Just received a message from a friend in England. More like a warning.

[appleannie1]

A word of warning from a good friend in England. Stock up on anything you normally buy that comes from other countries. They are all going to stop trading with the US. It is amazing how many products labled "Made in the USA" have materials in them that come from other countries.

[likesmountains 52]

1. As a knitter, I can say that a lot of yarn comes from the UK. Stock up!

[Srkdqltr]

2. Fabric too . Quilters stock up. Why i just bought $100 from Hancock-Paducah. Thats my reason.

[Mme. Defarge]

4. Merde alors!

[Aristus]

9. Pardon your French...

[Randomthought]

17. Huge stash

I knew my excessive yarn buying would work out.

[likesmountains 52]

20. My stash never seems to stop me from wanting new yarn.

[Greybnk48]

24. I just ordered some yarn from Denmark (Hobbii)

I'm hoping there are no problems (or that they don't pee on my yarn before they send it because I'm an American). Guilty by association, however tenuous.

[Scrivener7]

38. After everything else, that asshole is going to take Wool Warehouse away from us.

That's just a step too far.

(Have you tried it? It's amazing. And $5 shipping to the US.)

[likesmountains 52]

41. Thanks for that site. Just dropped a bit of $$ there before it's too late.

Seriously, are we just going to be left with Hobby Lobby and other crap yarn?

[Scrivener7]

42. I'm going shopping right now.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. I can barely afford coffee as it is .....

[FakeNoose]

10. I know! Coffee shortages scare me more than anything else

[flashman13]

5. Given the total integration of world trade, it will be virtually impossible to buy anything made from 100% U.S.

sourced components. Delete one foreign made part (Mexico and Canada are major players here) and the entire assembly line comes to a halt. Our trading partners understand this. While we cut ourselves off from the rest of the world they are expanding their ties. If they decide to retaliate against Trump's destructive tariffs, all they have to do is stop selling us various goods and they can bring our economy to its knees in very short order.

We are in the hands of an orange imbecile.

[3auld6phart]

18. Yes

Cicist Supreme CourtYou are plus spine less
Politicians ….

[FakeNoose]

26. At least 90% of the stuff for sale on Amazon and Walmart comes from China

Most of the time they don't tell you that, but it does. I don't have anything against Chinese-made products, but shit .... people don't realize how dependent we are on foreign manufacturers until WE get the shaft.

When the world decides that it hates us - and that's going to happen sooner than we realize - we are on our own, kids!
Is anyone in Washington thinking this through?

[flashman13]

29. If by "anyone in Washington" you mean the Trump administration, the answer is NO!

Thinking is not their strong suit. They only think (I use the term here advisedly) in terms of brute force.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

6. Why?

Who's your friend in England warning you and apparently, us?

"They are all going to stop trading with the US."

Says who?

[Ilsa]

11. Heads of State in Europe are meeting in Vienna

to discuss Greenland, Trump's new tariffs on them, etc. It's a possibility.

[Joinfortmill]

19. We try to be polite with each other.

[flashman13]

34. OK, You want polite? I will be polite. Trump is threatening to start a war with NATO over Geenland.

Adversaries do not continue trade during time of war. In fact a blockade is usually the first retaliation in a war because it is the easiest thing to implement on short notice. Think of the Chinese no longer buying American soy beans as a form of blockade. It hurts a small, but important part of the U.S. economy. Because of the interdependence of world trade, which we are largely responsible for creating, we are now exceedingly vulnerable. Does anyone here think that if Trump attacks Greenland the Europeans , Mexico and Canada are going to say, "Oh, please SIR, stop!"? I don't.

[EverHopeful]

7. I've been saying we'll be his seventh bankruptcy

and my cousin said the whole world will be, but it sounds as if countries with sane leaders will be limber enough to keep their economies stronger.

[Vinca]

8. Just a couple of days ago I said something to my husband about stocking up on canned goods "just in case."

I was thinking more along the lines of rolling blackouts to the electric grid, but this almost makes more sense.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. I've been stock piling for months. I'm still trying to get organized.

Speaking of which... anyone else see a single head of iceberg lettuce for almost two dollars a piece? I never buy it but that's outrageous to me.

Thoughts?

[peacebuzzard]

36. My random and sporadic shopping trips floor me every time.

The final price is high and now I always check the receipt when I get home to see what happened???? what the hell did I buy????

[wackadoo wabbit]

40. No, but I've seen romaine heads for $2.49

Perhaps there are no farmworkers to harvest them now?

[IcyPeas]

13. I need my McVities Chocolate Digestive cookies that I buy from World Market

[Orrex]

14. Gosh, it's almost like Putin himself crafted Trump's foreign policy

Almost.

[yellow dahlia]

31. Is this Spheres of Influence, or a complete take over by Pootini?

[Orrex]

15. And when that time comes...

his fuckhead kkkultists will blame Democrats and immigrants, and the media will frame it as an unjustified attack on the US by our former allies.

[Warpy]

16. Your reply.

should be that the maximum expecation of the US acting like an international tweaker is a max9imum of three years.

If this bunch manages to convince the entire military command structure to keep them entrenched in our government, we might need to call on our allies for help in ousting them.

Yes, it could get that bad. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable"--JFK

[OldBaldy1701E]

21. "...we might need to call on our allies for help in ousting them."

Help? We have not done anything to try and 'oust' them yet.

We don't need help. That is more of their programming kicking in. "You lowly scum cannot even consider trying to do anything to us. We are the elite!" It's the same programming that is holding us back from even trying to remove these animals.

We don't need help. We need some backbone. (Which I am seeing flashes of here in Minneapolis. Finally.)

But...

[Warpy]

25. With much of the population either terrified into paralysis

or simply located too far away from the action, we might indeed need some help.

The prospect of a big, fat, orange wrecing ball with nukes might get us that help.

[OldBaldy1701E]

27. With all due respect, and please forgive if I offend...

We don't deserve a country if we ourselves cannot defend it... especially from its own citizens.

[Magoo48]

22. Could be a warning message or an encouraging message, depending on your point of view.

Perhaps, the more we are willing to sacrifice, the better off we’ll all be in the long run. Since no one can see the future, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

[ChicagoTeamster]

23. If they cash in US bonds we're screwed too.

[underpants]

28. We have enough food to go at least 3 months maybe 6

Other than salad type veggies.

We did a “pantry challenge” for the first 3 months of 2024 including frozen food from our 3 freezers.

My wife is a food prepper.

[SunSeeker]

32. Sad but it's our new reality.

[Norbert]

33. Poppy Bush's world economy is going to screw t____p.

[peacebuzzard]

35. Yikes I have to stock up my European beer .....

It’s already hard to find and expensive. Very good advice.

[Timewas]

37. Here

https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-to-urge-eu-to-use-trade-bazooka-in-response-to-trumps-tariffs/

[Scrivener7]

39. They'd be right to do it.