A $0.12 TARIFF ON A $0.48 PART!!?

...mutter mutter use some dumb fuck's scrotum as a heatsink...

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And it's not just that tariffs are a moronic economic policy in ways that should be pristinely obvious to houseflies and cheap plastic forks, it's that at some point after I place this order, I'm going to get Official Mail as Homeland Security go about collecting their $0.12.

Spending, by the time we're done, probably something like $50 in postage, bank fees, and general overhead to get it, which makes it, let's see, revenue-negative for the government by a factor of approximately 416.

(i.e., exactly what the _de minimis_ exemption was to avoid)

Thanks all to hell for protecting us from approximately a thimbleful of foreign aluminum. You absolute scurfwads.

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