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Only male or female shipping allowed.
Holy shit! That guy hacked the system!
Only when you pirate over $1 trillion in a calendar year, so we're fine. Facebook, maybe not so much...
The fuck is "non-tariff cheating" supposed to mean?
My hard drives cost 20% more. IDK what he's on about "cheating".
It means any attempt to not suffer
It's senile idiot for "I'm a senile idiot."
As opposed to cheating as an insider trader who manipulates markets with yo-yo tariffs.
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
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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.
(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
(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.
Not the best example since they're trying to reverse all of these environmental protections.
OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world's entire content.
Rules for thee, not for me!
"old man tries to conceptualize modern reality"
“You are required to let me fuck you over! You are not allowed to resist it or find alternative means!” 🖕
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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 💪🇺🇸
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.
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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.
Considering that he thought asylum meant mental asylum, ...yeah, probably.
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Does he think that pirates would turn around and buy $1 Trillion worth of media if pirating stopped? Lmao.
Does he think
No.
Precisely.
He just shitposts. It's not even high-quality shitposting. It's not like becoming president improved anything about him. He doesn't rise to the occasion; the occasion collapses as he rolls over it and makes a mess of it. Every single time.
When they say 'piracy' does he think they are referring to Captain Jack Sparrow?
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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".
throws bowling ball at Cybertruck
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.
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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
Whose writing this shit for him?
who's
AI.
This is just a list of "but I'm not winning so it's not fairrrrrrrrrr" whining (whinging?)
I feel like if AI would’ve written this, it would make more sense. This reads more like a fever dream.
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