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Trump will not be president for another two months but he is already dominating the Washington agenda again. This week a flurry of controversial and extremist picks for his cabinet and other high-ranking administration positions came at a hectic pace and with a level of provocation that made heads spin.

The choices included a Fox News host, a tech billionaire, an anti-vaccine activist, an alleged apologist for Russia’s Vladimir Putin and a congressman once embroiled in a sex-trafficking investigation. The lineup raised fears of authoritarianism or chaos – or both – once Trump and his allies are back in the Oval Office.

Tara Setmayer, a former Republican communications director on Capitol Hill, said: “Their entire political brand is shock and awe. Prior to Trump’s re-election it was notional. Now they have the power to execute all of their depravity with the full backing of American government power virtually unchecked. I don’t think the people who voted for Donald Trump, allegedly because of economic angst, have a full appreciation for what that means.”

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anecdotal but that’s how all the magas in my office are acting. However myself and a few others are more than ready to remind them that they fucking asked for this when their precious eggs cost $30 a dozen

[–] Barbarian 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Honest question: are eggs going to be affected? Corn feed for chickens is mainly domestic, there's a lot of US factory farms. I'd expect tarrifs to primarily hurt foodstuffs that are heavily mported, like avocadoes, bananas, grapes, tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, etc.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Its unlikely that anything will be unaffected because of how meshed the entire global supply chain is, can’t harvest corn without equipment and the parts for tractors and other tools either comes from China or John Deere which is gouging farmers as much as they can

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Short answer: yes, maybe not $30/dozen and maybe not instantly but probably quickly.

Mechanized farming requires mechanized parts and transportation, even if domestic supply lines exist, the global market supply contributes to price. If that global market is heavily resricted through tariffs, price increases will propagate throughout the system.

The sudden and massive tariffs like trump has suggested (60% on all chinese goods, and 10% on all import goods) could be enough to spur a general global economic collapse. That is a huge amount of extra friction on a system tuned to extract maximum profit rather than be resilient, and we saw with the covid supply shocks how a string of comparatively local and sporadic events were able to wreck havoc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

We do import some eggs from Mexico in addition to what the others have mentioned