Someone asked about the news, out of Punchbowl, that Amazon would soon add a line item at checkout that detailed the “import costs” of purchased goods. If Amazon did this it would join other retailers like Temu that are letting customers know why the cost of buying products from it has more than doubled in the past few weeks.
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This short saga shows how the Trump administration plans to deal with the chaos that it has created: By attempting to bully companies into denying the reality that his tariffs are making it more expensive (or potentially impossible) to buy millions of different products. The strategy here—to the extent there is one at all—is to pressure companies into eating tariff costs, pretend that none of this is happening, or to add opacity into the process by having prices shoot up without retailers breaking out what portion of them is from Trump’s tariffs.
Tariffs? What tariffs? Nothing to see here. Move along.
How many different sentences of the form:
Trump demands ________ deny the reality of what his _______ are doing to _________
can you make?
Wow finally a correctly worded headline about this story.
“I reject your reality, and substitute my own”
Don’t…insult Adam Savage like that please
You know he was quoting a movie right?
Yeah I know but he popularized that phrase<3
“Biden called twitter to bury the Hunter Biden story.” Brought to you by … This Administration
Thanks Amazon but also fuck you Amazon.
Pathetic.
How sad.
It’s worse, they still want the consumer to believe it is “chayna” who is raising the prices beyond the reasonable. This all so they can keep pointing their finger at “the enemy” for ripping off the consumer.
But when US based companies start listing the tariff rates separately, the imagined enemy vanishes like smoke…
To keep tabs on the real impact of these tariffs, does anybody know of some good price trackers?
I knew CNET is keeping tabs on 11 electronic products: https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/tariff-pricing-tracker-were-watching-11-products-you-might-need-to-buy/
In this administration, transparency is the enemy.
In this administration, everything is the enemy. Even Trump’s good graces are combative in nature. How they don’t literally eat each other is beyond me.
Facts are now political
Have been since 2016.
I remember running in to a Trump supporter here in Australia in 2016.
He told me with 100% aggressive confidence that HE WILL BUILD THAT WALL.
oh look, it never got built. Only little chunks
Billionaires are fucking cowards.
Contrary to the narrative, you don’t become a billionaire by taking risks.
Once you’re a billionaire, you have a helluva a lot more leeway and leverage to fight back, they’re just fucking cowards.
He is well versed in denying his own orange stained bullshit
Why is anyone still using Amazon? He gave tRump one million at his inauguration.
They also stopped their DEI initiative when Trump complained about it.
Meta and Amazon are scaling back their diversity programmes, joining firms across corporate America that are retreating from hiring and training initiatives criticised by conservatives, citing legal and political risks.
In related news, here’s a list of companies to boycott:
The list:
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Amazon: Amazon removed references to diversity and inclusion from its 2024 annual report, CNBC reported on Feb. 7.
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AT&T: The company has scrapped a series of DEI initiatives, including encouraging employees to wear pins with preferred pronouns. It will no longer fund LGBTQ+ events and groups and its scholarships, which previously targeted minority groups, will be open to all, Bloomberg reported on March 7.
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Bank of America: The bank scrapped diversity hiring goals and changed references of “diversity” to “talent” and “opportunity,” Bloomberg reported on Feb. 25.
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BlackRock: The investment company dropped all references to diversity, equity and inclusion, according to The Wall Street Journal on Feb. 25.
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Boeing: The aircraft maker got rid of its DEI department, Bloomberg reported in November 2024.
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Citigroup: The financial services company will end goals related to hiring a diverse workforce, Bloomberg reported on Feb. 19.
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Chipotle: The company deleted DEI language from its 2024 annual report, NPR reported on Feb. 7.
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Deloitte: The financial consulting firm told U.S. employees with government clients to remove pronouns from their email signatures and said it would stop creating diversity reports, The Financial Times reported on Feb. 11.
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Disney: Disney replaced references to “Diversity & Inclusion” with “Talent Strategy” and got rid of a website that highlighted diverse employees, Axios reported on Feb. 11.
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Ford: Ford changed the focus of employee resource groups and ended participation in external surveys, such as one measuring the workplace inclusion of LGBTQ+ employees, CNN reported in August 2024.
