumpworld criminality.

That’s why Trump is lying nonstop about what Amazon is doing and why he is claiming that the company is fleecing the government (it isn’t).

Trump is attacking Amazon because Bezos owns the Washington Post. That’s why he’s going after Amazon.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 4, 2018