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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago

Thanks for the daily reminder why I’m switching to EU/FOSS Services, Donald

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They banded together to take advantage of us.

Big brain moment

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, almost terrorism. They refuse to be my lackeys and lick my boots. They want to have a saying in world economy and enrich themselves and they aren't even American!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

All I know is that it's good to have cash for when the orange traitor decides to advance his boss' interests.

[–] phoenixz 3 points 3 hours ago

Cash? Try gold or something like that. Maybe even just plain water, food and medicine

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 hours ago

Every single Republican, from voter to Congressman is responsible for this.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

My presumption is he’s throwing a fit because Greenland signed a mineral rights deal with the EU.

[–] zebidiah 25 points 8 hours ago

Also the eu is sanctioning his bff, so he is retaliating on Putins behalf

[–] [email protected] 47 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Of course he doesn't want a deal, he wants bribes. It's literally a racket.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Fam, anybody got an old airplane in storage that we can gift him?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

What about the Concorde? Fastest airliner and triple safe 🤞 it's perfect for tramp.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

JD could stick his dick in the aircraft's seams while it's supersonic

[–] [email protected] 36 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Ok EU, time to bring out the big guns. Someone call Airbus for an obsolete A380 and tell him we will send it to him as a "gift". Big hands need the biggest possible aircraft.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 13 hours ago

That's not big guns this is the big gun. Cutting the US off from our goods, capital and service markets, banning them from state contracts, suspending their intellectual property rights, such stuff. Annex 1 has the juicy bits.

Application would of course be targeted, e.g. hitting all of Peter Thiel's businesses at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The EU needs to give him the China treatment. Calm, sovereign, and let him rage in hus bubble. The EU is way too emotional and decomposed. Then again, the EU is fully dependent on US technology. Should be fun.

[–] sik0fewl 15 points 14 hours ago

I agree, but I think they are? I think every (traditional) western ally of the US are working back channels to no success. They're moving on and finding more reliable trading partners.

[–] [email protected] 166 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Good news. Whoever still thought it was still possible to get some slack by kissing Trump's ass are now fully caught up with the reality that he is an unreasonable prick.

Now the real decoupling of economies from the US can begin.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

He's not unreasonable he's just a dickhead.

Give him money and he will do what you want, fuck anyone else or his country.

He is being completely reasonable if all he cares about is himself. He's just a dickhead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

That would work only for a short timespan, then somebody else will give him something or he'll have a shortcircuit in his two brain cells and we're back to square one.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 18 hours ago

He’s not unreasonable he’s just a dickhead

He is definitely both of those things.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

Every headline like this should make clear that him imposing tariffs by fiat is illegal and unconstitutional.

I hate the fact that the media just reports that he's doing it without ever citing Article 1, Section 8:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

Every one of these tariff manipulations has been 100% illegal, because the supposed emergencies he's using to excuse them are nonexistent.

[–] RandAlThor 50 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

Congress has surrendered its powers to Trump. Democrats in congress are sleeping on the job.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

While shitting on democrats is fun, even if they 100% were all against it, it would make no difference. The American people made sure to give republicans a majority in all chambers, so what dems do is a small piece of trivia. Have the day you voted for!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

REPUBLICANS in Congress have abdicated their constitutional duties. A few Democrats are collaborating.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

Democrats really can't do much and you might not realise how close US is to the situation where Trump starts calling people foreign agents or criminals and locking them up. You ever wonder why he's defying courts and clinging on to the ability to send people outside US judicial system.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

it didn’t surrender anything, americans elected turnip in a majority of all houses

the Republican Party now has a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

that’s damn near as much as saying go ahead do whatever you want as possible

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

it didn’t surrender anything

It absolutely has. The he executive has literally no authority to impose tariffs - that's Congress' job. The executive has no authority to not spend money that Congress has appropriated - yet he is

These are easily blockable by Congress and should be in articles of impeachment.

Additionally Congress gave the president the ability to gain "temporary powers" during an "emergency" - and guess who gets to declare what constitutes an emergency? The president. And SCOTUS has blocked Congress from even being able to take it away without the president having a veto.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

8 Ds in the house has died this year alone. and no R has died as of yet. Ds dont have contigency replacements like the Rs do, they often do get rid of thier own most of the time before it gets worst.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

He’s looking for a bribe

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

And yet, EU might appease him at the end

[–] [email protected] 86 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Translation: I made outrageous demands they didn't accept.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 21 hours ago

Why EU no buy $TRUMP?!?!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

He did just host his crypto dinner so who had his ear who was going to make boatloads of money on the EU tariffs?

[–] [email protected] 79 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I'm so good at deals, I've made probably 200 deals, everyone wants to make a deal with me.

A few weeks later

I'm not trying to make a deal with anyone! 😭

[–] [email protected] 47 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Next week he will brag about how he made a tremendous deal, and lower the tariffs as a result. What tremendous deal he made will be left unspecified, but Fox News will use this opportunity to report how great of a deal maker he is.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 21 hours ago

Whenever he makes this announcement, expect there to be a flurry of buying activity in the US stock markets in the day (or even hours) immediately preceding

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

There will be no deal, he will just lower the tariff. However, he will claim a deal was made

Like he did with China.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

He made this announcement to give media something other than the "Big Beautiful Bill" to worry about this weekend.

[–] KingPorkChop 14 points 20 hours ago

I don't give him that much credit. The idiot runs around shitting his pants and making a mess 24 hours a day.

This isn't planned. Swimming in a diarrhea filled ocean is his natural environment.

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[–] CobraChicken3000 18 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

Bullshit. He is looking for a deal, just not one that is favourable to both parties.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Does this apply to cheese prices??

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Believe it or not, he’s lying.

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