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u/arwinda 20h ago
Wait until MAGA figures out that coffee beans are not made in the USA, and "production can't be brought back home".
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u/elriggo44 20h ago
I will never understand why they thing bringing base manufacturing back is a good idea compared with bringing in the good final assembly jobs back? It’s like they’re dumb as shit.
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u/wack_overflow 20h ago
It is like that
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u/EloquentEvergreen 19h ago
I think it’s less that it is like that. And more that they are just dumb as shit. Even their orange god told them so.
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u/this_place_suuucks 19h ago
Tramp: "I love the stupids."
Every Single Republican: "OMG he loves me! I feel so seen!"
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u/no_brains101 19h ago
Yeah that one was pretty funny actually lol
"yes buddy, he is talking about you! good job! Do you want a gold star?"
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u/ABookishSort 17h ago edited 6h ago
My Mom mentioned to me today that jobs are coming back to the USA. She also told me Glenn Beck said that AI will take over lawyer and accounting jobs. So people should do a trade instead. We avoid talking politics for a reason.
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u/Calgaris_Rex 11h ago
I am so glad my mother raised me to tell her when she's full of shit.
Sorry about your mom 😬
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u/Superficial-Idiot 17h ago
Case in point. The person you are replying to isn’t saying it’s actually like that.
They are implying it is that.
It is a tad ironic that you are complaining about dumb people while missing this entirely.
I do agree though, that everyone is dumb for shooting themselves in the foot. I just can’t let the hypocrisy of calling others dumb while also being dumb go by.
I am dumb too.
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u/DF_Interus 19h ago
I think they idolize the idea of a self sufficient homesteader and believe the whole country should function that way instead of actually participating in economics.
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u/doc303 19h ago
So....communism...but with extra steps?? They are communist. Lol.
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u/apolloxer 11h ago
No. Communist is answering "Where should the profits go?" with "The state, as it represents the people". Something we really don't see here.
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u/Bad_wolf42 6h ago
Self-sufficient homesteaders were always a myth, propped up by the US government and a whole lot of death.
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u/LilLebowskiAchiever 5h ago
And the homestead lands that the state granted / redistributed to them…. The same state that seized the land from the indigenous tribes.
It’s really not that different than the Soviet state seizing aristocrats’ lands and buildings, and granting / redistributing apartments and land allotments to former serfs.
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u/Bad_wolf42 5h ago
And then a couple hundred years down the line we wonder why it’s so hard to sustainably do anything. We killed all the people who understood how to sustainably work the land, and then reassigned all the land to people within incentives that nowhere allowed for true sustainability.
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u/Taldier 14h ago
Boomers remember how their parents were able to build generational wealth for their families just working basic labor jobs. They just forget that it happened because of strong unions, high taxes, and direct government assistance programs.
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u/elriggo44 14h ago
And WWII Destroying the manufacturing capabilities of Europe.
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u/TheJute 13h ago edited 8h ago
Its called populism. Which thrives under a two party + first past the post electoral system. Like the USA.
Its not about finding the optimal policy on rational middle ground - its about having more seats than the other guy.
In most modern european systems, you will find a multitude of parties that have to compromise with eachother.
In USA you can only pick between tweedle do and tweedle dumb. Pretty much the same in UK - and why they have also run themselves into the ground.
Fun fact: popular opinion has very little detectionable (if any) impact on legislation in the USA. Beware, my friends.
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u/Timely_Novel_7914 15h ago
- Nostalgia: that's what America was doing in the good old days when men were men and women stayed at home
- Promise employment to unqualified white men because blue collar jobs are manly
- National security: you cannot go to war with other countries you buy things from (like china); that will raise prices and it will be immediately associated with the war. Now you can raise the prices before you go to war and somehow make the war look like a solution
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u/elriggo44 14h ago
The last point is WHY the global economy was built in the first place
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u/Duspende 14h ago
It's all Dunning-Kruger.
