JV Last has a dark view of Real Americans which I confess that I find irresistible. (I know it’s wrong. I can’t help it.) He’s chronicled the stories of a few this week which you should read if you need a little shot of schadenfreude this weekend.
I’ll just share this about the Trump-loving owner of the Montana Knife Company, who has made if clear in the past that he had nothing to worry about with these tariffs because he makes his knives in America. Last thoughtfully shares the transcript of the man’s Instagram post:
This is the shape of the number [holds up an egg] that’s gonna be on our website next to our knives of how much tariff affects the prices of our knives. Because we’ve been preaching this all along: We’re American made. Buy American, you don’t have to worry about this shit.
He’s making America great again one knife at a time.
Last writes:
But global supply chains are a bitch. You see, people who make knives need steel. They need machine tools. They need parts for the machine tools. And man oh man was Josh surprised to learn about all of “this shit.”
Here he is three weeks ago suddenly explaining “how this affects business” and complaining that “it feels like sweeping policies, you know, things are being enacted that aren’t really truly being thought out.”
And these policies are hurting patriotic American businesses! Like his! If only there had been some way Josh could have known where his tools came from before he got chesty about how great tariffs were.
Watch the first few minutes as Josh tries to avoid saying that his god-emperor is screwing him. It’s glorious.
It is indeed glorious.
Apparently, Josh wasn’t aware that his product used imported materials — or that tariffs tend to raise the price of things that are made in America as homegrown manufacturers raise prices as well. That whole “supply chain thing” escaped his notice during COVID probably because he was too busy protesting wearing a mask and getting vaccinated. It was a lot.
One more time: