We should all sell our US bonds, 10% of them, and then repeat for any further tarrifs.
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Of those states, all but the UK and Norway are EU member states and Norway is a member of the EEA, so its practically impossible to single them out with tariffs. Trump should really understand this by now, as it isn't the first time he tries to single out EU/EEA members with his tariffs.
You think that man is capable of proper economic understanding? His brain in soup, cocaine, and memories of when he could get his dick hard enough to molest children.
So US Americans have to pay a tax to punish them ?
Yes. Abusers can't go after stronger opponents so they hurt those without the power to harm him. It's basically his entire political strategy at this point.
I'd call it malice towards his constituents, but I'm still not convinced he actually understands how tariffs work.
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Dude, he convinced half our country that tariffs were going to make us all wealthy despite the fact that anybody with a 5th grade education can look up the definition of a tariff and know better.
Of fucking course he is.
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Trump doesn't honor any agreement he signs, why even bother with trade agreements with USA anymore.
China atleast is as consistent as you could ever ask for. If both nations attack their own citizens and limit free speech then why even bother with America anymore. I would trust China far more than America currently.
That's a bad take IMO, North Korea can be as stable as you want, it's not a country I'd "trust".
But I see why we'll continue commerce with china.
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lol he's still talking about tariffs as if it's something anyone but AMERICANS have to pay
republicans are so fucking stupid
Well in the short term yes. Americans pay the tariifs , yet it does hurt the World Economy and European exports too.
In the medium/ long run smart people decouple economically, and take their business elsewhere. Like EU w / Canada, Australia, Mercosur, Asia, Japan etc. And that's when it will really hurt the USA.
It hurts EU exports only to the extent where the US can subsidize EU imports with something else. For example you can only get Ozempic from Denmark so that's just a 10% tax on Ozempic because it's going to be imported regardless.
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These are the ramblings of a lunatic.
Why is it that the US must have Greenland if China and Russia are eyeing it? It's in NATO care right now. If the US would have it, it would be in NATO care. If China and/or Russia came for it, surely the NATO countries (including Greenland, Denmark, or any of the other countries currently positioned there) wouldn't stop the US from helping out to defend it. What's the real point in transferring ownership? It's just a load of shit you can smell from far away.
A threat to world peace lol. A threat to the survival of our planet lol.
Sure Trumpey boy. Keep talking out of the holes in your frontotemporal dementia.
Honestly the US should be kicked out of NATO, and banned from rejoining unless they agree to pay the bloc every time they threaten to invade their allies or something.
That would indeed seem appropriate.
Surely it would/should be against the rules of NATO for a member to attack one of the other members. I feel like that's the entire fucking point of the organization.
That would be a good opportunity to throw the EU-US trade deal negotiated last year into the dustbin, since Trump has already violated it with the tariffs and no one in the EU was happy with it anyway. They only accepted it at the time because they were afraid of the U.S. ceasing to support Ukraine otherwise. Well, the U.S. doesn't support Ukraine anymore anyway.
It's time for the EU to drop the anti-circumvention laws pushed onto them (and other countries) through trade deals long ago. It'll enable a true right to repair, as well as resilience against foreign influence by being able to inspect and replace firmware and software.
While they're at it, maybe reduce copyright after death too.
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Do us a favor and boycott USA and all of our products we need help getting rid of this cancer
He's not going to get the Nobel Peace Prize with that attitude. Creating a crisis by threatening to invade an ally, and then bithching that he's not getting a peace prize.
This convicted felon is beyond parody.
These countries should wear this badge with honour.
According to some rumours , could be that the European Parliament won't rectify the EU-USA Trade deal for now, if there is sufficient momentum (i.e outrage). Wondering how that's developing.
So... us Americans have to pay even higher prices just because our Pedophile-In-Chief wants to invade another country?
I have something of a game going on where every time the US peeves me off, I delete something that profits them.
Trump threatens Greenland? I delete Deviantart
Trump threatens Canada? I delete Reddit
The ICE shooting? I delete Instagram
After hearing about this I just deleted Brave Mobile and switched to Vivaldi. If it stays this consistent I'm going to have to save up for an Ubuntu Touch phone.
Pedobear Donnie can't even maintain a chain of thought to the end, but he wants to a king at 80. Just die the hell faster already and spare us the drama and the rambles of a psycho pedophile.
New EU deal with China coming in 3... 2... 1...
I think we all should start treating the USA as russia and accept the fate of the world. China doesn't look that bad now. At least they keep their genocides inside their border.
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[Denmark] currently have two dogsleds as protection, one added recently.
What the fuck is this guy smoking??
If he was so concerned about safety and Russian or Chinese attacks, he could just.. you know.. reinforce the Greenlandic NATO bases. They're literally allies. I'm so sick of this clown show.
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I think it is a great mistake for anyone in the comments to start being China apologists just because Trump is acting like a retard.
I think you're all severely underestimating the shit China does. Trumps America isn't anywhere close to being as fucked up as China is, and I say this as a Dane who is currently dealing with the severe hatred and feelings of betrayal towards our former allies.
Let's not start simping for China because America sucks. Let's not do that. I only have a surface level understanding of what goes on in China, and that is still enough for me to say with confidence that current day America is still less of a hell hole by comparison.
I wpuld rather focus the energy in Europe to make us stronger over time so that we can be our own super power and not have to lean on the other trash bin super powers out there.
It won't happen over night and might not even happen in my lifetime, but if we can work toward that goal, I would be happy. We have survived worse.
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yeah lets cut all tie to this bully state. It's overdue anyway.
Not sure we care anymore, since the free trade agreement between EU and Mercosur was signed today. We donβt really need to trade with the US anymore. South America provides a huge export market for our products, and they supply better quality agricultural imports than the US can anyway.
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We have subsidized Denmark, and all of the Countries of the European Union, and others, for many years by not charging them Tariffs, or any other forms of remuneration. Now, after Centuries, it is time for Denmark to give back β World Peace is at stake! China and Russia want Greenland, and there is not a thing that Denmark can do about it. They currently have two dogsleds as protection, one added recently.
This is just a small start of his ramblings and man, he's taking some good drugs there because how hard do you have to be tripping balls to even remotely believe any of that shit.
Literally every word is a lie there and it just gets worse
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Man, I hope we use this opportunity to build new bridges to other countries!
Why would they give a shit that Trump is going to raise taxes on Americans again?
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I don't know how true this is, but I heard from a military guy that when NATO do blue and red teams, the US gets it's arse kicked every time by the European teams.
Apparently it's because the US military are always encouraged to follow orders and not think for themselves. Basically the exact opposite to the way that they are betrayed in Hollywood. They even get trained to creeply talk about themselves in the third person.
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Just take his stupid tariff powers away already. I am very sick of this administrations pump and dump schemes. I really feel them pursuing this crossed the line of criminality already considering how they have profited from manipulating the markets.
For long the EU and Japan has subsided the US military industrial complex. All the US made artillery must be replaced with indigenous made.
For long the world has subsidized the tech companies of US who has only stolen data and manipulated the public. The tech companies must be tariffed and replaced with homegrown open source alternatives.
Every day, in every way, things get worse.
Thats all? Hahahahahahahahaha!
And this is why you can't boot-lick people like Trump to be on their good side. Negotiations mean nothing to him; if somebody feeds him the idea that he needs to betray you, he will. You can't make a deal with the devil, especially one that has dimentia.
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Let's start dumping US debt.
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