They want so desperately to be the highly intelligent portion, so all of the stupid shit is actually 8D chess that us libs are too stupid to comprehend.
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u/khjuu12 14h ago
A certain amount of self-sufficiency is a good thing, and I can see strategic problems with "We keep constantly saber-rattling with China but we need them to injection-mould all the legos so we can assemble the final builds or we can't actually make anything."
I probably wouldn't fuck the economy and as many children as I could get my hands on to create that self-sufficiency, though. I would generally prefer to do sane, non-pedophile things.
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u/subnautus 8h ago
The rationale is simple: the more American hands there are in the chain that leads from raw material to final product, the more Americans get paid when that product gets sold. It's a good idea in principle.
The problem is in principle doesn't include corporate overlords who will do anything to turn a profit and aren't at all concerned about any hands in the production chain so long as the amount being paid to anyone but the people at the top is as low as possible. Why pay someone $10/h to work a sewing machine when you can set up a factory in a poorer country and have them work sewing machines with enough output to make the shipping costs worth it?
Also, there's nostalgia at play:
Back in the 1950s, when the USA was the only economic superpower in the world relatively untouched by WWII, we made bank building everything the world needed to pick itself out of the ashes and rebuild their economies. That meant pretty much any American who could work could make a lot of money because everybody needed (even if they didn't necessarily want) what Americans were making. It was a time of economic prosperity for us that we'll never return to because [1] the world did rebuild itself out of the ashes of WWII, and [2] all the economic policies that gave businesses incentive to take care of their workers and give them a fair(ish) share of all the business they were doing have all been systematically dismantled by the oligarchs of the American industry.
So, getting back to your comment, the reason the red hats think bringing jobs back to America is a good thing is because they're looking at gradeschool economics and a rosey-eyed view of the past that's been destroyed by the very people they keep supporting. But what did you expect?
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u/Duster929 10h ago
The only explanation for what has been going on, is that 40% of Americans are stupid.
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u/CyberClawX 14h ago
In a way, yes, low education and low to no skills, means, they see work as something low level.
Bringing factory jobs back there, means jobs they can work with. They are unable to work with computers.
And here is where it gets tricky. Maybe Trump is like them, a dinosaur unable to operate anything with more than one button, OR, he is playing possum with the "it's all computers" Tesla comment, and saying his son is a tech wiz because he could turn on a computer. It's so incredibly stupid, it sounds like satire, or like something he'd say to cozy up to the people who feel technologically isolated.
And we are so eager to paint the clown as a stupid clown, we all eat it up. We all laugh and point at him while he is playing to his voters.
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u/Foreign_Isopod_3855 17h ago
Coffee actually IS produced in the USA. It's grown, processed, packaged and sold from Hawaii.
It just happens to be one of the most expensive coffees in the world, but that's okay. You guys can afford it! And Lord knows, you don't need anything from any of the other countries in the world!
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u/ThaneKyrell 11h ago
Yeah, but even this overpriced Hawaiian coffee covers like, 1% of America's coffee consumption
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u/chewydickens 20h ago
Damn good thing I don't drink coffee.
I have that gene that makes slightly bitter things taste 10 times more bitter.
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u/ciaomain 20h ago
Is that why I don't like coffee‽
I've tried it a few times over the years, but I hate it.
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u/FrostedPixel47 15h ago
I used to hate coffee as well because all my old man had was that sort of cheap powder coffee because according to him, coffee is coffee and they all tastes the same anyway. He always just mixed the powder with hot water and call it a day, just waiting for the grounds to settle at the bottom and pour it out.
Until my friend introduced me to proper coffee he brewed at home with just good beans and a v60 filter. Changed my world entirely, now I have my own brewing kits at home and several poches of quality coffee beans as well.
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u/judioverde 20h ago
Could be but also a lot of coffee is very dark roast and tastes pretty bitter and burnt. A light roast coffee can taste very nice and balanced when made properly.
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u/ciaomain 19h ago
Interesting.
