I don’t know who he is, but fuck this guy. That’s all.
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I hope other countries realize that entering into trade agreements with the United States is a meaningless endeavor given that we don’t believe we have any responsibility to abide by agreements that we make anymore. We are an entirely unreliable partner.
“If he does impose the additional 50%, US companies would pay a total rate of 104% on Chinese imports.”
This was the bit of information I was confused about before reading this article. I was under the impression that we were already charging over 50%, and for some reason I didn’t realize that we can charge more than a 100% tariff.
As others have already said, JFC we are cooked.
I hope that’s true and I hope it happens. I’m concerned because I see examples like the administration successfully exerting pressure on other states to relax their law enforcement in cases like Romania’s prosecution of the Tate brothers.
I’m old enough to remember when Elon released “the twitter files” in an attempt to demonstrate how the federal government supposedly exerted egregious pressure on private media in violation of first amendment right.
You think that things like ‘laws’ and ‘contracts’ mean anything here in the US anymore? How cute.
Didn’t he already do this same sort of fuckery with Solar City and Tesla?
This little nation’s ability to fund and conduct war on so many simultaneous fronts on such a sustained basis without consequence is remarkable. It’s almost like they’re really just a front for the largest military machine in the history of the world.
I would just like to point out that this is entirely correct, but it’s the Democrats that always shit the bed on opportunities like this, not the left. The democrats have very little to do with ‘the left’ these days. Just sayin’.
I stopped smoking cigarettes. I’ve moved on to cigars.
“Israel says it has conducted extensive air attacks on Hamas targets in Gaza, the largest since the ceasefire began.”
This heading sounds like something out of The Onion. Israel’s got some real talent there, simultaneously doing a ceasefire AND repeatedly attacking Hamas.
Good, get all these losers into one place. Just saying’.