• @[email protected]
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      No no just a massive stroke so he’s incapacitated but able to move his little hands and to barely speak. Let it be constitutional crisis when he refuses to step down cause of his ego and the Repugs are too scared to remove him.

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        I like where this is going. Trump being dependent on other people for the rest of his life, who secretly hate him.

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          Like his entire life up to and including now?

        • @[email protected]
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          422 days ago

          Someone would smother him in his sleep or awake. Either way I don’t know someone would smother him

          • Random_Character_A
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            Why be so humane?

            Slowly poisoning him with household chemicals. Trump has a morbid fear of being poisoned. That’s why he eats fast food garbage.

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        Brain damage,just moves hands and can barely speak coherently… Wait, did he acrually have a stroke?

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    And sadly the over 50 countries now desperately calling the White House to beg negotiate are just inflating and reinforcing the Trump administration’s ego and postponing the inevitable.

    Who would have guessed. Said as much in another post this is what happens when you appease to narcissistic bullies. You get further trampled on and they become bolder.

    No matter how much it would be better if we all got along well as before. This is the new reality, and even if we hurt right now we’ll come out on top in the long run, better and more self-reliant, while the US becomes isolated from the world.

    Hope everyone remembers this when the US falls and comes “kissing out collective asses” for sympathy.

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    Heard it on my morning news program here in Canada. “I’ll do anything. I’ll do anything, sir,” he chuckled. Sounded like he was making fun of an abuse victim. Like that time he mocked the disabled. Filthy predator.

    That any media outlet is featuring his latest truth claim in an uncontested headline is wild. Look at the amount of commentary already produced that assumes his version of events is what’s actually happening.

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      We’ve already seen that the media don’t have anyone’s best interests at heart but the elite. We have to stop expecting them to change.

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      Well, Finnish “leaders” are discussing one-on-one deals with the US, it’s not exactly taking a strong stance against Trump’s bullying… More like bending the knee to save their own investments

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        And Keir Starmer practically has Trumps entire dick down his throat with Trumps balls on his face, and that’s before any negotiations.

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      India is kissing Trump’s arse, unfortunately. They are considering removing tariffs even more than they did before the announcement. Though there’s a UK-India deal floating around as well, and talks with the EU. This might just be anti-China opportunism, though. Apple and Samsung announced that they’re moving their factories to India because of the tariffs.

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          I think he personally admires Netanyahu far more, considering how much his party tactics copy Israel but yeah, birds of a feather.

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    Trump doesn’t want deals, he doesn’t want American success. He wants ass-kissing which he is ostensibly getting a lot of right now. So if tariffs are a huge success in this regard, why take them away?

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    It’s unclear where the Trump administration stands on the tariffs, whose cost will be largely paid by American consumers in the form of higher prices for foreign goods. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CBS News Tuesday that the tariffs are “negotiable but not a negotiating tactic.”

    Trump said Monday that there could be both “permanent tariffs and there could also be negotiations.”

    This feels like the start of a really stupid riddle.

    I’m negotiable but not a negotiation tactic, I’m permanent but subject to change…

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    Trump can also levitate, heal cancer with his mind, and all his golf shots are hole-in-ones.

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    The places are probably developing countries with GDP per capita under $2000

    I doubt any well conected country is doing that when america is clearly the underdog in a “civilized world vs america” situation. Tax American services, impose controls on yank companies operating domestically or just size their assets all together. What are they gonna do? Go cry to the WTO?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispute_settlement_in_the_World_Trade_Organization#Paralyzation

    Trump literally lobotomized it and Europe had to put together a parallel judgement body. No shot it won’t be biased against the US

    • @[email protected]OP
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      The places are probably developing countries with GDP per capita under $2000

      I think the chances that he’s just flat out lying are higher.

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          He’s hitting countries like this the hardest too due to his ChatGPT-special formula for calculating tariffs. America has big trade deficits with poorer countries because they are too poor to buy much American stuff, and now he’s punishing them for it

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            It’s really reprehensible. Having low wages makes these countries reliant on exporting. They are being exploited for the benefit of richer countries and what to they get as thanks? Tariffs.

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      What are they gonna do? Go cry to the WTO?

      Start a world war. I fully expect this within the next 4 years. The easiest and most surefire way for him to stay in charge: an “emergency” (that he started)

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      hmmm I am increasingly believing how ineffective the USA would be against a real enemy… the USA loves to chicken hawk on third world countries on the other side of the planet… but now trumpf is poking China hard… WWIII is heating up

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        hmmm I am increasingly believing how ineffective the USA would be against a real enemy… the USA loves to chicken hawk on third world countries on the other side of the planet…

        How do you think they chicken hawk people on the other side of the planet? Are you aware of the scale of USA army and what they do?

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    At best, world leaders may be trying to salvage their current investments in the US and trade sources in the short term. But they are also immediately starting the process to divest from the US, maybe permanently. He may get a short term gain from a handful of countries, but is tanking us long term as everyone distances themselves from us.

    Trade, investments, debts, these things bind countries together and promote better economies the world-wide. The point of Tariffs are to reduce or eliminate these connections to other countries in the effected markets, to isolate and insulate your domestic market from the international market at large. When you put a blanket tariff on all markets on all countries, especially when openly trying to use those as extortion tactics against other countries, you are guaranteeing this isolation. We are well on the way from being isolated from the world, like North Korea, all because of one man without any sense, decency, or limitations. We are fucked.