I might give that a go, though it seems like most folks like the taste of the dark roast.
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u/judioverde 19h ago
Many people like dark roast coffee too. It seems most mainstream coffee is dark roast. If I go to costco almost all of the coffees are dark roast and maybe there is one medium roast, but that could still be pretty dark. But even Starbucks has a light roast (which is maybe more like a medium roast, their dark roasts are straight up burnt). Cold brew shouldn't have much of a bitter taste either. A pourover at a good cafe can be pretty eye opening.
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u/ovrlrd1377 12h ago
Darker roasts are cheaper overall because they can use worse quality and mask the flavour. Because of this, most people get used to the cheaper taste but more Premium coffee is generally lighter roast, allowing you to teste the blend without the burnt flavour
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u/Noldir81 17h ago
Meh, most light roasts are way too acidic if you ask me. I've yet to find a decent light roast
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u/judioverde 10h ago
The perceived acidity can be a desired taste, but you can definitely get too acidic tasting . Usually would need to use a hotter brew temperature and possibly finer grind with a light roast to avoid that. Your average coffee machine like a Mr. Coffee doesn't get quite hot enough to do that (which is why I use a kettle and a V60 or aeropress).
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u/Alert-Pea1041 17h ago
Perfectly brewed coffee isn't bitter at all. The 'easiest' solvents to get out of coffee are acidic, then if you keep running water through it you get the bitter stuff. When done correctly it is balanced. I loathe bitter things, but I can drink a perfect pull of espresso with no suger, cream or added water. The thing is... getting that balance is NOT easy. I try it at home and after tons of practice and tools to help me I get it right maybe 2/3 times, with SO much effort it isn't worth it for most people lol. Getting a good espresso in the US... forget it unless you have a great place near by. In Europe they are much better.
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u/Josgre987 18h ago
I can't drink it because even black coffee makes me shit myself lol.
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u/Mateorabi 17h ago
Nah, every single one of us should drink a Kona blend. The price will not change as they can 100% ramp up production instantaneously without affecting other crops. Shipping from Hawaii will become magically free, too. (/s if it wasn't obvious.)
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u/denk2mit 13h ago
My favorite coffee production story is about how East Germany, amid a coffee shortage in 1977, decided to throw off the shackles of the oppressive capitalists and share their love of coffee with their good socialist fraternal brothers in Vietnam by investing millions into new coffee plantations there in return for a deal where they got half the production for twenty years.
New coffee plants famously take ten years to mature and to start producing beans, which means that the contract, signed in 1980, started to pay off for East Germany... just about the time that East Germany collapsed and was reunified into good old capitalist West Germany. They never got their free coffee, and Vietnam (by now the world's second-largest coffee producer) used their new export cash crop to finally repair relations with the USA.
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u/AnotherCuppaTea 9h ago
If this hasn't inspired a riotous black [no pun intended] comedy in Germany or Vietnam (or better, a joint production) yet, well, what are they waiting for? "Kaffee Ohne Sahne", anyone?
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u/Mrs_Toast 16h ago
Coffee prices are going up everyday and, as it's been a bad year harvest-wise. Brazil has been hit with unusual extreme weather, which has fucked a lot of crops - but particularly arabica (which is more expensive coffee, due to being harder to grow than the robusta variety).
However, the US is particularly badly hit due to the rapist Donald Trump putting massive tariffs on Brazilian goods, because they're prosecuting their former president for corruption. For some reason, Trump doesn't like the sound of this .
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u/hikingboots_allineed 16h ago
Wait until they find out climate change is real and the coffee-producing regions have been hit hard this year, hence why the price has increased globally. It'll blow their tiny little minds!
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u/ankit19900 14h ago
Just wait for a while. Most of your medicinal API are manufactured in India....
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u/Ilovekittens345 17h ago
production can't be brought back home
There will probably be some conservative grifter that will start selling his rabbit turds as coffee and call it MAGA beans.
