For years, Mackeys Ferry Sawmill in North Carolina depended on overseas buyers in China and Vietnam after domestic demand for premium hardwood declined. But when President Donald Trump launched his escalating trade war, the mill’s owners say the damage was immediate and ultimately irreversible. By July—just months after Trump declared his “Liberation Day” tariffs—they made the decision to shut the operation down entirely.
In a recent episode of the Big Take podcast, Bloomberg economics correspondent Shawn Donnan traveled to the “Old North State” to trace how one of America’s oldest trades was shaken by Trump’s tariff battles, and to hear how the mill’s owners now feel about the president they once supported at the ballot box.
Nobody cares about the tears if you say you’d step on the rake again given the same choice
I hear there’s some good ole’ American highway overpasses for him and his to live under. Nice plush bed of used needles and broken beer bottles. Didn’t ya hear? Rusted out grocery carriages are the new white picket fence! Yeehaw motherfucker.
His family owns two lumber mills: they’ve only had to close one of them, the other is still going full-blast.
following close behind
Even if the second mill closes, so what? His family has been running multiple businesses for generations, there’ll be enough there for him to retire in comfort, and likely enough to give his kids a couple legs up in their own lives.
It saddens me how often this image will be relevant over the next 3 to ??? years.
Get fucked.
LMAO. Eat shit trumpers.
And the reason the domestic demand for premium hardwood dried up is no one can afford it anymore. All anyone can buy is compressed sawdust bullshit that falls apart if you think too much about moving it
also people likely arnt buying houses or furnitures.
:)
Even so, he said given the choices on the ballot, he still would have voted for Trump
Sounds like the market spoke, and I think it said: looooooserrrrr
“Oh no! Exactly what I voted for is happening!”
trumps definition of liberation day is very different from his poor suck and loser supporters.
Wilson expressed deep regret about parts of his vote
About parts? What? About getting tariffs, the one favourite gun that he had used to shoot randomly during his first term? But not about the racism part, or taking away rights from women, people of color, or people not being straight and cis?
“I voted for all those people I don’t like to be hurt or killed, not for peaceful God fearing folks like myself to lose money!!”
“I voted for Mr. Hitler because he’d be good for the economy. I didn’t go in for all that Jew-killing stuff. You can’t blame that on me.” – German Citizen, 1946
I don’t approve of his Bart killing policy, but I do approve of his Selma killing policy.
But not about the racism part, or taking away rights from women, people of color, or people not being straight and cis?
No, which is why it’s posted in here, wants to hurt others he dispaproves of but the hurtful net is broad and he’s been caught up it as well
