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      I’m from the USA and we definitely need to go fuck ourselves with a dried pineapple

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      It’s the other way around, he is putting tariffs on American imports, so it will be harder for us to sell to USA.

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        I’m not interested in doing business with America until they can get their shit together.

        Honestly, I’ve been in favor of a full embargo since this whole ‘trade-war’ bullshit kicked off. Strengthen trade with other nations while showing America they don’t control the global economy.

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          Fine, I personally have a near total boycott on American goods and services myself, doesn’t change the fact that tariffs are not about us buying stuff from USA.

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      This is also why all the fucking electronics companies in the EU only going through american distributers and having their own damn webshops from and EU company ship from the US is going to cripple one of or most important industries when shit hits the fan. Looking at you STM, Nordic, and uBlox!

      We have 3 large distributers in Europe: UK, Poland, and international (UK and Belgium) and yet only a tiny tiny subset of older parts are sold from there while the american distributors are packed full.

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    He’s already threatening to escalate to a kinetic war and then returns to threaten a trade war which he already started.

    Is that supposed to be the master negotiator?

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    Bring it. He’ll tariff us anyways for being rude to his ambassador or some shit anyway.

    Fuck Hoekstra and fuck Trump.

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    The only reason Trump is doing this is to get the USA out of NATO for Putin. The reason he works for Putin is because Putin has some very compromising pictures and videos of Trump, involving children and possibly pee

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    No one can escape punishment from a mentally deranged felon. He even murdered his closest friend over some files, so take that as you will.

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      That’s not how that works. It’ll make Americans pay more for European (etc) imports.

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    This motherfucker has lost his fucking mind. He is so desperate to distract from the Epstein files that he is trying to start WW3.

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    Okay, do it, because I vehemently stand with Greenland.

    This is a position that I’m willing to go through a lot of pain and consequence to support.

    Greenland is all of us, and if Greenland falls we all are fucked.

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    God I hate what my country has become. No country is perfect or will ever be, but I can no longer say I’m proud to be an American. Fucking sad.

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        I was. You can’t conflate what politicians do and what the government does as “this is what the country is all about”. There are plenty of reasons to be proud of your country. The reason I am no longer proud is just the sheer amount of stupidity in people these days. It really feels like we are going backwards.

        But here’s the thing, America isn’t the only country going backwards.

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    Cool cool cool. Yeah I’m sure Americans LOVE paying tariffs and they will thank you for even more price rises.

    DO IT. I’m sure it will achieve the best poll ratings ever. No president or any leader in the history of humanity was as popular and as supported and as amazing as the orange pedo!

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    Oh man I’ve been waiting for us to have an excuse to tariff them. For one thing, we need to get Canadians to stop buying anything from the US, there are too many Canadians that don’t seem to learn… At least with tariffs in place, the die-hard MAGA Canadians that insist on buying America will fund our economic development.

    Also we get to put the squeeze on the US. I say we start with potash, or maybe hydro. Hit the essentials first.

    After all, we should just assume he’s going to tariff us no matter what we do. He’ll use China as an excuse, he’ll use the F35s as leverage, no matter what we do he’ll renege on it, the same way he did on his own CUSMA. Just do what we need to do and lie to him, pretend we’re doing everything we can, buy time and keep diversifying. Buy the Gripens, negotiate the deal in secret if needed so you don’t need to announce it until the last minute. At this point don’t commit to anything with the US. Delay, delay, delay.

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    Yeah I’m sure they’re really worried.

    Imagine how screwed we’d all be if he had a whole IQ point.