funniest thing I’ve read this week. But don’t have any friends with whom I can share
The fuck is “non-tariff cheating” supposed to mean?
Good question.
Nobody knows what it is, folks. People are asking, “What is it?”—nobody knows. Experts, politicians, the fake news—nobody has a clue. Maybe it’s something, maybe it’s nothing. Could be the biggest thing ever, could be nothing at all. Nobody knows, believe me. Total mystery.
Bigly if true
Some nonsense phrase they made up
I mean wouldn’t it just be “ways to cheat tarrifs”
Like I guess they don’t want to promote that but they could just say “ways to cheat tarrifs we will punish” to try to sound hard.
But this phrase just makes no sense.
As opposed to cheating as an insider trader who manipulates markets with yo-yo tariffs.
Don’t know but it’s extremely obvious that some of his posts are ghost-written (just like his book) and this is one of them.
My hard drives cost 20% more. IDK what he’s on about “cheating”.
I believe he’s trying to say “here’s other examples of CHEATING other countries do to us that are unrelated to tariffs”. Who knows.
I think he’s saying things other than tariffs that affect how many dollars the US could make selling shit to your country.
Thing is, the list doesn’t make sense. Yeah most countries have VAT. 1) So does the US, it’s called sales tax. 2) I pay VAT equally on American, Estonian or German goods. What’s the problem?
The problem is that he is a fascist and fascists always need an external enemy to blame.
Oh, that makes sense.
Just off the top of my head:
- Pressuring the Fed to cut interest rates and other actions to reduce the US dollar’s value
- Massive payouts to agribusiness, especially maize and sugar producers.
- Try bringing in some fruit or a salami into the US. I dare you.
- OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world’s entire content.
Maybe someone else can fill in the rest.
OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world’s entire content.
Rules for thee, not for me!
(2) The US has sales tax which is VAT in a trenchcoat.
(3) The US dumps its corn below cost and saturates foreign markets due to massive corn subsidies.
(6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.
(8) US companies have transshipped Chinese goods ever since Trump’s 2018 trade war
“You are required to let me fuck you over! You are not allowed to resist it or find alternative means!” 🖕
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The fuck are you on about?
“old man tries to conceptualize modern reality”
So now he’s angry that we’ve fucked up our agricultural exports badly enough that the rest of the world doesn’t think our trash goods are food grade?
I would love some of the diseased chlorinated freedom chicken from the U.S.
It is our strongest export for the global autistic community 💪🇺🇸
Only when you pirate over $1 trillion in a calendar year, so we’re fine. Facebook, maybe not so much…
When Trump says piracy, I understand he’s referring to classic piracy (with little boats and all), and when he says IP Theft, I assume he’s referring to the piracy that concerns us. Good luck adding a tax to my $0 rate.
When he says transshipping, he probably thinks of a container ship flying the trans flag.
Crewed by transgenic mice!
transalantic shipping.
Well, helllooo there sailor 💖
Considering that he thought asylum meant mental asylum, …yeah, probably.
How dare other companies cheat by having more stringent food standards than the USA? Everyone should be forced to buy and ingest real American salmonella.
Bowling ball test?
Trump has claimed a few times that, in order for cars to be approved for import in Japan, they must be able to withstand an impact from a bowling ball without denting. It’s not a real thing. When the White House press secretary was asked why Trump made up such a weird lie, she said it was “obviously a joke”.
Reminds me of the mind-blowing video from Channel 5 news of them interviewing Trump supporters about him posting a pic of himself as king and they say “Oh it means he’s the King of Presidents, like Elvis Presley is the King of rock and roll” and I just couldn’t possibly facepalm any harder.
throws bowling ball at Cybertruck
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When they say ‘piracy’ does he think they are referring to Captain Jack Sparrow?
He doesn’t think at all.
I bet the gerbil on the wheel in his head is exhausted. He should shove a couple more up his ass to help out.
my concern over IP Theft goes from the ground up, can’t help it. I’ll worry about what corps think they’re missing out on right after I’ve acknowledged each and every person who has ever written anything on the internet, or shared an original work in any way. the damage done by tech bros pillaging the collective imagination is way higher than $1T
I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be if asked off-the-cuff without his advisors around.
I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be
I think that’s when a fishing boat puts on some guns and radar and starts calling itself a battleship ?
lmao, I would believe that he believes it. He could play Ron Burgundy really well.
I would kill to see a journalist ask him about literally anything from this list.
I’m not interested in giving rich humans access to another trillion dollars.
That works against the best interests of hu-fucking-manity.
