

Yup, was getting an uber (I can’t drive for very long or the pain starts), he was chatty and excited about Trump.
Asked what he thought about the anti-immigrant talk (oh obviously thats the bad ones!), and the fact that there was a pandemic and prices skyrocketed (Biden’s fault even though that all started before he was in office), etc. Paraphrased obviously.
I don’t know what can possibly be said to these folks to have them understand, but as a result, we have… Well all this current nonsense.
At work, a CTO for a firm we were designing a solution for got upset because hardware was in customs, and tariffs needed to be paid.
He didn’t understand why the manufacturer wasn’t paying, and it had to be pointed out (by someone from the other company bringing this hardware) that tariffs are a tax on importing, not exporting, and for every single contract they have ever had, tariffs are paid by the client.
This was not a small company, either. We’re talking about a fairly large firm in finance. And the CTO didn’t understand how tariffs work.
We’re fucked.