Gm, Ford, Chrysler now regretting their campaign donations
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That's the worst part, so many "US" cars are built there, it's just stupid
Trump thinks he's playing Tropico and has no idea how the mechanics work.
How dare you sully my memory of that gem of a game by associating it with Trump or suggesting a sequel was ever made.
Well...I mean... Tropico 6 wasn't great, but all the rest were really solid. Mobile version ain't half bad either.
I loathe the introduction of traffic into tropico - I believe only Tropico 1 avoided having road congestion mechanics and while (iirc) 6 minimized the effect of congestion unless things were drastically mismanaged I honestly miss the days when that wasn't a factor. Managing road congestion makes it feel much more like any other city builder and some of them (3 iirc) have gone way fucking overboard with how problematic traffic gets.
I loathe traffic and the necessity of cars in North America... I like building an economic utopia in Tropico and I'd like to minimize automobile usage outside commercial vehicles.
None of the games have really felt as fun and thematic as the original and, imo, that's due in a large part to forcing NA levels of car usage regardless of political alignment.
Per the agreement he forced to be rewritten, USMCA, it expressly forbids this from happening. But, you know, his own signed treaties will never stop him.
Now he wants to break the free trade agreement. All he does is break things.
Not just any trade agreement, HIS trade agreement.
Trump used to be in the Reform Party and opposition to NAFTA was one of their big things
What about opposition to his own agreement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico%E2%80%93Canada_Agreement
Enact great depression policies, expect great depression.
Lol, he can’t do that. We have trade agreements. It would take an act of congress, and… just no, lol
I'm not sure you really understand that the plan is to be dictator for a day and king afterwards.
Trade agreement that he insisted on renegotiating the last time he was in power.
What is with him and tariffs? Is this a part of his plan to bring us back to 1895 ?
He's a bully and an idiot, so his only strategy are idiotic bully tactics.
He's also increasingly stuck in the past. It takes some serious disconnect to ask a crowd in 2024, if they witnessed Charles Lindburgh in 1927.
I think it's a combination of tariffs being protectionist and that presidential authority to issue them without Congress has expanded with time (though arguably without the legislation to justify that). It plays very well with the American manufacturing renaissance pipe dream he sells.
It was really BS that they made Mexico free of car tariffs, so all the US manufacturers would start assembling their vehicles down there. The US lost auto manufacturing jobs that would have been here, and the build quality of the assembly of the ones coming out of Mexico has mostly been worse. This was a direct result of allowing ford and gm to use cheap foreign labor, while still making all competition more expensive.
Having no tariffs anywhere would be a terrible idea (The US auto paying their employees $30+ an hour shouldn't have to compete against China paying $2.80/hour). But leaving Mexico out of an import tax so the US can move their plants down there and not have to pay an import tax is corrupt as hell.
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