Donald I, emperor of the world.

[Blazing Saddles]

They are really starting to take the piss.


View: https://x.com/DonDraperMadMen/status/1908554129716503006

 

[Rusty Nails]

Some call it that, more enterprising folk call it 'competitive advantage' over the EU.

Which competitive advantage will only last as long as Starmer keeps sucking up to Trump, or Trump has had his State Visit if he is unhappy with his welcome.

Other than a*se-licking the UK doesn't have a competitive advantage, but if that floats your boat...

 

[C R]

Other than a*se-licking the UK doesn't have a competitive advantage, but if that floats your boat...

There's the rumours that Trump is into watersports, maybe his followers are into adjacent fetishes.

 

[CXRAndy]

View: https://x.com/IanJaeger29/status/1908953556801167507?t=pkDkAv1MdRQW1eCX2FJfEg&s=19

 

[AndyRM]

"Common sense". Very good.

He's either trolling or fundamentally doesn't understand economics.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Canada has the answer.

 

[CXRAndy]

"Common sense". Very good.

He's either trolling or fundamentally doesn't understand economics.

I'm awaiting for our resident economic expert to counter the above link. Then I have both sides of the USA strategy

 

[Ian H]

Here's a quote from the Economist magazine.

Perhaps America’s courts will try to undo some of the madness.The legal basis of the president’s “emergency” tariffs is questionable. Yet if ordered to undo them, would Mr Trump respect the courts or, as I suspect, defy them? The trouble is, as we have written before, he behaves increasingly like a mobster or an absolute monarch. He is a man in a hurry to make history, who believes his power is unfettered. He relishes employing painful means today for the sake of an end that is a mirage: greatness defined as restoring factory jobs to America.
Alas, many who should be trying to constrain the madness of King Donald—in Congress, in the administration and beyond—instead enable him.

 

[Ian H]

CNN reports on China's view that the world economy can reconfigure itself excluding the USA, which obviously means China would be the dominant economy.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/07/...iffs-opportunity-analysis-intl-hnk/index.html

 

[Pblakeney]

Random thought generator.
Trump wants control of the Panama Canal to cut off China shipping to the Atlantic.
Possibly the same for Greenland if the ice melts.

 

[C R]

Random thought generator.
Trump wants control of the Panama Canal to cut off China shipping to the Atlantic.
Possibly the same for Greenland if the ice melts.

Is he trying to cut the routes round Suez and South Africa too?

Oh, and he's supporting Putin to block off the land route too.

 

[Pross]

Just put my monthly payment into my SIPP and looked at the graph for my fund. It had been growing strongly last year, plunged in January when Donnie came into power and started spouting bollox then picked back up a bit when it looked like it might be mainly just talk before falling off a cliff last week wiping out pretty much all of last years gains. It's depressing, Trump is making a lot of people poorer.

 

[Pross]

The soft land border between the NI and SI is an EU border. The R of I is an EU member state with a tariff imposition of 20%, while Northern Ireland is part of the UK with a tariff imposition of 10%. The result is the inevitable increase in smuggling of goods for export to the US across the border from south to north. This will lead to demands for security on the border, which is a breach of international agreements. Politically, for the UK, it's a nightmare situation.

The only solution is to harmonise the rates between the EU and the UK. Therefore, politically Starmer will need to make a 20% tariff imposition on the US in order to force Trump to increase the tariff on the UK to 20%, making the UK position economically worse.

Bloody Leavers. Oops, sorry, I forgot that they knew what they were doing.

We ought to charge the EU a 5% tariff to legitimately import to the UK then sell the goods on to the US - everyone's a winner!

 

[Pblakeney]

Is he trying to cut the routes round Suez and South Africa too?

Oh, and he's supporting Putin to block off the land route too.

Going through the Red Sea is already problematic and could get worse.
Having to go around South Africa isn’t pleasant and adds a lot of time.

 

[Beebo]

Just put my monthly payment into my SIPP and looked at the graph for my fund. It had been growing strongly last year, plunged in January when Donnie came into power and started spouting bollox then picked back up a bit when it looked like it might be mainly just talk before falling off a cliff last week wiping out pretty much all of last years gains. It's depressing, Trump is making a lot of people poorer.

Imagine if you were retiring this week and lost 10%of your pot over night.
Such a pointless economic crash.