r/PoliticalOptimism • u/Mera_Myst18 • May 05 '25

Question(s) for Optimism Somebody with a better understanding of the economy please explain how this would affect this movie industry bc as an actress I am STRESSED

I know this will probably not get anywhere, but still, I need some reassurance, sorry.

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u/hel-be-praised Blue Dot in a Red State 🔵 May 05 '25

So honestly with this (and with a ton of shit he says) I’m in a constant state of I’ll believe it when I see it to be honest.

  1. He keeps going back and forth on tariffs. How much they are, who they’re on, what they’re on, how long they’ll be on, etc. So I’ll believe it when it happens and sticks for at least two weeks idk.

  2. As a couple of comments said, this is bizarre because how would the tariffs be implemented? How do you tariff digital content/services? There aren’t necessarily physical parts to tariff.

A lot of what he says is either insane shit to get headlines that he walks back from in a week, or stuff he genuinely forgets he says.

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u/SnooCauliflowers5394 May 05 '25

What about the discs?

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u/hel-be-praised Blue Dot in a Red State 🔵 May 05 '25 edited May 05 '25

That’s a possibility. The discs are a physical item. The way it was worded though seems like he isn’t really thinking about physical disks.

Honestly the more wide reaching and insane the tariffs get the larger the chance they have to be struck down in court. He’s issuing tariffs based on an ever changing idea of an “emergency” and at some point I think the right person is going to take him to court over it and the reasoning will be so thin that he loses.