briantrumpet
Shaman
Pure and unadulterated mobster extortion. Only surprised he didn't threaten summary kneecapping or 'unfortunate gas explosions' if the monetary extortion doesn't work.
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Pure and unadulterated mobster extortion. Only surprised he didn't threaten summary kneecapping or 'unfortunate gas explosions' if the monetary extortion doesn't work.
Dorset Boy
Active Member
Mobster tactics.
He's determined to destroy the remaining shreds of US credibility, and get it's allies to realign elsewehere.
briantrumpet
Shaman
Your long quote yesterday was spot on... patience only goes so far, and in the end the sensible people will just decide it's not worth the effort to appease a senile mobster who's only getting worse by the day.
Blazing Saddles
Active Member
Time to follow Canada’s lead and get a big trade deal sorted with China. The new catchphrase: Dump Trump.
Pblakeney
Guru
secretsqirrel
Senior Member
briantrumpet
Shaman
It's extremely frustrating that the BBC are repeating the lie that he is "imposing a 10% tariff on the UK [and others]", when of course, that's not how tariffs work at all: he is putting the tariff on US businesses and consumers.
Pblakeney
Guru
He's thinking (I know) that the 10% increase in cost will drive down demand for imported goods and increase the demand for local goods.
Trouble is that just give US producers a 10% ceiling to raise prices, and profits.
briantrumpet
Shaman
And the 'free market' doing what it does best won't lower prices by 10% if/when the tariffs are removed. Trump's screwing all of America, not just its teenage girls.
Blazing Saddles
Active Member
TailWindHome
Active Member
NATO is null and void
briantrumpet
Shaman
It's quite the turnaround to go from trusted ally to hostile state in under a year. If it doesn't change course soon and convincingly, the US might find itself mirroring Russia's economic status as well as its architecture of government.
Psamathe
Guru
It was always going to happen over something. If not Greenland now it would have been wind turbines in Scotland or "freedom of speech" or something (anything to keep the world talking about Trųmp).. Time for big trade deals elsewhere was some time ago but Starmer just wasted it sycophantising Trūmp.
All uphill
Senior Member
Agreed. Nothing would ever be enough to fill the gaping hole within Trümp
ebikeerwidnes
Senior Member
and not talking about the EPstein Files