Cheato just threatened John Deer with two hundred percent tariffs

[senseandsensibility]

at his event in PA. As David Roberts pointed out on twitter, this is an effort to reward certain companies who kiss his you know what and punish others. He's doing it out in the open.

I think this explains why he is so pro tariff. It's not that he doesn't understand how they will hurt the consumer, although is stupid and probably doesn't understand. It's because he wants power to hold over businesses who dare to go against him. Scary and dangerous.

I wonder if we will hear anything about this on the corporate media.

[MichMan]

1. Deere

The threat is to impose tariffs on products moved to Mexico after laying off workers here in the US. I imagine the UAW approves

[doc03]

4. So he is going to punish Deere by doubling the price farmers pay for a

tractor.

[ZonkerHarris]

6. There are other tractors to buy. Case-IH (manufactured in Nevada and Wisconsin)....

AGCO/Massey & Challenger (manufactured in Minnesota);
Kubota (manufactured in Georgia)
and more

[allegorical oracle]

9. I live next to a $1.6-million farm operation. All Deere humongous machinery.

Fairly sure they write off portions of those expenses from taxes, so they might not care about a tariff.

[doc03]

10. If the price of a John Deere doubles don't you think the competition

will feal free to raise their prices too. The auto companies also build cars in Mexico, won't he put a tariff those too.
I saw a John Deere factory near Toronto, he going to put a tariff on those tractors or just Mexico.

[BoRaGard]

2. G.O.P. Fascism picks specific targets for PUNISHMENT

They got one stinking evil republican plan attached to the
flabulous ass of the Greatest G.O.P. Felon of All Time.

Moral degenerates.

[brewens]

3. I wondered if his promise to eliminate carried interest was a shakedown of some hedge fund managers?

If he was pissed that he wasn't getting donations from one or more, he'd do that.

[MichMan]

5. John Deere to lay off roughly 600 employees from three US factories

John Deere announced it will lay off about 600 employees across three US factories as the Illinois-based company shifts production to a newly planned facility in Ramos, Mexico.

Effective August 30, about 310 employees will be laid off at two Iowa-based plants in Dubuque and Davenport, as well as 280 from a factory in East Moline, Illinois

The company has reported slumping year-over-year revenue after announcing a net income of more than $10.16 billion in 2023. In a May earnings call, executives forecast Deere’s 2024 income will be about $7 billion, citing higher production costs, lower shipment volumes and volatile weather that has made customers more cautious in their purchasing decisions.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/07/business/john-deere-mass-layoffs-2024/index.html

[Silent Type]

7. Don't kid ourselves, lots of voters - including lots of Dems - will applaud this. He's threatening J Deere IF THEY MOVE.

Still think it's foolish, but

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/commodities/2024/09/23/trump-vows-to-call-xi-if-elected-press-him-to-honor-trade-deal/

[senseandsensibility]

8. He lies all the time

But you're right, lots of voters will lap it up.

[Initech]

11. Good god he is such a fucking asshole.

[Warpy]

12. Everybody from lawn care guys to agribusiness is going to get pissed off at that one

Damn, that guy sure is good at alienating his base.

[LilElf70]

13. This guy is so friggin stupid

His stupidity outweighs his stupidity. Who does he thinks he"s trying to convince this is good?

Every day, I see the stupid stand up and say, I AM TOOPID. Watch me.

And every day, I see more positive confirmation that there's just no fix for stupid. Unbelievable.

[Red Mountain]

14. CHAOS candidate.....

bad for business. Just another example.

[Bev54]

15. Corporate media is too busy writing stories about his take over of the DOJ when he was in office

to go after his enemies, like the Clintons etc. It is like this is all new and to them it is. Not to most of us who read real investigative journalism and were discussing these issues as they happened. It seems Michael Schmidt took his head out of Haberman's ass to look up from his PR campaign for Trump to learn what was going on. He thinks this is new news, it is just new to him and them.

[Geechie]

16. You'd think this might have won them some points

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/07/17/john-deere-dei-programs/74443276007/]

[Johonny]

17. How Trumpworld works

Trump threatens company. Company pretends to comply with Trump. Company then does exactly what it planned all along because the Trump attention span is short and FOX news has already spun it as a victory. Nothing changes.

We know this because Trump did this his first term and companies figured out how to play Trump long ago. He's an easy read.