Tariffs and You (Mongoose edition)

[MongooseMatt]

Okay, the promised tariffs are starting to roll forward. I cannot speak for the wider world, but here is how it will apply to fans of Traveller, 2300AD, Paranoia and Sea of Thieves.

1. Don't panic.

2. No one really knows yet how things are going to play out, or what is coming next. Anyone who says otherwise may be trying to sell you something.

3. If you are in the US, our warehouse is fully stocked and you will not see any drop of service in currently available titles.

4. If you are outside the US, we are currently decently stocked in the UK and there are no restrictions (yet) on books being shipped to us. All is good.

5. The trick is going to be with new titles, and here things get a bit fuzzy. The very next book is actually Classic Traveller Book 9: Pirates... which we were always going to be printing in the UK, so we should be all good there. The worst that happens is that North American Travellers may get their book a few days later than they normally would (as it has to cross the ocean).

The next hurdle will be the JTAS books for the recent Kickstarter, which are going to be going to print in the next couple of weeks or so. The very worst case here is that they will be printed outside the US and the whole stock gets shipped to us in the UK, from where they will be dispatched to everyone. Will take a little longer to get everything sent off, but it will not be a massive difference.

After that... things get a little fuzzy again, but it will be a couple of months before the next book is ready to go to print, so we have a little time on our hands.

Will keep you updated as things develop!

 

[Condottiere]

And a bank overdraft.

 

[ottarrus]

I'm assuming that shipping to Canada and Mexico are gonna be problematic for everyone.

As an American, I knew this shift to our political right was going to happen after the GWOT. This is normal after you send a generation to war, at least for us. It happened after War One, War Two/Korea and Vietnam, so the pattern is clear. However, I didn't know is was going to be this far to our right and this populist [and populist politics are never a good thing].

But please let me apologize for all of my fellow countrymen who didn't buy into our current President's bullshit.

 

[IanBruntlett]

But please let me apologize for all of my fellow countrymen who didn't buy into our current President's bullshit.

After the UK's dalliance with Populism - Brexit, Liz Truss, and more, I thought that the rest of the world would have learnt from our mistakes.

 

[Arkathan]

Drug Cartels moved to Canada, sparking a 2500% increase in the products of fentanyl and other drug labs there being brought south.
While smaller than Mexico, the amount of fentanyl from Canada last year was enough to eliminate every person in a state the size of New Jersey or smaller. In other words, only ten states would have people left if that material was weaponized and deployed in a single state.
Once tariffs go reciprocal, and the new PM does something other than nothing to curb that flow (as shown by the astronomic increase last year), this should quickly become a non-issue.

 

[ottarrus]

After the UK's dalliance with Populism - Brexit, Liz Truss, and more, I thought that the rest of the world would have learnt from our mistakes.

We've had our populist lunatics here too.
Look up a character named Hughie Long. That clown was a piece of work....

 

[Sigtrygg]

After the UK's dalliance with Populism - Brexit, Liz Truss, and more, I thought that the rest of the world would have learnt from our mistakes.

You mean democracy?
Isn't it a shame when the majority wants something that the elite minority don't.

Populism is democracy, you do what the majority of the population want done. Ignoring what is popular is ignoring democracy, which is how revolutions eventually happen. Unless you have an authoritarian government, a controlled media, a police state and rule by fear. I wish Trump could come and save the UK.

 

[Condottiere]

Looks like we're back in the Thirties.

It was pretty much that tariff move that made my cup runneth over.

First up, Global Depression, since Great's already been taken.

 

[Arkathan]

Mexico is already negotiating their way out most of the tariffs.
This isn't the mountain that the lying globalist media are trying to make it into. The globalists are simply having a fit every time a wrench is thrown into their plans for total control.

 

[CordwainerFish]

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

 

[Arkathan]

Embracing socialism proves that. More murders of its own people than any other ideology in history.
Also, the widespread use of Lenin's Dog Whistle and purity tests.

 

[MongooseMatt]

I'm assuming that shipping to Canada and Mexico are gonna be problematic for everyone.

Maybe not. We'll see if this starts rolling into the ordinary postal services. If it does, we retain the option to ship from the UK (and it should not come with any extra cost to gamers).

As for everything else, and this applies to everyone, let's try not to reveal who we vote for, eh?

 

[ottarrus]

Maybe not. We'll see if this starts rolling into the ordinary postal services. If it does, we retain the option to ship from the UK (and it should not come with any extra cost to gamers).

As for everything else, and this applies to everyone, let's try not to reveal who we vote for, eh?

1] Very pleased that you're not passing the postage costs along.
2] Good point on the voting. Sorry bout that.

 

[actionman]

Isn't it a shame when the majority wants something that the elite minority don't.

Those silly poors keep voting against their own best interests.

 

[laughdad]

You mean democracy?
Isn't it a shame when the majority wants something that the elite minority don't.

Populism is democracy, you do what the majority of the population want done. Ignoring what is popular is ignoring democracy, which is how revolutions eventually happen. Unless you have an authoritarian government, a controlled media, a police state and rule by fear. I wish Trump could come and save the UK.

Be careful what you ask for. There are some facets of our system here in the U.S. (the Electoral College for starters) that tend to skew things a bit. What no one here on the putative right foresaw, I think, was how quickly the swing in foreign policy would be. You folks in the UK are facing a US that largely or totally disregards NATO (even if we don't formally leave the alliance) and an EU with a French nuclear umbrella (and the Germans participating in that!). Now, there's no existential threat to the UK, but it's certainly not the spot you expected to be in...

 

[Condottiere]

These things tend to go in cycles.

Despite warnings, it's the velocity of change that seems to be surprising.

 

[actionman]

Political and economic realities will assert themselves, regardless of the flapping of politicians, media talking heads, and online pundits. Most NATO countries have been remiss in meeting their treaty obligations for years, and now their militaries are shadows of their former strength. Important NATO countries may find themselves incapable of defending themselves or keeping order within their own borders, much less defending Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has been dragging on for 10 years and no one did anything to prepare. No wonder Russia thought it could take the whole country.

I guess my point is that it's all by design, it's all managed by various elites, and they have their elite feathers in a ruffle because the current US administration isn't playing along (poor little elites). It's not worth being mad about because 1) there's probably more than we can imagine going on behind the scenes and we have only the tiniest amount of information compared to the leaders of different countries, 2) a lot of the troubles in the world are deliberately created and maintained by the elites or the establishment or whatever you want to call them, 3) the miserable status quo is unstable right now because the current US administration is bucking the corrupt system (as well it should, because the corruption is so bad that it's an existential threat to the republic), 4) EU countries and many other countries have had tariffs on US goods for decades, but it's only an issue when the US does it, and 5) this is one of those times in history when people should look after their loved ones the best they can and not give in to hating each other because of crappy propaganda that's spewed from every media outlet imaginable.

 

[MasterGwydion]

Murica! Protecting the world from transgendered mice! Since 2025! derp! lolz

 

[Condottiere]