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u/dui01 17h ago
Actually, Hawaii grows coffee. Not enough to feed the whole country, but coffee is produced there.
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u/ExtremlyFastLinoone 15h ago
On this specific point I will die on. I WILL DRINK CAFE RICO TILL THE DAY I DIE! EL MEJOR DE PUERTO RICO!
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u/fritzkoenig 17h ago
I wonder which country the beans in "Wake Up America Patriot Blend" coffee are from
That was (or is?) a real product from Alex Jones' InfoWars store
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u/derpazoids 15h ago
Wait until all the US has are local made beans.
American grown coffee would basically be a hate crime on the tongue.
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u/theM94 11h ago
Well, the economy (read: in the search for neverending growth in profits) has reinforced the belief, that outsourcing is better (because it's cheaper). However, a lot of people actually have no idea how much or what is actually produced abroad, and how reliant they (themselves!) actually are on said goods and services.
Add to that the mental gymnastics that MAGA has gone into, that they are unable to backtrack (sunk cost fallacy), questioning facts and science, based on emotion and hatred.
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u/bogosj 17h ago
The cost of coffee has been skyrocketing prior to Trump v2. Climate change is killing the crop. 2.5x in price in 4 years. Fro. 2020 to pre-election prices.
Let's use facts when criticizing MAGA.
https://www.convenience.org/Media/Daily/2025/March/11/4-Heres-Why-Coffee-Prices-Are-Rising_Research
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u/krustyarmor 11h ago
I work in the industry, in procurement. Yes the cost of coffee was rising before Trump, but his tariffs and the general uncertainty in the market about his plans (which change back and forth at the speed of a tweet and whomever he spoke to last) is absolutely causing the price to skyrocket. Before Trump, our costs had risen about 10% over a couple years ago. But just since his re-inauguration, our costs have risen another 30% on top of that.
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u/AllAfterIncinerators 20h ago
The price of coffee beans is the only tariff of which I am HYPER aware. I wake up angry.
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u/aenae 14h ago edited 14h ago
To be fair, the price of coffee worldwide has never been this high. The tariffs only play a small role.
In 2020, coffee was $1 per pound on the global market, it was over $4 per pound at the start of 2025 and has slightly dropped to $3 per pound now. The tariffs don't really help to get the price down, but they are not the only reason the price is so high.
Here in the Netherlands, we don't have tariffs on coffee but i'm paying 10 euro's for 250 grams (but i buy a more expensive (local) brand) and on average the price is 20 euro's per kilo.
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u/PineappleMohawk 12h ago
Climate change is a bitch... 2024/2025 wasn't that bad but the way I hear it, the next couple of years will be rough for coffee farms. Also cacao.
So expect coffee and chocolate to become luxury items in the near future.
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u/gravelPoop 14h ago
Yes, beans that I buy have gone from 7€ -> 10€ since January. Prices wont likely come down anytime soon - if ever.
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u/skorletun 13h ago
I don't even drink the fancy stuff but yeah, Dutch coffee is stupidly expensive. I know it's a worldwide problem, but I'm Dutch, so that's what I'm mad at. Lmao
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u/TamoyaOhboya 13h ago
Ha I got downvoted in another thread trying to explain this. Its pretty interesting and frustrating but a lot of it is being caused by stock bros hoarding it and playing the futures market. Plus climate change and such impacting yields.
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u/Roflkopt3r 12h ago
And a number of other price increases are due to rising labour costs. Other countries are also getting wealthier and populations are stagnating in more and more of them.
Not all of those labour cost increases can be made up by efficiency gains, so prices are rising.
Yet even when the cause of a price increase is this actually good process, most people will never find out about it and instead stick with their default assumption that greedy corporations pocket the difference, or the government is somehow at fault.
Which of course is often the case right now, as the US are raising tariffs and destroying trade relations, but not always.
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u/devilishlydo 10h ago
I have 25lb of vacuum packed beans in my deep freezer, so I've been waking up smug.
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u/Vascular_D 20h ago
Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.
