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Hekate

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2. Nuts, bolts, screws -- all are utterly crucial to building stuff. There was a time when US businesses...

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 01:14 AM

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…were importing really inferior, but less expensive, fasteners from (gonna take a guess and say) China. Things like bridges began to fail as the screws and bolts corroded and rusted and snapped.

So what I’m saying is if Taiwan has become our #1 supplier and is doing the job well, the US needs to support them in their endeavor, not drive them out of business.

Trump is a blithering idiot — but I repeat myself.

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Trump's Tariffs Are Damaging America's Biggest Foreign Source of Screws [View all] dalton99a Yesterday OP

The jokes write themselves... nt Buns_of_Fire Yesterday #1

Nuts, bolts, screws -- all are utterly crucial to building stuff. There was a time when US businesses... Hekate Yesterday #2

Taiwanese tools and hardware are actually high quality. dalton99a Yesterday #3

Wonder if private prison companies start investing in whatever manufacturing for screws still happens in the USA AZJonnie Yesterday #4

The 50 pc tariff still applies bc US gets a lot of aluminum from Canada as well as some steel. Bernardo de La Paz Yesterday #6

Sister, I came canetoad Yesterday #5

This is maybe why Melania seems so upset or distant lately. n/t flvegan Yesterday #7