The pricing may make collectors flock to releases released before the tariffs went into effect that are still in dealers inventory.
Flock to buy figures they already have; I don't see it.
Not that they already have but ones they didn’t get.
Yup; for now, it's game over.Even if manufacturers absorb some of the tariffs, at 104%...toy soldiers made in China will be out of reach
Trump essentially slapped a 104% tax on American consumers.
Presidential election, yes, but there are gubernatorial elections in NJ and Virginia this year where voters will demonstrate how they feel about the state of the country and in 2026 there are Congressional elections.
1.5 years until the mid terms, when he'll lose control of the house and the senate and be a lame duck president like he was the first go round.
That solves a lot too. All it does is provide a fundraising opp for re-election campaigns on all sides, so once again, the ultra right and ultra left will elect candidates and put us right back in the middle of the pot. If our moderates in the entirety of Congress had any sense, they would band together, but they can't due to the ultra power provided by both side's extreme wealthy groups. You cannot in good faith claim George Soros or the Koch Brothers are moderates and there is the 2 power brokers behind each party. If we want to place blame for the positions that we are in, there are the targets. Trump IMO is nothing more than a pawn, just like Biden, Obama and for the most part George W. Clinton caused a lot of his own problems leading to ineffectiveness and George HW Bush couldn't fully control his own party. So, there you have it, Reagan was probably the last effective President who worked with O'Neil (Powerful Democrat in Congress) and thus things seemingly worked for the most part. Even Reagan at the end due to his own deteriorating health lost control to the party powers and thus was born an era of "follow the money" politics.
Pretty good article. It is opinion in a lot by drawing conclusions, but some of them are probably true. The one thing I wonder is who will be the White Knight country that brokers a deal between the US and China. Someone (one of our allies) will feel enough pain, maybe all of them and step in. I don't know when, but I do think it is a probability.I’m sharing this article from the NYT (unlocked as I think it’s worth a read).
An Experiment in Recklessness: Trump as Global Disrupter
The global trading system is only one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan for how to replace it.www.nytimes.com
That would be a waste of time. They need 67 votes to convict and that ain’t gonna happen.
Trump thinks a powerhouse like China will blink? He's delusional to say the least. But hey, Trump just gave Democrats the ammunition they have been looking for on a silver platter. Talk about stupid, but what does he care, he's out after this term, so he's going to burn the whole thing to the ground in the process.