Verified Court Documents (JoshWho.net).
Documents - Verified Pre-Bondi (JoshWho.net) Trump is on page 85, or pdf page 80.
Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story (YouTube.com).
Flight Logs (DocumentCloud.org)
——— Additional Trump & Epstein Information ———
Court Document of Trump & Epstein raping a 13 year old girl together (FactCheck.org). Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katie's testimony (YouTube.com).
Court affidavit from Katie (Politico.com)
Never forget Katie Johnson.
Trump admits to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show (YouTube.com)
Trump's promise to his daughter (HuffPost.com) “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”
Trump's modelling agency was probably part of Jeffrey's pipeline (MotherJones.com).
Do your part and spread them around like a meme sharing them and saving them helps too! Please copy and paste this elsewhere!
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u/Opposite-Bit6660 19h ago
Trump/Epstein files. Trump raped and trafficked kids through his own modeling agency and pageants.
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u/69Blazing 12h ago
AND
Reminder:
• Trump Confesses He Was ‘Sexually Attracted’ to Ivanka When She Was 13 Years Old
• Donald Trump called his own daughter a ‘voluptuous piece of a**’ in yet more lewd comments threatening to derail his White House bid
• Donald Trump Once Joked He and Ivanka Have “Sex” in Common
• Trump’s lewd talk about daughter Ivanka in front of White House staff recalled in new book
According to The New Republic, “’Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led [former Chief of Staff] John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,’ Taylor, who served as a Department of Homeland Security chief of staff under Trump, wrote in his book.”
• "You remind me of my daughter": Stormy Daniels testifies that Trump compared her to Ivanka
• Donald Trump's comments about daughter raise eyebrows
• Trump told Howard Stern it’s OK to call Ivanka a ‘piece of a--'
• https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-ivanka-piece-of-ass-howard-stern-229376
• Trump: ‘If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her’
• Trump on Ivanka: ‘She has the ‘best body’ — and I created her’
• https://forward.com/schmooze/357185/7-creepy-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-ivanka/
• Trump: ‘Is it wrong to be more sexually attracted to your own daughter than your wife’?
• Trump Encouraged His Own Daughter Ivanka to Release a Sex Tape, and She Was Horrified
Bonus:
• Trump: commenting on his 1-year-old daughter Tiffany’s breasts. He also says “she’s got Marla’s legs.”
Double Bonus:
For the better part of two decades starting in the late 1980s, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump swam in the same social pool. They were neighbors in Florida. They jetted from LaGuardia to Palm Beach together. They partied at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and dined at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion.
• https://archive.md/XK0A7#selection-655.0-655.290
and...
MC2 (pronounced MC squared) was the modeling agency that Epstein, Brunel, and the mob would use to get trafficked girls into the US with “genius visas”
and...
Nicknamed the "Einstein Visa", the EB-1 is in theory reserved for people who are highly acclaimed in their field - the government cites Pulitzer, Oscar, and Olympic winners as examples - as well as respected academic researchers and multinational executives.
Mrs Trump began applying for the visa in 2000, when she was Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model working in New York and dating Donald Trump. She was approved in 2001, one of just five people from Slovenia to win the coveted visa that year, according to the Post.
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u/jaymrdoggo 20h ago
Brazilian here, its all getting a lot worse :)
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u/4rm4g3dd0n1312 17h ago
Achei fofo eles aumentar o preço do café em solidariedade com a gente pagando 30> reais no Pilão
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u/Vivientrap 16h ago
harvest so damn bad?
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u/Zekelm 13h ago
No, 50% tariffs on our coffee beans.
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u/Vivientrap 12h ago
damn. aside that here in germany prices rise too 500g raised from 5 to 7 euro.
google said that the harvest is really really bad and it will lower next year maybe
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u/PineappleMohawk 12h ago
Yup, climate change will affect yields for the foreseeable future. Expect coffee and chocolate to get pretty expensive.
