I nostri amici europei, noi (sani) americani siamo ancora qui. Protesta a Washington. Combattimento!!!!

Please do more. This is not enough.

Not to be a dick but it seems incredibly underwhelming. I get the impression the vast majority of Americans just gave up or are too scared

Better but still weak even when since it is happening in a blue state … If a French president did or say halfnlfnthr shit Trump did.. There would be riots all around France for months

What you are doing Is encouraging but I don’t think the US have a protesting culture like some European and South American countries 

How nice for you.

But it changes nothing. The US is no longer an ally or friend of Europe. You are a hostile foreign power.

And it’s utterly irrelevant that some of you don’t support Trump. Because the majority of your country does.

Even if somehow you magically managed to get him impeached, kicked out of office, held an emergency election and elected a pro European democrat who reversed every single decision Trump has made, and went on a global apology tour where the president and their entire cabinet formally delivered apologies to every single former ally.

It does not change the fact that your country is prone to pendulum swings back to batshit insane hostility.

So basically, I’ll repeat my first sentence. How nice for you. But you must realise you will never, ever, be seen as an ally again. Or a friend. The sooner the Western world decouples from you the better. Enjoy your isolation.

I hope the bastards stay away. You brave people. I hope it encourages others to join the fight.

Low-key just wanna move to Europe when I can

I wonder how orange monkey cult media will cover it.

Your tree of liberty is drying up.

Best of luck to all you beautiful people!

The world is behind you.

Lots of either russian bots or useful idiots in the comments. This is fantastic, keep up the great work!

Great to see

The problem I, as a european, see with this is that even if it’s good to see people sayng now, is that it doesn’t have much positive effect.

Seen protest live many times at the exact same spot regarding many diffrent causes. But it never had much effect other than on the party that already represented the side that was protesting. Gave politicians in the same side of politics as the protester mostly betonged to a pointer on which cause to talk about to gain votes. No effects on the politicians or voters on the other side.

To gain support from other voters to see clear one need to engage with them and talk with them personaly. To problem with the DC protests is that it’s mostly, if opponents are meet at all, ends up with screaming and antagonizing the opponents. That’s not that strange though as to the fact both in society in general people are fysicaly and mentaly gated away from eachother in the US especially and even in political debates, politicians not seldomly have a tone and a style of debate that antogonizes the other, not seldomly in an agresive or ridiculous way. All it leads to is futher division and even less possibilities to touch the other side. Extremly unproductive sadly.

Neither Finn or Turk but tell you this; The USA should study finish politicians and pragmatic debates way more then turkish “parliamental” ways (the concept Turkish pariament is usually refered to as politicians fist figting eachother).

Never give up!

Don’t give up guys! ✊ We’re cheering for ya!

Let’s gooo USA, fight for democracy! Europe is with you!

But it’s good for Europe… We will pay more now, but it will help us to be more independent in the future. Only in the case of WW3, we will probably have a problem without USA.

For example I hate how European companies are migrating their servers to US clouds like Azure, GCloud, and AWS… We don’t need that. It’s a different story with hardware, though.

Let’s talk about the tariffs and the effects it has on the manufacturers of this country.

Assume for a minute that you wanted to bring back some manufacturing to the USA, which of course is a huge assumption compared to manufacturing outside the country like we do as a company.

Which I will get to in just a moment.
This week alone the stock market lost over US$9 trillion which means every single manufacturer that has a US corporation is part of that loss. Which goes to show you that Trump‘s logic is about as efficient as his spray tan.

If these companies even had a thought of coming back to the United States, all of their cash has now evaporated because of the loss in the stock market so who’s going to finance these new manufacturing plants that Trump keeps talking about, that are going to come back here make the economy great?

Now goods have gone up in price in some cases doubled already this week which means the consumers are going to be buying less. Companies are going to begin layoffs, because they’ve lost a huge portion of their cash reserves. Their businesses are going to be diminished some because of the lower purchasing rate and the higher pricing.

Bringing manufacturing back to the United States at this point with this approach has been almost completely eliminated.

All you have to do is go back and look at what happened during the depression when they tried to institute tariffs causing the depression to take even a further nose dive and adding years into the depressive point. It’s such a joke that they used it in the movie Ferris Bueller‘s Day off where the teacher was talking about how bad tariffs are and how they caused the depression to go down, which goes to show you that if they use it as a punchline, then it obviously cannot work.

With our business, we were building some manufacturing plants in the United States and now have had to put it on hold because of the tariffs. As an example, each of our production lines has a manufacturing cost of a little under US$5 million, we did try to price it in the United States but we found quotes anywhere from $12-$16 million for the same exact production line that we are having made in China. So we couldn’t make the equipment in the United States, but we were going to import it and set up manufacturing plants.

One of them was in Arkansas where the state is somewhat depressed. Now we have put that project on hold with approximately 1800 people we were going to hire.

The reason for that is not just the tariffs, from the equipment if you think about it a piece of equipment that cost me $5 million is now going to cost me about $9 million. Each production line generates about US$35 million of revenue so it’s not just a tariff in my situation it’s the fact that for $9 million I can have practically two production lines generating $70 million of income compared to the same $9 million generating $35 million worth of income, with a much lower profit margin because of the labor cost in the United States along with all the taxes and liability issues that you carry because of the litigious nature of the United States operating.

So tariffs do not work, they hurt the economy. The only thing that they do on the surface is generate more tax dollars for the US government, but they diminish and wipe out the middle and lower class.

Do you want to bring manufacturing back to the United States?

You’ve got to do something about all of the litigious actions, you have to lower healthcare cost, lower pharmaceutical cost, have to educate more so that children can grow up and learn trades.

You have to find ways to lower the cost of living and once you start doing that then laboring jobs will become available again.

The next problem is the taxation situation is off-balance. We have structured our tax code so that the wealthy and the publicly traded companies that offer stock options instead of salaries, which is taxable make it almost impossible to collect tax.

Take Musk for an example from Tesla.

They talk about his $300 billion worth but it’s all in stock and that’s unrealized gains paying no taxes. What he does is he goes to the bank and he borrows money against that stock portfolio, borrowed money is non-taxable income and then he uses that money to live and buy things like he bought Twitter for $44 billion with borrowed money, no taxes paid at all.

And then what he does from there to pay off those loans is he borrows against other portfolios and he just keeps borrowing deferring the taxes.

$300 billion and no taxes paid whereas the employees that work for all those companies have taxes taken out of each paycheck.

Just look salaries up of the top executives around the country and you look at their income, you’ll see that their salaries are generally between one hundred and two hundred thousand US dollars but they earned anywhere from ten to a hundred million dollars a year all in stock options and then they keep those options in stock and then borrow against them so their tax base is almost nothing.

you want to fix the economy. You have to find a way to tax the rich, you’re not going to make them poor, you’re just going to make them help to strengthen the economy.

I almost forgot, tariffs funds go directly to the administration for spending (trump and his team), whereas taxes go through congress for spending.

Good, right wingers are never the answer!

I doubt that any kind of flat protest will discourage Trump and others fascists in charge. You may need to seriously fight for it. Maybe strikes ?

European here – we appreciate you Americans. No one is immune to the claws of fascism, not even us. I just hope we can weather the storm of this administration together.

Finally seeing some proper protests! Keep it up!