Can I just check I haven't misunderstood... Aren't these tariffs charged to companies / individuals in the US for importing goods from other countries? ie. it's an import tax?
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Yes, Trump has no power to impose any other tariffs. But the way he speaks about it deliberately gives the impression that it's the other countries who are paying.
Please let there be a 200% tariff on Huffy bikes imported to the UK. Those things deserve to die in a fire.
Stop trading with the US. They need us more than we need them.
Nothing will save him from the revelations of the Epstein pedo files.
Yet he doesn't seem to be affected by the memes online about the Epstein Files. He is still acting like a dictator and getting praised for it.
Not quite sure what the US needs to do to get out of his grip but I suspect they've lost already. They're just here for the ride.
I think these things take years and years. All of the bad stuff we're seeing online is happening in small pockets of a massive country and most people don't care until it's on their doorstep. When we learn about wars or coups or I surections etc it's usually decades of struggles condensed.
This stinks of someone who'd feeling super weak.
I think making a fuss about it would be the wrong approach. We should just calmly station more troops in Greenland, quietly impose retaliatory tariffs, and then go about our business. That would pile up even more pressure on Trump without the noise he's craving to distract people from all his other troubles.
Station more troops where? Its ruddy cold there at the moment, and most of the military infrastructure is American.
Individual EU countries can't be tariffed.
They can, just not by each other.
In theory, neither can islands with zero human population and zero trade, but that didn't stop him tariffing those penguins last time, did it?
He does a lot of things that can't be done and says a lot more than that. I don't think his reality is the same as the rest of ours.
It's okay guys, my goat Kier just sent our strongest military officer (singular) to Greenland, the US empire now has no choice but to back off!
(We're so fucking cooked)
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