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Remember folks: that big nothing currently docked in US ports will be distributed to a supermarket near you.
That's Trump's way of lowering the cost of groceries: when there's no groceries, there's no costs.
No ships also means no exports. The US produces more food than it consumes. The US has an entire continent full of farmland, with foods that will be sold domestically because the biggest international customers have stopped buying.
Foods that can't be grown at scale in the US, like coffee will become unavailable. You'll no longer be able to get produce when out of season. But grains, meats and most other staples of the american diet are produced domestically and will still be produced despite the tarifs.
Obviously these tarifs are bad, and will harm all americans. But the idea that these tarifs will cause grocery stores to be empty is completely implausible.
That would require much more than the tarifs alone.
So, subsistance supplies are assured.
It's great to live in America isn't it?
No its not great. It's pretty bad, but there's no need to panic over fake problems when we have so many real ones.