Clown world.
The Trump Presidency : Part 2
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Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) discuss United's fantastic win away against Athletic Club in the semi-final of the Europa League.
They also pick out the positives of United's 4-3 loss away at Brentford, and Nik reviews a day out at Old Trafford watching Manchester United Women qualify for the Champions League.
Clown world.
Yep, the uncertainty will be debilitating in so many cases.
I haven't heard one of his mindless incoherent speeches for sometime.
Forgot how fecking exhausting it is.
The BIOT is home to an American airbase and American servicemen. So is he issuing tariffs on Americans?
US Brexit.
And then we have to move into the discussion of what happens with steep price rises (inflation), no economic growth and increasing unemployment. Which then becomes global because states have to respond with their own tariffs
He is a complete dumbass that we all can't help but laugh at, this stuff is serious. Recession, stagflation only hurts people.
That implies they are leaving something. This is leaving..... global trade
We have to find a new word for this level of stupid.
Yeah but Trump thinks stagflation is giving a blow job to a deer.
I was looking for Faroe Islands on that list and couldn't find it. Then I figured we're probably considered as Denmark, but Denmark isn't on there either.
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Denmark comes under the EU.
Denmark is in the EU, which is a 20% jobby
Ah, ofcourse. I wonder where that leaves us then as we are not in the EU. We flog a lot of salmon to the US
I think he truly believes he's doing a good thing for America.
I don't get the obsession with manufacturing jobs. America's backbone is the services sector and on average pays way higher than the manufacturing sector. Even if he manages to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US, America will be poorer is the services sector suffers.
Imagine getting elected to bring down inflation but instead, pouring petrol on the fire.
Comical really, and they are still only just getting started… The crazy is gunna keep escalating.
Absolutely, there is a huge possibility that people will just isolate the US where possible and if new trade is established it might not easily revert without substantial concessions. That could be disastrous for the US.
The guy he pulled up to speak on behalf of the auto industry, looked like a sketch artist MAGA supporter. They haven’t actually a clue how to implement them in North America, but if it goes ahead the way trump has intended, the car market is gonna go absolutely bonkers
Post WW2 when the US had massive manufacturing plants it was the golden age of both the US and capitalism. On one level is part of the misty eyed 'let's MAGA'. But since manufacturing moved abroad to cheaper labour and increased profit, global trade has restructured over the 50 years or so.
One one level it's a sound long term aspiration but it can't be undone by a buffoon with a batshit print out.
Tuvalu? All these tiny islands. What on earth. What economic emergency do these countries pose? Did they just find a bunch of countries to make the list oh so bigly.
Probably the worst economic policy I've ever seen out of any US President. It's completely foolish. None of it makes sense. His entire rationale for tariffs is even contradictory and can't possibly achieve everything he says because all his reasons are incompatible with a single policy.
The reason people don't buy Ford and GM in Japan and Europe is exactly what people talked about here: American cars are too big and too much gas guzzlers to make any sense in Japanese and European markets. These are just going be a massive tax increase, increase in inflation, combined with hundreds of thousands/millions of Federal jobs lost. This is all going to big failure for the US. It's not possible for any of the things Trump bleats about to actually make up for the negatives of these tariffs. I still can't believe how foolish this economic policy is.
The reason people don't buy Ford and GM in Japan and Europe is exactly what people talked about here: American cars are too big and too much gas guzzlers to make any sense in Japanese and European markets. These are just going be a massive tax increase, increase in inflation, combined with hundreds of thousands/millions of Federal jobs lost. This is all going to big failure for the US. It's not possible for any of the things Trump bleats about to actually make up for the negatives of these tariffs. I still can't believe how foolish this economic policy is.
It's even more insane than you could possibly think
British Empire did the same thing in the 1930's due to rise in competition from other countries.
It wasn't as hard hitting in terms of numbers as the US is doing, but that's a meaningful point of comparison.
It wasn't as hard hitting in terms of numbers as the US is doing, but that's a meaningful point of comparison.
It's kind of used in jest here.
Scary day for those of us employed in tech, pharma, or....well...most industries.
Surreal.
Yeah i knew he was making up those numbers or taking some completely out of context (like Canada tariff on dairy over a threshold which is never reached and then claiming that's the tariff they charge on all dairy) but this is even more monumentally stupid than I imagined.
The lies and bullshitting are just so exhausting to deal with.
It's a minor thing in the grand scheme of awful things Trump and the Republicans have done but this quote "looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike", just seems completely distasteful and offensive to me. What I don't understand is how so many Americans can look at the things he says and does and come to the conclusion he is anything but a narcissistic bully.
He wants those .Tk domains
Vietnam, great people, I like them and they like me, because I didn't kill any of them in the 60s because of my bone spurs. Some people say to me, they're the greatest bone spurs anyone's ever seen, no ones seen anything like it before, they get you out of the draft but they never stopped you playing golf, but I'm love golf, and I'm pretty good they say, hole in one without even hitting the ball once, so, a super eagle, no ones ever seen it, joe Biden never got even a duck, took 16 shots once to finish on a double bogey.
Yep he was lying = $3.89 a dozen in Aldi 3 weeks ago, $4.30 right now
What does this mean to the UK EU Brexit deal and the Good Friday agreement?
I watched program which thought any difference in tariffs which favoured Northern Ireland/ UK versus the Republic / EU would create a very difficult problem given the need for no border controls in Ireland as per the GFA?
Is that correct?
I watched program which thought any difference in tariffs which favoured Northern Ireland/ UK versus the Republic / EU would create a very difficult problem given the need for no border controls in Ireland as per the GFA?
Is that correct?
Especially bc there seems to be no end to the number of fools who believes just about every word of what they say.
If it causes issues there will be a lot of pissed off congressmen
Pretty sure they used chatGPT to calculate those tariffs
Probably far too good to be true but a small chance they might have used AI for the tariffs
Oh good, they’re quoting Goebbels now…
It's cool how both of these things happened instead of one or the other.
No tariffs on Russia?
10% tariffs on Australian Islands that have no population, no imports and no exports.
And WTF are they talking about with Norfolk Island? They export bugger all to the US and as part of Australia (albeit with different customs rules) no way do they impose 58% tariffs on US goods. Sounds like pure bullshit.