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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 195 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Do it, pussy. We're not buying your shit anyway. The USA can go fuck itself.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 91 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Wonder how big Trump's pineapple will be?

[–] Zagam@piefed.social 22 points 1 week ago

Not big enough.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

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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[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 133 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Oh yeah make your people pay for your stupidity

[–] phaedrus@piefed.world 49 points 1 week ago

That is precisely what, "his people", are for in his eyes. There is no one but him in his world.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I hope he does it. The people need to feel some pain to motivate us to put a stop to this madness, unfortunately.

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 100 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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?

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

The master masturbator negotiator.

It's the same tactic children employ when they throw tantrums in a grocery store. They wager they can make a fuss big enough so that it's just easier for parents to give them what they want and carry on with their day.

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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 79 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Repeal the DMCA clone laws in every country.

That's what will actually hit the fuckers bankrolling this guy.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

Yup. Do that and you can make an alternative App store for Iphones, give a 90% discount, eat Apples lunch, and still make 30 Billion.

[–] 50MYT@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

I fought with your father in the clone wars

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 75 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

Fuck Hoekstra and fuck Trump.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago

Then an hour later he will forget what he said in a meeting he slept through and change his mind.

TACO

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[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 56 points 1 week ago (9 children)

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

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The reason he works for Putin is that he's been laundering money for the Russian mob since the 1980s, and he has learned to do as they tell him while imagining he's making his own decisions.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"If you don't do what I want, I'll destroy my own economy!"

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[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

Could also start dumping some of those US bonds.

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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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[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

WW3 and a Greater Depression.

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[–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

PLS TARRIF US, I DONT WANT US PRODUCTS ANYWAY

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] elvith@feddit.org 28 points 1 week ago

Quiet, Piggy!

[–] borQue@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you CANNOT punish a country with tariffs. You punish the USA citizins with that. Idiot.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It punishes both. It harms both economies.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 week ago

Trump is threatening tarrifs. Must be a day that ends with a Y.

[–] Shadowcrawler@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 week ago

Adolf Trumpler will start WW3 just do distract from the Eppstein Files

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah I'm sure they're really worried.

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

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[–] killabeezio@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You were proud to be American before Trump?

[–] unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

No kidding. The US was never "great" and I say that as an American. This country has sucked for my entire life and it's only now that a lot of Americans are finally waking up to that reality.

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[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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!

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah whatever Shitler, you have a trade surplus with us you morons. Go to town carbuncle.

He means punish us, right? Because that's how fucking tariffs work you orange fascist dickhead.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Oh, FFS. That shit punishes US.

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Who would have thought that giving a fascist an inch would make him demand a foot?

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Fuck you, orange looser. I really hope someone snipes you.

[–] Elbow1240@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Those countries also have the option of imposing retaliatory tariffs and/or dumping US Treasuries.

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[–] saphiron@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Pedolf Diddler, where are the rest of the fucking Epstein files?!?

[–] Jinarched@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If one of you mention anything negative about us taking Greenland, I will tax my population more and severely disrupt their ability to purchase goods they need while you will be forced to find new partners. It will be very inconvenient for you. You will probably lose any trust you have in us and might not risk trading with us for a very long time.

Checkmate radical leftists. This is the art of the deal.

Oh... also. Please keep buying bonds and don't you dare trade with China.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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