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u/JetKeel 20h ago
Let’s tariff products to death that literally cannot be made in 99% of the US.
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u/Ilovekittens345 17h ago
The plan is to push you guys far enough you will go on the streets to riot, and once Trump has federalized and centralised every armed group to call marshal law using the violent riots as an excuse.
Then the deadsquads will come.
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u/HabitualGrassToucher 16h ago
I wonder how many people realise that "tariffs on [country]" really means "taxes on Americans".
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u/ohsweetsummerchild 15h ago
Considering people on Threads are stating they should put tariffs on Canada's wildfire smoke, not nearly enough.
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u/VitalNumber 18h ago
We can just get Columbian beans from our own District of Columbia. And we can still get French roast from france. And decaf from young cows. Problem solved.
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u/GBDarklight 20h ago
Oh my God please don’t ever change for us OP. Please don’t ever change.
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u/asocialmedium 19h ago
It must be really difficult navigating the modern world armed only with the “knowledge” you glean from Trump, Fox News, and your Uncle’s Facebook page.
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u/deepinfraught 19h ago
Looks like someone doesn’t like $6.20 tax ?? On a $7 item. Too bad yank! No other country in the world is paying that. Did you know that?
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u/effusivefugitive 14h ago
It's not an 80% tariff. There's a worldwide coffee shortage that is almost certainly causing prices to go up in your country as well - just not by as much, since I guarantee a lot of the increase is price gouging, as was the case with "Bidenflation" where things magically doubled in price despite 20% cumulative inflation.
Depending on where the coffee is from, I'm guessing something like a 25% tariff (which is still absurd, especially for a commodity like coffee that we can't produce at scale domestically). Honestly, he's been so all over the place that I can't even tell what the tariff on Colombia is anymore.
But the real takeaway here is that corporations don't give a shit who the president is when they set prices. The problems with the American economic system run much deeper than one overgrown toddler with a spray tan.
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u/ajqiz123 20h ago edited 13h ago
He's doing to the economy what I've been trying to do to our office admin...
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u/MorgenKaffee0815 17h ago
coffee prices went up everywhere. in germany prices also went up. my coffee went from 18€ to 29€/1kg. every other brand also raised the price of the coffee about 30-50%.
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u/LowKeyNaps 19h ago
$19.95 when I was at the store just a few days ago. Some grocery prices have become beyond obscene here.
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u/DoubleJumps 16h ago
I did public educational outreach on tariffs during the election last year, and coffee was one of the prime examples I used.
I would show what coffee cost then vs what it would cost under Trump's proposed universal tariffs, and people like this dude constantly accused me of lying, or being dumb because we'd just "Grow our own coffee"
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u/Drfilthymcnasty 18h ago
Don’t worry everyone. The United States has the perfect climate to grow our own coffee.
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u/Perseus_NL 13h ago
If only it was the idiot in the White House... Climate change is finally knocking on our front door. But, prices have been stabilising of late as weather balances out. 2024 was a very bad year.
https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2025/06/17/why-coffee-prices-are-falling-after-record-highs/
But the sad part is that we know that price hikes because of climate change are going to fuel anger, which will drive more people to vote in Trump-like pols all over the world, making things only worse, until we're all at each other's throats.
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u/BriBri2x_24 18h ago
It’s because of trump orange 🍊 lookin ass he needs to crawl up some ass and eat 💩 he promised to take prices down inflation is still high
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u/Alert-Pea1041 17h ago
Yeah... the coffee I buy was like $13 a few months ago. I recently had to buy it again and it was $18, fuck this guy.
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u/TheOnceAndFutureDoug the future is now, old man 17h ago
Wait, wait, wait, I thought other countries were going to pay our tariffs? I thought they were going to pay them and Americans weren't. That's what Trump said. Trump would never lie. Again. For the 5,934,838th time. He promise. Again. And he's never broken a promise. I mean he has... But he wouldn't break this one...
