cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28194139

Donald Trump and White House officials walked back a Friday announcement that there would be tariff exemptions on imported electronics.

In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump directly denied the tariff exemption announcement.

“This is really mind-boggling. If this was serious industrial policy, the main thing you want is certainty: ‘Here’s the tariff, it will be in place for the indefinite future, and you should plan accordingly,’” Dean Baker, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a left-leaning think tank, said, according to The Washington Post. “Here, it’s basically: ‘Come back next week and see what we’ve got.’ That’s no way to run an economy.”

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    9 days ago

    That’s why I said I’ll eat my shoes if it happens. Because I don’t think it’s gonna happen.

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      8 days ago

      Realistically how you would do ? You have leather one ? Would you boil them and add some gravy or seasonning ? Or just raw dog it and whatever ? It would be probably extra toxic in general with the amount of plastic.

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        8 days ago

        An adidas slip on. The foam is probably toxic but maybe I’ll become an x man or smth from eating it