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General Motors: The carmaker scrubbed references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its 2024 report, NPR reported on Feb. 7.
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Goldman Sachs: The investment bank dropped a diversity requirement for the companies it takes public and removed “diversity and inclusion” language from its annual filing, Reuters reported on Feb. 28.
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Google: The tech company scrapped its diversity hiring goals and removed references to Black History Month, Women’s History Month and other cultural moments from Google Calendar, although it said that it began making those changes in mid-2024, CNBC reported on Feb. 10.
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John Deere: In July 2024, the company said it would no longer participate in cultural awareness events and remove “social motivated messages” from company materials.
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Harley-Davidson: The motorcycle company got rid of its “DEI function” in April 2024 and said it does not have diversity goals for employees or suppliers, Forbes reported.
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Lowe’s: The home improvement chain will stop participating in external events like Pride parades and combine its employee resource groups into a single organization, The Association Press reported in August 2024.
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McDonald’s: The company affirmed a commitment to “inclusion” in a Jan. 6 memo that also announced the end of diversity hiring goals, among other actions.
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Meta: The company ended equity and inclusion training programs and removed diversity hiring goals, CNBC reported on Jan. 10.
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Paramount: The entertainment company will eliminate goals to have a certain number of employees based on race, ethnicity and gender, The New York Times reported on Feb. 26.
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PBS: All employees working in DEI-related programs left the TV network when it closed its diversity, equity and inclusion office, NPR reported on Feb. 11.
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Pepsi: The retailer will remove diversity hiring goals and shift its supplier diversity program’s focus to small businesses, Forbes reported.
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Starbucks: Investors at Starbucks’ shareholders’ annual meeting in March 2024 voted to remove diversity goals from the criteria for executive bonuses, Newsweek reported. The chain faces multiple lawsuits, from both the state of Missouri and private individuals, related to its DEI programs.
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State Street: The bank, which installed the “Fearless Girl” statue in Manhattan in 2017, removed targets expecting board members of companies in major index funds to be 30% female, Reuters reported on Feb. 28.
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The Smithsonian Institution: The partially government-funded museum and research center closed its diversity office, The Washington Post reported on Jan. 28.
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Target: The retailer ended programs helping Black employees advance in their careers and promoting Black-owned suppliers, The Associated Press reported on Jan. 24.
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Tractor Supply: The tractor company announced it would eliminate its DEI initiatives and carbon emissions goals in June 2024.
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Uber: Uber said it plans to drop DEI-related goals from its criteria for executive pay bonuses, The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 25.
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Victoria’s Secret: The lingerie retailer replaced the word “diversity” with simply “inclusion and belonging” on its website and halted a goal to promote a certain percentage of Black workers, Bloomberg reported on March 5.
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Walmart: The world’s largest retailer said it will not renew a five-year commitment for an equity racial center created after the police killing of George Floyd. It will also no longer consider race and gender diversity of suppliers or participate in a survey measuring workplace inclusion for LGBTQ+ people, NPR reported in November 2024.
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Warner Bros. Discovery: The media and entertainment company renamed all DEI efforts as “inclusion” and will no longer participate in external surveys, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Personal responsibility isn’t in vogue.
That Donald Trump sure does sound like an absolute moron.
And this is actually a very pointed verification this is a cult and religion and not politics as usual, and also why - to those not in the cult - that Trump really is subjecting the entire country to captive narcissistic abuse.
He continues to demand loyalty to the dogma over the empirical facts, and that loyalty prioritizes himself over the cumulative well-being of 300 million people. Moments of cognitive dissonance, of competing realities, are - like in a religion - seen as a test of faith and loyalty.
And like in a narcissistic abuse scenario, we are locked in a continual boundary-pushing test and punishment cycle to cement his ability to determine reality for his victims. Similarly, those who the abuser favors and performs for - friends, family - think you’re all making it up and overreacting. I hope eventually someone treats this as a case study in mass narcissistic psychological abuse.
sales tax are already explicit at checkout in the US, showing import tax just follow the same idea