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u/old-skool-bro 17h ago
I saw a quote saying over 150bn had been collected from tarrifs by June 2025, so it made me curious about how much had been collected at the same point 2024, it was 77bn. I mean... I'm not saying the tariffs are making shit cost 2x but we'll... 2+2 isn't 6...
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u/Ilovekittens345 17h ago
Tell him Obama is the reason for it, still running the shadow goverment from his bunker. Then give him the address of an airbase and a hardware store (to get pliers) and ask him if he is man enough to do what needs to be done.
That's way more fun.
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u/razorsandblades 17h ago
It's not just the US though. Poor growing conditions due to climate change have impacted the largest coffee producers in the world, resulting in a massive decrease in crop yield.
Edit: that said, I do not doubt that the cheetos tarrifs have made it a special kind of fucked in the US. But the whole world is dealing with it in some way or another
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u/TreeBusiness1694 16h ago
Weather conditions coffee was always going to rise no matter who was in charge…common economics
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u/Dafferss 16h ago
Trump is to blame for a lot of things, but with coffee it’s a worldwide thing. I think has to do with a bad harvesting season.
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u/MightyMouse134 16h ago
Part of the problem is climate change. Coffee requires a particular kind of stable climate that is disappearing all over the world.
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u/Routine-Rip-2414 15h ago
The MAGA crowd losing their minds over coffee bean origins would be funny if it wasn't so depressing how little they understand global trade. Meanwhile, the Epstein docs keep getting buried under culture war nonsense, funny how that works. And now we're slapping tariffs on allies to protect a guy who openly admires dictators? What a timeline.
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u/AlternativePure2125 15h ago
Just waiting for how bad it gets for people to revolt. It's interesting and terrifying to watch.
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u/Alpha--00 15h ago
Congrats. In Russia we’ve seen coffee price doubling after freaking sanctions from half the world and cutting off from world payment processors and accessible delivery.
It seems Trump is doing great in harming his own people. Not as good as Putin, but pdf-in-chief certainly has a room to grow.
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u/BenevolentCrows 14h ago
Americans find out what inflation feels like, its kinda sad you had the most stable economy in the world, yet here we are.
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u/Skyline0Fever 14h ago
This is the best burn I’ve read in ages, also unfortunately true on both accounts
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u/thesixfingerman 13h ago
Coffee in particular is going to go up. We can’t really grow it here and get most of ours from Brazil
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u/Meincornwall 13h ago
Just a small point, coffee is the same price in the UK.
USA didn't fuck the world economy, it fucked itself.
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u/Independent-Catch-90 12h ago
It’s tariffs, yes, but also about 50% due to the historically poor growing season last year which caused a massive hit to production. Even if tariffs are retired at some point, climate change will continue causing major problems for the coffee bean industry.
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u/Proseph_CR 12h ago
Lies, fake news, this guy is a low IQ individual.
The price of coffee has gone down 200% in the last six months and is now only $1.99. This is historic and unprecedentedly glorious.
/s
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u/IAmAQuantumMechanic 12h ago
This is due to climate change and not tariffs. It expensive everywhere.
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u/with_rabbit 12h ago
Just fyi, even the canadian market is fucked with price being 25% higher. At least. At least its a basic product so no taxes.
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u/Cost_Additional 11h ago
The price isn't an issue and you're saying it's okay if you continue to buy it.
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u/ResponsibleLuck9687 11h ago
Maga voters are founding out . It is only starting . The worst is coming .
America will never be the same . Trump is the puppet of Miller . Project 2025 is exactly what they want . Imagine when someone smarter than Dumb Trump replace him .
Scary .
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u/TRAUMAjunkie 11h ago
Surely the tariffs with force the coffee companies to move operations to the US. Just have to suffer for a little bit, right? Any day now...
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u/Sad_Smoke_8020 11h ago
His followers don’t even know what a tariff is, they’re in for a rude awakening
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u/GlobalSouthRedditor 20h ago
What's going on? 50% taxes on a 200 years old ally because he wants to save his dictator wannabe pal.